The second edition of the @unidir.org global conference on AI security and ethics is happening in Geneva from 18-19 June. Abstract submissions are now open: unidir.org/event/global...

As the intensity and reach of the US and Israel-led forever war increases, PM Albanese - not satisfied with being the first to back it - has now decided to get Australia’s hands bloodied by joining in. You don’t protect people with missiles, you kill them.

Nearly 700,000 people including around 200,000 children have been forced from their homes in Lebanon in the last 10 days......it only took them 10 days to displace this many people. news.un.org/en/story/202....

This is - by far - the best piece that I've read so far on military AI in terms of clarity and balance. Thank you Dr @zenaassaad.bsky.social

My latest article for @justsecurity.org is now live. I share my reflections from this year's #REAIM summit and unpack the misalignments in the current ecosystem of military AI 👇🏼

“Academics studying the field say AI is collapsing the planning time required for complex strikes – a phenomenon known as “decision compression”, which some fear could result in human military and legal experts merely rubber-stamping automated strike plans.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The first episode of our new season of the #ResponsibleBytesPodcast is now live. Chatting with @brankamarijan.bsky.social about trust by design for military AI. 🎧 You can listen to this episode anywhere you get your podcasts 🎧

The Anthropic-U.S. DoD public dispute continues. We have unpacked the latest updates & the safety, legal & ethical concerns in our @opiniojuris.bsky.social article @jessicadorsey.bsky.social @elkeschwarz.bsky.social @profbode.bsky.social @ncrenic.bsky.social opiniojuris.org/2026/03/02/i...

“She just doesn’t have the spinlessness needed for politics,” said Albanese chaser.com.au/national/spi...

The Pentagon/Anthropic Clash Over Military AI Guardrails, my latest @opiniojuris.bsky.social together with @elkeschwarz.bsky.social @profbode.bsky.social @zenaassaad.bsky.social and @ncrenic.bsky.social opiniojuris.org/2026/02/26/t...

If you're looking for a summary of the Anthropic/DoD public debate & the safety, legal & ethical issues @jessicadorsey.bsky.social @elkeschwarz.bsky.social @profbode.bsky.social @ncrenic.bsky.social & I summarised the debate in our @opiniojuris.bsky.social article 👇🏼 opiniojuris.org/2026/02/26/t...

Anthropic and the Pentagon are in an ongoing dispute over what Reuters describes as "usage restrictions for military purposes" — limits the AI company says are necessary. The government has given the company a Friday deadline to relent. Here’s what we know.

Criticism of the state of Israel is considered hate speech, but a politician publicly stating there are "no good muslims" is totally acceptable. This is how normalised Islamophobia is & also shows the jarring reality of how Muslims are publicly dehumanised. theconversation.com/pauline-hans...

To acknowledge the ways AI systems are changing does not buy into hype, it sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts. To make sense of what AI does to people, you also need to understand what it does for them, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

Clear, sincere words from Japanese singer/songwriter Haru Nemuri rebuking Israel. She shares this anecdote: a Palestinian child throws a stone at an Israeli tank. They call the child a terrorist. The tank fires back, killing the child and they call that progress?! #FreePalestine #HaruNemuri

The 40 proposed names for the UN's independent scientific panel on AI has been submitted to the general assembly, which will have the ultimate say over the panel's membership. They are expected to make the final decision on membership on 12 Feb. www.un.org/independent-...

The most important question about AI isn't determining whether the machine thinks — it's whether interacting with it displaces the conditions under which we think, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

According to TechCrunch’s ongoing tally, including the most recent data spill involving uMobix, there have been at least 27 stalkerware companies since 2017 that are known to have been hacked, or leaked customer and victims’ data online. 

"Around a third of countries attending a military AI summit agreed on Thursday to a declaration on how to govern deployment of the technology in warfare, but military heavyweights China and the U.S. opted out." www.reuters.com/business/aer...

The level of disappointment I feel for the Australian government supporting & enabling Isaac Herzog's visit is immeasurable. What happened at Bondi was a horrific terror attack & our government responds by inviting a man who incited & supported genocide to comfort the victims. Make that make sense?

The first big social media addiction case in the US is going before a jury. Tech Policy Press fellow Varsha Bansal breaks down what's at stake and what to expect in court, from executives testifying to troves of internal evidence showing companies knew the harm their designs caused.

AI is often incorrectly compared to human intelligence - it's really more of a marketing agenda than anything else. This article in @aunz.theconversation.com does a great job of explaining why AI and human intelligence are not the same, nor accurately compared 👉🏽 share.google/n6FTOvvNFN5a...

