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James Muldoon

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Associate Professor Essex Business School, Research Associate Oxford Internet Institute. Author of Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI (2024) jamesmuldoon.org

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The Autonomy Institute @autonomy-institute.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
NEW EVENT | Our CADA speaker series returns after its summer break Autonomy Research Affiliate @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social will be joining us to discuss his book 'Love Machines' 🤖 Weds 23rd Sept, 18:30 | Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Sign up 👇 actionnetwork.org/events/james...
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James Muldoon on 'Love Machines' – How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming our Relationships
Join us for the latest in our CADA speaker series on Weds 23rd September in Bethnal Green.
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Bas @escapismstudio.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Read a piece by @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social on how AI chatbots are changing relationships and felt compelled to make this.
The loneliness epidemic is not a markt opportunity — invest in local communities
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 22/01/2026
In his new book, “Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Our Relationships,” @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social profiles people who use AI companions. Read an excerpt about a woman who built a deathbot to grieve for her mother restofworld.org/2026/james-m...
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She built an AI bot of her mother to help her grieve
In his new book, “Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Our Relationships,” writer James Muldoon profiles people who use AI companion bots to grieve and love.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/01/2026
Lamar wants to have children with his girlfriend. The problem? She’s entirely AI
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Lamar wants to have children with his girlfriend. The problem? She’s entirely AI
As synthetic personas become an increasingly normal part of life, meet the people falling for their chatbot lovers
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Blackwell's Bookshops in Oxford @blackwelloxford.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Tuesday 13th January, Our events 2026 programme begins with @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social discussing his forthcoming book, 'Love Machines' @faberbooks.bsky.social Tickets cost £6 and can be purchased here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1923487194...
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James Muldoon @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Great coverage of my book Love Machines on human-AI relationships in the Guardian and Mail this weekend. People seem sufficiently horrified. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
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Lamar wants to have children with his girlfriend. The problem? She’s entirely AI
As synthetic personas become an increasingly normal part of life, meet the people falling for their chatbot lovers
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James Muldoon @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Really excited to announce that my new book, Love Machines will be coming out on 15 January 2026 with Faber!
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James Muldoon @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
My new article with Tongyu Wu and Bingqing Xia is out, 'Global data empires: Analysing artificial intelligence data annotation in China and the USA' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Jonas Valente and I have just published a new @lbc.co.uk opinion piece, drawing on our @towardsfairwork.bsky.social cloudwork study to warn that a UK–EU youth mobility scheme could inadvertently funnel young people into exploitative gig roles: www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view... @jonasvalente.bsky.social
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A UK-EU youth mobility scheme could feed a generation into exploitative gig work
The UK–EU Youth Mobility Scheme offers real promise.
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Ashique Ali T @ashiquealit.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
A very valuable meeting point in academic journey. Team 'platform without borders' Thank you @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social, @grohmannrafael.bsky.social, @andretwp.bsky.social & Denise Kasparian for putting this together.
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jen forestal @seejenspeak.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
CPT just published a symposium on my book! huge thanks to Susan Bickford, @pollysigh.bsky.social, @nicolecurato.bsky.social, @jgastil.bsky.social, Victor Bruzzone, @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social for contributions that critique, stretch, & apply the book's argument in such generous & productive ways
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Thinking democracy in a digital age - Contemporary Political Theory
Contemporary Political Theory -
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Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
📣 28-29 May at QMUL @clasp-qmul.bsky.social End of Year Event on 'The Materialities of AI', feat. @katecrawford.bsky.social @anavaldi.bsky.social @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social @milamiceli.bsky.social @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social Register free: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
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Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Really cool piece by @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social and Dougie Booth on Rosa Luxemburg's vision for socialist democracy journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Socialist democracy: Rosa Luxemburg’s challenge to democratic theory - James Muldoon, Dougie Booth, 2024
Contemporary democratic theorists have tended to assume that democracy is compatible with and even requires a capitalist economic system. Rosa Luxemburg offers ...
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James Muldoon @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Many human-AI relationships and the companies that make them possible are like a Black Mirror episode come to life. I spoke with David Batty about them recently for this article: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘She helps cheer me up’: the people forming relationships with AI chatbots
From virtual ‘wives’ to mental health support, more than 100m people are using personified chatbots
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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
It is publication day for THE CINEMA OF EXTRACTIONS (@columbiaup.bsky.social), a book about the materials that make movies possible and how to read between the raw materials and the screen worlds they create.
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is a brilliant, powerful essay Jeanne Morefield, "Blood ties: Trump’s 'invasion' narrative and the real story of pain in America" www.bostonreview.net/articles/blo...
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Blood Ties - Boston Review
Trump’s “invasion” narrative and the real story of pain in America.
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
In one fell stroke, the Clintons transformed health care reform into the third rail of American politics and buttressed the relentless pursuit of geopolitical primacy. @morefius.bsky.social on the bipartisan failures that have led to this dire moment:
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Blood Ties - Boston Review
Trump’s “invasion” narrative and the real story of pain in America.
