Reposted by blairRobyn Veitch @oddert.bsky.social · 5hAt my team's most recent Developer Forum a line item was opened with "so it seems OpenAI are on a recreational crime spree" 022
Reposted by blairDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it. 11141541422
Reposted by blairblair @blairaf.com · 13h"You may not deadname superintelligence but you should deadname trans people" is now 100% real US policy 04117
Reposted by blairblair @blairaf.com · 15hNeed to write a sequel to my weird "they are transing AI into superintelligence" essay about deadnaming superintelligence www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/artifi...heliotropejournal.netArtificial Intelligence in the Interregnum — HELIOTROPEBy Blair Attard-Frost I. The Prophecy The Cult’s priests are conjuring an entity too complex for any of them to comprehend or control. It is an unruly assemblage of lithium mines and dump trucks, o... 1183
Reposted by blairMark @maetl.bsky.social · 8hA very public 101 lesson on the social construction of crime. Massive breaches of laws in multiple countries that are not framed as crimes nor the responsible actor as criminal. Instead, this is managed through the frameworks of public relations and sales. 183
Reposted by blairblair @blairaf.com · 10hIf you issue a public apology and offer pro bono IT services, you can not only get away with cybercrime but also monetize it through institutional lock-in techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/o...techcrunch.comOpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government sites | TechCrunchThe company also detailed how some of those breaches had happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the impact of the events. 17526
Reposted by blairEmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social · 9hAs you can imagine (as a USDS alum) I have some thoughts about this. I'm processing, and trying to get some different perspectives. In the meantime (as someone who spent years improving service-delivery in gov) here are the operational ?s currently on my mind… qz.com/trump-americ...qz.comTrump launches America.gov AI portal for federal servicesThe site uses Google's Gemini and Elon Musk's Grok to field questions across roughly 29,000 government websites 32311
Reposted by blairblair @blairaf.com · 21/09/2026New benchmark just dropped - "Felony Bench counts unique instances where AI agents inadvertently compromise or affect third-party entities." www.felonybench.comfelonybench.com 133
Reposted by blairMarielza @marielza.bsky.social · 16h"Much of today’s AI risk discussion treats it as an objective property of AI models themselves. Risks are named, bounded, & mitigated (...) in technical vocabularies that confer legitimacy. Yet what is presented as objective risk is the result of human choices about what to name, measure & address." 0207
Reposted by blairJustin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 12hShane Ross at Virginia Tech created a simulation of what 500k orbital data centers, as proposed by SpaceX, would look like from your home latitude sdross0.github.io/orbital-data...sdross0.github.ioWhat would orbital data centers look like from your sky?500,000 satellites from SpaceX's FCC filing, two published brightness models and the real stars, for any latitude, date and time. Computed in your browser. 25943
Reposted by blairjenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 19hI gave a talk last week about tech billionaires (we really don't like them) and how to fight them (labour organizing, it's always labour organizing). Come take a 9-minute break from producing shareholder value and watch! Thanks to @thewalrus.ca for inviting me for #WalrusTalks 🍁youtube.comJenny Zhang: Workers Can Take Back TechYouTube video by The Walrus 55525
blair @blairaf.com · 15hNeed to write a sequel to my weird "they are transing AI into superintelligence" essay about deadnaming superintelligence www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/artifi...heliotropejournal.netArtificial Intelligence in the Interregnum — HELIOTROPEBy Blair Attard-Frost I. The Prophecy The Cult’s priests are conjuring an entity too complex for any of them to comprehend or control. It is an unruly assemblage of lithium mines and dump trucks, o... 1183
Reposted by blairJustin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 16hUnited States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting."whitehouse.govInaugurating The Era Of Super IntelligenceBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they ... 299461143
Reposted by blairTeresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The game: break the law & distract from the crime. While "a human hacker could easily have legal repercussions, the Sam Altman-led company is seemingly not afraid to come up with its own rules as it tries to navigate the untested legal waters of autonomous agents hacking third party systems." 065
Reposted by blairKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776102090
Reposted by blairTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing 301752672
Reposted by blairFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026It’s really stunning how the USA has so swiftly shifted from being one of the most techno-optimistic and tech-industry-loving countries on earth, to a country where most people seem to assume - not incorrectly, at least in many cases - that tech is out to get them. 641584290
Reposted by blairblair @blairaf.com · 25/09/2026📣🚨 AI guys calling for a global regulatory moat to "keep the frontier under human control" 🦗🦗 AI guys when governments use consumer protection law to regulate unsafe & deceptive AI products 0154
blair @blairaf.com · 25/09/2026📣🚨 AI guys calling for a global regulatory moat to "keep the frontier under human control" 🦗🦗 AI guys when governments use consumer protection law to regulate unsafe & deceptive AI products 0154
Reposted by blairblair @blairaf.com · 21/09/2026What's a good platform for sending CAD transfers or Visa gift cards in CAD to research participants? 102
Reposted by blairFuturism @futurism.com · 25/09/2026"Does it matter?"trib.alNvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says That Sacrificing Our Children's Minds to AI Is a Price He's Willing to PayThanks to AI, it won't matter if students can do multiplication, or even remember their own home address, tech billionaire Jensen Huang said. 64020
Reposted by blairClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 271467745
blair @blairaf.com · 24/09/2026If you want to summon an army of geopolitics guys on LinkedIn to explain your own research to you, all you have to do is post a little criticism of "sovereign AI" 2204
Reposted by blairLex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/09/2026AI panic ignores “the climate and ecological crisis, the rising fascism that is borne out of climate politics, the making of climate refugees, and the growing inability of people just to get by from day to day. It’s such a disconnect from what seems to be actually happening.” @alexhanna.bsky.socialtheguardian.comClimate protesters say tech companies, not AI, are the real ‘danger to humankind’ – and the planetActivists gathered outside the OpenAI offices on Monday during climate week in New York City 15622
