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Head of the Algorithmic Accountability Lab at Amnesty Tech | Works on Tech, Justice, and Rights| Views, mine

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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
New: Amnesty research reveals India’s continuing support to the Israeli military and defence sector despite the genocide in Gaza, which has been broadcast worldwide on an almost daily basis for years. Read the latest findings here: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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India: Continuing weapons exports to Israel could risk complicity in ongoing genocide in Gaza – new investigation
India continued to supply arms to Israel despite the substantial risk they could be used in its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, Amnesty International said in a new re...
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Zachary Berger @zacharyberger.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
MUST READ! @amnesty.org shining a light on the abuses of AI data scraping. Think we should force the AI corps to be transparent about what they trained off? There's a bill in California that would do just that - please support it by adding your signature to this petition: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This is such a great episode, learnt a lot
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Whether predictive systems can be ethically—or even functionally—used in socially sensitive contexts depends on their epistemic credentials. I am delighted to see my work inform policy recommendations in a new report from Amnesty International. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Cover of Amnesty International Report – AUTOMATING SUSPICION
RISK PROFILING AS A SMOKESCREEN FOR STRUCTURAL
DISCRIMINATION AND INEQUALITY
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Widespread use of risk profiling by law enforcement, social security and migration programs is incompatible with international human rights law and must be banned, Amnesty International said in a new report which includes Australia’s Robodebt Scheme as an example www.amnesty.org.au/amnesty-repo...
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Amnesty International report finds automated risk-profiling systems breach human rights, citing failures of Australia’s Robodebt Scheme
The widespread use of risk profiling systems by public authorities in law enforcement, social security and migration is incompatible with international
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/06/2026
this @amnesty.org report is a must read!!
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Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com · 31/05/2026
Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
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Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development ...
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Thanks for sharing, Alix!
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Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The Finnish social security agency’s response to our article is here. Robust transparency and genuinely meaningful public participation of communities that will be most impacted by these projects must be a critical next step. www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...
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Lukijan mielipide | Kela kehittää tekoälyä vastuullisesti ja avoimesti
Kehitämme ja käytämme tekoälyä niin, että kenenkään tiedot tai asema eivät ole vaarassa.
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Numerous examples of the use of AI by governments to meet these punitive goals has shown repeatedly that it only fuels discrimination that targets the most marginalised groups. Any technology that, at its core, is developed for the punitive purposes of control will cause devastating harm.
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
In December, @marikosato.bsky.social and I wrote a piece (in Finnish) sounding the alarm about Finnish authorities’ plans to digitalize and integrate AI into the management of social security entitlements, including for the purposes of fraud detection. www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...
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Mariko Sato @marikosato.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Joulun alla julkaistiin @amnestyfinland.bsky.social vieraskynä Kelan suunnitelmista käyttää tekoälyä sosiaaliturvan väärinkäytösten seulomisessa ja siihen liittyvistä ihmisoikeusriskeistä. Kirjoitus kirvoitti mukavasti kiinnostusta ja keskustelua, jota aiheesta tarvitaan. www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...
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Vieraskynä | Tekoälyn käyttö sosiaaliturvan valvonnassa voi vaarantaa ihmisoikeudet
Sosiaaliturvan digitalisointi voi johtaa lisätä joihinkin ihmisryhmiin kohdistuvaa syrjintää. Kelan pitäisi varoa sitä tekoälyhankkeessaan.
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I don’t how it’s so normalised that some western countries will have compulsory conscription and monarchs as sitting heads of state and still get to call themselves democracies.
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Just give me a good long form micro history and my day is made. Morning read: the dishwasher and how it came to be, and questions of gendered labour. 🤓
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I love everything about this piece by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social, and bonus is also learning about the Alter Magazine. Read it on a bigger screen, if you're able. altermag.com/articles/the...
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The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Oops, here's the link: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I was afraid of this, and here we are: "AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge" www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
"We need to oppose this attempt to roll back protections in the name of simplification and tell the Commission that our human rights are not for sale", writes @heiferbeefmountain.bsky.social 👇
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
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Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
🚨Today, @stopspyingny.bsky.social and @amnesty.org are publishing the 2,700 docs we’ve forced the NYPD to release on their use of facial recognition against New Yorkers🚨 @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social you might want to see this… @jumaane.bsky.social www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Amnesty International, S.T.O.P. Lawsuit Reveals NYPD Surveillance Abuses
Records obtained by Amnesty International and S.T.O.P. reveal concerning surveillance abuses against protesters and communities of color, including the frequent use of rights-violating facial recognit...
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Betwa Sharma @betwasharma.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Reminder: Over a month on, the Delhi High Court has yet to deliver its bail verdict (reserved on 9 July) for anti‑CAA activists—Umar Khalid, Gulfisha Fatima, Sharjeel Imam, Khalid  Saifi & others—jailed for close to/more than 5 years without trial in a Delhi riots case
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.
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‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The implicit threat behind the AI hype is the paradigm of Modernity; behind the relentless chiding to use AI for everything is that if you don't, you will no longer be civilised, no longer be part of a fully developed humanity.
