Brian Merchant
author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: bloodinthemachine.com
cohost, System Crash: systemcrash.info
- I am looking to buy magnets for my son's science fair experiment and I just encountered this poor magnet company that is documenting all the ways the tariffs are screwing it over
- Let's not forget for a second that AI is now overwhelmingly an oligarchic project. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
- This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...
- I was happy to participate in this CJR survey of how journalists are using AI and ChatGPT in their work, and to make the case for why—as long as the terms of its use are dictated by OpenAI and Silicon Valley—we should not be using it at all. www.cjr.org/feature-2/ho...
- Did AI kill your job? If so, I want to hear about it. The response to my story on the AI jobs crisis has been overwhelming. I heard from so many people impacted by AI that it made me want to collect and organize these stories to better understand the phenomenon. Share yours at: AIKilledMyJob@pm.me
- Clutch move by the Vatican to make the first American Pope an open hater of our highest-ranking fake Catholic
- Reposted by Brian MerchantI got the best teaching evals of my career for a large course last semester— along with three teaching awards— after rebuilding my intro class around in-class handwritten essays. I simply do not believe that this is unsolvable or that students don't care about actually learning to do their work.
- In only two years, ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project. James D. Walsh writes for @intelligencer.com: nymag.com/intelligence....
- The AI jobs crisis unfolding before us is linked to the crisis in education described in the big NYMag piece on ChatGPT cheating going around. It is a great displacing of work that demands critical thought for the sake of automated content generation—in the classroom then everywhere else.
- The AI jobs crisis is not coming—it's here right now. It just might not look the way many thought it would. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-job...
