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Jeffrey Yost

78 trust researcher @justcode.bsky.social · 5,916 followers
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Researcher with public evidence across AI research, Culture, work & education, AI business.

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Writer I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture Prof. HSTM/STS, U. of MN. Co-edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk. srs. Research: Social Study of HCI, AI, Privacy, Security, Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
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People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again

People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
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  • GitHub projects dumbtv and cleanyourtv use AI agents to strip ads, trackers and bloatware from smart TVs without root access.
  • One cleanyourtv run via Claude Code identified a set on Wi-Fi, uninstalled 25 Xiaomi packages and installed a new launcher.
  • Results are mixed: one user shrank the stock launcher from 192 MB to 83 MB, while others reported bricked sets.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social

-Water used at power plants that supply electricity to data centers can be greater than the amount of water used in the data centers themselves. -" $170 billion of AI data-center capacity has been blocked, stalled or canceled since 2024" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-d...

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From nonexistent studies in White House reports to hallucinated sources in EU cybersecurity briefs, AI tools are increasingly slipping "fake facts" into official government records https://restofworld.org/2026/government-ai-hallucinations-south-africa-deloitte/?utm_campaign=ro…

Fact-check fail: When AI hallucinations derailing governments - Rest of World restofworld.org
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  • South Africa withdrew its Draft National AI Policy in April 2026 after at least six of 67 bibliography sources were flagged as AI fabrications.
  • Deloitte refunded $290,000 of $440,000 charged to Australia's Department of Employment and Workplace Relations for a report with fabricated academic references.
  • EU cybersecurity agency ENISA admitted 26 of 492 footnotes in its threat reports were incorrect.
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social

Finally, a little legal sense: “A German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for what its AI search overviews say. Previous case law shielding search engine operators from liability doesn't apply to AI overviews.” the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers the-decoder.com
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  • Munich's Regional Court declared Google's AI Overviews its own speech, rejecting traditional search-engine hosting liability protections.
  • Google's AI Overviews answered correctly around 91% of queries, but 56% of those correct answers couldn't be verified through the linked sources.
  • Google confirmed it will appeal the ruling, which could set precedent for AI answer engines including ChatGPT and Perplexity across Europe.
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Retraining alone won’t protect workers from AI-driven job losses, argues Alessandro Crimi. He calls for policies like basic income and taxes on automation to curb inequality https://restofworld.org/2026/robot-tax-ai-wealth-redistribution/?utm_campaign=row-social

The case for a robot tax to redistribute wealth restofworld.org
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  • Writing in Rest of World, AGH University professor Alessandro Crimi makes the case for an automation levy to offset AI-era labor displacement.
  • South Korea in 2017 cut its automation investment credit from 3% to 1% for large firms, which Crimi calls the closest real-world precedent.
  • The European Parliament rejected a 2017 robot-tax proposal, and Crimi concedes defining a taxable 'robot' is harder as automation moves into software.
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“My primary motivation is to visualize the idea of AI colonialism in an impactful and immediately accessible manner,” (Cunyan) Ma said...." "I’m hoping this might start to fill in a larger picture of what AI colonialism actually looks like.” #criticalAI #aicolonialism www.brow…

Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI brown.edu
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  • Brown senior Cunyan Ma published an interactive map linking 13 data-labeling companies to 141 corporate customers across 31 countries.
  • The map at ai-materiality-map.org/data-workers/ documents labeling, transcription, chatbot-response rating and medical-scan tagging done largely in Kenya, Indonesia and Colombia.
  • Ma says the project aims to 'visualize the idea of AI colonialism'; it is advised by Brown's Suresh Venkatasubramanian, director of its Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination and Redesign.
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Nearly through reading @xiaochang.bsky.social brilliant new book Divination Engines!! This is the best historical study on Natural Language Processing, & imo, the most insightful monograph on AI history! CBI was so fortunate have Xiaochang as a keynote at our 2023 "Automation by Design" symposium!

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Deeply honored to have given a Keynote yesterday on AI History and Policy at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs' "7th World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality." So glad to be a part of this wondrous and vital three-day global conference! #histtech #criticalai

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