"The vulnerability is an astounding, high-profile example of the types of risks that companies are putting their users and workers under when they offload important functions to AI." www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
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Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.
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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 404media.co
A civic grammar for AI rights | Science science.org
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The Elon Musk v Sam Altman battle is a distraction | Karen Hao | The Guardian theguardian.com
‘Who Should I Vote for?’ Voters Turn to A.I. Before Casting Their Ballots - The New York Times nytimes.com
The AI-powered World Cup runs on thousands of data workers restofworld.org
Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI wired.com
Scientists have a bad case of AI FOMO, Nature poll reveals nature.com
The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People | TechPolicy.Press techpolicy.press
My Father Wants to Age in Place. AI Will Be Watching wired.com
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Governments Can Advance 'Greener AI' Through the Power of Procurement | TechPolicy.Press techpolicy.press
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Though President Trump rescinded the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, it is having a second life. As red and blue states draft their own versions, they're drawing on the vocabulary Americans have long reached for to contest power, @alondra.bsky.social writes. www.science.or…
As web searches are increasingly performed by AI chatbots, the number of people visiting websites is falling. It's a change that poses a serious threat to the open web. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...
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- Cloudflare data shows AI-training crawlers hit 52% of crawler requests by June 2026, up from 22% in spring 2025.
- Google still supplies roughly 88% of referral traffic, but is answering more queries in-place via AI Overviews and AI Mode.
- Human traffic to the most heavily crawled categories, including software, IT, retail and finance, has fallen as much as 40% in under a year.
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"As much as Silicon Valley would wish you to believe it, AI does not necessitate imperial conquest, nor could broad-based benefit from the technology ever emerge from such a foundation," @karenhao.bsky.social writes. www.theguardian.com/technology/c...
Using AI to learn about campaigns and ballot measures is appealing to many voters because it seems straightforward. But with results that can be marred by factual errors or shaped by flawed assumptions, the reality is more complicated. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...
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- The 2026 U.S. midterms may be the first American elections in which voters use AI chatbots in meaningful numbers, per NYT reporting.
- Voters are turning to Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini as nonpartisan researchers, in some cases photographing ballots and asking outright who to vote for.
- Experts warn the answers can carry factual errors and reportedly favor candidates who are more vocal in the local press and on social media.
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“The World Cup will put football’s data and AI on the largest stage there is,” says @grohmannrafael.bsky.social. “The football we watch runs on [data] work as much as on the players. None of it would exist without the workforce behind it.” restofworld.org/2026/fifa-wo...
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"When a company chooses to opt you into an AI feature, they are making decisions with real-world consequences," @thiccreese.bsky.social writes. If a company "opts millions of users into a deepfake tool, then a world filled w even more deepfakes becomes more possible." www.wire…
63% of respondents said the risks of using generative AI tools to analyze data and scientific literature outweigh the benefits — yet nearly 60% felt they would be left behind if they didn't use AI tools in their work. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"When a society is unmoved by decades of advocacy from disabled communities but springs into action when a tech company needs the same accommodation, it reveals whose claims on shared resources are treated as legitimate and whose are treated as optional." www.techpolicy.press/…
The growing number of AI devices aimed at seniors make surveillance seem like a condition of care, @claraberridge.bsky.social tells @wired.com: "“There might be consent, but it doesn’t necessarily make it an ethical process where choices are so constrained." www.wired.com/stor…
"The danger is not only that AI might write something wrong. It is that...AI may make it easier for us to offload some of the reasoning medicine requires, to do less of the painstaking work of sorting through uncertainty ourselves." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/m...
In @techpolicypress.bsky.social, Hannah Lipstein writes about the broader implications of “greening AI” in the public sector, and why the public has more power to shape the AI industry’s trajectory than we might think. www.techpolicy.press/governments-...
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- Hannah Lipstein, a DAIR research associate, co-developed a handbook with Data & Society and the GovAI Coalition, which represents over 900 US agencies.
- The guide, drawn from 10 months of fieldwork, suggests asking vendors for average kilowatt hours per token or adding a single yes or no sustainability question.
- Lipstein argues for 'frugal AI' and warns the technology is being used to turbocharge fossil fuel extraction, calling adoption not inevitable.
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