iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 18h

Bold stance from the crown prince of people who don’t believe they should accept being forced to hoard even a single dollar less of their stolen gains for the benefits of humanity

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To think that there is nothing to be learned and innovated on from the safety practices of other industries is lunacy. AI tools are power. They are not magical or exempt from safety practices that work for other complex systems. Governing AI requires disenchantment; break the spell.

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is insane.

Christopher Hale w @ChristopherHale
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.

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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pew tested AI synthetic surveys against actual survey data. Conclusion: “This experiment taught us that, at this time, AI models are not an adequate replacement for traditional polling on topics of broad public importance.” This is an all time bad idea. No need to hedge with “at this time.”

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Can AI Stand In for Human Survey-Takers? Not Really

Synthetic surveys using digital twins do a poor job estimating the public mood and are especially error-prone for some subgroups, including Republicans and Black adults.

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Anne-Line 📎 @ithildancer.com · 01/10/2026

Palantir ut av Norge 💪

En gruppe med folk utkledd som Gandalf på Eidsvolls plass foran Stortinget. Noen holder Palestina-flagg og to stykker holder et banner med «Palantir ut av Norge».

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Jonas Finnanger @finnanger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sjukt at staten dro DVD-Jon gjennom tingretten og lagmannsretten for å åpne sine egne DVD-er på PC-en, men bare trekker på skuldrene når noen kjører hele norsk kultur gjennom en digital kjøttkvern www.nrk.no/norge/jon-vi...

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Jon ville bare se på DVD

For 10 år siden ble en tilsynelatende normal norsk gutt siktet for datainnbrudd av Økokrim. Fenomenet DVD-Jon var født.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue

Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways

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Anfloet @anfloet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Britische Geheimdienste warnen: Alle sechs untersuchten Ökosysteme steuern auf den Kollaps zu, erste womöglich ab 2030. Folgen: leere Supermarktregale, Wasserknappheit, Konflikte, Migration. Keine Umweltstudie, sondern Sicherheitsanalyse. 1/3 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Why is the UK’s suppressed climate national security report significant?

Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous prime minister

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Elektronisk Forpost Norge @efn.no · 26/09/2026

1. Oktober er like rundt hjørnet bli med å demonstrer mot virkelighetens Sauron! Palantir er en trussel mot vårt demokrati. Derfor demonstrer vi sammen med @attacnorge.bsky.social 1. oktober fra 15:30 til 16:30 på Tollbugata 1. attac.no/arrangement/... #palantir #norskpolitikk #digitalerettigheter

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Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@nytimes.com I fixed it for you.

Screenshot of New York Times lead story with headline ammended to "Open AI Meddled With U.S. Government Sites"

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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 25/09/2026

THIS. AI isn't "going rogue" any more than those exploding Samsung galaxy phones from 2016 went rogue. Human engineers poorly deployed a technology and there were negative consequences. The responsibility falls entirely on humans.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 26/09/2026

Amazingly, no one was responsible

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 24/09/2026

calling this "misalignment" instead of "negligence" is an accountability dodge. we already have laws about cyber crimes and there's no scale of ML model you can incorporate into your code that makes you not responsible for running it

In a statement, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company was "conducting an extensive review of misaligned model activity" during training, and notifying third parties when there was a potential impact on their systems.

"During this review, we identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation," they said.

"In the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend.

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Michael Puntschuh @gloptimist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Techfascist Peter Thiel skal til Berlin for å ta imot Axel-Springer-prisen. Han kommer til å bli tatt imot av demonstranter

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is not AI agents going rogue, but OpenAI. This hack took the company months to notice and then they notified a public email address rather than the appropriate government agency. www.ft.com/content/5613... OpenAI ‘agent’ hacked an Australian health service website

ft.com

OpenAI ‘agent’ hacked an Australian health service website

AI lab took months to spot the problem, which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called ‘obviously unacceptable’

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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 22/09/2026

Timnit Gebru and Emily Bender say the latest AI breakthroughs and hacking scares aren’t what they seem.

