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Two days after Dario Amodei called for mandatory frontier AI testing, the US ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5. I wrote about how Washington's improvised response exposed the lack of an AI safety playbook.
Years ago, Christian Sandvig predicted that companies would convert email it into yet another feed they could control, datamine, and advertise on as it became the last place that people and publishers could use to guarantee interpersonal information delivery. www.theverge.com/…
People often pitch AI as unprecedented. But what if we already have the organizational tools to evaluate & negotiate its use? Our new book Auditing AI opens in the 1980s with the story of the US Network for Organ Sharing how how they test & decide on their algorithms direct.mi…
"Auditing AI" is open access. We wrote it for leaders / organizers of all kinds who want to *do something* about AI, so if you want to read it for yourself, you can find it here. If you find it useful and share it with your communities, let us know! direct.mit.edu/books/book/6...
Hard to square that reaction with the total silence when Grok was churning out CSAM & nonconsensual deepfakes on demand — while also being used inside the DoD. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... For more on the admin's incoherence, see Justin Hendrix's analysis (linked above).
Hard to square that reaction with the total silence when Grok was churning out CSAM & nonconsensual deepfakes on demand — while also being used inside the DoD. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... For more on the admin's incoherence, see Justin Hendrix's analysis (linked above).
"AIAL, one of the few independent sources of research into AI’s societal risks, conducts testing that is a model for evaluating systems before they are released to the public." www.macfound.org/press/grante...
In the @inquirer.com, @geurkink.bsky.social clearly lays out the unambiguous reality that the Trump administration is engaging in a censorship campaign against researchers of technology companies and the information ecosystem. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
☀️ Excited that next week we'll kick off the Summer School: Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming ☀️ irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/18/s...
The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose. (I’m pretty sure James Boyle made us memorize this in his Intro IP class.)
“We want to get AI to the point where it’s useful and reliable enough that you don’t have to think about it.” Grateful to the @cornelluniversity.bsky.social Chronicle for a great interview about our new book, Auditing AI, out with @mitpress.bsky.social news.cornell.edu/stories…
Enjoyed speaking at @sfiscience.bsky.social Tues on the importance of centering affecting communities in the science & policy of AI Grateful for collaborators Avriel Epps, Lucas Wright, Alexandra Gonzalez, @sarahagilbert.bsky.social, & Megan Price Also grateful for a ride in the Jemez Mountains 🌄
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