Charles Logan
@charleswlogan.bsky.social
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Responsible Technology, Policy, and Public Dialogue at Northwestern University - Civics of Technology Board Member - Dad Life - he/him
I think you mean management deploying AI in order to free the capital for more speculative AI investment is responsible for job loss.
AI could replace 3m low-skilled jobs by 2035, research finds
AI could replace 3m low-skilled jobs by 2035, research finds
Trades, machine operations and administrative roles are most at-risk, says leading educational research charity
Up to 3m low-skilled jobs could disappear in the UK by 2035 because of automation and AI, according to a report by a leading educational research charity.
The jobs most at risk are those in occupations such as trades, machine operations and administrative roles, the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) said. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I think you mean management deploying AI in order to free the capital for more speculative AI investment is responsible for job loss.
Decided to teach my kids the Nelson “Ha-ha!” and they are turning their very good impressions against me!
a cartoon character from the simpsons is standing in front of a door and looking at his reflection in the mirror .
Alt: The cartoon character Nelson from The Simpsons is standing in front of a door and looking at his reflection in the mirror. He is saying, “Ha-ha! Hey, that hurts.”
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Decided to teach my kids the Nelson “Ha-ha!” and they are turning their very good impressions against me!
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This is *amazing*. This goes straight to Deceptive Design Hall of Shame.
They made a "take a break" nudge that has no obvious "ok, I'll take a break" affordance. Its three affordances are:
1) Keep chatting (default, highlighted)
2) x out — keeps chatting
3) "This was helpful" — what is this?
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They made a "take a break" nudge that has no obvious "ok, I'll take a break" affordance. Its three affordances are:
1) Keep chatting (default, highlighted)
2) x out — keeps chatting
3) "This was helpful" — what is this?
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One of the changes that OpenAI has made to make ChatGPT safer is a "take a break" nudge. There's something quite interesting about the design here. Which thing does it make you want to click?
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This is *amazing*. This goes straight to Deceptive Design Hall of Shame.
They made a "take a break" nudge that has no obvious "ok, I'll take a break" affordance. Its three affordances are:
1) Keep chatting (default, highlighted)
2) x out — keeps chatting
3) "This was helpful" — what is this?
🧵
They made a "take a break" nudge that has no obvious "ok, I'll take a break" affordance. Its three affordances are:
1) Keep chatting (default, highlighted)
2) x out — keeps chatting
3) "This was helpful" — what is this?
🧵
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Had a good chat with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for the @404media.co podcast. Got a chance to talk about how tech companies main pitch changed from “you exchange some surveillance for services” to “we get to spy on you all the time and it’s good, actually.”
Luxury Surveillance (With Chris Gilliard)
Podcast Episode · The 404 Media Podcast · 11/24/2025 · 1h 3m
podcasts.apple.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Had a good chat with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for the @404media.co podcast. Got a chance to talk about how tech companies main pitch changed from “you exchange some surveillance for services” to “we get to spy on you all the time and it’s good, actually.”
Very bold of you, YMCA, to assume that I prefer to be addressed as "Chuck" rather than "Charles" or "Charlie" or even "Chaz".
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Very bold of you, YMCA, to assume that I prefer to be addressed as "Chuck" rather than "Charles" or "Charlie" or even "Chaz".
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This is worth a read.
SESP faculty leadership: Professors Cynthia Coburn, Megan Bang, and Carol Lee coauthored a new Spencer Foundation report urging a rethink of grad education and calling for learning that meets today’s changing classrooms and communities.
➡️ Read the report: spr.ly/633227csDG.
➡️ Read the report: spr.ly/633227csDG.
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is worth a read.
