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Abby Gilbert

@agkg1.bsky.social
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Political economy. AI. Director, IFOW Research associate, Digit

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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is why everyone should read this @ifow.org report! ifow.org/publications... bsky.app/profile/agkg...
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Economic Sovereignty and the Question of Post-Deployment Training - IFOW
Data about methods and processes at work is emerging as a critical economic resource. How should UKPLC respond?
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Russia is inflaming the debate on immigration in Britain as part of “increasing ambitions to disrupt our way of life”, counter-terror police and experts say It has directly and indirectly paid right-wing influencers to spread messages that align with its political goals inews.co.uk/news/putin-i...
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How Putin is inflaming immigration tensions to spark disorder in Britain
Counter-terror leaders reveal the tactics Russia is using to sow division in the UK
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 16/06/2026
Many Indian AI researchers are now willing to take a "50% sacrifice today for the greater pot at the end" by leaving Silicon Valley for homegrown startups restofworld.org/2026/silicon-valley…
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Silicon Valley’s lure is fading for India’s tech talent
India’s elite tech talent is starting to see big tech jobs in a new light.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"A record-shattering drought has racked much of the US. But the artificial intelligence industry is pushing ahead regardless, with the majority of planned datacenters set to be built in drought-ridden locations, a Guardian analysis has found."
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Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land
Guardian analysis finds facilities to be built in some of the driest areas as outcry grows over water needed to power AI
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Abby Gilbert @agkg1.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
As we transition towards greater use of energy intensive compute, more questions will be asked about the social utility of those using systems. This is yet another steer towards more industrial coordination through transition. media.licdn.com/dms/document...
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Abby Gilbert @agkg1.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
People (and their employers who are introducing SaaS and Agentic Solutions that allow foundation models to access structured workplace data) are still very much part of refining models. We need to focus on the Value Chain and role of Workplace Data. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark warns AI needs a 'brake pedal'
Jack Clark tells BBC's Newsnight AI could get to the point where it develops without human input.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Both shocking and unsurprising. What’s truly troubling is how many people have likely already produced, published and relied upon ‘insights’ they assumed came from analysis of their data but were in fact just the usual stereotyped LLM guesses
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The Productivity Institute @productivity.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
What does productivity mean in the age of AI? @bartvanark.bsky.social spoke w/ @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social about why traditional economic measures misses the impact of digital tech & intangible assets & why measurement matters for productivity: podfollow.com/productivity... @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk
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Abby Gilbert @agkg1.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Next a conversation on tech and democracy - while we know about the impact in civic life, what does AI at mean for democracy at work? With Professor Simon Deakin, Cambridge; Professor Abigail Marks, Newcastle, Professor Will Jennings, Southampton. #MakingTheFutureWork @ifow.org
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Abby Gilbert @agkg1.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Great to have Sir Patrick Vallance on stage for our first Keynote at #MakingTheFutureWork conference @ifow.org
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 08/05/2026
Scientific literature depends on the integrity of its references. In a new research letter, authors present the findings of a reference-integrity audit of 2.5 million biomedical papers. Read this & more in our latest issue: spkl.io/63325A7eXP
Cover of The Lancet's May 9, 2026 issue. Quote on cover reads: "[An]...audit of 2.5 million biomedical papers spanning 3 years, show[ed] that fabricated references are embedded in the peer-reviewed literature at scale, and that the rate of fabrication is accelerating."
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What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? @whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com · 16/05/2026
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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
As someone sitting here with 3 reviews I wish I'd said no to , big 💯. Publishers need to pay for basic due diligence pre peer review.
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Jannik Jansen @jannikjansen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
For years, Europe assumed foreign investment would naturally generate industrial upgrading. The Industrial Accelerator Act marks a shift. @aleichthammer.bsky.social & I argue its FDI conditionality targets a real issue, but is currently too weak to solve it 🧵 www.delorscentre.eu/en/publicati...
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Selective Conditionality: The EU’s Emerging Approach to Foreign Investment
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Institute for the Future of Work @ifow.org · 08/05/2026
📣 The Institutional Challenge (14:00 - 14:50) Chair: Dr Abby Gilbert @agkg1.bsky.social (IFOW) Panellists: - Bart van Ark (The Productivity Institute) - Mary Jones (DSIT) - Jeremias Adams-Prassl (@ox.ac.uk) Sign-up below!
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Making the Future Work
Convening research, firm and policy expertise to ask: how can we couple AI with human capabilities to transform working lives for good?
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Abby Gilbert @agkg1.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Right now, concerns about AI and work are narrowly on web-scraped data; the creative industries, and copyright. But AI is no longer just trained before deployment on web-scraped data It’s also learning after deployment, from workplace data. This is 'post-deployment training'.
