Union Organizer
Into the Funhouse Mirror | Anonymous A.I. Confessional
Former Marketer at a Product Management Firm, Hollywood Screenwriter, Ivy League Literature Professor, Ivy League Postdoc, Literary Agent, Magazine Editor and Writer, New York Times Best-selling Author, News Reporter, PhD Student in History, Prominent Novelist, Psychiatry Fellow, Software Engineer at a Big Five Tech company, Unemployed Anthropologist, Union Organizer
At a May event in Poland, the novelist Olga Tokarczuk revealed that she had asked an A.I. chatbot to suggest songs the protagonists of her latest novel might have heard at a dance set decades ago. And her queries weren’t limited to questions of historical fact: “Often I just ask the machine, ‘Darling, how could we develop this beautifully?’” she continued. “In literary fiction this technology is an advantage of...
An Ideological Inflection Point
Union Organizer
When union leadership announced to staff that we should all begin using Claude, the “ethical” A.I. of choice, I was disgusted but not surprised. Since I’d joined the union as full-time staff, use of A.I. had become increasingly normalized. Rally flyers featured raised fists with six fingers. Emails to union members were overrun with em dashes and emojis. The allure of A.I. as a way of boosting productivity is difficult...