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This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
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The issues with AI and education are vast, and I appreciate that this story aims to engage with that complexity, but it misses the mark in so many ways by boiling it down to two competing ideas, 1) "AI is here to stay" and will transform the job market and 2) AI is bad for critical thinking. 1/8
Higher Education’s AI Problem : Up First from NPR
Across the country, colleges and universities are struggling to figure out how to incorporate AI into the classroom. ChatGPT debuted almost exactly three years ago. And very quickly, students began to...
www.npr.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
People "opposed to the data center shared concerns about transparency, asked board members if they had signed non-disclosure agreements, and decried 'tech billionaires' coming into their rural community. Many are worried about potential impacts to the environment, groundwater and electricity rates."
Facebook owner’s $1B data center project prompts Michigan town to enact 6-month pause
A controversial proposal for a hyperscale data center, reportedly backed by tech giant Meta, has faced pushback in an historically rural Michigan community.
www.mlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
People "opposed to the data center shared concerns about transparency, asked board members if they had signed non-disclosure agreements, and decried 'tech billionaires' coming into their rural community. Many are worried about potential impacts to the environment, groundwater and electricity rates."
"I think [Brightwheel is] just instilling an illusion in me that it’s possible to control her—if I as her parent could only get the data inputs right."
I appreciate this week's Civics of Tech post from Michelle Ciccone reflecting on how parents are socialized into datafying our kids from Day 1.
I appreciate this week's Civics of Tech post from Michelle Ciccone reflecting on how parents are socialized into datafying our kids from Day 1.
Reflecting on Daycare (Ed)Tech and Being a New “Civics of Tech Parent” — Civics of Technology
Civics of Technology Announcements Curriculum Crowdsourcing : One of the most popular activities in our Curriculum is our Critical Tech Quote Activity because the lessons offers a quick way to int...
www.civicsoftechnology.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"I think [Brightwheel is] just instilling an illusion in me that it’s possible to control her—if I as her parent could only get the data inputs right."
I appreciate this week's Civics of Tech post from Michelle Ciccone reflecting on how parents are socialized into datafying our kids from Day 1.
I appreciate this week's Civics of Tech post from Michelle Ciccone reflecting on how parents are socialized into datafying our kids from Day 1.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
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The U.S. is the biggest emitter of carbon emissions from AI, making up 45% of the world’s emissions.
“Data Crunch”: AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals
A new report titled “Data Crunch: How the AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals” from the Center for Biological Diversity warns the booming artificial intelligence in...
www.democracynow.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The U.S. is the biggest emitter of carbon emissions from AI, making up 45% of the world’s emissions.
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Top tier podcast episode title: “Are we readers or are we players?” 😂
Today's guests argue that the narratives & themes of English class are everywhere for those equipped to see them. 👇
@karismjones.bsky.social
@mraleosays.bsky.social
@virginiak.bsky.social
@nashb.bsky.social
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/are... #literacies #NCTE2025 #edchat
@karismjones.bsky.social
@mraleosays.bsky.social
@virginiak.bsky.social
@nashb.bsky.social
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/are... #literacies #NCTE2025 #edchat
November 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Top tier podcast episode title: “Are we readers or are we players?” 😂
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Are we really at a stage in public education where we consider it OK to have literally Google-branded schoolchildren whose learner identities are tied to being "responsible AI" users of private for-profit technologies?
November 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Are we really at a stage in public education where we consider it OK to have literally Google-branded schoolchildren whose learner identities are tied to being "responsible AI" users of private for-profit technologies?
My critical edtech origin story is that I was in the process of becoming a Google-certified teacher when I began reading Audrey Watters and Chris Gilliard and then abandoned any desire to attach my identity to a tech company and while I've changed in the past 10 years Google definitely has not.
Feeling queasy now I've learned that Google is not only now offering Gemini ambassador certificates to teachers but also awarding students and *children* to be corporate AI mascots. Coercive normalization of commercialized digital education. blog.google/outreach-ini...
November 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
My critical edtech origin story is that I was in the process of becoming a Google-certified teacher when I began reading Audrey Watters and Chris Gilliard and then abandoned any desire to attach my identity to a tech company and while I've changed in the past 10 years Google definitely has not.