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Is everyone just rewatching Anthony Bourdain this August?
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
In an attempt to escape the haze of work -which is how I am describing my weeknights these days- a dear friend and I watched Sister Midnight yesterday and it was just so good. Absurd and hilarious.
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The Jammu and Kashmir administration has banned 25 books. The 25 books should actually be on everyone’s to-read list. I’m going to make my way through the ones I haven’t read yet, and so should you. thewire.in/government/j...
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J&K Admin Bans 25 Books, Including Ones By A.G. Noorani and Arundhati Roy
The order, which allows for the titles to be seized, said the books ‘promoted secessionism’ and ‘incited violence against the Indian state’.
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
This has disproportionately impacted already marginalized communities and individuals, in particular people with disabilities and older people.
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
This report looks at how the UK's Department of Work and Pensions (DWP)’s constant testing, rolling out, and rolling back of costly artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies fo social security schemes has created an inaccessible system for people who are at risk of poverty in the UK.
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
New Report: Amnesty Tech’s Algorithmic Accountability Lab have launched a new research report today, ‘Too Much Technology, Not Enough Empathy’: How the UK’s push to digitalize social security harms human rights. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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UK: Government’s unchecked use of tech and AI systems leading to exclusion of people with disabilities and other marginalized groups
People with disabilities, those living in poverty or who have serious health conditions are being left in a bureaucratic limbo due to digital exclusion caused by the Department of Work and Pensions’ (...
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/07/2025
NO. AI. FOR. WAR. CRIMES!!!
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
This must have been incredibly stressful. Really happy you were able to deliver it despite just outrageous treatment by organisers.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/07/2025
a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/06/2025
New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/
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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature
An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
This latest shameful US veto – one in a long list – gives Israel the green light to continue its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. It allows Israel to continue starving Palestinian civilians and creating conditions of life meant to bring about their destruction. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Look forward to getting stuck in. Such important work by @ainowinstitute.bsky.social
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The report is available in Danish, Arabic, and English. Developing an easy-to-read version of the report is a first for Amnesty Tech and reflects our continued commitment to finding ways to make our work more accessible. Read more: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
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Denmark: Easy-to-read version: Coded Injustice: Surveillance and Discrimination in Denmark’s automated welfare state - Amnesty International
This is the English Easy-to-read of the report Coded Injustice: Surveillance and Discrimination in Denmark’s automated welfare state The report discusses the findings of research conducted in Denmark ...
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
New! If you are curious about how automation in welfare services effects people’s rights in Denmark, check out the easy-to-read version of Amnesty International’s investigation "Coded Injustice: Surveillance and Discrimination in Denmark’s automated welfare state".
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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. A leading light of African and world literature, he was a distinguished Kenyan writer, scholar, and playwright, who served on Wasafiri's Advisory Board for several years. Please join us in remembrance 🕊️
White background. Photo shows a Black man in a patterned short-sleeve shirt. Title reads: Remembering Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
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Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The politics of personal enrichment cannot be fought with the politics of personal self-aggrandizing.
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Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 20/05/2025
“This moratorium would mean that even if a company deliberately designs an algorithm that causes foreseeable harm — regardless of how intentional or egregious the misconduct or how devastating the consequences — the company making that bad tech would be unaccountable to lawmakers and the public…”
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Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' would create 'unfettered abuse' of AI, 141 high-profile orgs warn in letter to Congress
The signatories include Georgetown Law's Center on Privacy and Technology, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Alphabet Workers Union, and more.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Going insane reading this Politico story about Musk's AI servers poisoning the air of a 90% Black community in Memphis followed immediately by this Washington Post story about states lining up their own communities to host the next ones
'How come I can't breathe?: Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company's turbines-enough to power 280,000 homes- run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
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An aerial view of the xAI, data center. | Steve Jones/Flight by Southwings for SELC
By ARIEL WITTENBERG 05 /06/2025 10:32 AM EDTStates chase OpenAl's $100 billion AI American Dream
Local and state officials are vying nost , parts of a massive artificial inteligence project called Stargate, backed by OpenAI, even as some communities turn against data center development.
Today at 8:05 a.m. EDT
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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · 19/05/2025
This means that any participation in our activities, including donations and reposts is punishable in the Russian Federation. If you are reading us from Russia, or are planning to travel there, refrain from sharing our online and offline materials.
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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · 19/05/2025
Dear supporters, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation today declared Amnesty International an "undesirable organization"
Graphic with text: Important Update Russia Labels Amnesty International 'Undesirable'
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 19/05/2025
BREAKING: Russia outlaws Amnesty International as an “undesirable organization,“ latest step in crackdown on dissent and activists.
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Russia outlaws Amnesty International in latest crackdown on dissent and activists
The Russian authorities on Monday outlawed Amnesty International as an “undesirable organization,” a label that under a 2015 law makes involvement with such organizations a criminal offense.
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Bassam Khawaja @khawaja.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
The Heritage Foundation developed a plan to brand critics of Israel as “effectively a terrorist support network,” so that they could be deported, defunded, sued, fired, expelled, ostracized and otherwise excluded from what it considered “open society.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
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The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
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