Artificial intelligence deployment threatens markets

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Timothy McBride

@mcbridetd.bsky.social

The financialisation of AI is just beginning www.economist.com/finance-and-...

The financialisation of AI is just beginning

Get ready for a new wave of securities, hedges and collateral

www.economist.com

February 17, 2026 at 8:33 PM

by Timothy D. McBride

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Timothy McBride

@mcbridetd.bsky.social

Workers Are Afraid AI Will Take Their Jobs. They’re Missing the Bigger Danger. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

Workers Are Afraid AI Will Take Their Jobs. They’re Missing the Bigger Danger.

It isn’t whether artificial intelligence is going to replace them. It’s who will control the knowledge that companies capture from their employees.

www.wsj.com

February 17, 2026 at 8:30 PM

Reposted by Brandon Whitcher

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Senator Bernie Sanders

@sanders.senate.gov

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says most white-collar work "will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months.”

If that’s true, it’s an economic earthquake.

We need a moratorium on new AI data centers to make sure AI works for workers, not just billionaires.

February 17, 2026 at 8:28 PM

by Casey Fiesler

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Scholar power: 42.6%

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🎓 Casey Fiesler	24%	35	42.6%

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Dr. Casey Fiesler

@cfiesler.bsky.social

I find this whole "AI agent wrote a hit piece" thing really troubling for reasons that have nothing to do with bots getting "mad" and "deciding" to take down open source contributors. theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

Why do we keep wanting to give AI so much agency that it lets humans off the hook??

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

theshamblog.com

February 17, 2026 at 7:52 PM

by Prakash Kashwan

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan

@pkashwan.bsky.social

Agreed. Could you share an example of the argument that a "global totalizing vision of AI takeoff could be good for the left"

February 17, 2026 at 7:31 PM

by Cathy N. Davidson

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Cathy Davidson

@cathyndavidson.bsky.social

It seems that AI loses money on everything except porn (esp featuring the subjugation and humiliation of women) and selling bogus tech to higher ed.

February 17, 2026 at 5:54 PM

by Henry Farrell

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Henry Farrell

@himself.bsky.social

yep! And I do think that is where debate is heading - there are a _lot_ of problems with actually-existing-AI that not only don't rest on stochastic parrots, but that are more likely missed when you don't think about the technology's usefulness and uses.

February 17, 2026 at 5:09 PM

Reposted by Adrian Daub

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Moira Donegan

@moiradonegan.bsky.social

On @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, @adriandaub.bsky.social and I discussed the tech industry’s decade-long rightward shift, and AI as a discourse of domination and human disposability. pod.link/1696774612/e...

February 17, 2026 at 4:42 PM

Reposted by Greg Linden, Rebecca Tushnet, Kevin Grant

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🎓 Greg Linden	24%	23	11.5%
🎓 Rebecca Tushnet	13%	14	4.9%
🎓 Kevin Grant	14%	11	4.6%
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Jason Koebler

@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

This is an insane story start to finish. $65k a year "AI school" heavily surveils students, generates nonsensical questions that "does more harm than good," scrapes from competitors. Stores hours of video of children insecurely. Lots more:

www.404media.co/students-are...

'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School

Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that som...

www.404media.co

February 17, 2026 at 3:49 PM

by Hakan Yilmazkuday

19%

Scholar power: 19.5%

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by Daniel Schiff

10%

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by OECD

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Reposted by Aaron Mehrotra

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by Dave O’Brien Reposted by Andrew Leyshon, Jack Stilgoe

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🎓 Dave O’Brien	2%	33	3.4%
🎓 Andrew Leyshon	12%	45	8.0%
🎓 Jack Stilgoe	10%	31	5.6%
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Dave O'Brien

@drdaveobrien.bsky.social

Come at do a PhD with Sam Hind, Riza Batista-Navarro and me! "Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries" Deadline 30th March www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Artificial Inequality? AI and its impact on the UK Creative Industries (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

February 17, 2026 at 1:11 PM

by Timothy D. McBride

8%

Scholar power: 8.6%

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Timothy McBride

@mcbridetd.bsky.social

In a financial pinch, major health insurers are turning to AI for help
www.statnews.com/2026/02/17/h...

In a financial pinch, major health insurers are turning to AI for help

Facing shrinking profits and higher costs, health insurers are accelerating adoption of AI throughout their sprawling operations.

www.statnews.com

February 17, 2026 at 12:06 PM

Reposted by Aric Rindfleisch

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Reposted by Aaron Mehrotra

6%

Scholar power: 6.9%

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tante

@tante.cc

So, @ketanjoshi.co who has been on the beat for a long time, actually looked into the story of if "AI" can "solve climate change". Conceptually as well as evidence based.

Super worth reading and sharing around.

NEW REPORT – The AI climate hoax – Ketan Joshi

A new report on AI greenwashing, analysing the rhetoric and evidence behind the idea big tech will solve climate change

ketanjoshi.co

February 17, 2026 at 10:15 AM

by Guillaume Allègre

3%

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🎓 Guillaume Allègre	4%	7	3.2%

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Guillaume Allègre

@gallegre.bsky.social

Ask not what AI will do for you, but what you can do for AI.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

New Site Lets AI Rent Human Bodies

RentAHuman is a new digital marketplace connecting AI agents to humans who don't mind taking orders from the computer.

futurism.com

February 17, 2026 at 9:24 AM

Reposted by Iñaki Aldasoro, Filippo Belloc

12%

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🎓 Iñaki Aldasoro	16%	18	6.8%
🎓 Filippo Belloc	14%	14	5.2%
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VoxEU @ CEPR

@voxeu.org

AI adoption increases labour productivity levels by 4% on average in the EU, w/ no evidence of reduced employment in the short run. Productivity benefits, however, are unevenly distributed.
@aldasoro.bsky.social, L Gambacorta, R Pál, D Revoltella, C Weiss, M Wolski
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky

Figure shows average share of firms reporting that they use AI by country groups, controlling for firms’ sector. The error bars represent 95% confidence intervals. EU countries are grouped based on an index of financial development using financial market data from 2015 to 2023 and consisting of two composite indicators: (i) financial market size and integration, and (ii) financial market depth.

Artificial intelligence promises to reshape economies worldwide, but firm-level evidence on its effects in Europe remains scarce. This column uses survey data to examine how AI adoption affects productivity and employment across more than 12,000 European firms. The authors find that AI adoption increases labour productivity levels by 4% on average in the EU, with no evidence of reduced employment in the short run. The productivity benefits, however, are unevenly distributed. Medium and large firms, as well as firms that have the capacity to integrate AI through investments in intangible assets and human capital, experience substantially stronger productivity gains.

February 17, 2026 at 9:05 AM

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