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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?
Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land theguardian.com
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Abeba Birhane
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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
[2605.06806v1] Big AI's Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity arxiv.org
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“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...
New Study Reveals the Manipulative ‘Dark Patterns’ of AI Chatbots 404media.co
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LLMs cease to be useful when they can't be used to scam people into unknowingly reading slop anymore. When the typewriter was invented, no one had to pretend its output was handwritten to get people to accept it. Typing had its own utility. LLMs are scamtech that have no utili…
Claude users are canceling their subscriptions, citing Anthropic’s new AI watermark businessinsider.com
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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/…
Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts theregister.com
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Emily M. Bender
@emilymbender.bsky.social
"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...
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com
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Justin Hendrix
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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."
Interactive: Anatomy Of An AI Kill Chain ai-killchain.airwars.org
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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.
[2605.06806] Big AI's Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity arxiv.org
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**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 🧵...
Open, to What End? A Capability-Theoretic Perspective on Open Search arxiv.org
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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/…
Melbourne psychiatrist refuses new patients who don’t consent to AI note-taking | Health | The Guardian theguardian.com
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