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Assistant Professor of AI, founder of the AI Accountability Lab
WIRED got a copy of a New York Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau report that has a curious term for opposition to AI development and data centers: "anti-tech violent extremist activity." Great reporting here on how law enforcement is tracking big tech opponents www.wire…
Not just lobbying! our new paper maps 27 mechanisms of regulatory capture used by Big AI + 11 narrative framings that rationalise capture. “Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity” will be presented at #FAccT2026 next month arxiv.or…
Preprint of our #FAccT2026 paper on Big AI's regulatory capture is now on ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2605.06806 Check out the quoted 🧵 by @abeba.blacksky.app for more details of our findings and recommendations.
🔥 🔥 arxiv.org/pdf/2604.16106
Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatac…
So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty…
My campus just had to make across-the-board 7% budget cuts (after making cuts last year as well) yet UMS found $1.39 million for a 2-year contract with OpenAI.
"The flagship piece of secondary legislation under the EU’s flagship AI law made human rights (the thing the EU spent the entire ‘Brussels Effect’-era selling itself on) into a tickbox companies could choose to ignore. Go simplification!" euobserver.com/217590/simpl...
what is a good work (academic paper, essay, blog, etc) that debunks dominant corporate narratives such as “if you’re not using AI you’ll be left behind” for a general audience?