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New from Anthropic: "We find no systematic increase in unemployment for highly exposed workers since late 2022"
www.anthropic.com/research/lab...
What we need is a new grand bargain between the public and private sectors — one in which employers are held responsible for defining skills essential to the A.I. economy and for creating pathways into jobs, and the government invests in the training, incentives and safety nets that help workers move quickly into them. The private sector has always been better positioned to see which new jobs are emerging, which skills matter and how quickly demand will shift. So this new bargain should start with businesses taking the lead and providing real-time, A.I.-powered insights into hiring plans, technology adoption and skill needs.
The funding model for higher education must change, too. Public investment should hold schools to measurable labor market results, not just enrollments. Texas offers a working example: Community colleges that award credentials in high-demand fields receive greater state funding. If we take this approach, we’ll quickly see a survival of the fittest emerge: Innovative programs that meet labor market needs will be rewarded, while underperformers will shutter.
Some truly awful policy ideas related to AI’s impact on the labor market from Biden’s commerce secretary.
Just give over total control to employers and the tech companies, apparently!
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...
"A.I. is a management power grab, disguised as an inevitable technical upgrade. To fight it, workers can use four strategies proven in the past: name the real problem; unionize it; ransom it; and block it."
labornotes.org/2026/03/four...
“We are deeply concerned by the development of harmful tech through exploitation of vulnerable communities” -Mercy Mutemi
“The complaint places fresh attention on Kenya’s role in the global AI industry, where thousands of contract workers label images, video & text”
techcabal.com/2026/03/06/k...
I see that 404 hat too! 💚
“North Carolina has ended a long-running incentive for the Morrisville software provider Relias to create hundreds of jobs in Wake County after the company attributed its hiring shortfall to artificial intelligence automation.”
www.govtech.com/artificial-i...
NBC's top climate reporter resigns • In an exclusive interview, veteran NBC meteorologist Chase Cain opens up about burnout, suppression, and why he's going independent.
Executives at major tech companies have claimed that top software engineers are no longer writing code. As LLMs and coding agents take on that work, evaluation must evolve to view them more like junior engineers: by how they investigate a system, gather evidence, and explain what they’re observing.
Scale AI has a new benchmark to measure AI coding agents: "We observe that even the most frontier models score <30% on the benchmark, highlighting the challenging nature of these tasks and the gap in capability in deeply understanding the codebase" scale.com/blog/swe-atlas
Executives at major tech companies have claimed that top software engineers are no longer writing code. As LLMs and coding agents take on that work, evaluation must evolve to view them more like junior engineers: by how they investigate a system, gather evidence, and explain what they’re observing.
Scale AI has a new benchmark to measure AI coding agents: "We observe that even the most frontier models score <30% on the benchmark, highlighting the challenging nature of these tasks and the gap in capability in deeply understanding the codebase" scale.com/blog/swe-atlas
The contractor denied those violations to Handshake and Business Insider and said that those concerns could have been flagged before they spent about 50 hours working on the platform. The person, who is based in the US, said they were not compensated for any of this work, amounting to hundreds of dollars in unpaid labor.
They tell us that data annotation is exactly the kind of exciting new categories of work opened up by AI technology.
Take a look at the quality of these jobs.
"In total, these workers reported thousands of dollars in unpaid wages."
www.businessinsider.com/contractors-...
"Some contractors working for Handshake AI say the AI training startup has denied them up to several thousand dollars each for work they performed, after accusing them of breaking platform rules... and the company has faced lawsuits from two contractors over withheld pay."
Check out the research below to learn more about how contractors often employ data workers with expertise but the work is not structured in a way that many workers feel their skills and expertise are actually channeled effectively.
cwa-union.org/ghost-worker...
data-workers.org
Finding out more about the company’s likely subcontracted labor force will help you understand more about whether the way the work and the labor force is structured is actually organized for workers with domain expertise to truly informing the development of the tool.
