Sam Shorey

find me here: 🦋 Professor @ Pitt • Technology design & innovation labor, robots, hype, AI, trash, DIY, repair.

[Sam Shorey @SamShorey]

me as a researcher

[Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinst]

NEW 📰: AI automation is making government jobs more stressful & error-prone, hurting workers & constituents.

@SamShorey offers a scan of the existing landscape of AI implementation from across the country & the true impact on workers & efficiency. https://t.co/U16IrWNLVe

[Ruchira (she/they) @ruchira_ray]

🤔What tasks do we want robots to handle? Are these preferences based on saved time or feelings we associate with the tasks?

Introducing Why Automate This?—a study exploring automation preferences across social groups, using feelings & time-spent as key factors. 👇 (1/5)

[vera khovanskaya @saysvera]

LRT: it’s true, I’m hiring PhD student(s) to fire up the Labour Lab at @UofTInfoFaculty. We’re going to study how new tech and data tools reconfigure the workplace and think about how data tools and forms of tech expertise work to support the labour movement! Shoot me email/dm 👋

[Zelly C Martin @zellycmartin]

New pub alert! 🚨 "My Data, My Choice? Privacy, Commodity Activism, and Big Tech’s Corporatization of Care in the Post-Roe Era" with my beyond brilliant co-authors @dominiquemvalle and @SamShorey is out now in @SocialMedia_Soc. Read for free: https://t.co/Cy3CqN5bip. 🧵to follow.

[icsjournal @icsjournal]

#OutNow in #ICS

Through a Feminist Science and Technology Studies lens, Dominique A. Montiel Valle and Samantha Shorey, examine repair labour on AI robots evidencing the frictions between technological imaginaries of efficiency and communal care.

https://t.co/iPo8Z0WMum

[Dominique M. Valle @dominiquemvalle]

✨Incredibly excited to share a newly published article with @SamShorey in a special issue of @icsjournal on Platforms, Power and Friction! We explored how workers navigated the frictions teeming in AI repair labor.

[Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinst]

🎊Today, we announce some additions to our 2024 cohort of think tank fellows!

We welcome 2 new senior fellows and 5 new program fellows who will enrich the progressive policy community with a breadth of voices and expertise.

Meet the new Roosevelters ⬇️
https://t.co/dv9sfGbZHG

[Sam Shorey @SamShorey]

there is this scene in the new Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader docuseries where the producer observes "It must be hard having this thing that's your dream also be..." and the cheerleader responds "...the thing that hurts me? Yeah." And I felt it right in my R1 tenure-track heart.

[Abeba Birhane @Abebab]

sorry to be a spoiler but there is no way around a genuinely socially responsible AI without directly tackling systemic inequalities and building accountability mechanisms on the current concentration of power in the hands of big corps/AI companies

[Sam Shorey @SamShorey]

@manoojpg @guardian I refuse to let our students learn that when they try to document injustice they will face violence and the faculty they trust will look away. This is so wrong, this is so not okay, this is not our Texas.

[Sam Shorey @SamShorey]

Maryam is one of the amazing student journalists at The Daily Texan who have been physically harmed by the militarized police presence on our campus. Our college must protect the students who are putting the skills they've learned into action with bravery & integrity.

[Maryam Ahmed @Maryamahm92]

In the last week I’ve been pepper sprayed; I’ve had flashbangs knock out my eardrums; I’ve seen protesters beaten, choked and arrested (footage from Monday’s protest 4/29 ⬇️ TW: violence). It’s been a hell of a week.

[Sam Shorey @SamShorey]

This heartsinking account from @manoojpg, a UT student photojournalist, was also published in @guardian today.

[Mijente 🐜🐜🐜 @ConMijente]

📢 Registration is now LIVE for Take Back Tech II! Join us in Chicago from June 21-23 and unite with organizers, advocates, academics, & tech workers as we reclaim tech for our gente. 🔗 ➡️ https://t.co/xt9HnKDBY3

[Sasha Luccioni, PhD 🦋🌎✨🤗 @SashaMTL]

Why are we so excited about Large Language Models?
I, for one, would be more excited about Small Laundry-Folding Models or even Medium Dish-Washing Models.
Give me a Foundation Model for chores and I'll give you *all* my money.

[Sam Shorey @SamShorey]

@jean__hardy @annejonas I’ve been laughing about this for five minutes. Both the participant’s comment and Anne’s totally sincere moderator response. This is the magic of qualitative research 😂

[Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) @alexhanna]

If this isn't a metaphor about the futures we were promised versus the one we live in...

[UT American Studies @AmStudies]

Howdy! SAVE THE DATE for another installation of the American Studies Workshop featuring @UTexasMoody communications professor Dr. @SamShorey on February 9, 2024 @ 11:30AM in BUR 436A!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

From a 1979 IBM presentation

[Good Systems @UTGoodSystems]

The Texas Tribune interviewed @SamShorey (@UTexasMoody) on the risks of automating government work and empowering AI technologies to make more decisions.

“It might move us towards the end goal more quickly. But is it moving us towards an end goal that we want?”

[Sarah Fox @perhaxis]

"Rather than treating automation as an inevitable force that workers must adapt to, we need to recognize it as a social process that can and should be shaped by those it affects most—workers themselves."

New Tech Labor forum piece from @dcalacci, out now in interactions !