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Casilli @casilli.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚀 The official French-subtitled preview of our documentary ‘In the Belly of AI’ is here! 🎬 📺 Full broadcast on Tue., Feb. 11, at 10:40pm CET on France 2!🔥 by @henripoulain.bsky.social Julian Goetz & me ft. @milamiceli.bsky.social @xriskology.bsky.social @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social & more
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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Andreesen likened DeepSeek to a ‘Sputnik moment’ Is it an appropriate analogy? My colleagues and I @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social unpacked it as part of our global politics of AI research area www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Is ‘Sputnik Moment’ an appropriate analogy for the launch of DeepSeek? - LCFI
Marc Andreesen likened the launch of the Chinese-made large language model, DeepSeek-R1, to the ‘Sputnik moment’, referring to the 1957 launch of the USSR’s Sputnik 1, the first satellite launched fro...
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James Muldoon @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
great to be on @PoliticsJOE_UK to chat about our book Feeding the Machine, DeepSeek and a little bit about my new book on AI companions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w-J...
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AI will make your job worse | AI expert interview
YouTube video by PoliticsJOE
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Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Another short piece from me where I express my disappointment at how the UK AI Opportunities Action Plan prioritises industry interests and language and highlight how this creates tensions for acting responsibly with AI. My latest in @justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org/106837/uk-ai...
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Throwing Caution to the Wind: Unpacking the U.K. AI Opportunities Action Plan
The U.K. AI Opportunities Action Plan prioritizes a speculative future benefit over safeguarding against foreseeable risks to human rights.
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James Muldoon @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
DeepSeek shows alternative models of AI are possible - so long as you don't ask it about Winnie the Pooh. open.substack.com/pub/doesnotc...
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DeepSeek shows alternative models of AI are possible
So long as you don’t ask it about Winnie the Pooh
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
“They’re poisoning the blood of our country.” @morefius.bsky.social on Trump’s invasion narrative, the opioid epidemic, U.S. exceptionalism, and the real story of pain in America:
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Blood Ties - Boston Review
The real story of pain in America.
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James Muldoon @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Trump's inauguration marks a seismic political shift in Silicon Valley - a complete capitulation to the far right and the beginning of a new era of 'tech for evil': trashing the environment, military AI, misinformation and rampant cronyism. open.substack.com/pub/doesnotc...
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Big Tech Gives Us the ‘Roman Salute’: Welcome to the Era of ‘Tech for Evil’
When people show you who they are, believe them.
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James Muldoon @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
As Trump is inaugurated, he is flanked by many top tech CEOs who have all bent the knee and vowed to work hand in hand with the incoming President: Bezos, Zuckerberg, Pichai, Musk, Cook, Chew all attending.
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James Muldoon @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The most amusing part of the whole TikTok ban saga is how many young Americans are discovering a whole new world of Chinese propaganda on Chinese social media platforms like Xiaohongshu as a result of the possible blackout
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Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Last year, I spent a lot of time talking to insiders at the UK's AI Safety Institute. It's the world's leading govt body for tracking AI dangers. My piece, published today, goes behind the scenes to ask the question: Can it really hold billion-dollar AI companies to account? time.com/7204670/uk-a...
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Inside the U.K.’s Bold Experiment in AI Safety
Researchers are identifying current and future dangers within AI models away from the conflicts of interest they’d face in the industry
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James Muldoon @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Nobody is more responsible for the rise of a tech industrial complex than Obama-era Democrats who courted them and did everything possible to grow their power. www.theverge.com/2025/1/16/24...
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Biden warns nation about the rise of American tech oligarchs
“The truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit.”
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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Karl Marx’ conversion from republicanism to communism in 1844 was conducted through the 19th-century equivalent of a passive-aggressive text message to your roommate: a formal letter to his housemate Arnold Ruge over hot gossip. Excerpt from @brunoleipold.com’s Citizen Marx.
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The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Here is our review on Daily Kos: www.dailykos.com/stories/2024... Written by Mark Graham (@geoplace.bsky.social), James Muldoon (@jamesmuldoon.bsky.social) and Callum Cant, it details the lives of low-wage workers, mostly women, in places like Kenya, India and the Philippines....
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Nonfiction Views: The global sweatshop behind AI, plus this week's notable new nonfiction
In recent months, there has been a steady stream of books published about Artificial Intelligence, or A.I. I tend not to select these books to feature, even though I consider the issue fascinating ...
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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 06/12/2024
Sign up for the new Economic Republicanism newsletter which Louis Mosar and Sean Irving are releasing. economic-republicanism-newsletter.kit.com/8e5398b027
Yellow text on a red background reads: Economic Republicanism Newsletter. To its left is a yellow and red symbol with half a gear wheel, half a laurel wreath, and a Phrygian liberty cap in the centre.
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James Muldoon @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Had a great time talking about our book Feeing the Machine at LSE this week with Callum Cant.
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