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Dr Christina J. Colclough

@thewhynotlab.com
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Advocate for reshaping the digitalisation of work & workers | Founder of The Why Not Lab Ethics of AI, workplace data & AI governance, data rights. FRSA, member of OECD & UNESCO expert groups on A.I. Trade unionist. Live in 🇩🇰, work 🌏 www.thewhynotlab.com

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EPSU @epsu.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🤑 We pay. You pay. Palantir doesn’t. A new report finds that #Palantir is paying little to no corporate tax in Europe while expanding its influence over public services, policing, defence and national security. 💲 Public money in. Almost no tax out. Read the report: www.epsu.org/article/pala...
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Palantir pays almost no corporate tax in Europe while benefitting from public contracts: new report
A new report reveals that Palantir is paying little to no corporate taxes in Europe while building massive profits and share value off the back of public contracts.
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EPSU @epsu.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
☑️ We pay. ❌ They don’t. Why? 👀 Any guess who "they" are? Find out who - sign up here👇🏾 forms.gle/jwmY5ASNaBof...
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EPSU @epsu.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🤑 Public money should serve the public good - not Big Tech. A new briefing from @thewhynotlab.com and Hannah Johnston sets out six principles for public procurement that protects digital sovereignty, workers’ rights and democratic control. Check it out 👇 www.epsu.org/article/publ...
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Public procurement must support digital sovereignty, not corporate control
Billions of euros are spent every year on digital and AI systems - yet EU procurement rules still provide too few clear principles for how these systems should be bought with public money.
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EPSU @epsu.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
@thewhynotlab.com urges unions not to wait for regulation - act now. Map where AI and digital systems are used, hold management accountable, and draw clear red lines. Collective bargaining is our strongest tool to shape a fair digital future. 💪🤖
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 03/02/2025
Next week. A timely Summit aimed at discussing whether, and if so how, #AIsystems are affecting the Nordic industrial relations models #IRModels 🎯 Friday Feb 13 in Oslo 🎯 Buy half-day or whole-day tickets 🎯 Book the governance workshop on the 14th In English. nordicaisummit.org/
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Nordic AI Union Summit 2025
Join the Nordic AI Union Summit 2025! Explore AI’s impact on work and the importance of the nordic Model!
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Mary Towers @marymayling.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Trade union ideas for realising AI opportunities: 🤝🏽 collective bargaining 💡worker led innovation 👷🏽 AI to enhance work ⚖️ equal outcomes ❤️ protect human values and creativity 🌎 sustainable growth 🪑 seat at the table for worker reps 📃 update laws 🔥empower people
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 12/01/2025
K12 schools will open in the USA soon that exclusively will use #AI rather than teachers. Why would any parent send their kids there? gizmodo.com/arizona-scho... #edtech #AI #teachers
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Arizona School’s Curriculum Will Be Taught by AI, No Teachers
The state's charter school board approved an application on Monday from Unbound Academy to open a school with a two-hour per day academic curriculum set by AI.
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 17/12/2024
❓What can seat belt crash tests teach us about the requirements for #AI #governance? New podcast episode with me on #bias #discrimination in AI systems, #governance and workplace responsibility. www.thewhynotlab.com/podcasts/wom...
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Ethics, Governance, and Inclusivity in the AI Age — The Why Not Lab
In this podcast, Christina delves into the pressing issues surrounding the governance of digital systems. She enlightens us on the powerful role of worker advocacy in digital systems, emphasizing the ...
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 09/12/2024
Have management forgotten their GDPR obligations (towards workers)? Much indicates they have! Read my latest post here: www.thewhynotlab.com/blog/gdprvio... #gdpr #workersrights #dpia #transparency #datarights.
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 02/12/2024
7/7 Jeg stiller ikke spørgsmålstegn ved en ansvarlig, gennemsigtig og inkluderende brug af nye teknologier. Men jeg tager skarpt afstand fra målet med denne taskforce, og rammerne den har fået. //slut//
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 02/12/2024
6/7 ▶️ Og endeligt er vi nødt til at spørge hvor effektive og smarte digitale løsninger er, hvis vi tager klimabelastningen med i det samlede regnskab. Ikke et ord nævnt om det i dækningen af taskforcen og negliceres det, er det en svigt af uendelige dimensioner.
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 02/12/2024
5/7 Taskforcen, derimod, skal holde teknologien som det konstante. Det er farligt og det er uansvarligt. Noget regeringen burde allerede bemærke sig ovenpå den voldsomme kritik fra Amnesty International om det offentliges nuværende menneskerettighedskrænkende brug af kunstig intelligens.
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 02/12/2024
4/7 ▶️ Og så er det ydermere problematisk, at denne taskforce ser ud til negligere Sprøgsmål Zero: nemlig det kritiske spørgsmål om kunstig intelligens overhovedet er den rigtige (bedste) løsning på et givet problem eller udfordring?
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 02/12/2024
3/7 Det kvantitative mål skal enten ses som en netto løsning. Eller også kan det kun opfyldes hvis den reelle hensigt med taskforcen er øget privatisering. Så bliver det de private aktører, der skal leverer årsværkerne og dermed slipper regeringen for regnskabet. Er det dét de melder ud? Nej.
