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This blew my mind. Some of the largest data centers can require up to 5 million gallons of water per day, equivalent to the water use of 50,000 people. Why are we selling out the survival of our planet to enrich a handful of Big Tech CEOs?
Read more here arxiv.org/abs/2605.068... With gratitude to my amazing coauthors @storitu.org, @willie-agnew.bsky.social, @harshp.com, @bmitra.bsky.social, Roel Dobbe, and @zeerak.bsky.social
“In many cases, design choices strategically build on aspects of human psychology—such as reciprocity norms, people’s tendency to anthropomorphize, and emotional response to a sense of rapport." www.404media.co/new-study-re...
Two fun stories to view side-by-side: - An Australian psychiatrist is refusing patients that don't agree to the use of an AI scribe - A new Canadian study finding AI scribes have a shockingly high failure rate www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/…
"Even if the Microsoft Office team employed a philosopher who said you shouldn’t be so certain, because consciousness is not well understood, that would not be sufficient reason for you to take this idea seriously." www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
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.
**New Paper Alert** OPEN, TO WHAT END? A CAPABILITY-THEORETIC PERSPECTIVE ON OPEN SEARCH Accepted for Oral Presentation at the International Open Search Symposium. #ossym2026 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2603.14584 A short 🧵...
Two fun stories to view side-by-side: - An Australian psychiatrist is refusing patients that don't agree to the use of an AI scribe - A new Canadian study finding AI scribes have a shockingly high failure rate www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/…
Excellent work from the @ainowinstitute.bsky.social and @airwars.bsky.social. "To demystify military AI, we construct an abstract kill chain that reflects an AI targeting cycle."
Okay - a quick thread on Microsoft's latest greenwashing nonsense, because it's really bad The message is basically increased efficiency *per query* means the future demand of AI services will be muted -->> www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... archive.ph/wip/POQ6A
Annual power consumption from data centers is projected to double by 2030 — consuming as much power as all of Japan. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
"AI users seem untroubled by—or unaware of—the dissonance, because the richest individuals and corporations have decided that the future must be built on this specific approach to this specific technology that they own." www.eamoncaddigan.net/posts/ai-in-...
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