The news of "Russian AI killer drones" has consumed my feed this past week. This @nytimes.com article is where it was first published. The headlines and the facts are misaligned so here is what actually happened.../1 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...
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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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Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI wired.com
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OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be? | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
Whose Categories? Whose AI? dair-institute.org
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Scientists’ Side Hustle? Using AI and Quantum Computing to Generate New Peptides wired.com
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AI just had its Sarah Connor moment. Is Australia ready? abc.net.au
Social media stole our attention. AI companions are coming for our hearts. The legal battles may be next san.com
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AI in the Military Domain: Multilateralism at a Crossroad justsecurity.org
Data, Decisions, and Death: Examining the Role of AI in Contemporary Warfare arab-reform.net
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"Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers" the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...
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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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Here's an article that actually addresses that issue ➡️ www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...
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Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI. Technology leaders don’t seem to understand society’s gripes about AI, but boy, are they posting through it. www.wired.com/story/silico...
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A deep dive into the Kimi Kontroversy, which highlights the delicate economics of the AI industry and tries to disentangle what many say is a false choice between protecting the frontier labs and ensuring US AI leadership techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/o...
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"The villagers are confronting a standard order of operations: the system arrives first, the problem is expected to arrange itself around the system, and the knowledge needed to define both is settled in another hemisphere." dair-institute.org/blog/whose-c...
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Of interest to some folks here, Lauren Goodlad on LLM text, literary theory and stochastic parrots — (Goodlad is the editor of @criticalai-journal.bsky.social) : online.ucpress.edu/representati...
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Researchers cobbled together funding and time to show how quantum computing could aid in the development of drugs to help underserved populations and combat rare diseases. www.wired.com/story/scient...
I read this @news.abc.net.au article yesterday and I have so many issues with it. I'm frustrated at the lack of factual accuracy in these kinds of articles, so let me add the facts here. /1 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
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Quoted here on AI companions, progressive attachment, and the design choices that makes a chatbot relationship feel like it's growing naturally when it isn't. san.com/cc/social-me...
A great analysis of the recent UN informal exchanges on AI in the military domain in the context of the broader multilateral initiatives in this area. It also includes an overview of potential next steps ➡️ www.justsecurity.org/144022/ai-mi...
I've written an essay for @arabreforminit.bsky.social on AI-DSS in targeting operations & how they interact with existing military doctrines, operational practices & IHL. I also talk about why we are seeing such a high civilian death toll in current conflicts 👉🏽 www.arab-refor…
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New #ResponsibleBytesPodcast episode is now live, chatting with @eryk.bsky.social about the myths of AI & his work on "systems from nowhere". We also chat about his critiques of the recent report from the UN Scientific Panel on AI. 🎧 Listen anywhere you get your podcasts.
New #ResponsibleBytesPodcast episode is now live, featuring @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social talking about military AI systems and why human control is not enough. 🎧Listen anywhere you get your podcasts. 📹 Full episode is also up on our YouTube channel.
A sneak peak into this week's episode of the #ResponsibleBytesPodcast with @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social , Chief AI Scientist at the AI Now Institute. This episode drops later this week.
New podcast episode is live folks. Chatting with Lorenn Ruster about human dignity & AI. Did you know the Pope's encyclical makes over 100 mentions of human dignity? Lorenn breaks down the significance of dignity in conversations around AI. 🎧 Episode is available anywhere you get your podcasts.
Talk about a rebrand. Anthropic collaborated with the Pope on the recently released encyclical which includes a bunch of stuff on safeguarding humanity from AI. They went from selling Claude to the U.S. DoD to teaming up with the Vatican. Their PR team is clearly working over time.
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