Sam Shorey

@samshorey.bsky.social

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Asst. Professor of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh • Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute • Researching technology design & innovation labor: robots, hype, AI, trash, DIY, repair • 🤖+🚮

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“We don't know about the safety of this technology, especially when it comes to young people interacting with it. We don't know if we can trust this technology to make decisions about our health. We don't know if this technology is going to consolidate data to the point where governments and corporations can surveil American citizens,” Shorey said. “In a lot of ways, the states have been little laboratories for figuring out what this can look like? In what ways do we encourage businesses and encourage development and progress while also protecting basic human rights of the people who live here?”

Screen shot: "I am descended from people who, in their lifetime, fought with all their might for the destruction of chattel slavery in this country. And they never saw it. They never saw it. In my personal belief system, they died in defeat, in darkness.

So I guess the privilege that I draw out of this, the honor that I draw out of this, is not that things will necessarily be better in my lifetime, but that I will make the contribution that I am supposed to make."

Screen shot of PDF "Don't Be a Drone: Tips for Better Reporting on AI in Essential Work Sectors." Tip 1 is "Don't let executives be the only voice in your story"

don’t fetishize an identity of “writer.” To me, what you and I are doing is the same work. My teaching is the same work. When I give a talk at a university, it’s the same thing.

How do you characterize that work? A kind of sincerity, of figuring this out. I think that’s it. A Buddhist sutra says to engage the phenomena of the world with earnestness. I’ve always valued that.

Amanda Seyfried giving an interview on a red carpet in full glam stating "Everybody needs to be compensated for their work. That's [f-word] easy."

Tired mom in glasses holds a baby in bed while working on a laptop

Screenshot of tweet that reads "Excellent new paper on the corporate imaginary of machine vision, which is also about the techno-politics of labor automation and the devaluation of human workers, by Wei-Jie Hsiao and SamShorey"