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Luke Stark

Assistant professor of AI ethics, Western University

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Assistant professor of AI ethics, Western University with public evidence across AI business, AI research, Responsible AI.

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🏳️‍🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️‍⚧️ ally | views my own https://starkcontrast.co/ https://starlingcentre.ca/
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social

There is a lot of new info in this article, based on documents, Slack chats, instruction guides, and me seeing real ChatGPT user prompts in the review system. Firstly, a worker we spoke to thinks ChatGPT users have no idea their chats may be read by someone else www.404media.c…

Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats 404media.co
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  • OpenAI's internal program codenamed Project Lily pays contractors more than $50 an hour to read real ChatGPT prompts and grade the chatbot's replies.
  • Reviewers rate four ChatGPT responses on a one-to-seven scale and can see a 'user memories summary' that may reveal past use and rough location.
  • OpenAI's Privacy Filter model tries to redact personal information before prompts reach reviewers, but the company acknowledged sensitive details can still get through.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app

“As people continue to organize for a better future, we're likely to see more surveillance and criminalization of this opposition, just as we have of Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and environmental movements in recent decades…”

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows | WIRED wired.com
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  • Wired reviewed over 1,000 pages of unpublished DHS, FBI, and fusion-center reports coalescing around a new label called 'anti-tech extremism.'
  • A Delaware Valley fusion-center bulletin flagged AI data centers as extremist targets while conceding it had no specific plots or suspects.
  • The term 'anti-technology violent extremism' does not appear in any publicly available DHS or FBI extremism documents, per Wired's review.
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social

“Anthropic regularly showed a slide of an A.I. model experiencing what looked like a mental breakdown, typing out on a screen: ‘I am a disgrace. I am a disgrace. I am a disgrace.’— perhaps 50 times without stopping.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

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  • Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah read an advance copy of Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical and proposed the company pull out of its May 25 Vatican launch.
  • His team privately lobbied papal advisers, but the 40,000-word Magnifica Humanitas kept its line that AI has no moral conscience.
  • Since fall 2025, Anthropic has flown religious scholars to its offices under NDAs to debate whether Claude might be conscious.
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social

We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility 404media.co
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  • 404 Media hid an Apple AirTag in a roughly 1,000-book order sold on Biblio and followed it to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas.
  • The shipment terminated at Amazon's LAS8 site at 5801 Nicco Way, home to a team called VGT3 whose logo is a Tyrannosaurus rex clutching an open book.
  • Amazon told the outlet it 'purchases books through commercial channels'; the company classes its Nova family of models as 'frontier.'
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender theguardian.com
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  • A US special operations analyst used a chatbot to assess intel on a Chinese ship, and the AI falsely claimed it carried nuclear weapon components.
  • Military planes were in the air and personnel were preparing to board before officials caught the hallucination and stood down, per CNN sources.
  • Gebru and Bender argue the real AI risk is error-prone deployment in high-stakes settings today, not speculative superintelligence.
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@jayvanbavel.bsky.social

State media control influences large language models LLMs exhibit a stronger pro-government valence in the languages of countries with lower media freedom than in those with higher media freedom. States have strategic incentives to shape LLM output. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

State media control influences large language models | Nature nature.com
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  • Chinese state-media content appears in typical LLM training sets at roughly 41 times the rate of Chinese-language Wikipedia.
  • Across 37 countries, models prompted in the local language produce more regime-favorable responses in countries with lower press freedom.
  • A pretraining experiment with just 6,400 state-scripted documents pushed an open-weight model to pro-government responses nearly 80 percent of the time.
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@annakornbluh.bsky.social

"Artificial intelligence is not just a market product or a scientific achievement. It is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy." connect the dots! Dr. McMillan Cottom has homework! go to the library, host a reading group, organize your neighbors www.nytimes.c…

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Maybe the fact that Meta and OpenAI have slapped a cartoon interface on their models will make the idea these are animated entities more obvious?

View on Bluesky · ♥ 25 ↻ 3 ↩ 2 · 15d ago

Please don't compare rogue AI systems to dogs, cougars, or other animals. It does a disservice to the animals.

View on Bluesky · ♥ 27 ↻ 2 ↩ 1 · 20d ago

Looks like the federal government is gonna whitewash Google's take on AI and push it on Canadian educators, students and everyone else 🙄 #canpoli

View on Bluesky · ♥ 9 ↻ 5 ↩ 1 · 26d ago

Mark Carney has great faith in two extractive and destructive sectors, fossil fuels and AI, which should call into question his own value(s) as a politician and leader.

View on Bluesky · ♥ 13 ↻ 4 ↩ 0 · 109d ago

What if there's no such thing as "responsible AI adoption" in an education context?

View on Bluesky · ♥ 11 ↻ 2 ↩ 2 · 23d ago

Forget AI -- maybe the Minister of Digital Innovation can work on ensuring reliable 5G cellular data service in exurban, suburban, and even some urban parts of southwestern Ontario? #canpoli #onpoli

View on Bluesky · ♥ 8 ↻ 2 ↩ 1 · 34d ago

The thing about an LLM is, best case, the more you use it, the less capable you are of exploiting it

View on Bluesky · ♥ 7 ↻ 1 ↩ 0 · 77d ago

Just as off-base BSky posters are not representative of the Democratic Party, off-base BSky posters are not representative of critical scholarship on AI!

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In advance of the official release of the Canadian AI Strategy, here's a fun(?) exercise: can you provide a succinct definition of "today's AI" within the BSky character limit? Descriptive attempts only please! I can almost guarantee you it will be better than what's in the document.

View on Bluesky · ♥ 2 ↻ 1 ↩ 0 · 135d ago

Aren't LLMs just the Holodeck in .txt format?

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