Trevor Griffey on Corporate AI Teacher Training

Thursday, July 24 at 2:30 PM on KPFK: My guest this week is Trevor Griffey. While Bibliocracy Radio is largely devoted to the celebration of book culture and reading, I’ve also frequently and increasingly devoted episodes featuring public policy and political experts, writers, and activists like scholar, teacher, and union advocate Trevor Griffey.  How to respond to this news from the New York Times? “The American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest U.S. teachers’ union, said on Tuesday that it would start an A.I. training hub for educators with $23 million in funding from three leading chatbot makers: Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic.”

Griffey is a lecturer in US History at UC Irvine and in Labor Studies at UCLA. and Vice President of Legislation for AFT Local 1474, which represents lecturers and librarians in the University of California system. He's trained as a historian of 20th century US history, with a focus on the politics of race and labor. and co-founded the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project in 2004.  Griffey was co-editor of Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action and the Construction industry (published in 2010 by Cornell University Press).  A prolific FOIA user, he has declassified hundreds of thousands of pages of FBI files on US social movements from the 1940s-70s and is currently researching the labor history of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley. 

He is a lecturer in US History at UC Irvine and in Labor Studies at UCLA. and Vice President of Legislation for AFT Local 1474, which represents lecturers and librarians in the University of California system. He's trained as a historian of 20th century US history, with a focus on the politics of race and labor. and co-founded the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project in 2004.  Griffey was co-editor of Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action and the Construction industry (published in 2010 by Cornell University Press).  A prolific FOIA user, he has declassified hundreds of thousands of pages of FBI files on US social movements from the 1940s-70s and is currently researching the labor history of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley. 

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