And this is also exactly why the deference of nuclear regulation and oversight from the NRC to the DOD is particularly dangerous. These are political and partial actors who do not have public safety in mind. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As the world shifts its gaze away from Palestine, the series stands as documentation of the continued ethnic cleansing and offers testimonies and stories from those facing displacement, homelessness and violence from settlers.

It’s all happening in NYC! Taking real steps towards a politics of hope that's already diffusing far beyond this city and country: I couldn't be more excited to serve on Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani's wide-ranging and hugely inspiring transition team: www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Despite warnings in our report, today's release of the UK Nuclear Regulatory Review is littered with unsubstantiated claims and recommendations touting AI "as a powerful tool" and "cost-effective" to be used for safety and licensing without noted risks or caveats. This trend has now reached the UK.

I've said it before and I will say it again. There is no way to secure a system when it's potential attack surface is *all of language*

Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AI’s massive power demands—and Trump’s done a lot to make it easier for them. Heidy Khlaaf, the head AI scientist at the AI Now Institute, tells us why that’s dangerous. @mjgault.bsky.social has the story: www.404media.co/power-compan...

Great coverage by @mjgault.bsky.social on our report and what's at stake and what could go wrong in using AI in an attempt to accelerate nuclear development. Read our report here: ainowinstitute.org/publications...

This fast-tracking approach comes alongside efforts from many of these AI companies themselves to apply unproven AI systems to speed the pace of licensing/regulation. It also forms the core of a new report from the @ainowinstitute.bsky.social @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social

New: I wrote about the nuclear push coming from an energy-constrained AI industry, something that’s importantly coupled with an increasingly de-regulatory environment — often mirroring the language coming directly from these corporations — coming from the White House. puck.news/ais-nuclear-...

This week Open AI walked back a call for the govt to backstop financing for its trillion dollar investments in data centers. This was only the tip of the iceberg; a slow bailout for AI firms is already underway. Read more from @ambakak.bsky.social and I in @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...

New Report: Fission for Algorithms. We draw on our nuclear expertise to dissect the risky fast-tracking initiatives hastening nuclear development in service of AI. This includes proposals to use Gen AI for nuclear licensing, whilst lowering well-established nuclear thresholds.

"Rafael purchased AI technologies made available through AWS, including the state-of-the-art large language model Claude ... The materials reviewed also indicate Amazon sold cloud-computing services to Israel’s nuclear program and offices administering the West Bank"

Anthropic’s partnership with the DOE to keep Claude from building a nuclear weapon makes for good headlines. @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social calls it security theater. The real risk is AI firms gaining access to national security data. www.wired.com/story/anthro...

I spoke to @mjgault.bsky.social in WIRED on what I ultimately view as safety theatre for "nuclear safeguarding" and how it distracts from the real risk of unregulated private corporations having access incredibly sensitive nuclear secrets given their insecure AI models.

Anthropic says its AI won't help you build a nuclear weapon. Will it work? And can a chatbot even help build a nuke?

OpenAI, Anthropic & others have shifted from championing ethics to signing $200M+ defense contracts that embed gen AI into high-risk military systems. In @theverge.com, @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social explains why the move toward defense partnerships is a safety risk. Listen here: shorturl.at/mTAZq

I'm sorry what? We're now back to British colonial officers in British Mandate Palestine who hold “supreme political and legal authority”?

It was great speaking to @haydenfield.bsky.social on the Decoder podcast, where we discussed the relationship between safety and the push for generative AI to be deployed within military applications. www.theverge.com/podcast/7848...

"The State of Israel has committed genocide." Navi Pillay, chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, has told Al Jazeera that Israel’s war on Gaza is a genocide.

Given that the US passed multiple EO to lower the thresholds of nuclear safety, it's concerning that "Britain and the US will accept each other’s safety checks on reactor designs, almost halving the time for a nuclear project to be licensed to about two years." www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Being recognised in MIT's 35 Under 35 just a week after being in TIME100 AI is such an honour! The profile gets to the heart of the motivation of my work, which includes the use of AI in Gaza that has contributed to a devastating death toll: www.technologyreview.com/innovator/he...

We are excited to announce that AI Now’s Chief AI Scientist, Dr. @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social, is one of MIT @technologyreview.com's 2025 Innovators Under 35, which recognizes scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs from around the world. Read about Dr. Khlaaf’s work here: ter.li/5iqt4y

We are excited to announce that AI Now’s Chief AI Scientist, @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social, is included on this year’s #TIME100AI list, which features leaders, policymakers, artists, and entrepreneurs who are advancing major conversations about how AI is reshaping the world: time.com/collections/...

