A better ruling would be to ban the unnecessary collection of personal data for profit. There are better business models for democracy than those based on #surveillance. #AIEthics www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n...

People are asking librarians to find books that don't exist... because the titles were fabricated by AI... Is that an efficient use of time and resources? #AIEthics www.404media.co/librarians-a...

#BigTech is unleashing #AI at an alarming pace, without considering the impacts. We're being flooded with AI slop and relying on AI tools that are patently unreliable. Today we discuss the ethics of AI with professor @carissaveliz.bsky.social podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2025/09/15/o...

Finally! Today's release of the highly anticipated @firewalldragons.bsky.social podcast episode featuring Professor @carissaveliz.bsky.social Discussing the ethical and philosophical principles—or lack thereof—that underpin the development and use of artificial intelligence. 🎧 ⤵️

Translation: Live translation is being done in a way that isn't great for #privacy. #AIEthics #Apple www.macrumors.com/2025/09/11/a...

"I asked Peters if he knew his videos had been taken from YouTube to train AI. “I think everything’s gonna get stolen,” he told me. “Do I quit, or do I just keep making videos and hope people want to connect with a person?”" #AIEthics www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

"We have been so afraid of being turned into paperclips, plugged into pods as human batteries, or having our skulls crushed under titanium feet, that we’ve missed the more insidious danger of farming out our art and creativity to algorithms." #AIEthics lithub.com/why-ai-narra...

#BigTech companies are too often creating products because they can without bothering to ask if they should. On Monday, I'll be speaking with my favorite philosophy professor @carissaveliz.bsky.social about the ethics of #artificial_intelligence. Subscribe: podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com

We sure are investing a lot of money on #AI, a technology that is proving to be, in some of its forms, quite unreliable. Is that wise? "The bigger the boom gets, the bigger the knock-on consequences of an AI chill could be." #AIEthics www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Just use Signal. "In the lawsuit (...) Attaullah Baig claimed that thousands of #WhatsApp and #Meta employees could gain access to sensitive user data including profile pictures, location, group memberships and contact lists." #privacy #AIEthics www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/t...

On smartwatches: a #privacy (and quantified) nightmare. "And it is not just location: Carissa Véliz, the author of Privacy Is Power, warns that with the right technology, heartbeat data can be as distinctive as a fingerprint." Thanks for the quote, @timharford.ft.com. www.ft.com/content/bc8d...

Catching up on news. Good news but... are Apple users able to turn on encryption for iCloud again? #AIEthics #privacy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The history of Tor exemplifies the collective aspect of #privacy. We need privacy as a common project to ensure our safety, and responsible leaders in politics and the military understand this. #AIEthics thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-secret-h...

Um... shouldn't young people be idealists wanting to make the world a better place? “Some dude could just find some girl’s home address on the train and just follow them home,” Nguyen told the tech news website. So, maybe don't build that? #AIEthics #privacy techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/h...

The sad part is how predictable it was, that misleading impersonators could lead to people losing their grip on reality. These chatbots are made to deceive... #AIEthics www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

Heads up. Maybe a good time to switch to Proton's Lumo. #AIEthics #privacy www.theverge.com/anthropic/76...

Data vultures will be data vultures. #AIEthics www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...

Yes, but will it change things, will it protect all authors? The problem with settlements is that they don't create a precedent in the law. #AIEthics www.theverge.com/news/766311/...

By criminal prosecutor: "this suspect has been complicit in blackmail" and crimes against children. "In one of these cases, a child died. I even have irrefutable proof that this perpetrator is guilty. So why can't I make the case? The offender is AI." #AIEthics www.newsweek.com/where-are-mo...

"If anyone is going to resist AI for the writing process, it should be us writers." #authors #AIEthics lithub.com/how-small-to...

Super proud of Dr. @jensemler.bsky.social! Watch out for this philosopher, #PhilSky. Rising star in #AIEthics.

Beware chatbots. They’re a #privacy disaster. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Maybe chatbots can be sensible after all. 😂 Gemini: "I am clearly not capable of solving this problem. (...) I am a fool". "I have made so many mistakes that I can no longer be trusted." "I quit." The chatbot described itself as a "disgrace." #AIEthics www.businessinsider.com/gemini-self-...

I recently finished Carissa Veliz’s book Privacy is Power. Super informative update on surveillance capitalism. @carissaveliz.bsky.social

Can’t wait for the HTLGI festival! Join us in Kenwood House on 21 September! I’ll be signing #books! #PrivacyIsPower. And debating about 'Dreams and Delusions of the Information Age'. #AIEthics howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/lo...

