"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
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
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
Scientists have a bad case of AI FOMO, Nature poll reveals nature.com
The AI-powered World Cup runs on thousands of data workers restofworld.org
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
Governments Can Advance 'Greener AI' Through the Power of Procurement | TechPolicy.Press techpolicy.press
Opinion | Why College Grads Are Booing Their Commencement Speakers nytimes.com
Utah lets AI refill prescriptions. Doctors are wary | AP News apnews.com
Opinion | There’s One Clear Reason Americans Are Gloomy About A.I. nytimes.com
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Though President Trump rescinded the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, it is having a second life.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 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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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...
“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 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…
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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AI executives "don’t seem to feel much pressure to win people over," @michellegoldberg.bsky.social writes. The fact that they don't feel constrained by public sentiment "shows how broken America’s democratic feedback loop has become.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/o...
Experts say they aren’t opposed to AI prescribing. But they say it should have to meet rigorous standards akin to human doctors, who undergo years of testing and training before being licensed to practice medicine. apnews.com/article/ai-p...
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- Utah's regulatory sandbox lets Doctronic's AI chatbot renew prescriptions from a list of 190 medications after checking a national pharmacy database.
- The Utah Medical Licensing Board's 11 members and the AMA say renewals 'aren't routine checkboxes,' especially for drugs like blood thinners.
- The FDA has signaled a hands-off approach, leaving state-level sandboxes as the effective rulebook for AI-driven prescribing today.
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In the US, where losing a job can imperil every part of a person’s life, AI "is a missile aimed at the most fragile part of the American socioeconomic bargain," Paul Kedrosky writes. In this light, "Americans’ pessimism about AI is largely rational." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25…
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