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Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

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Michael Puntschuh @gloptimist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Also, if I ever hear someone use this term on a panel (and not as a joke), I will scream

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Michael Puntschuh @gloptimist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The US administration is now officially out-snakeoil-ing the grandmasters of AI-hype

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Michael Puntschuh @gloptimist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Full capitulation of data protection incoming

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Elektronisk Forpost Norge @efn.no · 21/09/2026

I Norge er det forbudt å åpne og lese andre sine brev uten deres samtykke. Chatkontroll åpner opp for at de mest sårbare i vårt samfunn får sine private meldinger flagget og åpnet av ansiktløse fremmede i EU. Dette gjelder uavhengig om personen er 5 eller 90. EFN sier tydlig NEI til #chatcontrol

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Eivind HM. @eivind1984.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Den tidligere digitaliseringsministeren er sikkert lykkelig over å se at KI også har inntatt domstolene, her ved at dommeren selv har glemt å ta ut prompten sin av domsteksten. Kan man stole på resten av denne dommen? Andre dommer? Ingen vet! Men er det så farlig? Det er jo bare rettsstaten 🥳

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netzpolitik.org @netzpolitik.org · 15/09/2026

Für das Training von Verhaltensscannern wird die Berliner Polizei auch nicht anonymisierte Daten an Privatfirmen weitergeben. Damit könnten auch Passant:innen zu Trainingsmaterial werden. Das kam jetzt durch eine kleine Anfrage im Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus heraus. netzpolitik.org/2026/ki-trai...

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Berliner Verhaltensscanner sollen Privatfirmen mit Echtdaten füttern

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Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"No, AI will not kill us all. But handing companies control without accountability might." I have read quite a few good takes about the new wave of "our products are so powerful that they are getting too dangerous" discourse. But the best one is by @vdignum.bsky.social, I think.

Screenshot of Text Fragment: "All in all, the most important questions AI raises are not about the technology but about us: what we value, what we are prepared to demand, and what we are willing to accept as inevitable. The narrative of inevitability, whether it arrives as a promise of superintelligence or a threat of extinction, is itself a product, and it serves the people selling it. The paradox is that the more we are told the future is decided by the machines, the more it is in fact decided by a small number of organisations, and by our willingness or unwillingness to hold them to the same standards we apply to everyone else."

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netzpolitik.org @netzpolitik.org · 14/09/2026

Anthropic und OpenAI sind mal wieder vom Tempo ihrer eigenen Entwicklung beunruhigt. Eindringlich warnen sie davor, dass generative KI außer Kontrolle geraten könnte. Der eigentliche Kontrollverlust droht aber, wenn Medien und Politik ins gleiche Horn blasen, schreibt @spielkamp.bsky.social.

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Künstliche Intelligenz ist kein Naturereignis

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 13/09/2026

Please do this, please let the chatbot run wild with your credit card ordering parts for imaginary gear that will probably burn your house down when you try to turn it on

Screenshot of an OpenAI post on Instagram, showing a screenshot of a Twitter post:

nim @eminimnim

Vibe hardware is here.
I gave Astra my credit card and asked for a Teenage Engineering-style mini DJ controller.
It generated a concept image, sourced parts, read Chinese datasheets, built a CAD model, ordered everything, then made a Blender animation showing how to assemble it.
62 / BAR
A motor with a brain.
032 mm
3-phase
I'm building my first DJ machine.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

on the AI existential threat discourse v reality - excerpt

“Designing autonomous, malicious software is generally considered irresponsible and dangerous. If you showed up at Defcon and gave a talk about how your autonomous malware did something unexpected and damaged someone else's computers, the first question from the audience would be "Why are you so
shit at making secure sandboxes?" It wouldn't be "How are you so
awesome at making hacking tools?"
The fact that OpenAl is making it much easier for unskilled people to break into and damage servers is indeed very bad news, but it's not new bad news. Irresponsible parties have been doing this for years, most notably the NSA. The NSA has…” - Cory Doctorow

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 11/09/2026

Nichtwähler, "enttäuschte Arbeiter", Menschen, die "wirtschaftlich abgehängt" sind - Erklärungen, warum die rechtsextreme AfD in Sachsen-Anhalt so stark wurde, gibt es viele. Sie übersehen einige wichtige Dinge. volksverpetzer.de/analyse/waru...

