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

So the IAEA statement is now a justification to attack Iran by... Israel, a non NP state with an undeclared nuclear arsenal? This deligtimizes the IAEA and will have grave consequences on nuclear profileration for decades to come. I'm losing my mind.

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All the tech lobbying and recent initiatives to accelerate AI in weapons use has been culminating to this. www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/10/1...

if Thunberg is brave enough to repeatedly put herself directly in harm’s way, then journalists can be brave enough to say that a civilian vessel was illegally seized in international waters, and its crew abducted

Governments and NGOs condemn Israel’s interception of the ship in international waters.

Reem Zeidan was shot and killed by Israeli forces while trying to get food for her family in Gaza, particularly her starving 5 year old daughter. This is the legacy of the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

British surgeon Victoria Rose, who's just returned from Gaza: "They're coming through the doors like a conveyor belt... really small children with massive injuries.. bits of their bodies blown off... every day at least half [of my cases] were under the age of 11.. its barbaric"

I'm biased, but this report is a must-read for anyone looking to understand the state of AI in 2025. It explains how AI is entrenching power for big tech and the oligarch class, speeding deregulation, dislodging human expertise and threatening workers—and how there's still time to refuse all that.

NEW REPORT: Artificial Power, our 2025 Landscape Report, is out. Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible. Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape

I'll be joining the ICRC as a panelist for the upcoming event “AI in Military Decision Making: A Dialogue on How to Enhance IHL Compliance” to discuss AI decision support systems and their implications and risks in warfare.

In testimony yesterday before the House Committee on Energy & Commerce, @ambakak.bsky.social spelled out what we have to lose: this moratorium on state AI laws flies in the face of common sense – it sets back the clock and freezes it there.

The Trump administration is building a central online marketplace for the Intelligence Community to buy private information about individuals from unregulated data brokers — coming soon to www.icdata.gov theintercept.com/2025/05/22/i...

I think a lot about how a year ago when I warned that LLMs are likely to be used for targeting purposes, I was met with incredulity and even mockery by some. But when it was revealed that Google and OpenAI models were in fact used for this purpose in Gaza, it was immediately normalized,

Very excited to go back to my roots (of nuclear safety) with our launch of this new workstream. We need to address how the AI industry’s energy demands is mounting pressure to accelerate the deployment of nuclear energy sources, often at the expense of safety and oversight.