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...

Sam Altman wants an actual license to kill you. This bill: the "Artificial Intelligence Safety Act"😒 would give companies like OpenAI immunity for mass murder including nuclear, biological, and radiological attacks assisted by their bots. youtu.be/34bMvXOQfEM

"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵

If you mean GOFAI: yes, so like basic programming. Automate away. Fabulous. If you mean AI like an LLM: no, it will get people killed. It's not able to do anything with basic guarantees and will do things like get people of colour and women killed by removing them from the list, for example.

The Rolling Stones makes a hero of the pope. So marvel, so Disney, so white. Fuck that. It's all about communities. We all stand on the shoulders of a lot of people. And the Vatican stands on the shoulders of a lot of historical crimes that haven't been *fully acknowledged* and *repaired* yet!

Tolkien was a racist, quoting him isn’t a flex at all

Well, with this official Vatican + Anthropic mandate, I guess it was only a matter of time when the religion of effective altruism, worshipping so-called artificial general intelligence, merged with entrenched religious institutions.

El Papa León XIV ha elegido a Anthropic como su interlocutor del mundo de la IA, creyendo que es más ética que OpenAI o Palantir 🤦 No sorprende que la Iglesia Católica elija a la empresa que compra libros físicos para digitalizarlos, entrenar su IA y luego DESTRUIRLOS 🤨 futurism.com/future-socie...

Did y'all know that the Vatican has a venture capital arm that invests in "AI"?

Yeah and like idc about no apology for slavery unless they're accompanied by reparations from the vatican specifically

„AI needs to be disarmed“ doesn’t make any sense at all. These are computational infrastructures. Infrastructures have a defense duality in its core. They can be militarized anytime. They create both dependencies and thus vulnerabilities.This is why they should be questioned instead of normalized

Enjoy youtu.be/DRn3-MN92H4 @acollierastro.bsky.social is great

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

Believe me too, a former tech employee, I'm not naive enough to pretend Anthropic cult-like recruiting methods are new. They cease to be harmless when they're massively scaled up, like at Anthropic. Also remember that one of Anthropic's co-founders is a Thiel fellow. The Thiel who wrote this 👇

Counterpoint: No I will not

Gemeinsam mit Aline Blankertz habe ich seit letztem Jahr ein Buch geschrieben: "Digitale Solidarität - Zur Überwindung kapitalistischer Technologie"

A fun phenomenon you can see on X is tech bros performatively faking concern about water usage from the almond industry entirely in service of downplaying data centre impacts. It'll be forgotten in weeks (or days). (also see: Bitcoin bros pretending to care about methane leakage in 2021)

Whaaat? But the two equity stock indexes created by the Vatican a few months ago state that most of Silicon Valley’s big tech is aligned with catholic values. www.businessinsider.com/vatican-bank...

Remembering how Bengio called me dishonest for saying that there's no scientific consensus wrt agency and #AI while he’d founded an NGO funded by Bezos, Bill Gates F., Eric Schmidt F., IFL & LeCun claiming the enemy is in Silicon Valley" startupintros.com/orgs/lawzero techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/y...

Pope Leo XIV presenting his encyclical on #AI together with Anthropic's Christopher Olah is comparable to Pope Leo XIII presenting his encyclical Rerum Novarum on capitalism together with Henry Ford

The way people take these bozos seriously, its like living in the twilight zone. He has carefully crafted his image as some kinda wizard, with the "ever since he was a child, he was special, played chess" stories the press served us 🙄 At least the kids don't seem to be buying this so there's that.

> Under longtermism, no GPU cycle can be dirty so long as it is powering the machine god. The superintelligence that they believe they are building will simply fix the environment, cure all disease and may even resurrect the dead in a Dyson sphere as a bonus. — @boxomcfoxo.bsky.social

In an exclusive interview with XXC, god declared that it will not attend the press conference and will remain neutral.

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

Who is Christopher Olah, the 33-year-old Pope Whisperer? - Anthropic Co-Founder. - Thiel Fellow. - EA Poster Boy. - Useful Idiot Participating in the Destruction of Higher Ed. 80000hours.org/podcast/epis...

📚 “we are interpreting an obviously finite system as computing an infinite function. Eventually, the wires will rust, the power will cease, the circuit will be interrupted, or something else will happen, & yet we want to maintain [it] computes (…) for all natural numbers.“ — Hardcastle (1995) 6/🧵

An insidious danger lurks within all of this... Why are so many data centers being built across the country? Ask yourself, what data are they collecting? 🤨

Today in luxury surveillance.

Guardrails are a scam. It's not that they could work, it's that they cannot and never will for such models. By design. 1/n

👎🏼 staying orthodox then guess we named it right lmao

Short piece w @andreaeyleen.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social addressing errors on the role of scientific models related also to AI misuse seen everywhere not just psychology: On Models, Prediction, and Scientific Roles Thereof: Commentary on Sanbonmatsu et al. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Have you noticed many experts say they don't understand AI? What's going on? 🤯 Let us tell you... 1/

BRB again — grass-touching time — but of course you can read the PDF if I left you on a cliffhanger. 🫠 Guest, O., Nuñez Hernández, N. A., & Blokpoel, M. (2026). Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 8/

Reminder if you support us to sign and share if you can! ✍🏻 We're coming up to a year since I sent this letter to my executive board and I will resend it on or close to the year mark with even more international and national support against AI. Thank you! openletter.earth/open-letter-...

We are super excited for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 when @alexhanna.bsky.social and I get to talk with Carmen Maria Machado about the use of LLMs in writing, from language arts classes to the publishing industry. Livestream info: Monday, April 13, noon PT, twitch.tv/dair_institute

Teresa Heffernan — Literature Versus the AI Industry @tjheffernan.bsky.social loved this! excellent stuff

Freedom of expression - freedom to dissent.

A Reddit poster commented “how a Ring camera labeled the user, who identified herself as Black, ‘as a dark animal’ while she was leaving for work.”

Instead of focusing on femicide and violence against women, Merz uses it as a moment to exacerbate tensions against immigrant communities, who remain marginalized. Merz's rhetorical practice is in line with the AfD. AfD continues to grow and expresses similar ideas about immigrants.

The complicity of universities cannot be understated... The few of us fighting back aren't enough. openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Response from the President of the @ec.europa.eu It would have been good if the President had provided links or citation to the evidence. www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u...

vdL: <AI Hype!> Scientists and scholars: WTF, that's not true. vdL: <AI Faff! Scientists and scholars agree! No citations!> Scientists and scholars: ???

Daughter’s anti-AI campaign ongoing at art college. Zine made with friends. Management and teachers are unsure how to react.

Peter Thiel just invested in a start up producing AI infused collars for cattle. „A big selling point for the collars is the ability to set up virtual fencing, using sound and vibration cues delivered through the collar to keep the animals within a specific range.“. gizmodo.com/peter-thiels...

I want to flag a certain kind of move in some quarters wherein authors attempt to position themselves not as AI boosters, but as critics of AI criticism. 🧵>>

Live your life such that people don't take the occasion of your death to recount all of the dictatorships and war crimes you supported:

Habermas spent his last years ethically washing Israel's genocidal attacks on Palestine in good old German exceptionalism style newlinesmag.com/argument/jue...

How much water do the data centres use? It’s a secret The AI companies insist: we barely use water, hardly a drop! But we won’t tell you how much water we use. And we’ll take you to court to ... #Data #centres #ChatGPT #Google #Henri #Gendreau #OpenAI […] [Original post on pivot-to-ai.com]

Our tax dollars are paying for this horror. ceobs.org/black-rain-t...

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