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Abby Gilbert @agkg1.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Foundation Models have changed the game in terms of what is possible codifying work methods. While we can debate (a) what 'intelligence' is (b) the scale of disruption What history reliably tells us is that access to data underpins developments in inferential power.
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Abby Gilbert @agkg1.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
⚠️New Report Alert⚠️ Economic Sovereignty and the Question of Post-Deployment Training AI sovereignty is about who captures the value from worker and organisational know how codified in workplace data. This presents a risk not only to workers, but also firms and nation states 🧵
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 04/03/2026
Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.
The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.
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Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org · 22/01/2026
Addressing AI at work can be challenging. It touches on personal, professional, and political. Our work with @cwunews.bsky.social is designed to break down implications into actionable union responses. Read more from @adamc-c.bsky.social on phase 2 connectedbydata.org/blog/2026/0...
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CWU and AI - Activating members and building towards negotiation
Addressing the complex issues surrounding AI at work can be challenging. It touches on personal experiences, professional roles, and charged political views on Big Tech. It often involves vague or technical terminology. It’s a topic that many employers will see as their ‘management prerogative’ and out of scope for collective bargaining or even worker consultation.
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Institute for the Future of Work @ifow.org · 08/07/2025
As AI and automation disrupt entry-level jobs, how can young people from low-income backgrounds access better work? In Youth Employment Week, we're excited to be publishing this research with the EY Foundation highlighting why internal motivation is so crucial: www.ifow.org/publications...
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Institute for the Future of Work @ifow.org · 19/06/2025
💬 The future of work: A manifesto for 2030 IFOW Co-Director @abbygkgilbert.bsky.social joined @isabelberwick.ft.com, Colette Stallbaumer and Christine Armstrong at the FT Women in Business Summit to explore how women work best, and what needs to be done to reshape how, where and why we work
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Severin Borenstein @severinborenstein.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Data centers could greatly reduce the strain they put on the grid by scaling down operations and lowering electricity use in less than 1% of all hours, so why don't they. In my Energy Institute post today, I dig into the need to improve incentives. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/c... 🔌💡
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Can Data Centers Flex Their Power Demand?
First they need to have the right incentives to do so. Electricity world these days is filled with concern about supersized (“hyperscale”) data centers, those computing facilities that use more ele…
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Abby Gilbert @agkg1.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
“While much of the world operates on a just-in-time supply model, China takes a different approach, hoarding vast reserves to protect against price swings, geopolitical tensions, and climate shocks.”
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 23/03/2025
"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
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Abby Gilbert @agkg1.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Important for all the irate lecturers trying to convince students that learning to write compellingly, alone, still matters
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Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
What are immersive technologies? Our new explainer provides a shared vocabulary by summarising the main types of these technologies, including what makes them ‘immersive’. www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/resource/imm...
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What are immersive technologies?
This explainer covers virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR) and immersive virtual worlds (IVWs).
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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A well-paid, four-year PhD position in political theory/philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, to work primarily with my wonderful colleagues Lillian Cicerchia and Paul Raekstad, and also a bit with yours truly. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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Vacancy — PhD Position in Political Theory
A fully-funded, four-year PhD position in political theory at the University of Amsterdam. We are open to research proposals in any area of political theory. We are particularly interested in candidat...
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The Register @theregister.com · 03/03/2025
With Apple pulling the plug on at-rest end-to-end encryption in the UK, and Signal threatening to pull out of Sweden if that government demands special access, it's looking bleak Governments can't seem to stop asking for secret backdoors. New opinion piece here www.theregister.com/2025/03/03/o...
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Governments can't seem to stop asking for secret backdoors
Cut off one head and 100 grow back? Decapitation may not be the way to go
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
🎧 What happens when a key US intelligence watchdog loses its independent oversight? This episode unpacks Trump’s firing of PCLOB members, the lawsuit announced last week, and what it means for privacy, surveillance, and US-EU data relations. Featuring interviews with Travis LeBlanc and Greg Nojeim:
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Watching the Watchers: The Future of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board | TechPolicy.Press
After President Trump terminated the Democratic members of the PCLOB, its effectiveness and future independence are in doubt.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
"The competitions do not actually ask machines to perform human tasks; it’s more accurate to say that they ask humans to behave in machine-like ways as they perform lifeless simulacra of human tasks." 🔥
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Abby Gilbert @agkg1.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
“Self-determination of national or cultural communities requires regulative structures at the supranational level strong enough to secure relations of equal integration into the global community and protect local communities from exploitation, expropriation and excursion”
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Abby Gilbert @agkg1.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Compelling & timely paper stating the case for a politics which recognises the primacy of the nation state, and it’s allocative autonomy (determining relations of production&distribution) while also working towards a democratically integrated global system.
