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“A near-term AI dystopia is one in which there’s not a masterful AI that takes over the world — that’s bullshit — it’s a world in which there are AI tools which are promised to do XYZ and that many employers have effectively bought into only to lay off full-time workers and hire them back at a reduced rate,” Hanna told Business Insider. (October 2024)

Emily named to Inaugural Time100 AI

“You can’t expect a machine-learning system to learn stuff that’s not in its training data,” [Emily] says. “Otherwise you’re expecting magic.” (September 2023)

Op-ed: “AI” Hurts Consumers and Workers — and Isn’t Intelligent

“The next steps are to use identified harms—to workers, to the information ecosystem and to data privacy—to plug gaps in existing laws and regulations. Meanwhile, we call on businesses not to succumb to this artificial “intelligence” hype.” Alex and Emily write for Tech Policy Press. (August 2023)

Op-ed: AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity Hype

“We urge policymakers to draw on solid scholarship that investigates the harms and risks of AI, as well as the harms caused by delegating authority to automated systems, which include the disempowerment of the poor and the intensification of policing against Black and Indigenous families. Solid research in this domain—including social science and theory building—and solid policy based on that research will keep the focus on not using this technology to hurt people.” Emily and Alex write for Scientific American. (August 2023)