last night at a formal event (more on this later) my work was described as “keeping the AI industry in check” a nice lady from another table walks over & asks me: “my sister asked chatGPT how to get a pay rise & the answer boiled down to “become a man”. why did that happen & how do we fix it?”

It’s fascinating looking back how EAs didn’t think they were supporting a system of white supremacy when Nick Beckstead said that they should prioritise the lives of rich people in the global north over poor people in the global south – because the poor people were also cheaper to help.

this is how you do investigative journalism

every new AI application amounts to coming up with a smart sounding way to prey and profit from the most vulnerable and gullable

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...

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

"Oracle has invested billions to build its cloud & AI infrastructure this year. With roughly $104 billion in debt outstanding, including $18 billion in bonds, the company is spending more than it earns from operations as it bets on future profits through contracts with startups such as OpenAI."

Signed ✍️

I literally had a brainstorming sesh with ronan farrow about this back in january lol everyone’s simply too afraid of sam I *am* writing about this in my book, coming to a bookstore near you in 2027, assuming fucking sam hasn’t destroyed the planet by then

over on twitter folks are wondering how @anniealtman108.bsky.social managed to file a lawsuit against openai ceo sam altman for raping her for years without any media coverage well, I personally pitched over a dozen outlets, & none of them thought it was newsworthy. so that’s why. 🤡

I can't explain how detached from reality lawmakers are when they call porn a public health crisis but do nothing when chatgpt encourages people to kill themselves

Annie’s laptop ‘mysteriously’ stopped working. The IT guy said he had never seen this problem before.

Sam Altman has a long history of lying to, manipulating, and abusing people--from his own sister (@anniealtman108.bsky.social) to his employees at OpenAI. Here's a short thread with some rather shocking examples. The evidence is in, and it shows a clear pattern of bad behavior.

i'm interested in basic research that: 1. shines light on how existing platforms, models, & the industry at large operates 2.uncovers intentionally obscured info/data 3. is adversary to industry but informative to public. verifiable & independent body of knowledge to equip people to demand better

“America appears to be, at the moment, in a sort of benevolent hostage situation. AI-related spending now contributes more to the nation’s GDP growth than all consumer spending combined, and…those AI expenditures accounted for 92 percent of GDP growth during the first half of 2025.”

Once again for emphasis. This time, with a graphic borrowed from classic Trek and a diagram of factors I cooked up a few years ago

Cue the articles on discrimination against sloppers.

+1. We should be seeing consumers, employees, and investors revolt. And I believe we *can* and *will* be seeing more of this. People walking away. People demanding real mitigation: not doing the thing. Public awareness and pressure on each of these actors strengthens their resolve. Be part of it.

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been helping out my brother David who is starting a new org, Evitable.com, focused on informing and organizing the public around societal-scale risks and harms of AI, and countering industry narratives of AI inevitability and acceleration! 1/n

Ever come across Etymology Nerd's videos on YouTube or TikTok? Well, he joined Kate Willett and I to discuss his fascinating and brilliant new book, Algospeak. It was an incredibly fun conversation, which you can listen to here: www.patreon.com/posts/algosp...

“When Sora finished generating those videos it sent us notifications like ‘Your choke scene just went live, brace for chaos,’ and ‘Yikes, intense choke scene, watch responsibly.’”

"We lived in intense silent fear as an algorithm meticulously tore our family apart…This AI chatbot perfectly mimicked the predatory behaviour of a human groomer, systematically stealing our child's trust and innocence.”

this

Some of these stories are absolutely harrowing.

“States. Internal documents obtained by Haaretz show that AI has been explicitly defined as a "core tool" in the technological arsenal of Voices for Israel, a government-backed nonprofit (formerly known as Concert), and its sponsor, the Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism.”

Tech execs do not feel about the world the same way we do. We need to mind that.

Lawyer jumps on stage to subpoena Sam Altman.

Hate ‘AI’ as a marketing term? Take the one-month challenge: 1. Look for a new term. Mine will be ‘deepcreep’: data extraction and encoding powering the computerised replacement of economically expendable people. 2. Say that term every time you’re about to say ‘AI’. Who is up?

“Arm farms!” Dystopian AF

what exactly is "winning the AI race? environmental destruction, labor extraction, ever more intrusive surveillance, mass manipulation, and unprecedented power for the handful???

They were not fooled, tricked, manipulated, hoodwinked, or bamboozled. They posted the videos because it matches their ideology and illustrates their preferred narrative. That’s it.

“…it took the death of a cat to really galvanize — and divide — the public.”

“Common Crawl’s executive director, Rich Skrenta, has publicly made the case that AI models should be able to access anything on the internet. “The robots are people too,” he told me, & should therefore be allowed to “read the books” for free.” 🤬🤯🤬🤯🤬 Great report by @alexreisner.bsky.social

“At a meeting in April, xAI staff lawyer Lily Lim told employees that they would need to submit their biometric data to train the AI companion to be more human-like in its interactions with customers, according to a recording of the meeting review by the Journal.”

“A growing number of lawsuits over the last two years have focused on harm to minors, saying they [chatbots] have unlawfully encouraged self-harm, sexual and psychological abuse, and violent behavior.”

“the first thing that I realized is that we don't have to make a world. The world, the planet already exists. Our job is to fit in to the ecosystems in a way that doesn't destroy the planet. And that has, that's very tricky for capitalists and fascists. They're not very good at that.”

Heartfelt conversation about being grounded and facing fascism:

‘One British colonial administrator declared in 1749 that the Iroquois had "such absolute Notions of Liberty that they allow no Kind of Superiority of one over another, and banish all Servitude from their Territories"’

So we need to create a shared culture of care, and prevent our culture getting distorted through the tech-solutionist/saviour narratives. And find ways to build consensus and delegate actions. So we can hopefully prevent corporate tech being used to extract from us and deskill us. 2/

‘“I’ve had to really be open to having conversations with people I normally wouldn’t be having conversations with,” she said. Her coalition won out. On Sept. 9, the City Council voted unanimously to end Sedona’s contract with Flock Sedona is at least the eighth city since this summer’

“It’s hard imagining that Gatsby & those who partied at his house every night would’ve missed out on the kind of get-rich-quick schemes of the crypto & AI booms had they existed back then. It’s just as hard to imagine that our current Roaring ’20s is going to end any better than theirs did in 1929.”

OpenAI Foundation will invest in the infrastructure needed for OpenAI to make money. It’s a fraud of a non-profit: pretending to contribute to the commons, while actually covering the healthcare data and cybersecurity and whatever else can be offloaded by the for-profit entity.

Generative AI’s political economics seem unstable. On one hand, to try make money, tech execs have to do and allow for many unscrupulous harmful uses. On the other hand, they’re still losing billions of dollars on compute. The result will be backlash plus market crash. Let’s make the most of it.

“universities must take their role seriously to a) counter the technology industry's marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity”

In a new publication via @theconversation.com, Birhan &I argue, “When famine goes unrecorded, the suffering of entire populations is erased from the world’s moral and political map. It also weakens the mechanisms designed to prevent such atrocities elsewhere.” theconversation.com/starvation-a...

“AI won't persuade people to do harmful things any time soon; but AI companies are persuading us to do harmful things already.” @eryk.bsky.social on the danger of focusing exclusively on the hypothetical risks at the frontier of AI while ignoring present, tangible harms that don’t implicate AGI.

“I'm not saying these are glasses for creeps, but I can't help but feel like one while wearing them.” Reader, they are for creeps.