Allison Pugh

The Last Human Job A timely and urgent argument for preserving the work that connects us in the age of automation"A compelling case for valuing care as a societal good and as skilled labor."—The Nation

Related recommended reading by @allisonpugh.bsky.social

I wish it was more common to acknowledge that kids are people with rights, not the property of their parents. Their consent should matter.

Skechers is making kids' shoes with a hidden AirTag compartment | TechCrunch Skechers launches kids' shoes with a built-in AirTag holder.

Tracking kids is fine, but adults are not? The whole cautionary note of this reporting is about how the tech could, conceivably, be used to track adults without their knowledge. Not a whisper about the product's explicit intent re kids

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Views from the front lines of Trump’s war on the science community The government’s war against science is a disaster for both.

Thanks to @philipncohen.com and Micah Altman for this important piece.

"The government’s war against science is a disaster for both" not to mention all the rest of us

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I'm so tired of @chronicle.com's AI cheerleading. When you quote someone who suggests grading is "administrative work" good for automation, recognize this as a discursive move to make space for more AI & not actually true. Have the grace to push back, rather than let them have the last word

The Irreducible Link About: Allison Pugh, The Last Human Job. The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World, Princeton

NEW in CASBS's partnership w/ @laviedesidees.bsky.social & Books & Ideas

A look at "The Last Human Job," a book partly written at CASBS by 2016-17 fellow @allisonpugh.bsky.social

The book steps back from discourses portraying AI as a necessary solution to problems

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Lol love the bulleted list under "here's why it's a 95"

Opinion | Don’t let Dr. Oz shame you into avoiding carrot cake The U.S. has a long history of judging food choices, especially those of the poor.

"When I take off my chef’s hat and put on my sociologist’s hat, I can’t say I’m surprised at [Oz's] comments. The US has a long history of food shaming, particularly the food choices of people who are poor."

Thanks to @msnbc.com for letting me say: LET US EAT CAKE!

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The unsubtle subtext here is that, when the inevitable shortage becomes a point of political contention, “better than nothing” algorithms & hyped up “ai” will be shoved down the students throats.

@allisonpugh.bsky.social wrote an excellent book about this.

Inevitable response to LLM arms race (and yet another site of voluntary altruism ruined by the ChatGPT revolution). Fellow Profs: your students are doing this in papers already

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...

Thanks! Will retry

This is very good 😂
Have you read The Last Human Job by @allisonpugh.bsky.social? So many of your chaplaining posts make me think of it!

Beautiful Kieran. Thank you for writing it

The Last Human Job A timely and urgent argument for preserving the work that connects us in the age of automation"A compelling case for valuing care as a societal good and as skilled labor."—The Nation

Just started reading The Last Human Job by @allisonpugh.bsky.social, and I'm already nodding along and thinking that this book was written at exactly the right time press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Wow—what an insightful article about depersonalization and the effects it’s having on us as individuals as well as a society. Thank you for sharing this thoughtful piece by @allisonpugh.bsky.social

Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible | Aeon Essays Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being

It's not a loneliness crisis. It's a depersonalization crisis, in which tech, standardization and efficiency stop us from seeing each other fully.

Wonderful article by @allisonpugh.bsky.social (author of The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World).

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@allisonpugh.bsky.social This hits (slaps?): “What is missing here is what scholars call ‘recognition’, ‘mattering’ or ‘being seen’ – the notion that you are seen and heard, even emotionally understood, by the people around you, as opposed to feeling insignificant or invisible to others.”

Excellent piece.

Brilliant research on depersonalisation, the way our economy can reduce capacity for existentially recognising others, and the empathic failure built into the profit motives of tech.

Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible | Aeon Essays Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being

Who profits from loneliness? Why are we being sold a "crisis of loneliness" and what else is actually going on? See my essay for Aeon based on #TheLastHumanJob

Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible | Aeon Essays aeon.co/essays/our-c...

Read Allison Pugh’s books!

"Connective labor is not just a task, Pugh says, nor is it reducible to measurable ends. It is an inalienable part of humanity itself, without which the social fabric is left threadbare and thin."

A thoughtful discussion of #TheLastHumanJob and three other books on AI in Public Books!

So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco
#nokings

Amazingly detailed! Now off to read about the Oxford mutiny

Brilliant reframing of the conversations we should be having : future of ai - The Last Human Job brava @allisonpugh.bsky.social

Thank you!

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Thank you Sarah!

Therapists for me, and chatbots for thee.
Doctors for me, and telehealth for thee.
Tutors for me, and Duolingo for thee.

Thanks for sharing! Allison Boye and I have a session on @allisonpugh.bsky.social 's work at the Virtual Gathering in a couple of weeks. Looking forward to the discussion.

Thanks Mona!