April Power Lunch: AI
- Apr 6
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Updated: Apr 15
📅 Thursday, April 23, 2026
🕛 12:00 - 1:00 pm
The American Association of University Professors of South Carolina (AAUP–SC) invites higher ed workers across South Carolina to come together in solidarity, share critical information, and build strength in numbers.
Our Spring 2026 Power Lunch Series will continue with a discussion of the role of AI in higher education, with a particular focus on looking behind the technological curtain. How does AI actually work? Where does it come from? And how is it being shaped and deployed by the multinational corporations and governments that increasingly structure our daily lives? In the light of these advances, join us to explore how collective action can safeguard academic freedom, improve working conditions, and enhance our students’ learning environments.
We are proud to welcome our guest speaker, Dwayne Monroe.
Dwayne Monroe is a technologist with decades of experience in the US and Europe. He intimately knows how technologies the media describes as ethereal really work, where they come from, and how they are used in the multinational corporations and governments dominating our lives. He applies what he calls a Noir Marxist lens (stylistically informed by the work of Raymond Chandler, analytically informed by Marxian materialism) to dissecting the tech industry, with a special emphasis on Microsoft's plans and actions. Dwayne has been published in Logic Magazine and The Nation and maintains a blog, Computational Impacts, where he writes about the industry's latest moves and how we're affected. He is completing a book on the anti-worker purposes of AI called Attack Mannequins.
