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Understanding care, or @allisonpugh.bsky.social connective labor, is prerequisite to automating,replacing,or even “augmenting” it. Care isn’t a list of actions to be allocated to bots or systems. To care is human.

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When the virtual impeded the vital "The possible role of telemedicine, which can impede close observation, an essential clinical tool. The pulmonologist never saw Meyer in person: every appt was virtual. “There’s nothing that will replace a good physical exam & that’s why they have to come in.”

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Ungoverning by Nancy L. Rosenblum and Russell Muirhead traces how ungoverning—the deliberate effort to dismantle the capacity of government to do its work—has become a malignant part of politics. Save 30% with code PUP30—available in print, ebook, and audio: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰

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"Some organizations are racing to embrace AI before it is reliable enough to put in unsupervised contact with people." In schools, these people are mostly children.

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An extraordinary experience, giving this Public Lecture at LSE, aided by the brilliant @sonialivingstone.bsky.social & an engaged audience. Together we can protect/ preserve what humans contribute (& what's missing from the AI conversation so far): human relationship #TheLastHumanJob

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A useful conversation with the Harvard Business Review. What counts as a good future here, and (how) is tech a part of that? hbr.org/2025/02/im-a...

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Welcome the depersonalization crisis in AI spring, says @allisonpugh.bsky.social #LSEevents

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What is the appeal of AI in this personal, clinical human space? @allisonpugh.bsky.social on the relationship between AI and interpersonal work. Stay up to date with our event hashtag #LSEEvents Watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5jD... #socialhealth #connectivelabour #empathicwitnessing

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Starting 🔜 @allisonpugh.bsky.social explains how we have ended up in a moment in which machines have time for people, while human workers rush by, bent to the dictates of the industrial clock, and maps out its implications for the future of our social health.

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The #automation of jobs like therapist & teacher threatens the survival of interpersonal work. In the race to automate, we must differentiate between the useful and the harmful – @allisonpugh.bsky.social draws on her new book The Last Human Job @princetonupress.bsky.social for @lsebr.bsky.social

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See my latest in the LSE Business Review. An alternative title: The Consent of the Automated, riffing off the consent of the governed, and highlighting that we all get a little automated when we interact with machines blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

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This made me cry. (I am reading @allisonpugh.bsky.social's book, but very slowly, in part because I keep having to stop and cry.)

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Shout out to @allisonpugh.bsky.social ... part of the reason I fell into educational development so easily was an emphasis on human connection. I wonder if, in an age of AI, the #Podnetwork will need to add 'human centered' to their values. Can't wait to read this. www.ncronline.org/culture/book...

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Later this month we're excited to welcome @allisonpugh.bsky.social as she'll discuss her latest book 'The last human job: AI, depersonalisation and the industrial clock'. 🗓️ Wed 19 Feb 2025 6.30pm-8pm 🔵 Chair: @sonialivingstone.bsky.social 🎟 Hybrid event, open to all www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

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As Musk and his techies purge government workers to have them replaced by automation, AI and other Silicon Valley fantasies, we speak with @allisonpugh.bsky.social about her recent book, The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World. soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

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So glad to appear on the Background Briefing show today, to talk about AI in government & #TheLastHumanJob. (BTW this isn't Revenge of the Nerds because all the nerds I know are devastated by the evisceration of US research thanks to the recent NIH directive). soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

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The absurd thing is that even after they report these findings, the researchers' proposed solution is to turn to AI "to help develop specific critical thinking skills." Did anyone on the team pause for a sec? Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”

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If you live in AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC, your reps are on the Senate HELP Committee which has jurisdiction over NIH. Write to them pointing out the jobs and money coming to your state from NIH: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-... describe impact of NIH cuts on....

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File under "karma": Anthropic, maker of a popular AI writing assistant, requires job applicants to agree not to use an AI assistant to help write their application. “We want to understand your interest in Anthropic & also want to evaluate your non-AI-assisted communication skills."

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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Universities can only receive 15% off of an NIH grant? This will decimate medical and other research at every major university in the US. Another case of the DOGE mistaking efficiency for value, with utterly devastating consequences for US excellence grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/n…

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I had fun on The Majority Report podcast yesterday, talking about #TheLastHumanJob - and about the "Cliff Notes degrees" that people are going to be getting, if educators are not more careful about introducing AI in higher ed (e.g. the CSU deal announced this week)

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Listen: The Last Human Job author @allisonpugh.bsky.social speaks with @emmavigeland.bsky.social for @majorityreport.bsky.social about AI's economy of alienation: majorityreportradio.com/2025/02/06/2...

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It's surreal doing all the "normal" things--watching my kid's soccer game, folding laundry, grocery shopping--in the middle of a kleptocratic coup.

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New post: Ask yourself now what you’re willing to be fired over familyinequality.wordpress.com/2025/02/02/a...

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Beautiful essay, worth your time. My favorite part below, asking just what is the goal of "disrupting" education, what is the thing we're speeding to, when learning itself is part of being human, and gives life meaning? #TheLastHumanJob Thank you @philipchristman.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4jAw2j5

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Author @allisonpugh.bsky.social set out to study which jobs should be done by #ArticialIntelligence. She got a very human answer. Read her essay in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Just called my representative’s office (Mike Carrey, R OH-15) and they were unaware this was happening and very concerned! Their healthcare team is going to be following up with me directly soon.

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Harlow's monkeys seem apposite here (if maybe a bit extreme...)

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"Connective labour has profound consequences for individuals and for our society, yet it is under siege by data analytics, which is drowning practitioners in requirements to collect and measure, and under threat from AI, which is increasingly behind automated therapy, teaching and other novelties."

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We're in @TheGuardian.com today! So glad to be able to make an argument for protecting human connection, just one week after the UK PM rhapsodized about the power of AI in teaching and other humane service. Not everything is a nail, as we pick up these new hammers!

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Great piece on 'connective labour' in today's Guardian by @allisonpugh.bsky.social #Sociology www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Strong piece & important to recognize when journalism publishes truth that goes against hype “We have no standards.There is nothing I can point you to today that is a standard around how you evaluate the performance of an algorithm, AI-enabled or not, when it’s deployed.”

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I'm reading @allisonpugh.bsky.social's The Last Human Job, so I'm really noticing the idea "humans require monitoring and surveillance in various forms but software doesn't" that lurks in a lot of automated systems.

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@allisonpugh.bsky.social and now the stats

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The hype retrenchment begins (but you won't find it splashed across the media). Turns out medical AI might pass the MCAT, but decoding spontaneous human interactions like the ones real clinicians have to interpret? Not so much. #TheLastHumanJob https://buff.ly/4fLM06W)

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New study finds that frequent use of AI tools encourages offloading cognitive tasks and reduces critical thinking. Higher AI usage correlated with lower critical thinking skills, especially in younger users. www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...

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