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Andy Liddell

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Principal, EdTech Law Center | tech accountability organizer | big dad energy | “the future is unwritten” | EdTech.law

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 12h
This is a fairly damning assessment from a man who led the writing of OpenAI's safety reports: "As the company sprints from one launch to the next, it is failing to achieve the level of care that I believe is needed." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 16h
David Robinson used to write safety reports at OpenAI and now says its culture is ‘broken’ www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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An OpenAI safety employee has quit and is sounding the alarm
David Robinson used to write safety reports at OpenAI and now says its culture is ‘broken’
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The Markup @themarkup.org · 03/10/2026
Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are ignoring data controls mandated under California law, researchers say.
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Websites break California privacy law at ‘industrial scale,’ survey finds – The Markup
Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are ignoring data controls mandated under California law, researchers say.
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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Passing a bar called Clumsy's and noticing a modest sign tucked into the corner of the front window reading "No Aplomb."
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 03/10/2026
Federal judge: "Freedom from persistent, dragnet-style surveillance while in public is not a foreign concept in our society & it is a reasonable expectation that society already accepts ... Why is it the govt's business where everyone goes all the time?" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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A police search using Flock was a form of ‘mass surveillance,’ judge rules
A federal judge said that police conducted an “unconstitutional warrantless search” by using Flock cameras to reconstruct a woman’s travels without probable cause.
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 02/10/2026
Pope Leo XIV 'held firm,' in other words refused to countenance the most ridiculous dolts ever You can 'wine and dine' U.S. senators and UK MPs into saying whatever you want, but that really does not work on everybody
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wrote about how tips I get in my email inbox from ordinary ppl are increasingly AI generated. words like "evidence packet". I think this is how ChatGPT/Claude *thinks* journalists talk, but it's not. Because most tips to journos are not public so can't be scraped www.404media.co/behind-the-b...
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Behind the Blog: Freaking Out
This week, we discuss inbox slop, Claude cults, and more.
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Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I wrote about why the left has so little to say about public education (and why this is a big problem). educationwars.substack.com/p/whats-left...
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What’s Left for Public Education?
The left has no vision for public schools - and that’s a big problem
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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
read a book, for the left
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 02/10/2026
"The University of Cambridge refused to sign plagiarism detection software Turnitin’s new licence agreement, which could have allowed students’ work to be used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models."
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Uni opposes Turnitin AI training plans
The University is now exploring alternatives to the plagiarism detection service, according to the SU
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ʇᴉɯᴉl ɐɯǝɥɔs® @timforgot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Will we have to keep thinking about Sam Altman forever? I don't think so. I think he's gonna be a punchline." agreed, @doctorow.pluralistic.net, agreed. youtu.be/LiDUg_uylyM?...
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This is how the AI bubble pops | Cory Doctorow
YouTube video by The Tech Report
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Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“AI” in education Is like a fire in a library
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Andy Liddell @andyliddell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
California centrist Democrats—also the enemy? Hard to say…
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"For sure there’s much more to be done to build out a robust set of worker technology rights for the 21st century labor market," she continued, "but California’s unions have put the first big stake in the ground."
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“This is a breakthrough moment in tech policy,” Annette Bernhardt of the UC Berkeley Labor Center, tells me. “Right now, it’s the wild west when it comes to how employers use electronic monitoring and algorithmic management, because there are literally no rules of the road."
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Furthermore, there's a new law that will provide annual tax credits for newsrooms that hire local journalists—a bulwark against the rise of AI-generated content, as @mattdpearce.com points out, and an investment in human journalists.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The laws include a ban on bosses using AI to fire workers, bans on AI surveillance in a number of workplace environments, including the bathroom, codification that healthcare professionals cannot have their decision-making outsourced to AI, and professors and teachers cannot be replaced by AI.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.
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California just passed the strongest AI labor laws in the US
Finally, some good news
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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 02/10/2026
hell yeah
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 02/10/2026
The state of New Mexico asked a judge to order Meta Platforms to pay between $35 billion ​and $40 billion in penalties after a jury found the company had misled consumers about the privacy of their data on Facebook in ‌a case that came out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal reut.rs/4hYfzX9
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 02/10/2026
"Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This. Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something." www.wired.com/story/whatev...
wired.com
Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This
Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something.
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The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lawmakers target private-equity firms that are turning huge profits by providing applied behavior analysis to children as young as 2 buff.ly/kUXam0J
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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
this is a pretty devastating read www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...
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Inside Google’s AI Push Into Schools: ‘It Slowed My Thinking Down’
The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash.
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"GenAI is here, so I'm going to teach my students how to use it well." Are educators who choose to do this aware that they're complicit in exploiting and traumatizing data labellers in Global Majority countries? I guess they would have willingly enslaved people 200 years ago.
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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
These AI companies should be responsible for everything they do, and they fact nobody is holding them accountable is driving me insane: aftermath.site/ai-agents-resp...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
This is from a few days ago. theasterisk.substack.com/p/the-effect...
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The Effective Altruism Kids Aren’t Alright
On sexual violence, Slutcon, and what happens when children take on adult responsibilities.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
there's still this idea among some ai boosters that ai in law is gonna level the playing field for poor people/give them better access to law but so far it's been like: your state appointed attorney will shit out the worst possible ai-generated bullshit and you'll rot in prison
“It's little comfort to know that my stupidity is what brings us together this afternoon,” New Mexico attorney Stephen D. Aarons said in a hearing last month before five judges. He “assumed” ChatGPT would generate a “bulletproof summary of proceedings.” Instead, ChatGPT generated false testimony from “wholly fabricated witnesses,” according to an order of direct contempt from the New Mexico Supreme Court. Aarons was representing a man who was found guilty of killing his wife earlier this year; Aarons said he hadn’t told his client directly that he was caught using ChatGPT on the case because he’s currently serving life in prison.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The remedies in the Google ad tech case "stopped well short of actually preventing future abuses of monopoly power," writes Public Knowledge senior policy advocate Patrick Gallaher, who argues the ruling shows the need for the bipartisan AMERICA Act.