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Alfie Stirling @alfie-stirling.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
NEW First of three papers in a major study from @nprcoxford.bsky.social and @jrf-uk.bsky.social. TLDR - The credibility of all political parties in tackling household economic insecurity looks set to be one of the crucial dividing lines of the parliament. www.theguardian.com/business/202... 1/
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Labour losing support fastest among voters worried over finances, study finds
Poverty charity urges Keir Starmer to focus on living standards instead of culture wars and immigration
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Daron Acemoglu @dacemoglumit.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
In partnership with @schmidtsciences.bsky.social, @simonhrjohnson.bsky.social, David Autor and I are seeking funding proposals from researchers conducting innovative field experiments on the labor economics of frontier AI. Expressions of interest due March 31. shapingwork.mit.edu/call-for-pro...
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Call for Proposals: The Labor Economics of Frontier AI - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven @ingridhk.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Just seeing the RCT 'scandal' brewing among econs again. This is not a question about some bad apples or some instances of malpractice. The RCT industry has been completely distorted from its inception in Econ and this is closely tied to the incentive structure of the discipline.
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Chicken Puppet 🏳️‍⚧️ @chickenpuppet.online · 25/02/2025
This seems like a ridiculous gambit when our huge tech firms don’t have a technological advantage, they just have a user base
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Georgia Jenkins @ipquokka.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Publishers suing AI startup for ©️ and TM infringement?? Reputational harm stemming from being linked as fictional articles. Now only if ©️ authors could rely on [artistic] reputational harm for being used for training AI models. How the pendulum swings. www.worldtrademarkreview.com/article/inac...
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Inaccurate AI output is damaging news brands, major media corporations claim
In a recent complaint against AI firm Cohere, plaintiffs including Forbes, Guardian News and Politico join the growing list of media companies accusing AI developers of damaging their news brands.
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Twinkle, twinkle, little Starlink: my Trade Secrets today. Countries are scrambling to set up their own satellite systems rather than depend on geopolitical foes. It's all part of the politicisation of the plumbing of the world economy.
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Satellite rivalries are politicising the world’s economic plumbing
[FREE TO READ] Governments are increasingly wary of relying on foreign communication systems
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Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
DeepSunk
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
1. Background to the epochal change in German and European politics after the election. Merz, the presumed next Chancellor has said that Europe is setting out to "achieve its independence from the US, step by step." @abenewman.bsky.social and I explain the background in our book, Underground Empire
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Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy [Farrell, Henry, Newman, Abraham] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Big AI steps taken at NY Times. But also clear no go’s, like 1) AI to draft or significantly revise an article, 2) input third party copyrighted materials, 3) use AI to circumvent a paywall, 4) publish machine-generated images or videos, only with proper labeling www.semafor.com/article/02/1...
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New York Times goes all-in on internal AI tools
The company said it was greenlighting a number of AI programs for editorial and product staff.
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Institute for the Future of Work @ifow.org · 13/02/2025
Our Co-Director, @abbygkgilbert.bsky.social, is in Oslo for their #AISummit, and has shared this this morning from one of the sessions. Important to understand what the human implications are for co-working with AI tools. As they present themselves as more 'intelligent', do we abdicate discretion?
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Institute for the Future of Work @ifow.org · 11/02/2025
Our Co-Director, @abbygkgilbert.bsky.social is still in Paris attending #AIActionSummit. This afternoon, she will be supporting the setting up of a new global network of AI labs at the Initiating the AI@Work labs network (INRIA) workshop. www.elysee.fr/en/sommet-po...
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Program
The Summit will begin in the Grand Palais on 10th February, starting with a forum bringing together many stakeholders from around the world (including represent
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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
NEW POLL: 51% of American voters polled say they disapprove of Donald Trump’s performance so far as President; 40% strongly disapprove: www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
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Aline Villavicencio @alinevillav.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Fully funded PhD studentship: Compositional and Holistic UNits of Knowledge in Sentences at @exeter.ac.uk With Rodrigo Wilkens and @marcoidiart.bsky.social Start Date: September 2025 Application Deadline: 10 February 2025 www.exeter.ac.uk/study/pg-res... and www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/recr...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/01/2025
DeepSeek’s R1 model is challenging the very foundations of the past two years of generative AI hype, wiping $1 trillion of the value of major US tech companies. But it’s also another example that the US strategy to try to contain Chinese tech is failing — and pushing them to get even more creative.
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DeepSeek shows the US failure to contain Chinese tech
Despite chip restrictions, Chinese AI threatens the foundation of the generative AI hype cycle
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Institute for the Future of Work @ifow.org · 23/01/2025
For our second session at #MakingTheFutureWork on the 27th of January, hear from Dr @abbygkgilbert.bsky.social Gilbert, Professor James Hayton, Kate Bell, and Bomi Okuyiga as they discuss how businesses can adapt to the rapid pace of socio-technical change.
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