New
AI field signal
Signal
21h ago
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“"A world where there is no N.S.F. funding for social science, but where the A.I. industry funds research... will skew public debate. To navigate the shock waves of A.I., we must restore social science research as an enterprise that starts from the public in…”
“In the Times this morning- Henry Farrell James Evans and I on why we desperately need the social sciences to understand AI and its impact , just at the moment when the admin is trying to destroy them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/o...”
Flock AI police surveillance tool
11 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“Flock really is building/has built the infrastructure for authoritarianism. The massive pushback they are experiencing right now is because people recognize this fact. www.wired.com/story/flock-...”
“A few other embeds in this story - Explore a full list of Flock's preloaded AI prompts by category. - See a teardown of what police tools get accessed when a prompts is used. www.wired.com/story/flock-...”
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dell cameron: NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks vis…
Eileen Clancy 🧿: NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks vis…
Eileen Clancy 🧿: Awesome work! It's very good that @dmehro.bsky.social came back! :) You're a great team!
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“"An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans."”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Russia is experimenting with autonomous AI weapons that kill people without human involvement: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...”
Context & explanation
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Background, chronology and why it matters.
“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...”
US school districts impose AI moratoriums
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Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“NYC and LA just restricted AI in classrooms, and in both cities the parents and teachers who pushed for it are celebrating. Tech Policy Press fellow Chris Mills Rodrigo reports on the grassroots movement resisting the rush to adopt AI in schools.”
State media influence LLM training paper
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Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“"...LLMs exhibit a stronger pro-government valence in the languages of countries with lower media freedom than in those with higher media freedom." www.nature.com/articles/s41...”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“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 thos…”
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VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Starting a conspiracy theory that the papal encyclical was actually trying to get ahead of and cement Catholicism as the official machine religion
René Walter: OMG www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Flock AI search tool police
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“Police can search a little cultural expression, as a treat www.wired.com/story/flock-...”
“NEW: You’ve probably heard of police officers accused of abusing Flock searches to stalk exes and romantic interests. We got the code for Flock’s latest search tool, figured out how it works, and recreated it for all to see. @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bs…”
Established
AI field signal
Signal
17d ago
⚡ 5 h early
6 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.
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““signs of AI authorship can be found in over one-third of pages published after ChatGPT was released” www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...”
“Good grief. I'm not so naive that I view this as altogether different from human-written SEO or social-media bait, but the web really is just becoming synthetic swampland”
ChatGPT EU DSA designation analysis
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“The European Commission designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine under the DSA on Aug. 31. Mathias Vermeulen and Laureline Lemoine on what the obligations require and whether a DMA gatekeeper designation could follow.”
“The European Commission designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine under the DSA on Aug. 31. AWO's Mathias Vermeulen and Laureline Lemoine on what the obligations require and whether a DMA gatekeeper designation could follow. buff.ly/7lTPiCq”
Labor Day AI fair employment prescription
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Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“AI hiring tools can reject qualified people "for reasons no one—including the employer—can adequately explain," warns NYU School of Law senior affiliated research scholar and former EEOC chair Charlotte A. Burrows. She says gutting disparate impact law make…”
Established
AI field signal
Analysis
12d ago
⚡ 744 h early
AI social technology framework essay
6 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“Second, disagreeing with @buddyyakov.bsky.social , Dean Ball is way, WAY more high modernist than the folks he wants to go after. For more on Dean's "Nick Land Meets the Universalized Unitary Executive," read Cosma and myself in extenso - knightcolumbia.org…”
“yup. Have you read this? knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a... It's very good.”
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Isaiah Bishop: you contribute to the RL, you get the equity
rev. howard arson: i keep saying this but LLMs are almost ideally shaped for collective ownership. the union idea is a super interesting direction to go with that
Carlos Scheidegger: yup. Have you read this? knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a... It's very good.
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Accelerating
AI field signal
Signal
20h ago
⚡ 3 h early
3 directory members surfaced this signal.
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Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“For the Tech Policy Press podcast, I spoke with Dr. Kira Allmann, chief policy analyst at Virginia's Joint Commission on Technology and Science, about her research on AI chatbots as the state weighs its legislative options.”
Zuckerberg manifesto compute critique
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Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“Ellen P. Goodman, a professor at Rutgers Law School and co-Director of the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law, asks what it would take to actually democratize AI at each layer of the stack, starting with compute—the layer Zuckerberg's latest man…”
Opportunity & adoption
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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.
“"For ten years at least, Zuckerberg has repeatedly promised connection and democracy on his platforms. Instead, we’ve gotten slop and oligarchic control. The AI manifesto promising superintelligence-for-all is cut from the same cloth."”
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Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
““$130 billion in projects were delayed or canceled just in the first quarter of this year… 500 jurisdictions have passed bans or moratoriums, including 150 local bans passed in July alone.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/o...”
Building & implementation
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How teams are shipping and applying it.
“One way of reading the data center backlash "is as a many-headed protest against inevitability — about not just the technology itself but also the whole package of breakneck build-out, social disruption and insane wealth creation," writes @dwallacewells.bsk…”
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“"Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) called Thursday for the United States to ban so-called artificial superintelligence, saying a summer hacking spree by rogue OpenAI agents had revealed the dangers of the technology getting out o…”
Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“I think this is the right move for at least the next year or so. Obviously, this legislation is DOA but we absolutely need a pause on AI development to allow safety research and safeguards to catch up. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...”
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“OpenAI voluntarily let three researchers from A.I. safety nonprofits investigate how its rogue A.I. agents hacked Hugging Face, leading to the most comprehensive account yet of the alarming incident — but on OpenAI's terms. My latest for NYT:”
AI capitalism technology separation essay
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Markets & investment
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Capital, companies and commercial impact.
“Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier say we must distinguish AI's technological problems from its capitalism problems. Developers are solving the first, they argue, while leaving the second to market incentives. Structural reforms will be necessary to steer in…”
Building & implementation
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How teams are shipping and applying it.
“"Integrating a technology as disruptive as AI responsibly requires structural reforms, and we should decouple the social and technological aspects of AI to design those reforms," Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier write. www.techpolicy.press/separating-a...”
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“No one could've seen this coming www.wired.com/story/openai...”
“link to that story https://t.co/vlGGzDjS0W”
AI reshaping 2026 midterm elections
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“Americans are relying more and more on AI to get information, including on elections. Every chatbot the Brennan Center for Justice tested pushed back on election conspiracy theories, Larry Norden told me on the podcast. But half of all responses still conta…”
“Americans are relying more and more on AI to get information, including on elections. Every chatbot the Brennan Center for Justice tested pushed back on election conspiracy theories, Larry Norden tells Justin Hendrix. But half of all responses still contain…”