We at @civicsoftech.bsky.social have been luck to host amazing speakers such as Dr. Tiera Tanksley.
Visit our conference page for past keynotes, including Dr. Benjamin, Dr. Sepehr Vakil, Dr. Luci Pangrazio, Dr. Roxana Marachi, Brian Merchant, & Audrey Watters.
www.civicsoftechnology.org/conference
Visit our conference page for past keynotes, including Dr. Benjamin, Dr. Sepehr Vakil, Dr. Luci Pangrazio, Dr. Roxana Marachi, Brian Merchant, & Audrey Watters.
www.civicsoftechnology.org/conference
And if you reeeeally want to go in, watch her keynote at the 3rd Annual Civics of Technology annual meeting—a virtual convening I also highly recommend: www.civicsoftechnology.org/2024conference *scroll down for link
2024 Conference — Civics of Technology
www.civicsoftechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
We at @civicsoftech.bsky.social have been luck to host amazing speakers such as Dr. Tiera Tanksley.
Visit our conference page for past keynotes, including Dr. Benjamin, Dr. Sepehr Vakil, Dr. Luci Pangrazio, Dr. Roxana Marachi, Brian Merchant, & Audrey Watters.
www.civicsoftechnology.org/conference
Visit our conference page for past keynotes, including Dr. Benjamin, Dr. Sepehr Vakil, Dr. Luci Pangrazio, Dr. Roxana Marachi, Brian Merchant, & Audrey Watters.
www.civicsoftechnology.org/conference
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I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
George Saunders already wrote this story:
"We at KidLuv really love what kids are, Mrs. Faniglia, which is why we want them to become something better as soon as possible!"
"We at KidLuv really love what kids are, Mrs. Faniglia, which is why we want them to become something better as soon as possible!"
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
George Saunders already wrote this story:
"We at KidLuv really love what kids are, Mrs. Faniglia, which is why we want them to become something better as soon as possible!"
"We at KidLuv really love what kids are, Mrs. Faniglia, which is why we want them to become something better as soon as possible!"
"[T]he parental control model is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It is an empowering facade that leaves parents unable to protect children and undermines the intimate privacy that youth need to thrive. It is bad for parents, children, and parent-child relationships."
virginialawreview.org/articles/ret... our latest is out! @ariezra.bsky.social and I on “Rethinking Youth Privacy”
Rethinking Youth Privacy - Virginia Law Review
Congress and state legislatures are showing renewed interest in youth privacy, proposing myriad new laws to address data extraction, addiction, manipulation, and more. Almost all of their proposals, a...
virginialawreview.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
"[T]he parental control model is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It is an empowering facade that leaves parents unable to protect children and undermines the intimate privacy that youth need to thrive. It is bad for parents, children, and parent-child relationships."
A cool new project from Dr. Rayvon Fouché and the Humanity and Technoscience Lab at Northwestern University that, according to an LI post, "bring[s] scholars together to co-author short pieces on pressing issues of the day." Here's the first post:
What Everyone Can Learn About A.I. From the Asian American Experience
Four takeaways from four Asian American academics who study race, tech, and society
medium.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A cool new project from Dr. Rayvon Fouché and the Humanity and Technoscience Lab at Northwestern University that, according to an LI post, "bring[s] scholars together to co-author short pieces on pressing issues of the day." Here's the first post:
I'm at a coffee shop waiting for my daughter's sewing class to end, so I decided, why not, let's annotate OpenAI's new Teen AI Literacy Blueprint. I'll start now and see how far I get. Come join me in the margins using Hypothesis at: tinyurl.com/AnnotateOpenAI
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I'm at a coffee shop waiting for my daughter's sewing class to end, so I decided, why not, let's annotate OpenAI's new Teen AI Literacy Blueprint. I'll start now and see how far I get. Come join me in the margins using Hypothesis at: tinyurl.com/AnnotateOpenAI