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AI Impact Report @aiimpactforum.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

“A group of Amazon corporate employees told The Guardian that the company’s internal push for all employees to use AI tools was actually unhelpful and just added to their workload, with one employee describing some of the tools as “half-baked.””

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Amazon Employees Say AI Is Just Increasing Workload. A New Study Confirms Their Suspicions

Silicon Valley promised AI would make work less intense. Employees would beg to differ.

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AI Impact Report @aiimpactforum.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Anthropic has a pretty good case considering US Central Command reportedly used Claude during the Iran airstrikes hours after the supply chain risk designation was announced. The designated "supply chain risk" was running national security operations in real time.

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Moms for Ethical AI - MN @momsforethicalai.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

An invaluable lesson for teens in the Age of AI. “When we fed drafts into a model, it did not magically return A+ prose. More often, it amplified our weaknesses back at us: Vague claims remained vague, filler language spread and it often read as impersonal and corporate.”

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A college student's perspective on using AI in class

Instead of banning AI, why don't schools teach students to use it critically? College freshman Maximilian Milovidov shares what he has learned in an "AI writing" course at Columbia University.

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Moms for Ethical AI - MN @momsforethicalai.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Common Sense Media and OpenAI "join forces" on a ballot initiative in CA. OpenAI agreed to "stop manipulation through emotional dependency by preventing AI from promoting isolation, simulating romantic relationships, or claiming they’re sentient." Says nothing about sycophancy of course.

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OpenAI, childrens' advocates join forces on initiative to protect kids from chatbots

ChatGPT maker OpenAI and Common Sense Media had rival ballot initiatives to protect kids from chatbots. Today they merged their efforts.

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AI Impact Report @aiimpactforum.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

"The branded, headline‑friendly models - Claude, GPT, Gemini - sit on top of a much larger, largely invisible infrastructure. Beneath them are targeting algorithms, surveillance networks, and pattern‑matching systems that have been making life‑and‑death recommendations for years."

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What the Systems Don't See

Outdated knowledge cutoffs and data currency lead to civilian deaths during wartime.

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Troublemakers Alliance 💙 @tmalliancemn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Big Tech is powering ICE deportations and your anonymous social media posts can be unmasked. Are you paying attention?

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AI Impact Report @aiimpactforum.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

One AP exec crystallized many media managers’ views on the debate:“Because local newsrooms are so strapped, they are turning for assistance on the news making process in every direction...AP Senior Product Manager for AI Aimee Rinehart wrote in internal company message...“Resistance is futile.”

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Exclusive: AP brass to staff: Resistance to AI is ‘futile’

The tensions inside the wire service reveal a broader conflict playing out across the media over how AI should be applied within journalism.

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AI Impact Report @aiimpactforum.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Today's Report - The videos from Iran’s war looked real. Many weren’t. - Your anon posts may not be as anon as you think. - Big Tech is powering America’s deportation machine. - Your phone’s ads are also tracking you for the government. - America’s AI Companies Warned About China’s Surveillance. +

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AI Impact Report March 3, 2026

The videos from Iran’s war looked real.

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AI Impact Report @aiimpactforum.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

@karenhao.bsky.social Karen Hao joining the AI Now board is a win for real oversight and public‑interest reporting.

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AI Impact Report @aiimpactforum.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

"The future of AI-the shape that this technology takes-is inextricably tied to our future. The question o how to govern AI, then, is really a question about how to ensure we make our future better, not worse." - Karen Hao, Empire of AI

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Empire of AI by Karen Hao: 9780593657508 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A New York Times Notable Book • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • Named a Best Book of the Year by Smithsonian, Scientific American,...

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AI Impact Report @aiimpactforum.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The use of AI during war time for propaganda is going to be overwhelming, and will compound the uncertainty and trauma war already delivers. Verification cannot keep up with fabrication.

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404 Media @404media.co · 03/03/2026

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

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CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements

An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

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