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Jillian C. York

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Author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021). Work @eff.org, teach at College of Europe Natolin, sing and play 🎷 in a band, live in London, full bio at https://jilliancyork.com/about Views are mine alone.
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An AI house with a *dark side*? Well, I never! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/t...

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AI is going to kill us but also string theory is bullshit and the rainforest is gay. This guy's a real winner, huh? futurism.com/artificial-i...

You Know That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind? These Strongly Appear to Be His Bizarre Old Tweets futurism.com
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  • Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic and OpenAI pretraining researcher, quit in September warning AI 'could kill us all by the end of the decade.'
  • His viral resignation post was viewed more than 70 million times and drew responses from Elon Musk, Dario Amodei and Sam Altman.
  • Internet sleuths now link two earlier X accounts under his current handle, active 2021-2024, to climate-change dismissals and a line Futurism calls Holocaust-denialist.
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The absolute absurdity of Anthropic putting out a policy document about stopping authoritarian AI while taking money from Abu Dhabi. "We believe that responsibility should rest with democratically elected governments, not authoritarian regimes" is an actual quote from that doc…

Anthropic Says We Must Stop Authoritarian AI. But What About Its Authoritarian Investors? theintercept.com
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  • MGX, controlled by Abu Dhabi's royal family, participated in both Anthropic's $30 billion February and $65 billion May 2026 funding rounds.
  • Anthropic's May 2026 policy paper warned it is 'essential' for US allies to stay ahead of 'authoritarian governments like the Chinese Communist Party.'
  • CEO Dario Amodei privately called the contradiction a 'Comms Headache' from 'very stupid' critics, per a 2025 memo obtained by Wired.
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The use of automation and AI to identify, flag, and moderate content has become a permanent feature of how platforms govern speech, and we're taking stock. Read part 1 of our 2-part series on automated content moderation www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Automated Moderation Is Here to Stay eff.org View on Bluesky →
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them: “AI is going to change the world!” random bar in Italy:

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I was taking some notes on some international human rights frameworks in a Google doc and accidentally clicked on a Gemini suggestion. No, I do not need AI to re-write the ICCPR, thank you very much.

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fell in love immediately with the taco place across the street from my hotel then fell even harder when I saw them with a proper photography setup taking pics of their dishes for delivery services. just say no to AI!

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