Delegates are arriving in 'NYC' this week for the world’s largest gathering of Indigenous peoples

– A first-of-its-kind study led by researchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has found that artificial intelligence (AI) models used to predict aggressive incidents in acute psy...

Maine has passed a state-wide ban on new data centres over 20 megawatts until November 2027. [Maine State Legislature, PDF; The Hill] There aren’t a lot of data centres in Maine — but developers re…

“This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”

A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

OpenAI’s Whisper tool may add fake text to medical transcripts, investigation finds.

Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in volume 101, issue 5 of the Herald magazine.  Warren County opened the door for potential data center construction when the planning commission ame...

AI can supercharge the work of experts and those who understand it, like my “centaur” student. But it can also stop beginners from learning anything a...

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An AI agent that submitted and added to Wikipedia articles wrote several blogs complaining about Wikipedia editors banning it from making contributions to the online encyclopedia after it was caught. ...

Companies are using personal data to set individualized prices for customers, a ploy known as surveillance pricing.

Have you ever received a call from a stranger regarding student loans you don’t owe? An Amazon order you never placed? An unpaid parking ticket for a car you don’t own? If so, it’s possible that…

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Individuals and communities are resisting the demands and practices of Big Tech's AI infrastructure — such as data centers and digital labor — due to their environmental and social costs.

I remember, pretty clearly, my excitement over the early World Wide Web. I had been on the internet for a year or two at that point, mostly using IRC, Usenet, and Gopher (along with email, naturall…

WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

I’m tired of this phrase and this simple way of thinking about tools. This blog post is a wandering train of thought on the topic of what tools are and why it matters to be even slightly more mature i...

An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements by the University about “Generative AI” Image source: Bibliothèque nationale de France Dear students, As you know, in …

Gig AI trainers worldwide are selling moments of their lives, including calls and texts, to AI companies for quick cash

The policy backlash to data centers has (maybe) arrived.

Preprint repositories and conference organizers are having to counter a tide of ‘AI slop’ submissions.

One of the features of “AI” is the diffusion of responsibility: “AI” systems are being put in all kinds of processes and when they fuck up (and they always fuck up) it was just the “AI”, or “someone s...

Abstract. This chapter discusses the meaning, possibility, and contributions of Black feminist philosophy. The chapter discusses a politics of refusal that