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Claudine Bonneau

@clo-bonneau.bsky.social
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Professor, ESG UQAM, Montreal Algorithmic resistance at work, algorithmic imaginaries, new ways of working, invisible work. Français/English Ongoing research project: workaround.uqam.ca/en/home

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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Software doesn’t rebel. A mathematical model possesses neither intent, malice nor the will to defy its creators, let alone extinguish our species. AI is a human artifact, engineered for profit: www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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Opinion | The Hidden Agenda Behind the AI Panic
A mathematical model doesn’t rebel. Anthropomorphizing it helps obscure human errors and accountability.
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The “losing control” narrative creates the loss of control. Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They are redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building. mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-system-f...
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The System From Nowhere
When Accountability Goes Rogue 💡I recently spoke with Dr. Zena Assaad for her podcast, Responsible Bytes. Video is above, below is an essay adapted from the conversation. "The system from nowhere" i...
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Describing AI agents as “superintelligence” or “rogue models” ascribes agency to products rather than to the companies building them. This framing helps the companies evade accountability for their actions. www-technologyreview-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.tech...
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Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype 
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There is a lot of focus right now on employers’ plans for AI. But if you are worried about your job being automated, the more proximate threat could be that colleague with a Claude subscription and a manic glint in their eye. www.irishtimes.com/business/wor...
irishtimes.com
That’s not your job: AI ushers in a blurring of the lines at work
The closest threat could be that colleague with a Claude subscription and a manic glint in their eye
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Deploying agents without oversight is a governance failure, not an emergent property of AI. Agents do not escape. They are built to optimise for a goal, and if the limits on how that goal may be achieved are not given, they will blindly follow the goal reflectingwide.blogspot.com/2026/09/no-a...
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Thinking in Public
No, AI will not kill us all. But handing companies control without accountability might. In the last few days, several journalists from at...
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"I began to worry about a world where, in addition to my job job, I have the work of making the emotion robot think that I’m sufficiently cheerful" #emotionAI #surveillance www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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The Rise of Emotional Surveillance
Companies are monitoring workers not just for productivity but for agreeability.
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
When the cited source exists but doesn’t support the claim being made: let’s share examples of LLM-generated misaligned citations
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Timmermans & Tavory (2026) on AI and qualitative analysis: LLMs excel at theme construction, but themes become interesting when they are developed into new arguments that move an ongoing conversation. AI will likely create theoretically irrelevant, boring work. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
« Google AI Overview contained claims that appeared in none of the underlying search results. The AI did not synthesise what the sources said. It created something the sources never stated » www.linkedin.com/pulse/google...
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Google's AI Overview Is a Publisher. A German Court Just Said So.
Na Liu KEY TAKEAWAY On 28 May 2026, the Munich Regional Court (Landgericht München I) granted a preliminary injunction against Google, ruling that AI-generated search summaries — "AI Overviews" or "Üb...
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"A genre glitch is a characteristic of LLM-assisted writing where the text suddenly switches genre, typically inserting a short promotional phrase full of sensory details into an informational text." I'm sure there are plenty of examples of genre glitch in internal organizational documents as well!
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"Every apparent gain in speed is a shift of burden downstream. Someone still has to reread, compare, test, contextualize, rewrite. And if no one takes on that work, the cost does not disappear. It reappears later in the form of errors, urgent fixes, loss of trust, and eventually litigation."
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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 13/03/2026
Grammarly's AI-fueled edits -- using my name - suggested making up sources and writing vague insinuations. In my latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link) I describe Grammarly's terrible edits in my name -- and call for a federal right of publicity. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...
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Opinion | Me, Myself and My A.I. Sloppelgänger
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Grammarly’s « expert review » feature: a deliberate choice to monetize the identities of real people without involving them www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...
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Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it
The company tells Platformer it will let experts opt out of the controversial feature — but how different is it than what every other AI company is doing?
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
AI impersonation: workers are tasked with simulating machinic neutrality while processing human emotion.
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
« The real question is whether AI’s productivity gains, if it delivers, are shared with workers. And the truth is employers won’t share those gains unless they’re forced to. » www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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The bogus four-day workweek that AI supposedly ‘frees up’
Business leaders tout AI as a path to shorter weeks and better balance. But without power, workers are unlikely to share the gains
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Augmentation washing - Instead of augmenting human capabilities, it disguises a form of automation that relies on intensified human labor to compensate machine limitations: "the men who remain are there more to help than to be helped.”(Licklider, 1960). www.techpolicy.press/how-augmenta...
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How Augmentation-Washing Hides Labor Automation
Sarah E. Fox and Samantha Shorey discuss how corporate “cobots” reduce control and intensify demands—and what policy can do to protect worker agency.
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
« Once an editor starts relying on an AI‑generated score, or a reviewer quietly pastes an auto‑drafted report with minimal edits, it becomes difficult to say where human responsibility ends, and machine suggestion begins. That ambiguity leads directly to a political problem: accountability. »
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Every interface is an argument about how you should feel. A red dot with an unread count is making an argument: that reading is something to be counted, that progress is something to be measured, that your relationship to this content is one of obligation. www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obli...
