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Who Are the Biggest AI Villains? An Industry Watchdog Has Made a List
1+ hour, 53+ min ago (461+ words) "The federal government shares the tech industry's vision for AI to be embedded everywhere, displacing human thought and labor, and deepening the strains on the environment and climate." With backlash against the artificial intelligence industry growing throughout the US, one…...
'The Creepiest Possible Path': Meta Letting Facebook, Instagram Use Your Personal Posts for AI Image Generation
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (226+ words) "People should not wake up to discover their face has become raw material for someone else's AI experiment. This is another invasion of consumers' privacy." Meta, the parent company of social networks including Facebook and Instagram, described its new Muse…...
AI 'Must Be Governed,' Says UN Chief, Sounding Alarm Over Killer Robots
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (734+ words) United Nations Secretary-General Ant'nio Guterres speaks in London on January 17, 2026. "Machines selecting and engaging their target and taking a life'without human control and judgment. That is morally repugnant. It is politically unacceptable. And it must be banned by international law....
Will Climate-Driven Heatwave Help Make the Case Against Big Tech Data Centers?
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (874+ words) Drone image of the Markley Group data center within a residential neighborhood in Lowell, Massachusetts on May 12, 2026. As power grids become strained amid the latest US heatwave, residents of communities with data centers are being asked to make sacrifices in…...
UN Creates 'AI for Good' Commission'Full of Big Tech Execs
1+ week, 1+ day ago (628+ words) Common Dreams...
Small Voices in the Jungle: An Ode to Horton the Elephant and the AI Resistance
1+ week, 1+ day ago (117+ words) Residents in Saline, Michigan rally against the $7 billion Stargate data center planned on southeast Michigan farm land on December 1, 2025. We need to keep listening'and we need to keep speaking. For we don't know whose "yopp" or "yapp" or any other…...
'We're Not a Company Town': Tech Hub Seattle Passes Data Center Moratorium
4+ week, 1+ day ago (29+ words) Common Dreams To donate by check, phone, or other method, see our More Ways to Give page....
AI Hacking Is Not the Scariest Part About Anthropic's Claude Mythos
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (734+ words) Allowing AI to build the next generation of AI is like taking our hands off the steering wheel at the same time as we're slamming the accelerator. If this isn't a recipe for disaster, what is? David Krueger is an…...
More Tech, Less Play: The Hidden Costs of AI Toys
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (29+ words) Opinion | More Tech, Less Play: The Hidden Costs of AI Toys Common Dreams To donate by check, phone, or other method, see our More Ways to Give page....
Virginia's Data Center Alley Reveals Big Tech's Vision for America
2+ mon, 5+ hour ago (164+ words) An aerial view shows cooling vent fans on the roof next to generators on the lower level of a Digital Realty data center in Ashburn, Virginia on November 12, 2025. Their behavior reveals an air of entitlement to turn any community they…...