@carissaveliz.bsky.social I started a petition to ask the government to ban the harvesting of behavioural data. Perhaps you could boost it to your network? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... #privacy #surveillancecapitalism #petition

The battle against bot scraping doesn't just involve legal squabbles. Some website owners are fighting back with AI scraper-trapping mazes and ways to poison training data. My feature for @newscientist.com www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

How safe is your data, in the age of AI? 👀 In this archive interview from THINK, award-winning author and specialist in #ai #ethics @carissaveliz.bsky.social talks to @stephenlaw.bsky.social about AI, data harvesting and privacy. Read it here: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/article/arti...

Shareholders of #Meta sued Zuckerberg, Andreessen and Sheryl Sandberg in hopes of holding them liable for billions of dollars in fines the company paid. They wanted the 11 defendants to use their personal wealth to reimburse the company. #privacy #AIEthics www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

A recent paper from researchers at the University of Californian-Irvine found that, of 543 data brokers in California’s data broker registry at time of publishing, 43 percent failed to even respond to requests to access data. We need better enforcement. #privacy www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Something worth remembering is that when a company like Meta make a new "feature" or "product" available, it's not for your benefit, but usually as yet another way to collect your data.

NEW: In a likely first, security researchers have shown how generative AI agents can be hijacked to cause physical consequences. They tricked Google's Gemini AI into turning off smart home lights, opening windows, and turning on a boiler. They hid instructions to the AI in a *calendar invitation*

On the #privacy nightmare of handing over sensitive personal data, sometimes even biometric information, to age-verification companies (most of which are in the US). Article by Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social #AIEthics www.thenewworld.co.uk/nigel-warbur...

#ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results "They do something, they try it out on the population, and see if somebody complains." ~ @carissaveliz.bsky.social arstechnica.com/tech...#ChatGPT #privacy #GenerativeAI

"the model is designed to ingest complex information about markets and to create pricing strategies that the paper says can dramatically raise revenue. Yerushalmi refers to this, rather unsubtly, as the “exploitation phase.”

"Some kinds of writing shouldn’t, or perhaps can’t, be summarized." #authors www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

What do you think: should #journalism give in and partner up with tech companies in a way that creates dependence, or should they stand in contrast to tech companies? #AIEthics www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

Writing is a journey of discovery, a pleasure, an invitation to and a reward for seeing the world with fresh eyes. Don't miss out. #AIEthics #authors “A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world,” Susan Sontag said. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

“People find it easier to imagine that we can build intelligence on silicon than we can do democracy at scale, or that we can escape arms races. It’s complete bullshit…We’re a naturally social, altruistic, democratic species and we all have an anti-dominance intuition.” [?]

If you're religious, would you mind if your priest or rabi or minister or religious leader used an LLM to give their sermons? Or to offer advice? "Does AI know the stories of your people?" #AIEthics www.npr.org/2025/07/17/nx-s1-5468637/clergy-grapple-with-the-ethics-of-using-ai-to-write-sermons

What do you think? Is it ethical to work at an AI lab? My take: it depends on the lab! And how much power over design you have. We need good (excellent, virtuous) designers building AI better. #AIEthics "Increasingly, it feels like the AI race is steering off a cliff." www.vox.com/future-perfe...

"A rack of servers stuffed with AI chips requires about ten times more power than a non-AI version a few years ago." #AIEthics www.economist.com/business/202...

“Tech companies use the general population as guinea pigs. They do something, they try it out on the population, and see if somebody complains.” #AIEthics #OpenAI Thanks for the quote, @stokel.bsky.social www.fastcompany.com/91378696/ope...

Turns out that #Google was publicly logging ChatGPT conversations that people had shared (privately, or so they thought) with friends. There are conversations about mental health, sex, etc. Do you still think #OpenAI take #privacy seriously? By @stokel.bsky.social fastcompanyme.com/technology/g...

Lovely chat on privacy with @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, @carissaveliz.bsky.social and @moonalice.com at citizensreunited.substack.com/p/privacy-is... Carol guides the conversation, while you watch faces of Roger and Carissa sporadically light up listening to each others thoughts on privacy/tech

One consequence of such data breaches should be banning this company from holding personal data again. Insurance data can be so sensitive. #privacy

I want to know. Do you? #AIEthics “But the public has a right to know when they’re watching something written by a human being. And I think they want to know.” www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

If you're going to use a chatbot, use one that respects your #privacy. @proton.me, trailblazing one more time in their respect for privacy. Proud of being on their Foundation's Board. www.theverge.com/news/711860/...

An app that was supposed to help women be safer leaks their data, including IDs... Don't collect data you can't keep safe (and, you can't keep data safe, so don't collect it) #privacy #AIEthics www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/u...

"Resultaría paradójico sustituir una ley franquista por otra que coarta la labor de investigadores y periodistas." elpais.com/opinion/2025...