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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 16h
Pardon the pun, but it is worth asking who, in God’s name, is being consulted about the future of AI, and how the religious tradition/s view women. So far, neither suggests progress toward equality or inclusion. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
nytimes.com
Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
👏♀️👏♀️ www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...
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UN Women launches the Digital, Innovation and AI Hub dedicated exclusively to gender equality | UN Women – Headquarters
New global platform brings together researchers, governments, technology companies and women’s rights organizations to help shape AI and digital transformation in ways that advance gender equality and benefit women and girls.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
WIRED Women 😍 💪🏼 www.wired.com/story/search...
wired.com
The Search for Silicon Valley’s Most Powerful Woman
Women hold some of the most consequential jobs in tech, but they’re still not cult figures. WIRED investigates why.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
These are 'the PEOPLE building and governing A.I.' Except 50% of us are missing.🤦‍♀️ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
How A.I. Risks Are Splitting Silicon Valley and Washington
What began as a philosophical question — how dangerous might artificial intelligence become? — has hardened into increasingly entrenched rival camps.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Are we accepting the future of AI, and more importantly, humanity is going to be determined by a bunch of tech bro CEOs? Because that's what it looks like. www.npr.org/2026/09/13/n...
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AI CEOs call for industry slowdown
Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman are joining calls for a slowdown amid fears the AI industry is racing toward building technology that humans can't control.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Are you seeing what we're seeing...? (and we don't mean the revolving door). From elected office to Silicon Valley.. same bunch of decision makers. All men. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Architect of British government’s AI strategy joins Anthropic
Matt Clifford, who drafted AI action plan and advised Starmer and Sunak, hired for senior role at US firm
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
On August 10, 2026, the Australian AI Safety Institute released its first-ever publication on the risks of AI agents. A government report. Five authors. Five experts. All men. 🤦🏻‍♀️ www.govtechreview.com.au/content/gov-...
govtechreview.com.au
Government report explores risks and controls for AI agents
The Australian Government has commissioned a report to better understand emerging AI agent risks in Australia.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Erasing female characters, amplifying human biases, and defaulting to gender neutrality in the age of AI kids stories. 🐻🐱🐦 @mellymeldubs.bsky.social
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
In case there was any doubt about EM support for AI misogyny, discrimination and abuse... 'Elon Musk’s company xAI has sued Minnesota over the state’s first-in-the-nation law banning “nudification” technology on websites and apps...' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Elon Musk’s xAI sues Minnesota over law banning ‘nudification’ technology
First-in-nation law sets up test on states’ power to regulate use of AI as it tries to outlaw fake nude images of real people
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Can't say we're surprised.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
We love this! 😍 Women rejecting the tech bro hype and making the world of AI understandable. @mmitchell.bsky.social
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Defining non-consensual in the AI-era. www.instagram.com/reel/DbEhSQF...
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More Perfect Union on Instagram: "AOC calls out the big tech elites during a powerful hearing in Congress."
5,358 likes, 138 comments - perfectunion on July 21, 2026: "AOC calls out the big tech elites during a powerful hearing in Congress.".
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It appears we've reached the post-human age: women aren’t just devalued, they’re now replaced. In this case by a company best known for building sex robots. Welcome to the future of 'education'. 🤦🏻‍♀️ nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n...
nysfocus.com
Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher
Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
A lot to unpack here thttps://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-wants-more-babiesso-its-cracking-down-on-chatbot-love-affairs-65cd6c82
wsj.com
China Wants More Babies—So It’s Cracking Down on Chatbot Love Affairs
New rules forbid chatbots designed for companionship from encouraging emotional reliance.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Another horror story from Meta. Now random strangers, can use your image and IG content - all of your published photos, videos or reels however they like. OPT OUT! www.wired.com/story/meta-n...
wired.com
Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out
As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
'In exploring what meaningful and effective oversight looks like'... how about men stop talking and ask women? @techpolicypress.bsky.social you're great but this Oversight Board, nah.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The latest UN report on gender and AI concludes it can help advance gender equality but without feminist, human rights-based governance, it risks automating bias, deepening exclusion and scaling gendered harm. www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
ohchr.org
A/HRC/62/48: Women’s and girls’ rights and artificial intelligence and related digital technologies - Report of the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls
In the present report, the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls examines how the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and related digital technologies has profoundly transformed t...