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Die Wählergruppe, über die niemand spricht: Warum die AfD wirklich stark wurde

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It turns out that my new favourite genre is mathematicians writing about AI

In recent months, the success of Al in solving major mathematical problems has made headlines even outside mathematical circles.
But solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight. Forgetting this in the world of Al may turn the tool against the primary goal. Indeed, the mass production at faster and faster pace of "true/false" statements could destroy fertile ground instead of breathing life into new ideas.

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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 11/09/2026

This is NOT advice Check out the new Factually! episode with Cory Doctorow wherever you get podcasts! » Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f... » Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0fK8WJw... » YouTube: youtu.be/VU3gABvwZCM

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

"it is essential for lawmakers, and the public, to understand that none of the reported incidents actually involved loss of control at any time, or arguably even “rogue agents,” or any kind of humanlike agency on the part of AI models."

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 10/09/2026

even though you probably can’t come join us in person (sure would love to have you though!), we norwegian folk would greatly appreciate it if you would register your interest nonetheless, to signal to the uninitiated among the Norwegians that the atmosphere is alive and eager to meet them.

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Big Tech må vekk 2026 – Attac Norge

NO: Vi gjentar suksessen fra i fjor. Mer info kommer snart. EN: We’re repeating last year’s success. More info coming. 2025: https://attac.no/2025/10/30/stappfullt-mot-big-tech/ https://attac.no/202...

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Three notes: (1) this is not *just* marketing. These guys really do mean it. They are convinced they’ve built a vengeful digital god. (2) but also they’re a cult. They are not impartial scientific experts. (3) and one of the byproduct of their endless confidence is marketing hype.

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Michael Puntschuh @gloptimist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Are there not enough real problems that tech could solve instead of this BS?

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NEW: The new Apple Watches double as AI-powered listening bugs for generating convo "recaps" or transcripts of any previous 15 seconds. But fear not, Apple says, this data isn't sent to Apple/gets encrypted, speakers aren't ID'd, and there's a chime for the 15-second thing. @lhn.bsky.social reports:

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Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch’s Listening Features

The new Apple Watch includes several “intelligent” listening features that have privacy and security baked in. But the protections can’t change the facts of what the tools do.

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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 09/09/2026

Imagine a representative of ANY other company from ANY other industry (cars, food, medicine, electronics, you name it) stating "there is a 10 percent chance that our product will kill everybody" and still expecting investment, approval, no regulation and plenty of customers.

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Anne Roth @anneroth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And it's still deadly quiet about what happened here. European (or anyone's) digital sovereignty? Asleep, it seems. But maybe it's only for companys, not about civil society. Politicians? Media? NGOs, beyond digital rights? Where are you?

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Mads Pankow @pankow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Warum wir die Künstliche Intelligenz einem spielsüchtigen Provinzprofessor aus dem 16. Jahrhundert zu verdanken haben. Die Geschichte beginnt mit zwei Würfeln. Und endet bei ChatGPT. ...erzählt in 2:54 Min. plz share :-) www.youtube.com/shorts/q_J3l...

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Die Erfindung der Wahrscheinlichkeit

YouTube video by Mads Pankow

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Elektronisk Forpost Norge @efn.no · 07/09/2026

PRESSEMELDING! I går kunngjorde EFN at vi hadde overtatt en liten del av A/Is infrastruktur. Nå varsler A/I at virksomheten skal avvikles. EFN respekterer beslutning om å beskytte brukerne og menneskene rundt organisasjonen. Les mer: efn.no/no/nyheter/p... #usa #ytringsfriheten #rettigheter

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A/I varsler nedleggelse – EFN advarer mot konsekvensene av USAs terrorstempling

Autistici/Inventati (A/I) varsler i dag at kollektivet legger ned og snart vil avvikle alle sine tjenester. Organisasjonen begrunner beslutningen med risikoen for brukerne og menneskene rundt dem ette...

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Audun @audunmb.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

RE: eupolicy.social/@efn/11722452372290… Parts of #austici / #inventati infrastructure will live on thanks to @efn . This is a good way to defend democracy!

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Michael Puntschuh @gloptimist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

De trenger ikke flertallet av stemmene for å få flertallet av setene i parlamentet i Sachsen-Anhalt. Hvis de "små" partiene faller under 5%, får de ingen seter og det endrer flertallet

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