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Google Ad Tech Remedies Show Need for Legislation
The AMERICA Act is bipartisan legislation that gets at the heart of the problem of monopolistic digital ad tech, writes Public Knowledge's Patrick Gallaher.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Additionally, be aware of responsibility washing. See e.g. 📝 Amnesty International (2026). Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
Cover image of Amnesty International (2026). Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI. https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/
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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here's a gift link to the article, where you can learn more.
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How Chatbots and AI Are Already Transforming Kids’ Classrooms
Educators across the country are bringing chatbots into their lesson plans. Will it help kids learn or is it just another doomed ed-tech fad?
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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I visited this school as part of my reporting last year for a Businessweek story, which also revealed that Alpha is actually a subsidiary of the tech company Trilogy. Here's what I found.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨 Please boost, read, and sign if you want to support ✍️ OPEN LETTER: Pause the national rollout of AI-mediated tutoring in England's schools docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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OPEN LETTER: PAUSE THE NATIONAL ROLLOUT OF AI-MEDIATED TUTORING IN ENGLAND’S SCHOOLS
OPEN LETTER To the Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Prime Minister, and the Rt Hon Lucy Powell MP, Secretary of State for Education The Department for Education has announced plans to develop, what it calls, “...
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This piece highlights that despite the success of those of us pushing back on AI mania, some bad experiments are being performed on children with AI tools. Superintendent and administrators appear especially vulnerable to industry talking points.
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Schools are experimenting with AI with little evidence or policy to guide them
Teachers are using AI to develop lesson plans, and in some districts, AI chatbots give students feedback on their work. Meanwhile, the research around how AI can help students is extremely limited.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 25/09/2026
"Does it matter?"
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says That Sacrificing Our Children's Minds to AI Is a Price He's Willing to Pay
Thanks to AI, it won't matter if students can do multiplication, or even remember their own home address, tech billionaire Jensen Huang said.
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This is so smart. The people do not yearn for automation! “It is a failure when you ask people to adapt to computers. Computers should adapt to people. Asking people to make themselves more legible to software—to turn themselves into a database—is a doomed idea.” www.theverge.com/podcast/9170...
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BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN
Software brain is changing the world, but most people still aren’t buying.
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 29/09/2026
In this Republican bastion, angst over Texas’ public education system has helped fuel Gina Hinojosa’s campaign, giving voters here one of the most competitive governor’s races they’ve seen in decades.
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Conservative moms are fed up over Texas schools. For Gina Hinojosa, it’s an opening.
Democrat Gina Hinojosa is a mom who got into politics because of education, an issue that’s helping give Texas its most competitive governor’s race in years.
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Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 29/09/2026
I wrote about something that was making me feel nuts: After weeks of discourse around hypothetical existential threats from AI triggered global calls for government intervention, we learned a faulty AI system almost triggered a US-China war. And no one really cared. theintercept.com/2026/09/28/a...
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AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Care
The tech world is too busy dreaming up imaginary doomsday scenarios to focus on a very real one that flared up between nuclear powers.
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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The game: break the law & distract from the crime. While "a human hacker could easily have legal repercussions, the Sam Altman-led company is seemingly not afraid to come up with its own rules as it tries to navigate the untested legal waters of autonomous agents hacking third party systems."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 29/09/2026
Thinking about the horrific things contractors working behind the scenes on terms of service and moderation encounter on the regular...
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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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Andy Liddell @andyliddell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a must-read, with shoutouts to @annieabrams.bsky.social , @vauhinivara.bsky.social , @toddfeathers.bsky.social , and of course @benjaminjriley.bsky.social .
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All Our Kids Will Go To Alpha School-- Exceptionally thorough, with links to all sorts of other Alpha coverage open.substack.com/pub/theameri...
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All Our Kids Will Go To Alpha School
On the plans to hyperscale Alpha School’s “AI” tutoring software to “a billion kids.”
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“It’s putting a mind virus into a kid’s head, which is what education is. And it’s being done by a teacher you trust.”
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All Our Kids Will Go To Alpha School
On the plans to hyperscale Alpha School’s “AI” tutoring software to “a billion kids.”
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today is my father's birthday, my first without him. Not an hour passes without my thinking of the love and support he'd be providing me right now. And he relished a good conspiracy. If you missed the story about him, please read it today. He was such a decent, interesting man. I love you, Pop.
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He Warned About the Dangers of A.I. If Only His Father Had Listened.
Ben Riley was already writing about the risks of chatbots when his dad started trusting A.I. over his doctor.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 28/09/2026
Me confused. Me know cookie inside and out! Now me has to use A.I. for cookie work? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Cookie Monster Tries to Meet His A.I. Mandate
Me confused. Me know cookie inside and out! Now me has to use A.I. for cookie work?
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“like 5s on AP test” - Maya Angelou I’ll say again. @annieabrams.bsky.social was right.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m publishing something tomorrow about Alpha School. One of the things I focus on is how it is an incubator for EdTech platforms with the ambition to hyperscale. Alpha may only have a few hundred students nationwide, but its founders are developing MANY extractive EdTech brands. This is one:
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026
reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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