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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
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State media control influences large language models | Nature nature.com
Language Models Trained on State Media Sources Launder Propaganda | TechPolicy.Press techpolicy.press
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The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People | TechPolicy.Press techpolicy.press
The AI fight brewing inside The New York Times | The Verge theverge.com
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An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta | WIRED wired.com
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Tech Policy Press fellow Petra Molnar highlights the AI Resist List: a global database documenting acts of resistance to the AI industry. From legal challenges and worker organizing to artistic interventions, the project seeks to challenge the “scale at all costs” development …
Researchers from Oregon, Purdue, UC San Diego, NYU and Princeton ran six experiments. The overarching finding: state control of media in many countries is already baked into the training data of widely used commercial models, and is shaping the answers those models give right …
One of the most interesting things I read this week was a paper on how the mountains of state media published to the internet went into the sausage machine of generative AI training data and how it affects what comes out the other end. TLDR your AI chatbot may be quietly laund…
"The White House has approved a secret $9 billion request to acquire the cutting-edge computer chips that America’s spy agencies need to tap into the full capabilities of the latest artificial intelligence models, according to current and former U.S. officials."
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Wrote about the college kids booing AI, and how, in a moment rife with economic precarity, affordability crises, and collapsing job prospects, AI has become a new avatar of American capitalism
AI companies are now getting accommodations that disabled people spent decades fighting for. Jonathan Zong and Frank Elavsky argue this reflects a broader pattern, where accessibility gains become politically possible only once industry needs the same changes.
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Exclusive: Unionized tech workers at the New York Times have filed grievances accusing management of using AI-powered performance tools to track and discipline staff. The Tech Guild says recent disciplinary notices appear to be generated using one of the tools. 🎁 www.theverge.…
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Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workers’ keystrokes and mouse activity. www.wired.com/story/meta-e...
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Repression no longer stops at borders. AI is helping states surveil, intimidate and silence dissidents, exiled journalists and diaspora communities worldwide—often invisibly. In a new piece in Tech Policy Press, Ana Sofia Harrison and Marlena Wisniak map the tools, the harms a…
Tech Policy Press fellow Tatiana Dias, covers the rise of “Dona Maria,” an AI-generated political influencer created by a Brazilian Uber driver that is reaching millions online, highlighting the challenge deepfakes and synthetic content pose ahead of the 2026 election.
Pope Leo XIV's encyclical calls for AI that protects human dignity. But who's responsible for delivering it—users or designers? Political scientist José Marichal warns against piling responsibility on individuals while systems are built to undermine their judgment.