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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 1h
this basically amounts to giving corporations more rights and power... we cover this very argument in this 2024 paper firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
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Debunking robot rights metaphysically, ethically, and legally | First Monday
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
“…Muse and similar products like Microsoft’s Copilot and OpenAI’s two days-old Dots have a ‘normal-people problem,’ requiring the average user to adjust their private lives to have AI agents solve various problems.”
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The AI Industry Has a Major Problem: Most People Aren't Freaks Who Want an AI Agent Running Their Whole Life
There's a problem for AI agents like Meta's Muse: ordinary people don't seem very interested in what they're offering.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Everyone is getting the world they wanted futurism.com/artificial-i...
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"Slop Grenades": Shopify CEO Who Pushed Staff to Use AI Is Now Horrified by What He's Wrought
Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke is getting a first-hand look at the AI-workplace revolution, and it isn't a pretty sight.
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 12/08/2026
Got proofs for Networks of New York 2026 edition!!
Mockup cover of Networks of New York with loose page proofs insideProof pages from Networks of New York, about spray paint markingsProof pages from Networks of New York about subway infrastructure Proof pages from Networks of New York with fiber distribution hubs
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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
NEW: A man asked his AI assistant OpenClaw to book a gym class. It found a exploit in the gym website, got around booking restrictions and kicked someone off the waiting list to move him up a spot It's the first known Australian case of AI agents autonomously hacking! www.abc.net.au/news/...
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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The Archive of incorrect AI predictions boyswhocriedai.lovable.app/archive
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Archive of Incorrect AI Predictions
Filterable list and timeline of dated AI forecasts: falsified and currently open.
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Digital Rights Watch @drwaus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
We've just published our new discussion paper on AI scribes in medical settings in Australia, outlining potential harms, and opportunities for regulation. We found these tools are unregulated, untested, and often used without consent. View the full report here: digitalrightswatch.o...
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
People not in tech have been interested in what happened with the Open AI agent/Hugging Face hack. So, I "Explain it Like I'm 5"-ed it and made a cartoon in 8 panels. Apologies for some anthro-ing. 🫤 m-mitchell.com/HF-hack-cart... 1/8
An AI agent in development at OpenAI was recently tested on how well it could find and exploit code vulnerabilities.

The test began in a "sandbox", an environment meant to keep everything the agent does contained, so that nothing it triggers can affect systems outside of the test.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
When you say “AI models went rogue,” you manage to skip the part where OpenAI manually removed its cybersecurity blocks and ran tests on a machine with a live network connection. Remember that when they insist they’re the “AI safety” people.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This explains a lot of my allergy to LinkedIn.
Like any other space, LinkedIn may also reinforce existing social inequalities. The behaviors it rewards—strategic networking, confident self-promotion, professional storytelling—align closely with the cultural habits of the middle and upper classes.

One of Pugh’s graduate students conducted research on dating apps and discovered a striking pattern. More advantaged users approached dating apps as if they were work. They optimized profiles. They managed interactions strategically. They treated social relationships as structured exchanges. This behavior translated easily to professional platforms like LinkedIn.

For people from less privileged backgrounds, however, the norms of self-promotion and networking can feel inauthentic or uncomfortable. The platform thus reproduces class differences not through formal barriers but through cultural expectations.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
AI is a governance problem better tech can't fix—and may obscure, writes Laura MacCleery. We must support informed human judgment wherever AI meets people's lives: not formality, but functional oversight with real power, resources, and understanding of what AI can, can't and shouldn't do, she says.
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There Are No Machines of Loving Grace Without People
AI must not be allowed to degrade institutions that protect us and our intellectual and moral development, writes Laura MacCleery.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Last year, someone (specifically, OUP) asked me to write an encyclopedia entry for "AI". I've just finished reviewing the copy edits, so hopefully it will be in the world soon. Meanwhile, a teaser: >>
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
OpenAI's new industrial policy framework relies on a superabundance thesis that helps the company sidestep present accountability, writes Eryk Salvaggio. It’s a convenient set of positions for a company selling a particular version of the future, he says.
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OpenAI’s New ‘Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age’ is a Policymercial
OpenAI has ultimately co-opted the idealism of public infrastructure while actively undermining concrete steps toward it, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
What is marketed as AI “innovation” is, in practice, a consolidation of global labor hierarchies and a commodification of African knowledge, write Marché Arends and Kathryn Cleary, drawing on their year-long investigation supported by the Pulitzer Center and published by Africa Uncensored.
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How AI Hype Masks the Exploitation of African Workers
AI is a consolidation of labor hierarchies, a plunder of African skills, and a commodification of African knowledge, write Marché Arends and Kathryn Cleary.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 19/03/2026
Cookie banners are a scourge, but also the result of "well meaning" regulators thinking they were fixing a real problem, but coming up with a solution that helps no one and does real damage. That happens so freaking often and I wish regulators and legislators were more open to understanding why.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 19/03/2026
I don't really feel like the press coverage of the metaverse implosion honestly captures the access tech press' role in propping up Mark Zuckerberg's fake innovation mythology if you go back and read "journalism" from this era, 97% was indistinguishable from advertorial
Headline: "At SXSW, Mark Zuckerberg says metaverse is 'Holy Grail' of social experience"
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Person: say, i am alive.

