{"id":7241,"date":"2026-06-08T11:29:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=7241"},"modified":"2026-06-30T11:22:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:22:30","slug":"education-ai-commodification-labor","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/event\/education-ai-commodification-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"AI, Labor And Commodification of Education For The Tech Billionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At: Ca\u00f1ada College in Redwood City CA, Building 9 room 154<br \/>\n(Zoom option available &#8211; info on the Zoom will be coming soon)<\/p>\n<p>For decades, google and other tech companies have been given free reign to introduce their technology into public education. Education programs, testing, tracking and the collection of massive data from students, teachers and staff in education has been institutionalized by politicians both Democrats and Republicans.<br \/>\nThere is now an ongoing drive to use AI in all levels of education to eliminate teachers and staff from K-12, Community Colleges, CSU and the UC system. The education unions have also partnered with these tech companies to train faculty on how to use AI tools. Will this partnership benefit the students, faculty and public is one of the questions that will be addressed by this panel.<\/p>\n<p>Initial Speakers:<br \/>\n<strong>John Klyczek<\/strong> &#8211; Joliet Junior College Lecturer and author of School World Order: The Technocratic Globalization Of Corporatized Education<br \/>\n<strong>Michael Hoffman<\/strong> &#8211; Ca\u00f1ada College, \u00a0AFT Local 1493 Lecturer<br \/>\nAndy Libson &#8211; Teacher, STOP AI<br \/>\n<strong>George Wright<\/strong> &#8211; Retired Professor Chico State &amp; Skyline College<br \/>\n<strong>Kathy Carroll<\/strong> &#8211; Fired Lawyer Whistleblower and Lawyer from Commission On Teacher Credentials<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7242\" src=\"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/713-Education-AIx400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/713-Education-AIx400.png 400w, https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/713-Education-AIx400-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by AFT 1493 AI Committee, STOP AI,\u00a0 WorkWeek<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The introduction of technology and AI is creating a major crisis for education workers, students and staff. This meeting will look at how AI is being introduced and how it is affecting the faculty and students. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7671,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[4],"class_list":["post-7241","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-forum-reading","cat_forum-reading"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7675,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7241\/revisions\/7675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7241"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=7241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}