Casey Lynch

💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥

We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.

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🚨New article🚨 Why has the promise of universal ownership been broken, as @benbraun.bsky.social has suggested?

Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North.
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Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency This article interrogates the reconfiguration of human-technology relationships through urban artificial intelligence (AI), complicating how the human subject is understood and invoked within urban...

Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency by @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social and @casey-lynch.bsky.social in Urban Geography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to share a new open access article with @casey-lynch.bsky.social, just out in @urbangeography.bsky.social:
"Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency":

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency This article interrogates the reconfiguration of human-technology relationships through urban artificial intelligence (AI), complicating how the human subject is understood and invoked within urban...

doi.org/10.1080/0272...

New article in Urban Geography! @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social and I question concepts of intelligence, autonomy, and agency in urban AI literature through a discussion of the critical posthumanisms of Braidotti, Latour, and (in particular) Hayles to multiply the sites and actors of urban AI politics.

Governance can’t be automated On the corners of the Holborn viaduct in central London, there are four statues: Commerce, Agriculture, Fine Art, and Science. The figure representing Science looks like she should be in Ancient Greec...

Governance can't be automated. A new one from me in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If you’re comfortable, here’s a form to submit info on terminated NSF grants for greater collective transparency and insight among grantees:

Kudos to @scott-delaney.bsky.social for putting together.

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It's pruning season in the wine vineyards. on CAs Central Coast. Gerardo is grinding the branches and trunks that other workers pruned to make mulch that will be used to control weeds, improve soil health, and help the vines withstand extreme temperatures. #WeFeedYou

The ups and downs of telecommunications infrastructure: the urban geopolitics of communications cabling in colonial Sydney Australian Geographer

Iveson, K., & Melo Zurita, M. de L. (2025). The ups and downs of telecommunications infrastructure: the urban geopolitics of communications cabling in colonial Sydney. Australian Geographer, 1–31.


#geosky

First proper article in five years, due to life stuff. If you’re interested in work, automation, the future & imagination this may be of interest #geosky

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@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social and I are hoping to organize a session on the theme of 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' at this year's RGS-IBG (26-29 August 2025, Birmingham, UK). Please consider submitting! #geography #rgs

Have you always wanted to learn about social and ethical dimensions of geotechnologies? #GéoTechE free online course now open for sign up! www.geoversity.io/courses/geot... Including introduction to #CriticalRemoteSensising #GeoAIEthics #CriticalDataStudies and much much more!

I was a content moderator for Facebook. I saw the real cost of outsourcing digital labour | Sonia Kgomo Tech firms must invest in and respect the people who filter social media and label the data that AI relies on, says Sonia Kgomo, an organiser with African Tech Workers Rising

“African Tech Workers Rising is organising for better wages, mental health protections and professional standards in Kenya and beyond. We are doing this because AI is not magic. Behind every algorithm are thousands of hidden workers labelling, training & moderating data under precarious conditions.”

'Algorithmic Refusal: Creativity and Codeability in Digital Urban Governance' CfP at the RGS-IBG, Birmingham 2025 — Regional Futures Algorithmic Refusal: Creativity and Codeability in Digital Urban Governance RGS-IBG Annual Meeting, Birmingham 2025 Session Organisers: Prof Ayona Datta, Dr Fenna Hoefsloot, Dr Mariana Reyes ...

📣 CfP ALGORITHMIC REFUSAL: CREATIVITY AND CODEABILITY IN DIGITAL URBAN GOVERNANCE
@rgsibg.bsky.social conference in Birmingham.

Organisers: @ayonadatta.bsky.social @fennaimara.bsky.social and Mariana Reyes

DEADLINE for abstracts: 21st February 2025. 👇

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I had the pleasure of reading and reviewing @erinmcel.bsky.social “Silicon Valley Imperialism” published by @dukepress.bsky.social. Spoiler alert: it’s excellent! You can read my review in Dialogues in Urban Research here: doi.org/10.1177/2754...

