Damien Williams

Meta's "AI" chatbot will apparently facilitate account hacks by just changing people's account email addresses when attackers cunningly… ask it to. Once again, the harms that can come from an "All AI Everything" paradigm aren't autonomous overlords, but human-enacted exploits.…

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 404media.co

This nature survey on "AI" attitudes is a pretty blunt instrument. Seven questions, two of which are demographic, and none of which get granular about what they mean by either "AI" or "use." We need to have been doing better than this, and we're really going to need to start, …

Do you hate or love AI? Take Nature’s poll nature.com

This "pledge" to not let data centers raise power bills does nothing practically but it'll earn a LOT of good will from people looking for an excuse to give it to him. Democrats could've owned the issue for midterms, but instead dem leaders once again left currency on the tabl…

Trump expands a voluntary pledge to protect consumers from high utility bills from AI data centers apnews.com

Two commencement speakers loudly & persistently booed for praising this current paradigm of "AI," most recently being Eric damn Schmidt, & he also looked fully stunned; which, y'know what? Good. Seems the only way these people are gonna learn is by facing a very large crowd clearly telling them "No"

The Republican president of the Utah State Senate lost his 2026 primary because of his support for "AI" Data Centers. UTAH. Democrats, i really really really need you to get this message and get it right now.

Harder to think of a clearer example of "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House" for this era than people using "generative AI" to protest the outputs and infrastructure of "AI"

Just scrolled by an anti-AI story from the Washington fucking Times so i'm really going to need Democrats to get on-message and start claiming that "AI==higher cost of living + lower quality of life + billionaire greed + consent violation" space, really fucking fast. Fucking MOVE.

They removed the ability to google "disregard" because it breaks their "AI," but "Ignore" still returns this:

When i say we need a better sociotechnical paradigm than the technosocial paradigm we've all been forced into, this Polly Pocket's Panopticon of "AI"-enabled camera glasses tied to deepfakes, facial recognition, & harassment networks, & other sureveillant nightmare horseshit is part of what i mean.

Every time. It's literally every fucking time these people are so eager to push the fear-hype of "Rogue AI" that they're willing to completely obfuscate the fact that a system was in fact given tools/capabilities & a set of instructions *By Humans*, & did not, thus, autonomously initiate anything. …

Very weird headspace today. Bad day being an embodied entanglement of consciousness and perceptions. Kind of a rough few months of it, tbh. In lieu of expressions of sympathy, send alt texted non-"AI" images of cute baby animals or links to the most recent lyrics to really stick with you.

I think my 2 most pertinent/prescient pieces in the last few years were "Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process" (2024) & "Reimagining 'AI's Environmental & Sociotechnical Materialities" (2025). In the 1st i talk about the pressures & harms likely to spur a huge increaase in acdemic "AI" slop…

Reminder that you Can just cite lectures: Williams, D.P., 2023, October. On Bullshit Engines: The Socioethical & Epistemic Status of GPTs & other ‘AI.’ In Forum in Ethics, Law, & Society Lecture Series, hosted by the Sonoma State University Philosophy Department’s Center for Ethics, Law & Society.