In this week’s #blog , Lulu presents some takeaways from the edtech summit EdTechX, which provided several insights into the edtech sector. 🌐

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Mark your calendars 📅On 6th March I have the pleasure of talking to the FT's AI Editor Madhumita Murgia about her new book 'Code Dependent' here at the Oxford Internet Institute at University of Oxford.

In-person and online, sign-up details here: oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

For a SI in B Jl Sociology of Ed (soon to be announced on the BJSE website), we are looking for contributions discussing AI and education. Please do reach out to me or my co-editors, Rebecca Eynon, Jeremy Knox , and Neil Selwyn if you have any questions. We look forward to your abstracts!

Pleased to announce that our edited book has come out.

'The politics of silence, voice and the in-between attempts to theorise agency and agentive-responses to oppression and violence through understanding the lived experiences from the margins'.

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This can be sociologists working on AI and education, and also education researchers looking at AI from sociological perspective. Do shout if this is you!

#EASST4S2024 call is out! Tanja Schneider, Loïc Riom and I are organising a panel ‘Assetiztion of knowledge and knowledge of assetization in financialized capitalism’. Consider submitting if you are interested in knowledge, assets, rentiership. See here: t.ly/yfA1n

How do AI applications coexist with existing forms of expertise in the public services - from health to education? Join us in person at the Department of Education, University of Oxford or online and meet Prof Maja Hojer Bruun talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/eb33a…

'From the Classroom to the Workplace – AI Technologies and the Changing Face of Education'

Join us for this online event with Prof Helmut Krcmar, Dr Lulu, Prof Stephan Krusche and Dr Fabian Stephany, in partnership with TU München. Tickets here: oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

Learn about AI and the future of unpaid domestic work with your morning cup of tea, and join on mastodon @[email protected] Vili Lehdonvirta and me tomorrow at 9am UKT. You can also listen to us in Japanese! cf.ocha.ac.jp/igi-en/j/menu/…

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📢Publication alert!

Check out our newest Policy Brief for Mapineq by Jani Erola Melinda Mills & Heike Solga WZB

Beyond Education and Training – How Can We Adapt to Future Needs of Local Labour Markets?

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Happy to announce that my paper 'The Development of AI Ethics in Japan: Ethics-washing Society 5.0?' has just been published in EASTS, part of a forthcoming special issue on AI and robots in Japan and South Korea that I'm co-editing with Giulia De Togni, PhD : tandfonline.com/eprint/WSKHYXT…

Now is probably the time to announce that I've been writing a book about OpenAI, the AI industry & its impacts. Here is a slice of my book reporting, combined with reporting from the inimitable Charlie Warzel. Inside the year of chaos that led to this weekend. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

When we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care.

This new book on algorithms, automation and AI in education has been a couple of years in the making, with about 30 colleagues contributing, so it's great to finally get hands on a copy. It's one for the libraries to buy - or preview our intro chapter free taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.…

Interesting article in Irish Independent focused on how AI could influence the gender pay gap. Great to see research from Prof on mastodon @[email protected], Dr Lulu, Prof Vili Lehdonvirta, Oxford Internet Institute and Prof Nobuko Nagase mentioned: independent.ie/opinion/commen…