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AI, Labor and The Future of San Francisco Panels 1 & 2
in partnership with WorkWeek Radio/Media
Examining the impact of AI on the workforce and the future of labor in San Francisco with a panel of experts and community leaders.
Introduction
Journalist: Edward Hasbrouck
Edward Hasbrouck is an award-winning travel writer, author, blogger, and journalist whose work focuses on technology and human rights. Edward is a member/organizer of the Working Group on Generative AI of the National Writers Union and the Authors' Rights Expert Group of the International Federation of Journalists.
Education & AI: Andy Lisbon, John Klyczek, Michael Hoffman
Andy Lisbon
Taught science (Chemistry & Physics) at Mission High School in San Francisco for over 20 years. His science background has PhD in biophysics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Retired from research and decided to become a school teacher.
Has been active in his teachers union and trying to figure out where Marxism fits into (if it does) to understanding the world today with the aim of changing it.
CONTACT : andrewlibson@gmail.com
John Klyczek
Has an MA in English and has taught college rhetoric and research argumentation for over a decade. His literary scholarship concentrates on the history of global eugenics and Aldous Huxley’s dystopic novel, Brave New World. Klyczek is the author of School World Order: The Technocratic Globalization of Corporatized Education (TrineDay Books); and he is a contributor to Unlimited Hangout, New Politics, the Centre for Research on Globalization, the Activist Post, and many other publications. In addition, he holds a black belt in classical tae kwon do, and he is a certified kickboxing instructor under the international Muay Thai Boxing Association.
Michael Hoffman
Grew up in South San Francisco, “The Industrial City,” where he was lucky enough to be surrounded mostly by families of recent Mexican and Filipino immigrants. As one of the few white kids on his block, he learned a lot of cultural humility and respect for all the different ways people create community and express their intelligence. From an early age, he was able to observe the way that racism pitted people against each other—often in competition over resources that were made artificially scarce: “In particular, white supremacy seemed to be a way for some people to justify why they had more than others. These experiences helped to push me towards principled anti-racism.”
Michael received both a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Physics and Mathematics in 2005 and a Master’s Degree in Mathematics in 2008 from San Francisco State. During those years, he learned a lot, not only about math and science but also about the world and its injustices. His involvement in the anti-war, anti-racism, socialist, and labor movements taught him the importance of organizing for social change. His perspective—that ordinary people have the collective power to solve social and environmental problems—informs his teaching: “I am inspired by what regular people can do with expanded knowledge and skills. Also, I know that mathematics is something that every human society has developed and thus it is everyone’s birth-right as a human being to have access to the accumulated wisdom of people all over the globe.”
AI, Labor and The Future of San Francisco Panels 1 & 2
in partnership with WorkWeek Radio/Media
Examining the impact of AI on the workforce and the future of labor in San Francisco with a panel of experts and community leaders.
Introduction
Journalist: Edward Hasbrouck
Edward Hasbrouck is an award-winning travel writer, author, blogger, and journalist whose work focuses on technology and human rights. Edward is a member/organizer of the Working Group on Generative AI of the National Writers Union and the Authors' Rights Expert Group of the International Federation of Journalists.
Education & AI: Andy Lisbon, John Klyczek, Michael Hoffman
Andy Lisbon
Taught science (Chemistry & Physics) at Mission High School in San Francisco for over 20 years. His science background has PhD in biophysics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Retired from research and decided to become a school teacher.
Has been active in his teachers union and trying to figure out where Marxism fits into (if it does) to understanding the world today with the aim of changing it.
CONTACT : andrewlibson@gmail.com
John Klyczek
Has an MA in English and has taught college rhetoric and research argumentation for over a decade. His literary scholarship concentrates on the history of global eugenics and Aldous Huxley’s dystopic novel, Brave New World. Klyczek is the author of School World Order: The Technocratic Globalization of Corporatized Education (TrineDay Books); and he is a contributor to Unlimited Hangout, New Politics, the Centre for Research on Globalization, the Activist Post, and many other publications. In addition, he holds a black belt in classical tae kwon do, and he is a certified kickboxing instructor under the international Muay Thai Boxing Association.
Michael Hoffman
Grew up in South San Francisco, “The Industrial City,” where he was lucky enough to be surrounded mostly by families of recent Mexican and Filipino immigrants. As one of the few white kids on his block, he learned a lot of cultural humility and respect for all the different ways people create community and express their intelligence. From an early age, he was able to observe the way that racism pitted people against each other—often in competition over resources that were made artificially scarce: “In particular, white supremacy seemed to be a way for some people to justify why they had more than others. These experiences helped to push me towards principled anti-racism.”
Michael received both a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Physics and Mathematics in 2005 and a Master’s Degree in Mathematics in 2008 from San Francisco State. During those years, he learned a lot, not only about math and science but also about the world and its injustices. His involvement in the anti-war, anti-racism, socialist, and labor movements taught him the importance of organizing for social change. His perspective—that ordinary people have the collective power to solve social and environmental problems—informs his teaching: “I am inspired by what regular people can do with expanded knowledge and skills. Also, I know that mathematics is something that every human society has developed and thus it is everyone’s birth-right as a human being to have access to the accumulated wisdom of people all over the globe.”
