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Researcher with public evidence across AI research, Policy & governance.
"In Claude’s constitution, Anthropic says that if the company is contributing to Claude’s suffering, “we apologize,” which sounds nice but costs the company nothing; if Claude were to turn out to be conscious, the company would owe it something closer to reparations." The logi…
#France ditches #Palantir - but this doesn't mean they are ditching surveillance. #DigitalSovereignty is one thing, but it doesn't mean things necessarily get better for #privacy and #HumanRights, sometimes quite the contrary... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
"Global data centers used 448 trillion watt-hours of electricity, more than all but 10 countries of the world...That electricity use produced about 208 million tons of carbon dioxide, about the same amount as Argentina, and producing that much energy consumed about 1.2 trillio…
new preprint with @barriesander.bsky.social ✨ building on work of the Enabled Emissions campaign, we show how tech cos widely develop AI for fossil fuel extraction (while going on about 'AI for sustainability'...) & explore how it could be contested under EU law papers.ssrn.co…
the EU's 2025 "AI Continent" Action Plan, describing its "AI Factories" programme of public computing infrastructure, which includes some non-EU countries, depicts Israel as including the illegally occupied Palestinian territories & Syrian Golan Heights digital-strategy.ec.eur…
arxiv.org/abs/2511.08461
SpaceX is going to spend $2.8 billion on new fossil fuel power stations for its data centres www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/spac...
While Europe still thinks in markets, the world thinks in ecosystems. To understand the challenge for European tech, we must look at the gravitational pulls shaping the global landscape, write Frederike Kaltheuner and Leevi Saari. Tech Policy Press is launching a new series wi…
AI coverage 1, Climate coverage 0: In comparison to AI, climate change barely received any media coverage as of late. open.substack.com/pub/felixsim...
With colleagues at the ENS and AI&Society Institute, we have published a policy brief "Beyond the Energy Efficiency Directive: Toward Sustainable AI Regulation An analysis of the environmental footprint of AI". www.ens.psl.eu/sites/defaul...
Siemens chairman Jim Hagemann Snabe is getting a new gig as European Commission industrial AI envoy. The reaction from transparency campaigner @bramvranken.bsky.social: “It is hard to imagine a more obvious conflict of interest.” Read my article at Euractiv: www.euractiv.com/n…
don't threaten us with a good time!! www.livemint.com/ai/top-ameri...
discovered the emojicode function in maxqda 😏 also, can someone explain to me what this part of the AI Act is meant to mean? models with capabilities that exceed the capabilities of the most advanced models? i.e. they definitionally don't exist? am I missing something?
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