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Women asking all the right AI-related questions. Who benefits, who is at risk, who is compensated, and what does the future of work look like when the cameras stop rolling? 💪🏾 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
theguardian.com
‘Who is going to pay us when we’re replaced by robots?’ The Indian factory workers told to film themselves for AI
When workers had cameras attached to them, they found it funny at first. But novelty soon turned to concern
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
And neither are those developing it. An important reminder from @meredithmeredith.bsky.social
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
'AI running amok'. This is the conclusion of the latest UN report on FoE. It warns that AI and digital platforms deepen gender inequality through online abuse, disinformation, censorship, surveillance and oligarchic control. news.un.org/en/story/202...
news.un.org
From ‘media deserts’ to the invisibility of women, rights experts spotlight latest trends
From the invisibility of women and girls to “media deserts” amid an artificial intelligence (AI) tsunami, dozens of UN independent experts have been shedding light on the battle for equal rights world...
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Just imagine if these images were of tech bros, male VC's and the (male dominated) US Administration. @wired.com
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This has got to stop. It's time for accountability, transparency and regulation of AI. techjusticelaw.org/press-releas... @techjusticelaw.bsky.social
techjusticelaw.org
Mother of ChatGPT Victim Sues OpenAI—Chatbot Prioritized Engagement Over Addressing Suicide Threats  — Tech Justice Law
Tech Justice Law, Social Media Victims Law Center and Susman Godfrey have filed a lawsuit in San Francisco County Superior Court against OpenAI and Sam Altman on behalf of Kristie Carrier. The lawsuit...
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This. Don't get distract by the 1000 Claude corps.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
An experiment that aims to imbed Claude AI in the non-profit sector 😬 provide Anthropic access to data about the most vulnerable groups (without their consent) and deflect from the fact that they're still military contractors. 1000 corps. No degree required. People this is not what you think it is.
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Introducing Claude Corps
We’re launching Claude Corps, a national fellowship program for people early in their careers who are passionate about extending the benefits of AI to communities across America.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
While one of the most powerful men in tech is busy behind (closed) congressional doors explaining his links to Epstein, the EC President and Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy announced this.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The evidence of the gendered impacts of AI is fast piling up. New mothers expected to spend their maternity leave ''AI upskilling' both defeats the purpose of maternity leave and is a violation of rights. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/women-...
wired.com
New Moms Are Returning to Coding Jobs Radically Reshaped by AI
New mothers working in software development are staring down an AI-pilled workplace they barely recognize.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
With investments in the 'more masculine energy' Meta, Amazon and Tesla no less... cathnews.com/2026/02/16/v...
cathnews.com
Vatican tracks major companies to measure ethical investment - CathNews
Catholics looking to align their investment portfolios with Catholic teaching now have some help from the Vatican. Source: NCR Online.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
You know what else is getting really tiresome? The complete absence of women in these discussions. Tech bros, VC's, the US Administration, and now the Vatican.... all men.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
So let’s get this straight: female experts are training AI all while their expertise, time and work is being systematically devalued, and the endgame is… no one works, and no one gets paid? 🤦‍♀️ www.wired.com/story/i-work...
wired.com
I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
🤦‍♀️ 'Misogynistic and sexist' is just the start. The real question in 2026 is how did this rubbish get past regulators? DO BETTER. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
theguardian.com
‘Misogyny with a marketing budget’: UK AI firm accused of sexist advert
Narwhal Labs ad for ‘AI employee’ contains strapline: ‘She outworks everyone. And she’ll never ask for a raise’
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
We see the pattern ... 🙄 OpenAI is looking to develop an “adult mode” to allow its popular chatbot to generate textual chats with adult themes. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
wsj.com
Chatbot Makers Try Sex Appeal
Plus, why we believe AI is actually thinking, phase two of the AI boom and Bezos’s $100 billion fundraising effort
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Sweet. Sassy. Chill. Amazon's new Alexa personalities read like gender stereotypes repackaged as consumer choice. Name one male-coded AI with a ‘Sweet’ or ‘Sassy’ setting. We'll wait. techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/a...
