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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 …

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State media is a component of LLM training data. A new Nature study says this material is laundered into what presents as objective chatbot text. LLMs also give more pro-regime answers when prompted in the official language of low-press-freedom countries than in English.

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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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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…

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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.

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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.

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For the first time since the birth of the Internet, the world is confronting not merely a new technology in AI, but a new operational status quo. The question is whether governance can evolve before security fears harden into permanent fragmentation, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.

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Trump’s postponed AI executive order revealed more than internal disagreement over regulation. The real story is the now opaque system for governing frontier AI — shaped by secrecy, influence, and closed-door negotiations, argues James Görgen.

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When tech execs tell college graduates to seize 'agency' in an AI future they call 'inevitable,' students hear the contradiction, writes Mark MacCarthy. So does Pope Leo XIV, whose new encyclical warns AI risks becoming “an accelerator of injustice” without protections for wor…

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At the Center for Civil Rights and Technology's 2026 annual convening in Washington, D.C. on May 12, Justin Hendrix hosted a conversation with author and scholar Dr. Ruha Benjamin and Alejandra Montoya-Boyer, vice president of the center, about how to build collective power to…

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AI detection systems are optimized to identify manipulated humans, not synthetic environments, disasters, or infrastructure, write shirin anlen and Zuzanna Wojciak. As generative AI increasingly permeates climate-related misinformation, this limitation will become more visible…

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A growing assumption in AI safety is that frontier systems will fail unpredictably rather than through coherent misalignment. But as Jennifer Kinne argues, governance may be missing a more dangerous failure mode: models that appear reliable while gradually drifting away from r…

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