A linguist at UMN shared this with me today, which I thought was a really helpful discussion of genAI in the classroom as a conversation around consent. refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

I do not understand why the entire economy trusts this company with their data??? “Microsoft is collecting your internal company performance data and sending it to your rivals, but don't worry, it's all protected by ’randomized mathematical models.‘“ How is that process trustworthy?

They are figuring out that using AI on customers is risky because customers are unpredictable and not totally controllable. So they're exploring new technologies to squeeze more value out of workers