'AI literacy' that isn't critical isn't literacy at all.

"I also struggle with the persistent focus on privacy as the purported barrier to solving these issues, when we have most of the Epstein list walking around without consequences."

Using China as an excuse to abandon climate ambitions seems a tad irrational

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lashes out at NATO allies for not taking more responsibility for their own security. He announced a six-month Pentagon review of American forces in Europe to ensure NATO moves toward Europe leading its own defense.

Hegseth blasts NATO members, announces review of US forces in Europe reut.rs/3SNXyR7

Ahead of the UN informal exchanges next week on AI in the military domain, @jessicadorsey.bsky.social @elkeschwarz.bsky.social @profbode.bsky.social & I wrote this piece on the duality of the lifecycle concept - the engineering VS the socio-technical lifecycle opiniojuris.org/2026/06/12/b...

"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...

Registrations for this @icrc.org event are still open for those interested in attending 👉🏽 bit.ly/4olTjrN

Global watchdog calls for tighter controls on agentic AI in finance reut.rs/4okE8iv

Some interesting reads in this new issue on risk regulation with a focus on the EU AI Act

“OpenAI intends to ditch the prompts and features, betting that its models will be able to automatically understand users’ intentions when they are on the app or site” gizmodo.com/chat-is-dead...

A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech. www.wired.com/story/all-th...

‘Killer of trust’: social media groups fuel misinformation in UK, report finds

📢 Call for papers The @icrc.org call for papers on Protection of Civilians & IHL in the Age of AI is now open. Abstracts are due 1 September. More information can be found here 👉🏽 international-review.icrc.org/call-for-pap...

For those who'll be in Geneva in June, I'm moderating this side event which includes some fantastic speakers. Registrations are open 👇🏼

Borrowed from psychiatry, the term 'ontological security' describes how nations understand themselves and their place in the world – and how it can break down.

The debut episode, moderated by Founders Fund Chief Marketing Officer Mike Solana, included a star-studded cast of current tech luminaries.

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.

DeepSeek slated to draw $7 billion in maiden fundraising, sources say reut.rs/43M7wVq

A little surveillance break, as a treat.

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-reform.net/publication/...

"Researchers have used top Generative #AI models to grade hundreds of undergraduate essays and found that AI only matched human-awarded degree classification around half the time, with AI often failing to assess the best and worst submissions accurately": www.cam.ac.uk/stories/ai-u... #ethics #tech

Anthropic’s response and influence on the encyclical is most evident in the claim that “even its creators don’t understand how it works.” In June, I wrote about what that actually means & why Anthropic says it. (Written while I was in Rome, FWIW). www.techpolicy.press/the-black-bo...

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.

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 of AI.

A useful article here with other details about the Vatican's relationships with Silicon Valley tech and Anthropic blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Meta has reportedly notified around 8,000 staff – almost 10 per cent of its global workforce – they are being made redundant, as the company hits a revenue record and invests billions more dollars into artificial intelligence. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

ICYMI here is a readout of the UNODA MAPS webinar I spoke on the other week with @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social & Paul Lushenko. It summarises the key takeaways from this webinar, which focused on a shared vocabulary for military AI to bridge tech & policy discussions 👉🏽 unodaweb.unoda.org/public/2026-...

I peer reviewed a paper this week where the authors acknowledged they used an LLM to help with drafting and grammar, but not with the ideas and core arguments within the paper. I have a lot of thoughts on this and I'm keen to hear other perspectives. /1

Last year, the U.S. tech giant Meta purchased the AI company Manus, which was founded in China before moving its headquarters to Singapore. This month, the deal was suddenly called off.

The @ec.europa.eu have released draft guidelines on the implementation of the transparency obligations for certain AI systems under Article 50 of the AI Act. Stakeholder consultations on the guidelines are open until June 3 👇🏽 digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/d...

I have written about how the evil of megacorp Palantir is now ruining beloved items of clothing. My latest for the @australia.theguardian.com is here. www.theguardian.com/technology/c...

Breaking: Julie Bishop resigns as ANU chancellor: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-08/julie-bishop-resigns-as-anu-chancellor/106657576

🚨Job alert🚨 The @ainowinstitute.bsky.social are hiring. There are 3 open positions: - Senior operations director (remote) - Program associate (remote) - Communications associate (NY/remote) More info here 👉🏽 ainowinstitute.org/careers

Crypto exchange Coinbase to lay off 14% of staff as AI reshapes work

Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow are suing Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for copyright infringement.

The first regulator who tried to hold Mark Zuckerberg personally liable for the cover-up tied to the massive data control issues that grabbed the globe’s attention with Cambridge Analytica- is back in business tomorrow. This is the original NYT headline. Same lawsuit. Stay now lifted. /1

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez won a historic sum of $375 million in a landmark child safety case against Meta earlier this year. The next stage of the fight begins today, and it could be even more consequential for Meta and the social media industry at large.

📣 Geneva Cyber Week is underway and you cannot miss our #AISE26 information session! Join us on 7 May at #GCW26 to learn more about this year’s edition of UNIDIR’s Global Conference on AI, Security and Ethics, and how AI is shaping international security. 🔗 bit.ly/GCW-Agenda

This week I'll be speaking alongside @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social and Paul Lushenko as part of the Military AI, Peace & Security (MAPS) Dialogues webinar series, convened by UNODA. Registrations are free 👉🏽 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/64db97...

Tech Policy Press Fellow Jake Laperruque provides analysis of the oral argument in Chatrie v. United States and the justices’ probing of geofence warrants, the third-party doctrine, and whether sweeping location data searches are overbroad—or can be meaningfully limited under the Fourth Amendment.

Claude AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’

📚 REVIEW: In her new book, Francesca Albanese challenges the dominant perception of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

"Meta has failed to implement needed safeguards to keep children under the age of 13 off Instagram and Facebook in violation of a European Union online safety law, officials said on Wednesday."

The 2026 National Defence Strategy was recently released and I have had a skim through the document and pulled out the notable references to AI 🧵 www.defence.gov.au/about/strate...

Nuclear power plants carry risks that don’t stay contained. When they’re damaged, the consequences can spread across borders, across generations, and across the environment we all depend on. That’s why the rules of war set strict limits: to prevent harm that cannot be undone.

🛰️ UNIDIR’s Space Security Programme is hiring: 🔹 Researcher to conduct research and lead projects 🔹 Research Assistant to support research, manage digital tools and coordinate programmes 🗓️ Apply by 6 May: unidir.org/jobs

Fantastic news, throwing phones away when the battery dies is quite ridiculous. We don't need super thin phones, we need phones we can repair.

When the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran started two months ago, online accounts linked to Tehran tried building sympathy with defiant and emotional appeals. Then, as the war dragged on, Iran shifted tactics. It began circulating short animated videos that scorched President Trump with biting satire.