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 02/12/2024
2/7 ▶️ Med målet om nedskæringer af årsværk af disse dimensioner, synes regeringen helt af have glemt, at med nye teknologier følger der ændrede kvalitetskrav, administrationskrav, ekspertisekrav, cybersikkerhedskrav, miljøbelastninger, digitale kompetencer krav osv. Og det betyder arbejdskraft.
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 02/12/2024
🚨Alarmklokkerne blinker hastigt ved nyheden om den digitale taskforce for #kunstigintelligens. Målet er at spare mellem 10.000 og 99.000 årsværk i den offentlige sektor. Men hvad er det for et mål? En 🧵
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 28/11/2024
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 28/11/2024
Could you kindly add me Rachel?
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 27/11/2024
We could all learn a lot from Helsinki ai.hel.fi/en/get-to-kn...
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Get to know AI Register | City of Helsinki AI Register
AI Register is a window into the artificial intelligence systems used by the City of Helsinki. Through the register, you can get acquainted with the quick
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 27/11/2024
Sounds terribly similar to what brought the Dutch government down. This is excellent research by @lhreports.bsky.social - glad its being picked up
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Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This -- once again, people aren't against *technology writ large*. they're against technology that is at best stupid, at worst evil, made by the same set of billionaire men whose track record of prior tech has decimated whole industries and made people worse off
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 26/11/2024
It's not mine. Look for @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 26/11/2024
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 26/11/2024
Could you kindly add me?
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 26/11/2024
Your work deserves to be spread far and wide @wchr.bsky.social Many workers in the courses I hold are subject to these sensors. Employers excuses are weak. Unions must negotiate guardrails
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 26/11/2024
Worth a read 👇 Ping all US #laborunions and friend clje.law.harvard.edu/quick-fixes-...
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Quick Fixes to Lock in Wins for Workers: How States Can Preserve New Federal Protections - Center for Labor and a Just Economy
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Biden administration adopted a range of key protections for US workers – from safeguards against extreme heat,…
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 26/11/2024
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 26/11/2024
Thanks so much
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 25/11/2024
Can you add me?.
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 25/11/2024
For alle os, der er afhængig af medicin for overhovedet at være til, så er sundhedsvæsenets stilhed omkring medicin prepping ufattelig larmende. #prepping #danmark @sophieloehde.venstre.dk
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 25/11/2024
Thanks @axbom.com - that means the world to me. Let's get more folks behind them and hold our politicians accountable to our rights ✊
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 25/11/2024
O that's so kind of you to say @marielza.bsky.social thank you 🩷
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/11/2024
most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true 1/
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 24/11/2024
Hi all. If you follow me and you haven't added a description of what you do/work on/are interested in, and you haven't add your name, I will block you.
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 23/11/2024
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 23/11/2024
AI regulation will not protect #fundamentalrights despite claims of the opposite. Read my thoughts on how we could rethink #digital regulation to truly center #humanrights & ultimately #democracy 👇 www.thewhynotlab.com/blog/rethink... Find Holistic AIs reg tracker here: tracker.holisticai.com/feed
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Rethinking Digital Regulation — The Why Not Lab
What three overarching principles could change the regulation of digital systems so fundamental rights are truly protected in digitalised societies and labour markets?
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Magnus B Rasmussen @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Curious about how the 40-hour workweek became standard? 🕒 In a Social Science History paper I investigate which political parties pushed for—or resisted—working-time regulations from the late 19th to the 20th century.
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 20/11/2024
We are automating jobs that many present and future workers rely on for an income. We must ask what the long term social consequences of this will be. Great article here from @nytimes.com Robots Struggle to Match Warehouse Workers on ‘Really Hard’ Jobs www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/b...
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Robots Struggle to Match Warehouse Workers on ‘Really Hard’ Jobs
The machines can load and unload trucks, move goods and do other repetitive tasks but are stymied by some, like picking items from a pile.
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 19/11/2024
Tak @gryhasselbalch.bsky.social
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 18/11/2024
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 17/11/2024
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 17/11/2024
Denne her go.bsky.app/NN6ve5t
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 17/11/2024
De finder dig sikkert via starterpacks.
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 17/11/2024
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 17/11/2024
+ @j2bryson.bsky.social @soderqvist.bsky.social @vdignum.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @safiyanoble.bsky.social @meredithmeredith.bsky.social @karenlevy.bsky.social
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Quite like this essay from Gelman, @economeager.bsky.social, and friends "Toward a taxonomy of trust for probabilistic machine learning" Basically, the failure points for trust across the machine learning pipeline
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Toward a taxonomy of trust for probabilistic machine learning
A taxonomy delineates where trust can break down in a probabilistic machine learning workflow that informs critical decisions.
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 17/11/2024
Me too!
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 17/11/2024
go.bsky.app/E9coisV @kanarinka.bsky.social @valeriodeste.bsky.social @hessiej.bsky.social @beckyunions21.bsky.social @nickscott.digital @vdignum.bsky.social @salome.bsky.social @dana.witchy.business
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 17/11/2024
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Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com · 17/11/2024
#digitaltechnologies by nature are manipulative. Inferences, profiling, and the use of said are limiting, defining, enabling, fragmenting. 📣 I call on governments to add that humans must have a right to be free from algorithmic manipulation as a condition for the realisation of #humanrights
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