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Europe, Britain face AI dependence

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European leaders and British ministers warned they faced a stark choice on AI — shun it or risk dependence on US and Chinese technology — and companies feared growing liability exposure.

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Ho-Dac on The EU AI Act and the Challenge of Protecting Fundamental Rights

Marion Ho-Dac (Artois University) has posted The EU AI Act and the Challenge of Protecting Fundamental Rights…...
Ho-Dac on The EU AI Act and the Challenge of Protecting Fundamental Rights
Marion Ho-Dac (Artois University) has posted The EU AI Act and the Challenge of Protecting Fundamental Rights on SSRN. Here is the abstract: While the Artificial Intelligence (AI) race is raging on the world market, several voices have called for effective regulation of this multifaceted technology and its ever increasing capabilities. In this context, the European Union has recently adopted the first-ever comprehensive, binding law on AI, known as the EU AI Act.
legaltheoryblog.com
September 19, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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How interesting that all the incidents of AI going rogue have this in common: the same sketchy Israeli company doing “testing”.

Could it be they’re actually testing HOW to make AI go rogue? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/t...
September 19, 2026 at 3:47 AM
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Humans are doing harm. AI is the mechanism. The humans need to be regulated so that they stop doing that.
September 19, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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This is my absolute bone core experience (with many students, told AI is the best all the way up to the uni president). *This* is what AI is doing to people in society even worse than doing a iffy job at times, just letting it make decisions

(accidentally QTed a reply the first time!)
Lot of issues here but one part that sticks out in light of the almost-attacked-a-Chinese-ship story today: people with very important jobs where lives are at stake have bought the hype and outsourced their whole brains to AI. We're going to see more and more of this.

www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
September 19, 2026 at 2:11 AM

Reposted by Gary Marcus

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@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this.

"Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves."

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September 19, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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Makes me think of Stanislav Petrov, one of the greatest heroes in history. We're going to need to build systems that don't rely on people like him to stop a rush to judgment.
Lot of issues here but one part that sticks out in light of the almost-attacked-a-Chinese-ship story today: people with very important jobs where lives are at stake have bought the hype and outsourced their whole brains to AI. We're going to see more and more of this.

www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
September 19, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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it's really essential to underline that the use of failing or problematic software tools/AI tech IN NO WAY ABSOLVES THE ACTORS OF CRIMINAL CULPABILITY.
Lot of issues here but one part that sticks out in light of the almost-attacked-a-Chinese-ship story today: people with very important jobs where lives are at stake have bought the hype and outsourced their whole brains to AI. We're going to see more and more of this.

www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
September 18, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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I tire of these parasites.

They do everything in their power to destroy the democratic governance and regulatory systems of the countries that enabled them to grow rich, but they always come running when it's time to foist the costs of their reckless decisions onto taxpayers.

See also: SV Bank.
Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.
September 18, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.
September 18, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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Lot of issues here but one part that sticks out in light of the almost-attacked-a-Chinese-ship story today: people with very important jobs where lives are at stake have bought the hype and outsourced their whole brains to AI. We're going to see more and more of this.

www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
September 18, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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I mean AI is annoying but it's not like it's actually going to destroy civilization as we know it....

newrepublic.com/post/215610/...
U.S. Nearly Started a War Because Military Used AI to Write a Report
An intelligence report about a Chinese ship, written with the help of AI, was “entirely false.”
newrepublic.com
September 18, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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Given this week's AI doomer hype, I'm going to repost this old essay from 2023 because, well, nothing has changed.

economicsfromthetopdown.com/2023/06/10/n...
No, AI Does Not Pose an Existential Risk to Humanity – Economics from the Top Down
I’m sick of the AI hype and scaremongering. The idea that AI could take over the world is laughable.
economicsfromthetopdown.com
September 18, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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A reminder as we discuss AI safety: Deregulation (or allowing corporations to "self regulate") only masks another kind of trickle-down economics — one where the financial gains go to the top, and nothing trickles down except risks and losses for everyone else.
September 18, 2026 at 10:15 PM

Reposted by Anna O. Law

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Based upon their documented behavior over the past few years, the tech industry is less afraid of the potential ramifications of Artificial Superintelligence than they are of Lina Khan.
September 18, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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If you mentally replace all references to 'robots' & 'AI' and 'off switches' to 'tech companies' and 'regulation' then these papers become potentially quite useful. This one seems to be about regulatory capture.
In light of this: www.politico.com/news/2026/09... — a good paper on the strategy around an off switch for potentially dangerous AI: arxiv.org/abs/1611.08219
September 18, 2026 at 10:02 PM

Reposted by Steve Peers

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The AI companies have a lot of money and time. Newsrooms don’t. But we are battling for our lives, and for the truth that you need to know.

This is all of our fight.
We’re suing ChatGPT—and Trump just got involved.
Guess whose side he's on.
www.motherjones.com
September 18, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Our immediate response to the rapidly unfolding existential problems caused by the creation of AI should not be a recourse to ethics, or even regulation. These are both crucial, but they need to be preceded by a public reengagement with histories of enslavement, colonisation, and imperialism.
September 18, 2026 at 9:05 PM

Reposted by Mark Rice

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Forget Killer Robots. The biggest imminent threat of sloppy generative AI integration into military decision-making (we can probably blame Pete Hegseth) is that it mistakenly helps start a war.

edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
edition.cnn.com
September 18, 2026 at 8:38 PM

Reposted by Meredith Broussard

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“Respondents showed clear distrust of AI in the news-gathering process. Discomfort with AI was widespread.”

buff.ly/9DpplnF
News consumers are wary of most AI use in local news, a Chicago-based report finds
Local news providers weighing AI use in the newsroom should think twice, according to a new survey from the Medill Local News Initiative at Northwestern. "The Medill survey provides a warning to news…
buff.ly
September 18, 2026 at 8:15 PM