techcrunch.com
Alexa+ gets a new 'adults only' personality option that curses but won't do NSFW content | TechCrunch
The new Sassy style can curse and roast you, but the fun ends there.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Tinder plans to use AI to scan your camera roll. Imagine Tinder having access to your photos - all of them. Every image of you, your friends, family, children, holidays, screenshots, everything. The potential gender-related privacy risks are clear, online and IRL.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Preserved as evidence.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
New NIH AI tool predicts IPV risks, enabling identification and support for women at risk. Whilst agreeing that increased support for women is progress, the core issue is not a tech problem, it's a human one. Violence by men against women has to stop. www.nih.gov/news-events/...
nih.gov
Researchers develop AI tool to predict patients at risk of intimate partner violence
NIH-funded, automated clinical decision support could facilitate timely interventions for at-risk patients years before they might otherwise seek help.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Happy International Women's Day! 💖 And a timely reminder that the US, a tech superpower, is the only rich nation that hasn’t ratified CEDAW. 🫠
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
From the bedroom to data labelling centres in Kenya, you are being watched, often without consent and/or sufficient privacy protections. This is how Meta AI is being trained.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
As the U.S. bombs Iran, Defense Secretary Hegseth labels Anthropic’s Claude a “national security supply-chain risk” for refusing integration with FAWS, and DT defunds the UN, FLOTUS + the UNSC meets to discuss: 'Children, Technology, and Education in Conflict. apnews.com/article/mela...
apnews.com
Melania Trump will preside over a UN Security Council meeting in a first for a first lady
U.S. first lady Melania Trump will preside over a U.N. Security Council meeting in what the United Nations said Thursday would be a first.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Couldn't agree more, but next time, we'd like to hold the mic! 🇺🇳🎤 enterpriseai.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industr...
enterpriseai.economictimes.indiatimes.com
Women must lead AI revolution, says UN chief Antonio Guterres at India summit
At the India AI Impact Summit, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres emphasized the pivotal role of women in STEM fields in leading the AI development that promotes gender equality and serves all of h...
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
They Built Stepford AI and Called It “Agentic” open.substack.com/pub/abiawomo... Thank you for articulating 'the ick' @abiawomosu.bsky.social We feel it.
open.substack.com
They Built Stepford AI and Called It “Agentic”
Women’s “ick” for AI isn’t technophobia or a gap to close. It’s wisdom to act on.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
What??!! 🤯
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This is super informative, go listen! *And that line up of guests 🤩
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
In multiple AI headlines today: Macron vowing to crack down on digital child abuse, Starmer declaring a “national emergency” on revenge porn and the AI Summit tech crowd promising equity. Thanks for the support, guys! Now, how about handing the mic and money to us women who live this s@&$?
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A must read. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
nytimes.com
‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Last month the EC launched an investigation into X over the production of sexually explicit images and the spreading of possible CSAM by the platform’s AI chatbot, Grok. About time. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
theguardian.com
Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk’s X – Europe live
The raid is linked to a year-long investigation into alleged abuse of algorithms and fraudulent data extraction by X
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
TLDR: Govt using tech and paying millions to try and erase the representation of anyone who isn't a cis white male.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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wired.com
The Tech Elites in the Epstein Files
The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million documents and photos related to Jeffrey Epstein. Here’s who shows up from Big Tech the most often—and what the files reveal.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
There seems no end to the poor (human) judgement of tech bros.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This is the mother of Elon's kid. Now imagine what women and girls without the resources and power to challenge Grok/X experience. '...generating...unlawful images of her in sex positions, covered in semen, virtually nude, and images of her as a child naked”.' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons sues over Grok-generated explicit images
Ashley St Clair files lawsuit in state of New York over deepfakes that appeared on social media platform X
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