Alondra Nelson

So much attention has been paid to the Musk v. Altman trial. But real accountability for the AI industry will not come from a billionaire mudfight. It will come from the movements around the world resisting the empires of AI. My op-ed for @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/…

The Elon Musk v Sam Altman battle is a distraction | Karen Hao | The Guardian theguardian.com

In "Reckoning with the Political Economy of AI," @cyberlyra.bsky.social, Ben Shestakofsky, Alex Taylor, and I are particularly keen to understand how the project of AI involves numerous "decoys" that misdirect critics' attention, undermining efforts to hold AI to account. arxi…

[2604.16106] Reckoning with the Political Economy of AI: Avoiding Decoys in Pursuit of Accountability arxiv.org

Court holds Google liable for false claims in AI Overviews. Seems significant. "A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate 'independent, new, and substantive statements' by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites"…

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers the-decoder.com

Two days after Dario Amodei called for mandatory frontier AI testing, the US ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5. I consider how Washington's improvised response exposed the lack of an AI safety playbook.

Anthropic's Mythos Recall and the White House's Missing AI Safety Playbook techpolicy.press

People often pitch AI as unprecedented. But what if we already have the organizational tools to evaluate & negotiate its use? Our new book Auditing AI opens in the 1980s with the story of the US Network for Organ Sharing how how they test & decide on their algorithms direct.mi…

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"Auditing AI" is open access. We wrote it for leaders / organizers of all kinds who want to *do something* about AI, so if you want to read it for yourself, you can find it here. If you find it useful and share it with your communities, let us know! direct.mit.edu/books/book/6...

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Is the purpose of science and 🧪 training to churn out papers or to create a healthy knowledge community? In a @nature.com comment, @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I check in on how AI helps with the former while jeopardizing the latter 1/

The uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming — we urgently need guard rails | Nature nature.com

If you're in Oxford, I'll be giving this lecture tomorrow (riffing on my and Cosma's work, obvs, with shoutouts to other co-conspirators too) www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/ai-so...

AI as Social Technology | Blavatnik School of Government bsg.ox.ac.uk

Florida is the first state to sue OpenAI over safety concerns, claiming that the company failed to warn the public about the dangers of ChatGPT. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/t...

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