Excited to be included on TIME 's list of the #TIME100 AI of 2025! Grateful to @ainowinstitute.bsky.social for supporting my work on addressing the safety revisionism of AI in defense/safety-critical contexts where safety has been obscured with little to no accountability. time.com/collections/...

As the US considers acquiring agentic AI systems to produce AI-generated propaganda campaigns, @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social warned @sambiddle.com of @theintercept.com that these systems are easily compromised, threatening national security rather than protecting it: theintercept.com/2025/08/25/p...

I spoke to the Intercept on the use of agentic AI for disinformation campaigns, and how SOCOM framing it as a mitigation to adversaries' "use" is a misrepresentation, as offensive and defensive uses are two sides of the same coin that allows them to use it in the same way.

Hind Khoudary explains what happened in the attack on Nasser hospital. An explosive drone targeted two civilians, one of whom was a journalist. Then, as rescuers went to retrieve the bodies and additional journalists were filming what had happened, a missile targeted them.

Fuck the IOF forever. After bombing the hospital, their airstrike murders the medics and journalists who arrive to assist/document. No words...

The UN-backed IPC has found that Gaza now faces famine after 22 months of Israel’s war on the Palestinian territory.

🚨 SCOOP🚨: Records obtained by Mother Jones almost uniformly show police departments are deactivating safeguards meant to prevent AI bias while making it difficult or impossible to audit which police reports were generated by AI. @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social reports:

I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪 The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs. That is *pure fantasy*. Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

So Bluesky deleted an account I made (here, in the US) to provide updates on the condition of my friend Sondos Jad Al-Haq and her family of four, who are in Gaza. Sondos has never used this account. She does not have the password, and has never logged into it. @mommunism.bsky.social

Last week I spoke to DefenseScoop on the DoD's recent contracts with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI and the risks that arise not only with the use of commercial AI models in the military, but the lack of testing and evaluation with their adoption. defensescoop.com/2025/08/04/d...

This is Anas's final will and testament "I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you to take care of my family."

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

Anas Al Sharif, one of the last standing journalists in Gaza, has just been targeted and murdered by Israel. Murdering a tent of Al Jazeera journalists so they can enact their final solution in Gaza without some of the most notorious journalists to document it.

This has been evident ever since the stories broke on the use of GPT-4, via Azure services, to create intelligence and target lists in Gaza by the IDF. Big Tech is complicit.

The warning comes as the Gaza Strip’s Health Ministry registers more cases of paralysis due to malnutrition.

I remember we examined lists of users that were curated by data brokers earlier this year. They were packed for use across Google’s ad network. Millions of devices were targeted because they belonged to military members suspected of frequently gambling.

I spoke with @davidingram.bsky.social at NBC last week about the Pentagon’s announcement of several multimillion dollar contracts with commercial AI firms for natsec uses - a dangerous move that risks making our critical infrastructure vulnerable: www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

Born and raised in Florida. Owned and operated an ice cream shop in Tampa with his dad. Beaten and left to die. "The State Department said it was aware of reports of a U.S. citizen’s death in the West Bank but did not comment."

The whole "Grok can be re-tuned at Elon's will to spout off like Hitler" thing sorta punctures the "LLM chatbots are AGI" discourse just a little bit, doesn't it.

A UN connected research institute spun up some AI refugee avatars and then hosted a workshop with refugee aid partners. One attendant asked: "Why would we want to present refugees as AI creations when there are millions of refugees who can tell their stories as real human beings?"

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/

1/ The government is fielding AI to gather intelligence, patrol borders, and fight wars. My latest in @lawfaremedia.org explains how Congress should step up its scrutiny of the ways taxpayer dollars are spent on acquiring and developing these systems: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/narr...

Using AI for targeting when accuracy levels are as low as 60% is little better than a flip of a coin - we need to be more responsible about military use, warns @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social during an @icrc.org webinar on AI in Military Decision Making.

Was honoured to participate in this ICRC panel to discuss the launch of their recommendations for the use of AI decision support systems within military and lethal contexts. The recording of the event can be found here: vimeo.com/1094320405?s...

BREAKING: About 60 people, including 20 children, have been killed in an Israeli attack on a housing complex in the Iranian capital, according to Iranian state TV. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/4o4roe