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The AI Resist List airesistlist.org
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- Karen Hao launched the AI Resist List on the one-year anniversary of her book Empire of AI as a publicly accessible, community-contributed database.
- The database organizes entries by 'Pillars of Support' sustaining AI empires, a framework adapted from Choose Democracy's authoritarianism resistance model.
- Entries span labor actions, legal challenges, and grassroots campaigns across gig work, healthcare, education, and law enforcement sectors.
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The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates. www.wired.com/story/a-cour...
A Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews wired.com
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New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: @emilymbender.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social on what we're talking about when we talk about "ethical" "AI", and how to move away from the untenable middle ground and towards firm "AI" resistance. ⬇️ buttondown.co…
Six Problems With Talking About the “Ethical” or “Responsible” Use of “AI” buttondown.com
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“‘AI’ might not be good for xyz, but you can’t deny that it’s helpful for programming” -- sound familiar? In the latest episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social challenge the bullshit. www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
Beware the 20x Engineer, 2026.05.11 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 buzzsprout.com
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New on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000!: @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social explore the gulf between what the tech companies say the impact of "AI" on labor is and the reality: job discrimination and gig-ification. Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
Working 9 to Hype, 2026.08.10 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 buzzsprout.com
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New from Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000: Bernie Goes Down the X-Risk Rabbithole In which @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social are joined by @nathaliemarechal.net to unpack Sen Sanders’ AI Doomerism & why nuclear weapons are a bad analogy for "AI" www.buzzsprout.c…
Bernie Goes Down the X-Risk Rabbithole (with Dr. Nathalie Maréchal), 2026.05.04 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 buzzsprout.com
New on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000!: AI boosters want to hand off emergency services to the bullshit generators. @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social take on the latest automated horrors threatening our collective health and safety. Listen here: www.buzzsprout…
State of Emergency, 2026.06.29 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 buzzsprout.com
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"The community must be the author of its own world." @adiod.bsky.social envisions a future in which a Zimbabwean community rejects an AI surveillance program and designs a cattle-tracking system, drawing upon the relational data governance it has practiced for generations. url…
Whose Categories? Whose AI? dair-institute.org
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"I imagine myself as a small stone in a powerful gear mechanism, so that data workers are not completely run over without any resistance." From @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social, a firsthand account of conditions and resistance from Apple's outsourced data workers. data-workers.…
“This is Capitalism”: Apple’s Hidden Data Workers at the Shadows of the AI Boom, by Luciana data-workers.org
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"'There is this assumption,' Gebru added, 'that someone has to have a certain amount of literacy or that they have to speak a certain language in order for technology like AI to work very well for them.' DAIR flips that assumption."
Building a More Equitable AI Design for Underrepresented Languages macfound.org
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