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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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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com

Shit like this really makes it clear that AI needs schools a lot more than we need it www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/u...

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  • Starting early 2027, Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom and Google Search will all be off by default for school-managed K-12 student accounts until admins opt in.
  • Districts that block Google's AI tools entirely will also lose student access to Search, with students shown a message that the service is unavailable.
  • Schools that opt in choose between a consumer-style Search with AI Overviews and AI chat or a Guided Learning mode powered by Gemini.
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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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@johncarlbaker.bsky.social

“Employers are navigating a flood of errors and low-quality work that are sapping employee time, raising privacy and security risks and pushing up costs.” No one could have predicted, etc. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back theguardian.com
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  • Meta's Project OT, which would have cut some teams by up to 60% and routed their work through AI agents, was scrapped after internal results soured.
  • At Meta, code changes rose 220% year over year, but shipped features only 36%, while technical and security incidents climbed 40%.
  • Forrester's 2026 'Future of Work' report found 55% of employers regret laying off workers for AI-related reasons.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social

This whole story is infurating, but this first quote from someone at OpenAI is really making me see red. "The newer version won't do this": a) why the fuck should we believe you and b) even if so, that has fuck-all to do with OpenAI's culpability here. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/…

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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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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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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 · 35d ago

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

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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 · 46d 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.

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

View on Bluesky · ♥ 11 ↻ 2 ↩ 2 · 43d 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 · 54d ago

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

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Re-upping my plug @valerieveatch.bsky.social's hyper-unsettling and highly relevant Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social. Even if you think you know about the history of AI, watch this movie -- it connects the dots in ways that floored me even as an expert.

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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!

View on Bluesky · ♥ 6 ↻ 0 ↩ 0 · 46d ago

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.

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