Welcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism. 

This week is one for the labor process nerds! We answer a question about the ethics of using, and working in, so-called "AI". And then we consider what it means to help your own home health care worker join a union. (Apologies for the construction noises this week, friends, but such is life in a society.)

Stuff We Discuss:

Distributed AI Research Institute

Sarah: What's Really Artificial About AI is AI Itself (Interview with Alex Hanna and Emily Bender, Authors of The AI Con)

The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger

Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine

Gavin Mueller, Breaking Things at Work

CODE-CWA

United Tech and Allied Workers

No Tech for Apartheid

Sarah: Why Harris V. Quinn and Hobby Lobby Spell Disaster for Working Women

National Domestic Workers Alliance

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network

SEIU Home Care

Jennifer Klein and Eileen Boris, Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State

We are Craig Gent, a writer and researcher living in Leeds, and ⁠Sarah Jaffe⁠, a journalist and author based in New Orleans.

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