For tech reporters: whenever you are writing about a company in the AI industry that says its data and tools are reviewed by “expert analysts” or it claims it has unique high quality data, there is a serious of questions you should ask about the company’s labor model.
While companies like Anthropic debate limits on military uses of AI, Smack Technologies is training models to plan battlefield operations. www.wired.com/story/ai-mod...
"AI is not simply a discursive formation that stands as a ‘common sense’ foregone conclusion, it also obfuscates large-scale, transnational coordination of resources, labor & people who make up the infrastructures that are required for artificial intelligence." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@emmamay.bsky.social, Serita Sargent, and I analyzed the 2023 SAG AFTRA contract on AI to inform bargaining around AI across sectors as a lever for more meaningful worker control technology in the workplace. Out today in Big Data & Society
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New article by Britt Paris, Serita Sargent and me in Big Data & Society
We discuss collective bargaining around AI and how organized labor can meaningfully push back on—and even refuse—the pervasive narrative of AI inevitability
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
In light of recent events, it is a fantastic time to revisit @emilymazo.bsky.social, @nataliyan.bsky.social & @js-tan.bsky.social’s paper "Unlikely Organizers: The Rise of Tech Worker Labor Activism" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A big morning for archiving and advocacy in tech! This project by @cellllla.bsky.social and others documents workplace surveillance incidents across the U.S., as well as resources for action: wsit.work
We’ve heard a lot about military use of Anthropic and Open AI but don’t forget that there’s a whole workforce of data workers employed through contractors who make geospatial data useable for AI systems for military use via Maven Smart System.
bsky.app/profile/wash...
Want to hear an “oral history of how tech workers fought for a union against an executive team that was fueled by SoftBank, one of the most powerful venture capital firms in the world?”
Of course you do!
Support if you can:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
We gotta get @brettstory.bsky.social to do a data center doc.
Jobs for organizer I’ve seen recently that look 🆒👇
♻️ @greenworkers.bsky.social, Organizer: www.idealist.org/en/nonprofit...
👾 @kairosfellows.bsky.social, Game Organizer: kairosfellowship.recruitee.com/o/gamer-orga...
⛰️ @surj.org, Appalachian People’s Union Organizer: surj.breezy.hr/p/afbc447a5b...
Mental health shouldn’t be the price of a job.
A worker‑led 2026 survey of 95 TikTok Dublin staff reveals a crisis: overwhelming stress, burnout, fear, and little real support. Workers report a culture shaped by layoffs, micromanagement, understaffing, and an unsafe return‑to‑office policy.
“The workers in Kenya say that it feels uncomfortable to go to work. They tell us about deeply private video clips, which appear to come straight out of Western homes, from people who use the glasses in their everyday lives.
Several describe video material showing bathroom visits, sex…”
Check out Catalina Farías’ fascinating and important work!
Description of the figure: AI intensity across European regions (left panel) and the cumulative change in the labour share between 2000 and 2017 (right panel). In regions with higher AI intensity, the labour income share tended to decrease during the overall time span. The swift rise of artificial intelligence is raising fundamental concerns about the future of work. This column uses data from 238 regions across 21 European countries to examine how AI-related innovation influences the distribution of income between labour and capital, and among different skill classes of labour. Regions with more intense AI patenting tend to experience a decline in the labour share of income, especially in areas with a strong industrial base, indicating that AI acts as a capital-biased innovation. Without appropriate policy intervention, this trend could exacerbate existing inequalities.
Antonio Minniti, Klaus Prettner, Francesco Venturini, & David Bloom find that European regions with more intense #AI patenting tend to experience a decline in the labour share of income, indicating that AI acts as a capital-biased innovation.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
“The incentive structures that shape how businesses respond to technological advances are not natural forces over which we have no control. They are the direct product of the political choices we make around technology adoption.”
www.fastcompany.com/91498615/sto...