Jillian C. York

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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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
AI Weekly's analysis
  • 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...

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Recent commentary

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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