Emily Bell

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Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness

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AI generated report "almost started a war" Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

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  • A US special operations command analyst used an AI chatbot to assess a Chinese ship's manifest, and it falsely reported nuclear weapons components.
  • Armed troops were preparing to board the vessel and planes were airborne before officials caught the error and halted the operation.
  • The chatbot fused open-source and classified signals intelligence, and the analyst then used AI again to package the report for wide dissemination.
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Celebrating the good where one can find it , which is mostly in communal celebration and good writing - the World Cup has both. Here are two outstanding pieces first - @bcmerchant.bsky.social on why VAR is such a good metaphor/mirror of AI open.substack.com/pub/bloodint...

What VAR tells us about AI - by Brian Merchant open.substack.com
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The US government removed foreign access restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5 artificial intelligence model bloom.bg/4gagZxn

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Recent commentary

I saw @astra.bsky.social interviewed on Democracy Now about the absurd current PR geyser erupting around AI , she said ‘they are causing the flood and building the arks’ . What a great metaphor. End Times Fascism is next on my reading list (right after Nerd Reich)

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Nigel Farage claiming ‘it was the AI what did it’ about @channel4news.bsky.social ‘s film showing him and his advisers apparently breaking the law, encouraging covert donations from the US to Reform, is a classic case of ‘the liar’s dividend’

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The King Charles AI Summit /EA sex cult regulatory intersection is now living in my head ( @faineg.com , and @mariabustillos.com , holding you responsible) . In hours of Chatham House/ Ditchley /UNGA / etc symposia on ‘AI safety’ , the sex cult angle is under represented imo

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