Though President Trump rescinded the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, it is having a second life. As red and blue states draft their own versions, they're drawing on the vocabulary Americans have long reached for to contest power, @alondra.bsky.social writes. www.science.or…
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"As much as Silicon Valley would wish you to believe it, AI does not necessitate imperial conquest, nor could broad-based benefit from the technology ever emerge from such a foundation," @karenhao.bsky.social writes. www.theguardian.com/technology/c...
AI executives "don’t seem to feel much pressure to win people over," @michellegoldberg.bsky.social writes. The fact that they don't feel constrained by public sentiment "shows how broken America’s democratic feedback loop has become.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/o...
A scroll through someone’s chat queries may paint an incredibly intimate, hyper-personalized portrait of them and their world, from their daily activities to their inner life. For OpenAI, that's information they have users' tacit consent to collect, store, and share. futurism.…
"As the industry has warned about AI’s risks, it has also done a remarkably poor job of articulating the positive vision of the future it wants to build," @cwarzel.bsky.social writes. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
It's critical for independent researchers and oversight bodies to be able to thoroughly assess and audit chatbot behavior, D&S researcher @briana-v.bsky.social says; right now AI labs are “grading their own homework.” spectrum.ieee.org/mental-healt...
The US vs. China AI race is “a story used to justify sprinting ahead without guardrails,” @yilingliu95.bsky.social writes. It obscures what many people in both countries share: a sense of precarity and powerlessness as they face the technological future. www.nytimes.com/2026/0…
"The problem is not the tool; it is the mystique that has grown around it. Mistaking mirrors for windows is not a technological error so much as an old human one." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
The strongest protections against AI at work have come from collective bargaining by organized labor, @bedoyausa.bsky.social says. It’s the workers we should be listening to: “They’re the only ones who seem to understand the assignment.” washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/20/a...
As AI models have become more capable and available, they’ve created problems that we’re told can be mitigated only with *more* AI. How convenient, then, that a very small number of very large firms are positioned to capture basically all of the upside. nymag.com/intelligence...
You can learn about our upcoming AI Civics program, which is mentioned in this op-ed, here. datasociety.net/announcement...
Y2K showed that choices in computer design ultimately had implications for everyone. Today we can draw a clear parallel to AI: as the technology becomes intertwined with critical infrastructure, even those who swear off AI are becoming reliant it. just-tech.ssrc.org/articles/n…