Sam Shorey
@SamShorey
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find me here: 🦋 https://t.co/6do4rnljFd Asst. Professor @ Pitt • Technology design & innovation labor, robots, hype, AI, trash, DIY, repair.
Austin, TX
Joined July 2009
NEW 📰: AI automation is making government jobs more stressful & error-prone, hurting workers & constituents. @SamShorey offers a scan of the existing landscape of AI implementation from across the country & the true impact on workers & efficiency. https://t.co/U16IrWNLVe
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🤔What tasks do we want robots to handle? Are these preferences based on saved time or feelings we associate with the tasks? Introducing Why Automate This?—a study exploring automation preferences across social groups, using feelings & time-spent as key factors. 👇 (1/5)
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LRT: it’s true, I’m hiring PhD student(s) to fire up the Labour Lab at @UofTInfoFaculty. We’re going to study how new tech and data tools reconfigure the workplace and think about how data tools and forms of tech expertise work to support the labour movement! Shoot me email/dm 👋
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New pub alert! 🚨 "My Data, My Choice? Privacy, Commodity Activism, and Big Tech’s Corporatization of Care in the Post-Roe Era" with my beyond brilliant co-authors @dominiquemvalle and @SamShorey is out now in @SocialMedia_Soc. Read for free: https://t.co/Cy3CqN5bip. 🧵to follow.
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#OutNow in #ICS Through a Feminist Science and Technology Studies lens, Dominique A. Montiel Valle and Samantha Shorey, examine repair labour on AI robots evidencing the frictions between technological imaginaries of efficiency and communal care. https://t.co/iPo8Z0WMum
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✨Incredibly excited to share a newly published article with @SamShorey in a special issue of @icsjournal on Platforms, Power and Friction! We explored how workers navigated the frictions teeming in AI repair labor.
Last but not least (and finally out!) @dominiquemvalle and @SamShorey on frictions in AI repair labor, which reveal how workers both reproduce and reconfigure AI systems https://t.co/EEHCVNp7v5
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🎊Today, we announce some additions to our 2024 cohort of think tank fellows! We welcome 2 new senior fellows and 5 new program fellows who will enrich the progressive policy community with a breadth of voices and expertise. Meet the new Roosevelters ⬇️ https://t.co/dv9sfGbZHG
rooseveltinstitute.org
Former deputy secretary of the US treasury; civil rights attorney; economics professors; and recognized researchers among those joining the Roosevelt Institute’s think tank.
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there is this scene in the new Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader docuseries where the producer observes "It must be hard having this thing that's your dream also be..." and the cheerleader responds "...the thing that hurts me? Yeah." And I felt it right in my R1 tenure-track heart.
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sorry to be a spoiler but there is no way around a genuinely socially responsible AI without directly tackling systemic inequalities and building accountability mechanisms on the current concentration of power in the hands of big corps/AI companies
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Maryam is one of the amazing student journalists at The Daily Texan who have been physically harmed by the militarized police presence on our campus. Our college must protect the students who are putting the skills they've learned into action with bravery & integrity.
In the last week I’ve been pepper sprayed; I’ve had flashbangs knock out my eardrums; I’ve seen protesters beaten, choked and arrested (footage from Monday’s protest 4/29 ⬇️ TW: violence). It’s been a hell of a week.
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📢 Registration is now LIVE for Take Back Tech II! Join us in Chicago from June 21-23 and unite with organizers, advocates, academics, & tech workers as we reclaim tech for our gente. 🔗 ➡️
takebacktech.com
Come and gather with organizers, advocates, academics, and workers looking for a space to deepen the strategies we'll need to combat technology's worst harms.
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Why are we so excited about Large Language Models? I, for one, would be more excited about Small Laundry-Folding Models or even Medium Dish-Washing Models. Give me a Foundation Model for chores and I'll give you *all* my money.
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If this isn't a metaphor about the futures we were promised versus the one we live in...
apparently this was sold as a live Willy Wonka Experience but they used all AI images on the website to sell tickets and then people showed up and saw this and it got so bad people called the cops lmao
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Howdy! SAVE THE DATE for another installation of the American Studies Workshop featuring @UTexasMoody communications professor Dr. @SamShorey on February 9, 2024 @ 11:30AM in BUR 436A!
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The Texas Tribune interviewed @SamShorey (@UTexasMoody) on the risks of automating government work and empowering AI technologies to make more decisions. “It might move us towards the end goal more quickly. But is it moving us towards an end goal that we want?”
More than a third of state agencies are using AI. Amid fears that the technology could heighten bias or affect privacy, Texas is forming an advisory committee to recommend how the technology is deployed. https://t.co/ebQI3HqQtf
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"Rather than treating automation as an inevitable force that workers must adapt to, we need to recognize it as a social process that can and should be shaped by those it affects most—workers themselves." New Tech Labor forum piece from @dcalacci, out now in interactions !
automation keeps getting billed as an unstoppable force, but this is SO FAR from the reality. in a new piece in @interactionsMag , I argue that workers—and researcher+advocate allies—can & should collectively help direct automation at work: https://t.co/iXwyZIbl82
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Howard Zinn: "To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. 1/
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