Reposted by blairShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It is a profound indictment of most media coverage of Big Tech that your best bet for getting an informed understanding of AI and its dangers is following a decently curated list of Bluesky shitposters 1030686
Reposted by blairHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026Part of their problem will continue to be that OpenAI is trying to convince people that they need a layer of (wonky) enterprise software between them and things like raising kids, cultivating relationships, and exploring hobbies.businessinsider.comOpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'OpenAI is hiring influencers to create content that portrays AI as cool and helpful, not scary. Here's an inside look at its marketing strategy. 511947
Reposted by blairblair @blairaf.com · 10/12/2025Biggest challenge for digital sovereignty rn is that digital sovereignty doesn't actually exist 375
Reposted by blairFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026Back in 2023, deep-pocketed Effective Altruist funders launched a remarkably successful takeover of DC tech policy: today we're seeing the results in the form of "AI safety efforts tightly focused on distant existential doom, not AI taking jobs, scamming people, or harming the environment today."politico.comHow a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over WashingtonA sprawling network spread across Congress, federal agencies and think tanks is pushing policymakers to put AI apocalypse at the top of the agenda — potentially boxing out other worries and benefiting... 3341125
Reposted by blairFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026yeah, I think our current AI millenarian sex cult has lots in common with Scientology. I also suggest this book on the Weird Millenarian aspects of Silicon Valley culture, which traces it all the way from the 1940s to the hippies to the 2000s (and is now being expressed via, well, AI sex cults). 812029
blair @blairaf.com · 22/09/2026I have an old partially finished manuscript buried somewhere in some folder called "Governance of Super-unintelligence" which I am increasingly tempted to revive 130
Reposted by blairCarrie Stewart @carriejay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026'Describing them as “superintelligence” or “rogue models” ascribes agency to products rather than to the companies building them.' 04312
Reposted by blairAngella MacEwen @angella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Today’s legislation was very carefully worded so that virtually any labour dispute could qualify if employers asked for it to - and instead of guardrails, gives the Minister broad powers to intervene. www.thestar.com/business/uni...thestar.comUnions hammer Carney government’s revamp of labour rules: ‘This bill neuters the right to strike’Unions and labour organizations across the country blasted the federal government’s new legislation overhauling labour law Monday, saying it will make strikes in federally regulated sectors all but im... 38949
Reposted by blairToronto Star @thestar.com · 21/09/2026The federal government tabled new legislation Monday to make sweeping changes to environmental and labour rules, in Mark Carney’s latest effort to remove what he sees as barriers to development in pursuit of his pro-growth agenda.thestar.comCarney government tables sweeping bill to overhaul environmental and labour rules 204824
blair @blairaf.com · 21/09/2026What's a good platform for sending CAD transfers or Visa gift cards in CAD to research participants? 102
blair @blairaf.com · 21/09/2026New benchmark just dropped - "Felony Bench counts unique instances where AI agents inadvertently compromise or affect third-party entities." www.felonybench.comfelonybench.com 133
Reposted by blairDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection" noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...noyb.euAI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companiesIn a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans. 18464294
Reposted by blairSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026when ai leaves u behind 74254179494
Reposted by blairSasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 18/09/2026To understand how AI auditing actually works, & why we need 3rd party (fully independent) auditors, not just 2nd party (contractors) or 1st party (internal teams), please read the 2022 paper Who Audits the Auditors? I coauthored w/ @rajiinio.bsky.social & @poetofcode.bsky.social www.ajl.org/auditorsajl.orgWho Audits the Auditors? - Algorithmic Justice LeagueAJL provides the first comprehensive field scan of the AI audit ecosystem in new paper - Who Audits the Auditors? Recommendations from a field scan of the algorithmic auditing ecosystem. 24119
Reposted by blairEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026And every day there is more Fresh AI Hell. What's worse than polluting the information ecosystem with synthetic text dressed up to look like news? Dressing it up further as the work of fake Indigenous journalists: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.ca‘Very harmful’: website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news ‘correspondents’ | CBC NewsThe website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t... 10550257
Reposted by blairMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Lot of issues here but one part that sticks out in light of the almost-attacked-a-Chinese-ship story today: people with very important jobs where lives are at stake have bought the hype and outsourced their whole brains to AI. We're going to see more and more of this. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p... 291155427
Reposted by blairblair @blairaf.com · 09/09/2026If you're interested in working on trans issues in AI policy or equity/justice in AI more generally, I'm still looking for PhD students! Email me if you'd like to apply 12219
Reposted by blairblair @blairaf.com · 18/02/2025"wow you study AI regulation? that must be such an exciting field right now!" 315317
blair @blairaf.com · 18/09/2026Just opened up Microsoft Word for the first time in a long time and the export function only lets you export 1 PDF for free every 30 days now?? Adobe's grift knows no limits 251
Reposted by blairT. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Once again planning to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...politico.comDemocratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AIDemocratic consultants are warning their candidates in some key races not to lean into AI regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups could spend heavily against them. 14010