Google Lifts a Ban on Using Its AI for Weapons and Surveillance Google published principals in 2018 barring its AI technology from being used for sensitive purposes. Weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term, those guidelines are being overhauled.

May we stop entertaining industry self-regulation as a viable constraint now?

Are you thinking through questions about authoritarianism & AI? Do you like geographers? If so, please consider this session on ‘Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI’ by @casey-lynch.bsky.social & @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social & myself which we are hoping to get up at this year’s RGS-IBG.

@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social and I are hoping to organize a session on the theme of 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' at this year's RGS-IBG (26-29 August 2025, Birmingham, UK). Please consider submitting! #geography #rgs

👆Presentations by fantastic scholars @samkinsley.uk @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @marxist.af @casey-lynch.bsky.social Matt Zook, Jingya Dai, Sanjana Krishnan, Otello Palmini, Luis Lozano-Paredes, Elizabeth Resor.

'Urban AI Spectrums' triple session at the AAG 2025, Detroit — Regional Futures Urban AI spectrums Sponsored by the Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group (CISG) and the Digital Geographies Specialty Group (DGSG) in AAG Organisers: Federico Cugurullo (Trinity College Dubli...

Thrilled to announce our triple session on 'Urban AI Spectrums' in the @geographers.bsky.social #AAG2025 meeting in Detroit. Co-organised with Federico Cugurullo and Caprotti.

Join us on 26 March 2025, Room 330A, Level 3, Huntington Place.

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Cualquier posibilidad de negociación colectiva desaparece. Una especie de espiral del silencio. Se debe considerar la culminación del modelo socioeconómico neocapitalista. Al menos, hasta ahora… ¿Podría comenzar a cambiar?

#GenteConClase Nº 79 “Caso Glovo o el principio del fin de la precariedad pedaleante” #PincharElGlovo
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Las personas empleadas en las plataformas como Glovo no establecen una relación de dependencia en el trabajo respecto a otras personas, sino respecto a un algoritmo opaco.

New California law prohibits using AI as basis to deny health insurance claims While SB 1120 does not entirely prohibit the use of AI technology, it mandates that human judgment remains central to coverage decisions

“While SB 1120 does not entirely prohibit the use of AI technology, it mandates that human judgment remains central to coverage decisions. Under the new law, AI tools cannot be used to deny, delay or alter health care services deemed medically necessary by doctors.”

Barcelona now the European spyware centre, especially for Israeli experts avoiding the live war for cybercrime thinly disguised www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

El salvaje oeste de la IA: por qué la inteligencia artificial vive sumida en el caos En febrero, Francia acogerá una Cumbre Mundial sobre inteligencia artificial que aspira a poner un poco de orden en el caos. Los expertos nos explican por qué 2025 podrí

«Por definición, las empresas, no importa las buenas intenciones que tengan, no se pueden autorregular. Eso tiene que venir de fuera. Lo raro sería que, en la historia, todas las industrias se hayan regulado menos esta» www.mujerhoy.com/actualidad/s...

Health care AI, intended to save money, turns out to require a lot of expensive humans Despite the hype over artificial intelligence in medicine, the systems require consistent monitoring and staffing to put in place and maintain.

“Algorithm glitches are one facet of a dilemma that computer scientists and doctors have long acknowledged but that is starting to puzzle hospital executives and researchers: Artificial intelligence systems require consistent monitoring and staffing to put in place and to keep them working well.”

BREAKING: Amazon warehouse workers in Garner, NC have filed for a union election after three years of organizing.

If they win, RDU1 would be the second unionized warehouse in the U.S.

Happening now: Amazon Labor Union workers and supporters are rallying outside JFK8 on Staten Island ahead of a midnight strike due to Amazon refusing to come to the bargaining table following a Dec. 15 deadline.

#STRIKEMAS