The 3rd REAIM summit has now come to an end. I spoke on the opening plenary panel about the technical challenges of AI in the military domain. If you're not familiar with the REAIM summits, this article in @justsecurity.org is a helpful & worthwhile read - www.justsecurity.org/129936/third...

🚨 New publication 🚨 My latest article is out, discussing the complexity of AI-DSS in resort to force decision making. You can freely access the article here 👇🏼 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"Australian businesses are throwing money at heavily hyped artificial intelligence solutions but just one in seven companies is seeing revenue gains as a result, new surveys have shown as CEOs worry they are not keeping up with AI’s risk and complexity." ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

In my latest @aunz.theconversation.com article, I talk about the US Department of War's AI stragey, calling it out as a case of “AI peacocking” – loud public signalling of AI adoption and leadership, which clouds the reality of unreliable systems. theconversation.com/the-united-s...

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Reading recommendation 📚📚 This newly published paper by @jessicadorsey.bsky.social which examines the growing use of AI-DSS in targeting operations and their implications for proportionality assessments under international humanitarian law 👇🏼 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Trump's greenlight for Nvidia AI chips to China draws fire from lawmakers, former officials reut.rs/4jH7DZx

Personal Intelligence is off by default, as users have the option to choose if and when they want to connect their Google apps to Gemini.

The US 'Department of War' have released their AI strategy aimed at making US warfighters more "lethal and efficient". I'll try to summarise the key points in this thread 🧵 media.defense.gov/2026/Jan/12/...

Grok is being weaponised to digitally remove clothing from women and children's photos and by restricted AI image-generation to paying users, they are effectively monetising the creation of child sexual abuse material and non-consensual deepfakes rather than stopping it.

A brilliant article on the United Nations predicament of wavering between relevance and obsolescence 👇🏼 www.forbes.lu/the-united-n...

Having already illegally scraped the corners of the internet for training data, OpenAI is now asking companies to upload real work from past jobs to help improve the performance of their model 👇🏼

Recent geopolitical events have me questioning the significance of our international institution, what role it serves & what power it holds. This @aunz.theconversation.com article explains how the UN system works, where it fails & the flawed P5 veto powers theconversation.com/venezuela-ga...

Tesla is no longer the world’s highest selling battery electric vehicle maker after Chinese rival BYD overtook the company in annual sales for the first time, according to sales figures reported on Friday. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

Some exciting new releases from @anupress.bsky.social 👇🏼

I'll be doing a research stay over January at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social collaborating with @jessicadorsey.bsky.social on research projects around the safety and legal implications of AI in the military domain. Reach out if you're in the area and would like to catch up 😊

Meta says it'll keep Manus running independently while weaving its agents into Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, where Meta's own chatbot, Meta AI, is already available to users.

🚨 Job alert 🚨 UNOPS is looking for an AI engineer to support the development of an AI-enabled interface for human rights data as a service. Applications close 12 January 2026: careers.unops.org/careersmarke...

The TRUMP AMERICA AI Act is every bit as bad as you might expect. Maybe worse. reason.com/2025/12/29/t...

Australia's new AI safety institute is now hiring. It's still not entirely clear what the role of the institute will be: however, the current job advertisements indicate a research focussed organisation. Current job openings include 👇🏼👇🏼

Excellent essay from @kevinbaker.bsky.social on LLMs as a machinery for intensifying a bureaucratic logic (If you like it, our book, Why We Fear AI is concerned with a lot of related issues, from management to bureaucracy!)

I just wanted to say a huge thank you for all the love #ResponsibleBytesPodcast has received this year. Our first season has now come to an end and the reception we've received has exceeded what we expected so thank you to everyone who tuned in this season. We'll be back with season 2 next year ☺️

Trump has signed an executive order blocking U.S states from enforcing their own regulations around AI to “ensure that AI can operate within a single national framework...as opposed to being subject to state level regulation that could potentially cripple the industry,” share.google/FODvcTk81ISy...

So apparently we now have aiXiv, a "free, AI- or human-peer-reviewed preprint archive for research authored by Human, Robot and AI Scientists across all scientific fields" It's basically arXive but with AI peer review assistance & search prompts 🙄 aixiv.science

The Australian Army's Robotic & Autonomous Systems Implementation & Coordination Office (RICO) currently has a few open positions for anyone interested in roles on emerging and disruptive technologies 🧵

A new software option could make it possible to see the approximate location of some of Nvidia's AI chips.

As someone who researches the safety of critical technologies, I can confidently say the unsubstantiated hype around AI is one of the leading issues with its shortfalls. People are making decisions based on a fictitious perception rather than a realistic understanding of the limitations of AI

✨ This is wonderful 🎬 🍿 Librebel on Youtube reads out our position paper: Guest, O., Suarez, … & van Rooij, I. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJNO... @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social