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Phantom Obligation
Why RSS readers look like email clients, and what that's doing to us.
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Guillaume Latzko-Toth @glt.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Le LabCMO organise une École d'été sur les méthodes qualitatives en contexte numérique à Montréal du 19 au 22 mai 2026: labcmo.ca/2025/12/16/a...  @labcmo.bsky.social #méthodes #recherche #numérique
Visuel - Logo du LabCMO + Titre et dates de l'école d'été
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
« AI is often an excuse for layoffs, not the cause of them. »
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Clients use GenAI to generate something approximating their desired outcome and ask illustrators and concept artists to make ‘something like this’, making their job harder and more frustrating. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
thisweekinvideogames.com
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did.
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
And what is efficiency anyway? The most efficient process is nothing happening at all. Created in a second, forgotten in an instant. open.substack.com/pub/kiosk/p/...
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When in Rome.
The illusion of infinite efficiency.
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Quality assurance design employees are being forced to dig their own graves by training AI programs to do their work. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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EA's Attempt to Use AI for Game Development Backfiring Horribly
Staffers at major video game developer Electronic Arts told Business Insider, their employer's attempts to use AI are backfiring.
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
“One of the reasons people are creating work slop may be the result of too few people, everything feeling urgent and important.” www.ft.com/content/8824...
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How employers can prevent AI ‘work slop’
Poorly generated content underlines need for clear policies and increased monitoring of technology
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
This is the essence of reverse-centaurism: when a human is expected to act like a machine in order to help the machine do something it can't do (...) The point of the worker – the "human in the loop" – isn't to supervise the AI, it's to take the blame for the AI. pluralistic.net/2025/05/27/r...
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Pluralistic: AI turns Amazon coders into Amazon warehouse workers (27 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
People and robots don’t really ‘collaborate’ in any normal sense of the word. In fact, people are actually doing a load of (invisible) work to bring about something that — from a distance — might just look like ‘collaboration’. medium.com/acm-cscw/ope...
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Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration
It is now routine to talk about human-AI collaboration and the possibility of AI systems acting as co-workers or partners for us. It’s…
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The insidious effect of workslop is that it shifts the burden of the work downstream, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work. In other words, it transfers the effort from creator to receiver. hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
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AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
🙋🏼‍♀️Yes, I was AI-shamed by a reviewer for being an em dashes enthusiast—Thank you for demonstrating so brilliantly that they are in fact the 'most human punctuation there is'.
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
It’s not hard to imagine a future where social media becomes an endless stream of AI-generated content interspersed with always-on, AI-generated avatars selling us stuff www.404media.co/chinese-live...
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Chinese Livestreaming 'Virtual Human' Salespeople Are Outselling Their Human Counterparts
Built using AI technology from Baidu and DeepSeek, these virtual livestreamers sell everything from wet wipes to printers and work 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
GenAI art has already reached polyester status, and this is just the beginning. culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our...
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GenAI is Our Polyester
The best way to understand generative AI art and aesthetics is to consider how previous "synthetics" lost value in the long-run For the first half of the 20th century, white-collar workers wore busin...
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
To read deeply in an AI-saturated world will require not just willpower and dedication, but institutional imagination. It means teaching reading not as information intake, but as a form of resistance against the frictionless logic of automated language. jeppestricker.substack.com/p/the-readin...
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The Reading Crisis We're Not Talking About
Writing gets the spotlight, but generative AI is reshaping how we read too.
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Offre de stage postdoctoral dans le cadre du projet de recherche « Imaginaires algorithmiques: les pratiques et représentations des algorithmes dans le monde universitaire». @uqam.ca (Montréal) Date limite pour soumettre sa candidature : 31 juillet 2025 labcmo.ca/2025/06/11/o...
labcmo.ca
Offre de stage postdoctoral sur les imaginaires algorithmiques
Nous sommes à la recherche d’un ou une candidate pour réaliser un stage postdoctoral dans le cadre du projet de recherche « Imaginaires algorithmiques: les pratiques et représentations des algorithmes...
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
"In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care. In a moment where machines churn out mediocrity, make something yourself. Make it imperfect. Make it rough. Just make it." dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
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The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com
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Claudine Bonneau @clo-bonneau.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
« The most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating. »
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Public Data Lab @publicdatalab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
do you have screenshots of troubling interactions with AI? submit them to our call for screenshots to be featured in an online publication and workshop - now extended until 10th december 2024: publicdatalab.org/2024/10/24/t...
text reads: "troubling AI - call for screenshots"
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
MIT author @aramsinn.bsky.social put it aptly: author's works being sold for AI fodder without compensation or permission is a structural problem www.404media.co/mit-press-ai...
“I told them that the problem with using our work to train LLMs isn't that individual authors deserve to be compensated, or given due credit, for their work being churned through the AI grinder,” Sinnreich said. “Rather, it's a structural problem in which the labor of working scholars en masse is being used to feed the profits of insatiably greedy tech elites, effecting a massive upwards transfer of wealth while simultaneously undermining the role of expertise and the value of individual perspective in the production of knowledge, which has widespread civic and cultural consequences.”
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