“As people continue to organize for a better future, we're likely to see more surveillance and criminalization of this opposition, just as we have of Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and environmental movements in recent decades…”
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Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
What they're sharing
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows | WIRED wired.com
Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI 404media.co
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Internet of Shit: AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users' Poops 404media.co
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The Elon Musk v Sam Altman battle is a distraction | Karen Hao | The Guardian theguardian.com
You can no longer Google the word 'disregard' | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah's remarks on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas" \ Anthropic anthropic.com
wsj.com
Arizona Students Boo Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt During Graduation Speech - Business Insider businessinsider.com
AI put "synthetic quotes" in his book. But this author wants to keep using it. - Ars Technica arstechnica.com
Uber's COO Says It's Getting Harder to Justify the Money Spent on AI - Business Insider businessinsider.com
nytimes.com
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Articles & links
“University of Washington researchers planned to have preschool teachers wear cameras that would record everything they saw from a first-person perspective, including the children they were teaching, then use that footage to develop AI models.”
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A company called BusPatrol is trying to turn school buses into roving surveillance cameras: www.404media.co/buspatrol-pu...
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A guy made an app that analyzes pictures of its users' poop ostensibly for health reasons. He is then turning those photos into a tagged database for AI training that he has been advertising for sale on Reddit: www.404media.co/ai-poop-anal...
“Nothing about this trial or OpenAI’s financial structure will change the imperial drive of these companies to consolidate ever-more data and capital, terraform the earth, exhaust and displace labor, and embed themselves deep within the state to gain leverage over its apparatu…
It’s going great.
Sigh.
Weird how people react poorly when you tell them your product is going to ruin their livelihood, their future, and the planet.
AI Weekly's analysis
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- Local permit campaigns have already successfully blocked AI data center construction, creating a replicable model for future opposition.
- Majority poll opposition to AI's development pace now gives legislators bipartisan political cover to push restrictive regulation.
- Activist groups and legislators are coordinating across multiple simultaneous fronts, not acting as isolated individual incidents.
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There’s a long list of reasons to boo this man.
Well, folks are definitely ensorcelled. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/a...
You don’t say.
AI Weekly's analysis
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- Uber's COO cannot link 70% AI-generated code or 95% engineer adoption to measurable consumer product improvements.
- Uber exhausted its entire 2026 Claude Code and Cursor budget within four months of the year starting.
- Uber joins Microsoft and Duolingo in publicly questioning whether token volume translates to business outcomes.
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“Big Tech is essentially its own religion with its own theology and rites, not to mention its own power and influence. Pope Leo’s encyclical will be automatically viewed as false doctrine.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/t...