X has been fined $210 million by the European Union for breaches of the digital service act (DSA) 🧵 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

ICYMI: I spoke with more than a dozen people who have uploaded medical records to ChatGPT, seeking health analysis and interpretation of their labwork with mixed results, and significant inaccuracy and privacy risks.

Please help me help Google understand that AI should not replace our headlines? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence" Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

Last week's panel discussion on AI safety hosted by the folks at Gobethics and held during the International AI Cooperation and Governance Forum 2025. If you want to know more about the work Globethics do in the AI space, you can check out their website 🔗🔗 globethics.net

Eight more news organizations have filed a new lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, seeking $10B in damages for violating copyright law by stealing their content to build and operate AI tools. The lawsuit joins a similar one filed by other news organizations that include the Sun Sentinel.

Dystopia defined: Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools www.axios.com/2025/11/18/f...

Remember when the CEO of microsoft also said the very wrong thing that AI was great in software and that 30% of their code was done by AI and then this was the result www.neowin.net/news/microso...

Thanks to @markgkenny.bsky.social for inviting me to speak at the Stephen Fitzgerald Scholars Program event today. It's always a pleasure to be a part of this amazing program.

A report I wrote with @jessicadorsey.bsky.social for @perryworldhouse.bsky.social is now freely available to read. It's part of the work we are doing as responsible by design ambassadors on lawful military AI and AWS. The report blends Jess's legal perspective and my technical perspective 👇🏼

Policymakers, if you want to base your decisions on AI slop, generate it yourselves instead of paying Deloitte through the nose to do it. #healthpolicy theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...

Gmail users!! They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off. Pass it on!! www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

The small modular reactor startup is capitalizing on surging interest from tech companies and data center developers.

"Anatomy of an AI Coup" examines a shift of power from policy makers and bureaucrats to those with the skill to train and fine-tune large language models - often behind system prompts, which further calibrate the gov. worker's options toward the decisions of those who calibrate the system.

“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”

South Korea sees room for cooperation with Taiwan on US chip tariffs, trade minister says reut.rs/3M5SN25

You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.” www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

ChatGPT launches group chats globally

New #ResponsibleBytesPodcast episode with Alison Kershaw chatting about science communication and generative AI 👇🏼 Listen anywhere you get your podcasts 🔗🔗 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲: open.spotify.com/show/2x2yNvU... 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐬: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/r... 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞: www.youtube.com/@Responsible...

“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”

Well-written and informative. To sum-AI does not belong in educational spaces.

Regardless of how many researchers highlight the cultural trends against "AI" data centers, & the increasingly widepread public awareness of the unequal economic & environmental harms of these systems, a lot of tech-pilled ppl will only pay attention once it shows up somewhere like WIRED. So here:

🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨 ‘In whose tech we trust: Part II’ by Jason Van der Schyff et al, outlines practical policy options for Indo-Pacific governments and industry to manage the national-security risks posed by foreign-owned, controlled or influenced technology suppliers. 🔖 Read it now 👉 bit.ly/3LOrkSm

The death of a neighborhood bodega cat named Kit Kat has shaken San Francisco’s Mission District and prompted new debates about robotaxi safety.

uh this is a lotta dough www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/

Recently, I had the great joy of chatting with my dear friend of 36 years Karen O'Sullivan from the destination bookstore Great Ocean Reads in Apollo Bay. It's wonderful to be able to combine work with pleasure. You can listen here: greatoceanreads.podbean.com/e/episode-5-...

When scholarship is politically steered, the public loses access to evidence and the means to hold power to account.

The latest issue of the Australian Army Journal arrived in the mail yesterday. I contributed a paper to this edition on considerations for safely scaling swarms in military operations. You can freely access and read the paper here: researchcentre.army.gov.au/library/aust...

Tired of being unemployed when my work is what companies say they need: making complex systems clear, usable. I’ve spent years designing human-centered research & translating user insights into decisions that make products and experiences better. DM #UX research leads! jgcarpenter.com #AI #HCI #HRI

The US national strategy to prevent suicide failed to address the risks posed by social media and AI, Erich Mische writes. That's why he's come to regret signing it — and calling for a new plan.

Based on analysis of years of revenues, losses and funding, since 2023, OpenAI has taken in $28.6bn in cash and had $13.7bn in losses. However, reports say OpenAI ended 1H 2025 with $9.6bn in cash - suggesting OpenAI's losses are billions higher than reported. www.wheresyoured.at/where-is-ope...

Humanity’s Endgame www.noemamag.com/humanitys-en... @longreads.com

If you're interested in knowing more about the recently published #GCREAIM report, this week's #ResponsibleBytesPodcast episode dives into those details with the project coordinator Sofia Romansky. 🎧 You can listen to this episode anywhere you get your podcasts

A fascinating read for this spooky season 👇🏼

#AI has quickly become a big part of everyday life with people using it for simple things like recipes and email drafts to budgeting help. More than 70% of ChatGPT use is for personal use, not work.

I have to apologize every time I touch AI in a bid to educate people (for free) about its failures and social harms but y’all will buy bumper stickers from a guy who is literally working as a hype man to get AI startups funded as he bullies other critical tech folks, it’s honestly wild

An interesting perspective on the AI bubble...

NEW: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said earlier this month that ChatGPT now has 800 million weekly active users. The company’s estimates therefore suggest that every seven days, around 560,000 people may be exchanging messages with ChatGPT that indicate they are experiencing mania or psychosis.

Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... [Short thread]

The EU has charged Meta for failing to provide users with a simple way to flag illegal content & for not offering adequate tools to appeal content-mod decisions when posts are removed / accounts suspended marking the 1st allegation under bloc’s online-content rules au.investing.com/news/company...

This project is an example of @alexhanna.bsky.social's vision for DAIR, she said she wanted to make researchers organizers and organizers researchers (something to that effect and I believe there's a related quote from someone else).🧵

And finally (for now) the one we're all familiar with...Profiling for Advertising: Selling or sharing “wellness insights” with third-party marketers: ads for sleep aids, fertility products, dating apps, or even insurance premiums. 11/11 (There's more, but these are a convo starter.)

Psychological Manipulation: “Smart coaching” features can be framed as self-improvement but rely on behavioral nudging—training users to conform to app metrics rather than actual wellbeing. Data dashboards create feedback loops that gamify compliance with corporate-defined “healthy” norms. 10/*

I work in the tech industry, specifically human-AI interaction. The personal data they collect from you is worth more than your out-of-pocket expense for that "smart" mattress, home assistant, security camera, dishwasher, etc.

Musk wants to get rid of Tesla’s robotaxi babysitters ‘by the end of the year’

OpenAI to offer UK data residency driven by government partnership reut.rs/4nibUmm

Meta Platforms is cutting about 600 jobs in its AI division, according to an internal memo that was viewed by The Wall Street Journal and a person familiar with the matter.

“Even in human relationships, it’s rare for any one person to know us across a lifetime.” So why are we building AI systems that can? Gathoni Ireri takes an in-depth look at what long-term memory in ChatGPT, Gemini & others means for autonomy, consent, and ethical AI design.

OpenAI has launched it's own web browser - 'ChatGPT Atlas' - it's supposed to be a more personalised experience & includes a ChatGPT sidebar that allows users to ask questions about various aspects of each website they visit