Rachel Griffin

"Absent policy steering, AI’s modeled effects increase the carbon intensity of the global economy and reinforce fossil fuel incumbency—outcomes that current analytical and governance frameworks do not fully capture."

AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model - npj Climate Action nature.com

"In Claude’s constitution, Anthropic says that if the company is contributing to Claude’s suffering, “we apologize,” which sounds nice but costs the company nothing; if Claude were to turn out to be conscious, the company would owe it something closer to reparations." The logi…

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com

I don't know if Matt Levine's theory about what's behind recent calls for AI regulation is correct. But it does sound plausible! www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

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GREAT NEWS: Researchers have found something AI is really helpful with. The less-great news is that it’s helping fossil fuel companies produce more oil and gas; the estimated impact on emissions is much greater than, for instance, the data center buildout. @mollytaft.com has y…

AI Could Help Fossil Fuel Companies Create More Emissions wired.com

I don't doubt you can build this kind of harness for your software threads ('agents'), and I'm glad if any safety system is open source / checkable. But I doubt this is the job of the chip manufacturer? Is this because Nvidia is the only one making money? Are they paying someo…

Nvidia unveils security platform to rein in AI agents and $150bn stock buyback theguardian.com

Hm, pretty sure I can think of a bigger theft of labor in our history www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/t...

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A year on from releasing our audit of Uber's pricing and pay algorithms, our collaborators @workerinfox.bsky.social have filed this class action lawsuit in Amsterdam. Drivers across Europe may win €billions compensation for violations of their rights under GDPR: www.theguardia…

Uber drivers launch European class action over ‘soulless’ and ‘scary’ AI algorithm theguardian.com

#France ditches #Palantir - but this doesn't mean they are ditching surveillance. #DigitalSovereignty is one thing, but it doesn't mean things necessarily get better for #privacy and #HumanRights, sometimes quite the contrary... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

France to ditch Palantir’s AI data tools in favour of domestic provider theguardian.com

I think one of the easiest ways to spot Anthropic's insincerity or basic cultishness is how they've actively enabled + done deals with immediately deadly fossil fuel projects to power their data centres, zero qualms Real dead brown people aren't really on their radar ketanjosh…

Why Anthropic’s ultra-dirty deal shouldn’t surprise you at all ketanjoshi.co

"Global data centers used 448 trillion watt-hours of electricity, more than all but 10 countries of the world...That electricity use produced about 208 million tons of carbon dioxide, about the same amount as Argentina, and producing that much energy consumed about 1.2 trillio…

Energy, water use and pollution of AI and data centers rival most countries apnews.com