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Summaries are not the original full articles. ## Documenting the tech worker movement DevFeed: [Documenting the tech worker movement]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Maria Iacobo | School of Architecture and Planning Published: 2026-10-02T17:00:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [MIT AI News]() Topics: [intelligence](), [Self-organizing Team]() Tags: [against-tech-oligarchy](), [ai-displacing-workers](), [artificial-intelligence](), [autonomous-weapons](), [books-and-authors](), [career](), [drone-surveillance](), [ethics](), [graduate-postdoctoral](), [immigration](), [js-tan](), [labor-and-jobs](), [labor-organizing](), [media-lab](), [mit-dusp](), [mit-media-lab](), [mit-student-author](), [school-of-architecture-and-planning](), [social-justice](), [students](), [tech-industry-workers](), [tech-worker](), [technology-and-society](), [technology-ethics](), [technology-guardrails](), [trump-immigration-policies](), [urban-studies-and-planning]() ### AI overview JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine's book examines a decade of tech worker organizing, including protests over employer policies and contracts, and argues that employee influence has weakened amid layoffs and AI coding tools. The article describes their account of worker actions and the role collective bargaining might play in restoring workers' ability to shape technology and workplace decisions. ### Source excerpt Writing as a participant and researcher, PhD student JS Tan SM '22 has co-authored a new book about the rise of tech worker protests and the employer backlash that followed. ## Documenting the tech worker movement DevFeed: [Documenting the tech worker movement]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Maria Iacobo | School of Architecture and Planning Published: 2026-10-02T17:00:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [MIT AI News]() Topics: [Test-driven development](), [rachels-ramblings]() Tags: [academia](), [against-tech-oligarchy](), [ai-displacing-workers](), [artificial-intelligence](), [autonomous-weapons](), [blog-post](), [books-and-authors](), [career](), [drone-surveillance](), [ethics](), [graduate-postdoctoral](), [immigration](), [js-tan](), [labor-and-jobs](), [labor-organizing](), [media-lab](), [mit-dusp](), [mit-media-lab](), [mit-student-author](), [school-of-architecture-and-planning](), [social-justice](), [students](), [tech-industry-workers](), [tech-worker](), [technology-and-society](), [technology-ethics](), [technology-guardrails](), [trump-immigration-policies](), [urban-studies-and-planning](), [worker]() ### AI overview JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine's book examines tech worker organizing over the past decade, including employee protests, employer responses and the decline in workers' leverage. Tan attributes that decline partly to a weaker labor market and the effects of AI coding systems on workers' jobs and security. ### Source excerpt Writing as a participant and researcher, PhD student JS Tan SM '22 has co-authored a new book about the rise of tech worker protests and the employer backlash that followed. ## The effects of an "algorithmic monoculture" depend on the details DevFeed: [The effects of an "algorithmic monoculture" depend on the details]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Adam Zewe | MIT News Published: 2026-09-29T04:00:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [MIT AI News]() Topics: [Computing](), [ai alignment]() Tags: [ai](), [algorithmic-monoculture](), [algorithms](), [artificial-intelligence](), [brian-hedden](), [business-and-management](), [computer-science-and-technology](), [electrical-engineering-and-computer-science-eecs](), [hiring-algorithms](), [human-computer-interaction](), [labor-and-jobs](), [laboratory-for-information-and-decision-systems-lids](), [linguistics](), [machine-learning](), [manish-raghavan](), [mit-schwarzman-college-of-computing](), [mit-sloan-school-of-management](), [philosophy](), [research](), [school-of-engineering](), [school-of-humanities-arts-and-social-sciences]() ### AI overview MIT researchers argue that algorithmic monoculture's effects depend on the domain and algorithm accuracy. Their analysis identifies informational echo chambers that can hinder exploration, while finding that ensembles of hiring algorithms can sometimes overcome this limitation and perform as well as or better than systems using different algorithms. ### Source excerpt In a study focusing on hiring decisions, MIT researchers found the use of a single algorithm by many firms could benefit job seekers in certain situations. ## Bailey Flanigan uses computational and mathematical tools to study democratic participation DevFeed: [Bailey Flanigan uses computational and mathematical tools to study democratic participation]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Michaela Jarvis | MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Published: 2026-07-17T17:25:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [MIT AI News]() Topics: [Computer science](), [Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS)](), [Mathematics](), [MIT Schwarzman College of Computing]() Tags: [ai-and-democracy](), [ai-in-politics](), [algorithms](), [artificial-intelligence](), [bailey-flanigan](), [computer-science](), [computer-science-and-technology](), [defending-democracy](), [democracy](), [democratic-decision-making](), [electrical-engineering-and-computer-science-eecs](), [faculty](), [government](), [labor-and-jobs](), [laboratory-for-information-and-decision-systems-lids](), [math](), [mit-eecs-faculty](), [mit-faculty-profile](), [mit-lids](), [mit-political-science](), [mit-schwarzman-college-of-computing](), [political-legitimacy](), [political-science](), [politics](), [profile](), [public-health](), [research](), [school-of-engineering](), [school-of-humanities-arts-and-social-sciences](), [science](), [technology-and-society](), [wisconsin-innocence-project]() ### AI overview An MIT faculty member, Bailey Flanigan studies how computational and mathematical tools can create new avenues for meaningful democratic participation. The article describes her interdisciplinary path across computer science, political science, medicine, public health, economics, and related fields. ### Source excerpt Assistant Professor Bailey Flanigan has arrived at complex computational methods for helping democracy thrive.