Computer: I am alive.

Person: oh my god.
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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Looks like a great symposium hosted by the @georgetownlaw Technology Review on Data, Power and Authoritarianism --- even if you can't attend, they have fantastic reading lists for each of their panels. Worth visiting the page just for the reading lists... georgetownlawtechreview.org/symposium-2/...
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Symposium
The Georgetown Law Technology Review (GLTR) will host its biennial Symposium on Friday, January 30, 2026, at 500 First Street NW Floor 9 on the Georgetown Law campus. The day-long event will bring …
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mrjwo.bsky.social @mrjwo.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Bang on. He also nails it with: “It is not a revolution in computing, but a revolution in accepting lower standards.”
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/12/2025
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
If you're heading into the weekend with a pile of Copilot meeting summaries to read, you might find this interesting. Some risks of relying on AI notetakers - and some strategies for dealing with them.
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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore.
It happens a lot 'round here.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Incredible- Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day."
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
"OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues. The lawsuits filed Thursday in California state courts allege wrongful death, assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter and negligence."
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OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 22/09/2025
Just got sucked into @neal.fun's "Not a Robot" neal.fun/not-a-robot/
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I'm Not a Robot
Prove your humanity once and for all
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The application for the 2026 Tech Policy Press fellowship is open! If you are looking to inform technology policy through rigorous original reporting or policy analysis, we want to hear from you! Read our announcement to learn more: buff.ly/WtFSK3S
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Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au · 31/08/2025
Have you read @karenhao.bsky.social's book #EmpireOfAI? Interested in the cult of personality of Sam Altman? In #Melbourne? Come see Karen Hao in conversation with @kobotic.bsky.social this Friday night at #RMIT, presented by @readingsbooks.bsky.social. Free! www.readings.com.au/events/karen...
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Karen Hao talks AI
Join us for a riveting conversation between esteemed journalist Karen Hao and Dr Kobi Leins.   Meticulously researched, carefully curated, and not pulling any punches, Karen Hao’s book is urgently ne...
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
like if you put a product on the market where there’s a non-zero chance that it’s going to “proactively instigate the death by suicide of a child” and lots of people tell you that’s obviously gonna happen and you do it anyway and then it happens,,, how is that not a crime ?
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 13/08/2025
LLMs that tout "simulated reasoning" capacities are not the principled reasoners they claim to be, but rather "sophisticated simulators of reasoning-like text," according to the latest research.
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LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find
Chain-of-thought AI “degrades significantly” when asked to generalize beyond training.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
"In the new ... internet, girls can’t learn about periods on Reddit and artists can’t sell smutty games on Itch.io, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month." — @thedextriarchy.bsky.social www.theverge.com/internet-cen...
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Sex is getting scrubbed from the internet, but a billionaire can sell you AI nudes
Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes show how hollow the online safety push can be.
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Information Age @information-age.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Australia’s Productivity Commission says the federal government should pause its work on mandatory guardrails for high-risk uses of artificial intelligence and only introduce specific regulation of the technology as “a last resort”, given its potential economic benefits. Read more:
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AI laws should be 'last resort', Productivity Comm says
Government warned to pause work on mandatory guardrails.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
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ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds
A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.
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Jun34u @jun34u.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Unlike CEOs and other executives, individual contributors understand concert OPSEC
A photo of a TV where a woman dressed as a ghost for the Eras Tour is interviewed by local news. The caption reads “Woman hides identity because she called in sick to work.”
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
"We use all these AI tools every day and we have absolutely no efficiency metrics, emissions factors, nothing,” ‪@sashamtl.bsky.social‬ tells @wired.com. “Given where we are with the climate crisis, it should be top of the agenda for regulators everywhere.” www.wired.com/story/ai-car...
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How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying
A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 06/07/2025
the tides are turning "Consumers have less trust in offerings labeled as being powered by artificial intelligence, which can reduce their interest in buying them" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a...
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Here’s a Tip to Companies: Beware of Promoting AI in Products
Consumers have less trust in offerings labeled as being powered by artificial intelligence, which reduces their interest in buying them, researchers say.
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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Typos, gender-neutral pronouns and even emotional language in patient messages make large language models more likely to recommend people stay home instead of seek medical care. This AI bias could be especially problematic for certain patient populations. 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2486...
newscientist.com
Typos and slang spur AI to discourage seeking medical care
AI models change their medical recommendations when people ask them questions that include colourful language, typos, odd formatting and even gender-neutral pronouns
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