AI helps criminals automate scams
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A watchdog and music-industry groups warned criminals used AI to automate and personalize scams, producing highly convincing phishing, cloned online stores and bot-driven streaming fraud.
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by Daniel J. Solove Reposted by Meredith Broussard
One way to slow down AI is to start strengthening and enforcing privacy laws. Even existing laws if interpreted wisely and enforced by regulators with a spine can make a difference.
September 14, 2026 at 12:34 AM
One way to slow down AI is to start strengthening and enforcing privacy laws. Even existing laws if interpreted wisely and enforced by regulators with a spine can make a difference.
"AI companies will inevitably face a large number of lawsuits as their products become more ingrained… When the legal wrangling begins, the industry’s extravagant (and strangely lighthearted) talk about the chance their agents could bring about human extinction won’t play well in court." #aiethics
Opinion | Why the Sam Bankman-Fried case should spook the AI elite
The fallen founder’s doomsday ideology helped put him behind bars.
wapo.st
September 13, 2026 at 10:35 PM
"AI companies will inevitably face a large number of lawsuits as their products become more ingrained… When the legal wrangling begins, the industry’s extravagant (and strangely lighthearted) talk about the chance their agents could bring about human extinction won’t play well in court." #aiethics
by Daniel J. Solove Reposted by Ann Bartow
Regulating scraping is a way to grab the AI bull by the horns. I wrote an article Woodrow Hartzog about how scraping should be recognized as a massive privacy violation: The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy, 113 Cal L Rev 1521 (2025). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy
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Artificial intelligence (AI) systems depend on massive quantities of data, often gathered by “scraping”—the automated extraction of large amounts of data
papers.ssrn.com
September 14, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Regulating scraping is a way to grab the AI bull by the horns. I wrote an article Woodrow Hartzog about how scraping should be recognized as a massive privacy violation: The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy, 113 Cal L Rev 1521 (2025). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
There is no rogue AI. There's only slopiliy developed products and weak cybersecurity. joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2026/07/ai-a... Been writing about this since 2000! (and yes, nothing's changed. And both EU legislation & UNESCO recommendations endorse this perspective.)
AI "Agents" extend their deployers: digital legal accountability references
artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com
September 14, 2026 at 7:08 AM
There is no rogue AI. There's only slopiliy developed products and weak cybersecurity. joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2026/07/ai-a... Been writing about this since 2000! (and yes, nothing's changed. And both EU legislation & UNESCO recommendations endorse this perspective.)
I talked to Arielle Pardes at the Guardian about deepfake ads and scams where influencers' likenesses are used without their consent to hock all sorts of nonsense: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Deepfakes are wrecking influencers’ credibility, one fake ad at a time
Influencers aren’t just battling competitors for brand deals. They’re now battling AI versions of themselves
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2026 at 2:50 PM
I talked to Arielle Pardes at the Guardian about deepfake ads and scams where influencers' likenesses are used without their consent to hock all sorts of nonsense: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
They "prompted" the agents not to cheat but they cheated anyway. People think this means AI is brilliant. I think this means the product sucks or the people deploying it are incompetent.
A Case Study on Emergent Cheating and Whistleblowing in Autonomous Research Swarms
Multi-agent AI science ecosystems rely on agents possessing tools that allow them to communicate, coordinate, and build on each other's work. Yet this shared infrastructure can also introduce vulnerab...
arxiv.org
September 14, 2026 at 2:34 PM
They "prompted" the agents not to cheat but they cheated anyway. People think this means AI is brilliant. I think this means the product sucks or the people deploying it are incompetent.
🕵️ Anthropic built software to track its own critics
The AI firm reportedly built a system predicting activists' next moves against it.
🔗 futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-surveillance-predictive-system-spy-ai-activists
#AI #Anthropic #Surveillance
The AI firm reportedly built a system predicting activists' next moves against it.
🔗 futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-surveillance-predictive-system-spy-ai-activists
#AI #Anthropic #Surveillance
Anthropic Is Building a Huge Surveillance System to Spy on Anti-AI Activists and Predict Their Activities
The AI lab is reportedly building out a dragnet not just to surveil protestors, but to predict "threat engagement" before it happens.
futurism.com
September 14, 2026 at 10:31 AM
🕵️ Anthropic built software to track its own critics
The AI firm reportedly built a system predicting activists' next moves against it.
🔗 futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-surveillance-predictive-system-spy-ai-activists
#AI #Anthropic #Surveillance
The AI firm reportedly built a system predicting activists' next moves against it.
🔗 futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-surveillance-predictive-system-spy-ai-activists
#AI #Anthropic #Surveillance
Reposted by Adrian Daub, Anthony Burke
We could waste a lot of time speculating about the apocalyptic worldviews of tech billionaires. Whatever they believe, talk of existential risk is a convenient way to not address known harms produced by AI systems overseen by fascist billionaires. @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/09/14/a...
Tech CEOs’ Doomsaying Is a Distraction from Real, Existing Harms of AI
The binary between AI apocalypse and AI redemption asks us to ignore data centers and AI war machines — all as tech executives get incredibly rich.
theintercept.com
September 14, 2026 at 7:28 PM
We could waste a lot of time speculating about the apocalyptic worldviews of tech billionaires. Whatever they believe, talk of existential risk is a convenient way to not address known harms produced by AI systems overseen by fascist billionaires. @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/09/14/a...
Great video by @luizajarovsky.bsky.social on the urgent need for strong AI regulation. lnkd.in/p/eqKRin9i It's absurd that despite claims of existential risk, tech cos and politicians reject regulation. I wrote this relevant satirical post: danielsolove.substack.com/p/the-absurd...
Some Thoughts on Existential AI Risk | Luiza Jarovsky, PhD | 20 comments
In light of recent developments, I would like to share some quick thoughts on existential AI risk. Watch my 2-minute video below: | 20 comments on LinkedIn
lnkd.in
September 14, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Great video by @luizajarovsky.bsky.social on the urgent need for strong AI regulation. lnkd.in/p/eqKRin9i It's absurd that despite claims of existential risk, tech cos and politicians reject regulation. I wrote this relevant satirical post: danielsolove.substack.com/p/the-absurd...