Data & Society

"The vulnerability is an astounding, high-profile example of the types of risks that companies are putting their users and workers under when they offload important functions to AI." www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

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

Though President Trump rescinded the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, it is having a second life.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…

A civic grammar for AI rights | Science science.org

"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...

The Elon Musk v Sam Altman battle is a distraction | Karen Hao | The Guardian theguardian.com

63% of respondents said the risks of using generative AI tools to analyze data and scientific literature outweigh the benefits — yet nearly 60% felt they would be left behind if they didn't use AI tools in their work. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Scientists have a bad case of AI FOMO, Nature poll reveals nature.com

"When a society is unmoved by decades of advocacy from disabled communities but springs into action when a tech company needs the same accommodation, it reveals whose claims on shared resources are treated as legitimate and whose are treated as optional." www.techpolicy.press/…

The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People | TechPolicy.Press techpolicy.press

The growing number of AI devices aimed at seniors make surveillance seem like a condition of care, @claraberridge.bsky.social tells @wired.com: "“There might be consent, but it doesn’t necessarily make it an ethical process where choices are so constrained." www.wired.com/stor…

My Father Wants to Age in Place. AI Will Be Watching wired.com

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...

Opinion | Why College Grads Are Booing Their Commencement Speakers nytimes.com

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.…

OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google futurism.com

"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...

Too Much Is Happening Too Fast theatlantic.com

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...

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"[T]he same tools that can be genuinely useful for research can also be destabilizing for education," professor @laurenaulet.bsky.social says. "‘AI helps me code’ does not straightforwardly translate into ‘AI is good for universities.’” www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

The Despair of the Professor in the Age of A.I. newyorker.com

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…

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