MUST READ! @amnesty.org shining a light on the abuses of AI data scraping. Think we should force the AI corps to be transparent about what they trained off? There's a bill in California that would do just that - please support it by adding your signature to this petition: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

Whether predictive systems can be ethically—or even functionally—used in socially sensitive contexts depends on their epistemic credentials. I am delighted to see my work inform policy recommendations in a new report from Amnesty International. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Widespread use of risk profiling by law enforcement, social security and migration programs is incompatible with international human rights law and must be banned, Amnesty International said in a new report which includes Australia’s Robodebt Scheme as an example www.amnesty.org.au/amnesty-repo...

this @amnesty.org report is a must read!!

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

In December, @marikosato.bsky.social and I wrote a piece (in Finnish) sounding the alarm about Finnish authorities’ plans to digitalize and integrate AI into the management of social security entitlements, including for the purposes of fraud detection. www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...

Joulun alla julkaistiin @amnestyfinland.bsky.social vieraskynä Kelan suunnitelmista käyttää tekoälyä sosiaaliturvan väärinkäytösten seulomisessa ja siihen liittyvistä ihmisoikeusriskeistä. Kirjoitus kirvoitti mukavasti kiinnostusta ja keskustelua, jota aiheesta tarvitaan. www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...

I don’t how it’s so normalised that some western countries will have compulsory conscription and monarchs as sitting heads of state and still get to call themselves democracies.

Just give me a good long form micro history and my day is made. Morning read: the dishwasher and how it came to be, and questions of gendered labour. 🤓

I love everything about this piece by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social, and bonus is also learning about the Alter Magazine. Read it on a bigger screen, if you're able. altermag.com/articles/the...

I was afraid of this, and here we are: "AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge" www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

"We need to oppose this attempt to roll back protections in the name of simplification and tell the Commission that our human rights are not for sale", writes @heiferbeefmountain.bsky.social 👇

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

🚨Today, @stopspyingny.bsky.social and @amnesty.org are publishing the 2,700 docs we’ve forced the NYPD to release on their use of facial recognition against New Yorkers🚨 @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social you might want to see this… @jumaane.bsky.social www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Reminder: Over a month on, the Delhi High Court has yet to deliver its bail verdict (reserved on 9 July) for anti‑CAA activists—Umar Khalid, Gulfisha Fatima, Sharjeel Imam, Khalid  Saifi & others—jailed for close to/more than 5 years without trial in a Delhi riots case

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

The implicit threat behind the AI hype is the paradigm of Modernity; behind the relentless chiding to use AI for everything is that if you don't, you will no longer be civilised, no longer be part of a fully developed humanity.

Is everyone just rewatching Anthony Bourdain this August?

In an attempt to escape the haze of work -which is how I am describing my weeknights these days- a dear friend and I watched Sister Midnight yesterday and it was just so good. Absurd and hilarious.

The Jammu and Kashmir administration has banned 25 books. The 25 books should actually be on everyone’s to-read list. I’m going to make my way through the ones I haven’t read yet, and so should you. thewire.in/government/j...

New Report: Amnesty Tech’s Algorithmic Accountability Lab have launched a new research report today, ‘Too Much Technology, Not Enough Empathy’: How the UK’s push to digitalize social security harms human rights. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

NO. AI. FOR. WAR. CRIMES!!!

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

This latest shameful US veto – one in a long list – gives Israel the green light to continue its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. It allows Israel to continue starving Palestinian civilians and creating conditions of life meant to bring about their destruction. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Look forward to getting stuck in. Such important work by @ainowinstitute.bsky.social

New! If you are curious about how automation in welfare services effects people’s rights in Denmark, check out the easy-to-read version of Amnesty International’s investigation "Coded Injustice: Surveillance and Discrimination in Denmark’s automated welfare state".

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. A leading light of African and world literature, he was a distinguished Kenyan writer, scholar, and playwright, who served on Wasafiri's Advisory Board for several years. Please join us in remembrance 🕊️

The politics of personal enrichment cannot be fought with the politics of personal self-aggrandizing.

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

“This moratorium would mean that even if a company deliberately designs an algorithm that causes foreseeable harm — regardless of how intentional or egregious the misconduct or how devastating the consequences — the company making that bad tech would be unaccountable to lawmakers and the public…”

Going insane reading this Politico story about Musk's AI servers poisoning the air of a 90% Black community in Memphis followed immediately by this Washington Post story about states lining up their own communities to host the next ones

This means that any participation in our activities, including donations and reposts is punishable in the Russian Federation. If you are reading us from Russia, or are planning to travel there, refrain from sharing our online and offline materials.

Dear supporters, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation today declared Amnesty International an "undesirable organization"

BREAKING: Russia outlaws Amnesty International as an “undesirable organization,“ latest step in crackdown on dissent and activists.

The Heritage Foundation developed a plan to brand critics of Israel as “effectively a terrorist support network,” so that they could be deported, defunded, sued, fired, expelled, ostracized and otherwise excluded from what it considered “open society.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

@amnesty.org : #Yemen - US air strike that has left dozens of migrants dead must be investigated www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

A Muslim professor detained for hurting religious sentiments because he highlighted impunity and Islamophobia in India. The script writes itself.

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X was born #OnThisDay in 1925.

Imagine receiving a phone call from your elderly parents where they tell you that they had been dropped in the middle of the sea and been forced to swim to safety. Read: How India allegedly deported 40 Rohingya refugees by forcing them into Andaman Sea scroll.in/article/1082...

"We are alarmed by executive orders issued by the Indian government restricting access to an alarming spectrum of online content [..], including those belonging to journalists, human rights organisations, and independent media outlets. Statement by Access Now: www.accessnow.org/press-releas...

In 2008, two massive oil spills, caused by poorly maintained Shell pipelines, devastated the lands of the Bodo community in Nigeria. On Thurs 8 May, the Bodo community is taking its case to court in the UK in order to force a clean-up of the pollution. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Can't see a single principled anti-war political voice out there in the country. Please let this end.

I am running out of words for the waves of hate being spewed right now. I am mourning and bearing witness to this hateful rhetoric. I am tired and I am grieving. But I hope tomorrow is a day of solidarity, of work. #Kashmir

A visionary leader, social reformer, and chief architect of the Indian Constitution—Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s legacy goes far beyond words. His ideals continue to guide our journey toward equality, justice, and empowerment. Happy Birth Anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar!

The Paris AI Summit showed that policy makers are ignoring how AI is harming people everyday, writes @erikaguevararosas.bsky.social thewire.in/tech/paris-s...