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FCC Announces New Rule to Confront Deepfake Robocalls
While welcoming the rule, one advocate said it is “not enough to safeguard citizens and our elections.” Just over two weeks after New Hampshire…
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Section 230 Is a Civil Rights Statute
Without Section 230’s protections, Americans would know less about police brutality, allegations of sexual abuse by the powerful, or the options for women seeking…
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Imagining the Ecomodernist Death Ray
We need green military technology to kill one another sustainably. You probably have never read the 2015, “An Ecomodernist Manifesto.” Good for you! That…
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Landmark Artificial Intelligence Act in EU Slammed as Rights ‘Failure’
One expert said the law “is littered with concessions to industry lobbying, exemptions for the most dangerous uses of AI by law enforcement and…
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DOJ, 16 States Challenge Apple’s ‘Monopoly Power’ in Landmark Antitrust Suit
“No company, even one as big as Apple, is above the law,” said Arizona’s attorney general. The U.S. Department of Justice and 16 states…
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Progressives Praise New US Guidelines for Government AI Use
“Today, the OMB’s guidance takes us one step further down the path of facing a technology-rich future that begins to address its harms,” said…
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No, We’re Not Stuck With Nuclear Weapons
To say an technology will always be with us because it can’t be disinvented is like saying you will always be alive because you…
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Israel’s AI Targeting System Reflects the Inhumanity It Was Programmed With
The rise of AI belies the fantasy that we can escape moral culpability by assigning life-or-death decisions to a machine. The war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas…
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A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender
The Lavender AI system is a new weapon developed by Israel, but the kind of kill lists that it generates have a long pedigree…
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Workers Stage Sit-Ins to Demand Google End Israeli Cloud Contract
“Just as people of conscience demanded institutions cut ties with apartheid South Africa in the 1980s, the time is now to rise up in…
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‘McCarthyism Is Alive and Well’: Google Fires 28 for Protesting Israel Contract
“These mass, illegal firings will not stop us,” said organizers. “Make no mistake, we will continue organizing until the company drops Project Nimbus and…
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What’s Scarier Than Unchecked AI? A ‘Swarm’ of 3,400 Corporate AI Lobbyists
“Either we let corporate lobbyists write rules on AI to concentrate corporate power and wealth, or we demand that government officials prioritize the public…
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Report Urges Congress to Tackle Venture Capitalists Peddling AI ‘Miracle Weapons’
“Neither taxpayers nor the Congress should buy the hype surrounding these new technologies without careful oversight and scrutiny.” A new report released Monday sounds…
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10 Actions Every Campaign Can Take to Make A Difference Against Deepfakes
Regulative and legislative solutions are being suggested to deal with deep fakes, but campaigns can take real actions now. Nefarious audio and video content…
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The End of Affordable Internet
The federal funding contained in the Affordable Connectivity Program offered a vital lifeline for people in South Carolina and nationwide. Now we must fight…
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‘Largest IT Outage in History’ Sparks Global Chaos
“This is basically what we were all worried about with Y2K, except it’s actually happened this time.” A global technology outage attributed to a…
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Watchdogs Blame Corporate Concentration for Global IT Outage
“It is long overdue that Microsoft and other Big Tech monopolies are broken up—for good,” said one expert. Digital rights advocates responded to Friday’s…
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The Great Global Computer Outage Is a Warning We Ignore at Our Peril
If we cannot control the effects of our own technological invention then in what sense can those creations be said to serve human interests…
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US Court Rules Google a Monopoly in ‘Biggest Antitrust Case of the 21st Century’
“Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” said a federal judge in the decision. A federal judge…
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Investigation Exposes Big Tech Ties to Israeli Genocide in Gaza
It’s more than complicity: It’s direct participation and collaboration with the Israeli military on the tools they’re using to kill Palestinians,” said one policy…