Dear all Mark Carrigan and I are organising a workshop on the future of LLMs in Manchester on July 7th. The title is almost self-explanatory: 'Waiting for the Crash – Sketching the Enshittified Future of Large Language Models’. The idea is to invite colleagues, at any stage in their career, to come up with speculative case studies on how LLMs will transform vis-à-vis expectations of the AI bubble bursting and emerging monetization strategies. Travel and accommodation funding will be available to participants without other sources of support. More details on how to submit your proposals at https://markcarrigan.net/2026/03/19/%f0%9f%91%80-waiting-for-the-crash-sketc... Thanks! JC -- João C. Magalhães Senior Lecturer in AI Trust and Security | School of Art, Languages, and Cultures<https://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk> Head of the AI Trust and Security Cluster | Centre for Digital Trust and Society<https://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/clusters/ai-trust-and-security/> University of Manchester https://jcmagalhaes.com/ Selected publications: The emergence of platform illiberalism, 2026 <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448261424889?_gl=1*97g6hw*_up*MQ..*_ga*OTU5MTk5NDYwLjE3NzM3NDkzMTc.*_ga_60R758KFDG*czE3NzM3NDkzMTYkbzEkZzAkdDE3NzM3NDkzMTYkajYwJGwwJGgxOTcyNDIyMDEy> (New Media & Society, w/ Clara Iglesias Keller and Rob Gorwa) | Socially blind engineering in Facebook's foundational technologies, 2025<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-025-00971-9> (Philosophy & Technology, w/ Nick Couldry) | Open-ended technological inevitability in journalistic discourses about AI, 2025<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2025.2522281#d1e238> (Digital Journalism, w/ Rik Smit) | A history of objectionability in Twitter’s moderation practices, 2023<https://academic.oup.com/joc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/joc/jqad015/7204763?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=joc&utm_medium=email&guestAccessKey=fe630b65-d137-4378-bfb2-44026df942a7&login=false> (Journal of Communication, w/ Emillie de Keulenaar, Bharath Ganesh) | Social media, social unfreedom, 2022 <https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/commun-2022-0040/html> (Communications, w/ Jun Yu) | Big Tech, data colonialism and the reconfiguration of social good, 2021<https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/15995> (International Journal of Communication, w/ Nick Couldry) | Considering algorithmic ethical subjectivation, 2018<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305118768301> (Social Media + Society)