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Researchers and European officials warned that rapid AI advances could threaten democracies and labor markets and urged coordinated policies, including wealth taxes and national AI strategies by 2027.

Reposted by Michael A. Clemens, Lilian Edwards, Catherine D’Ignazio , and 4 more

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over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
September 24, 2026 at 8:12 PM

by Elizabeth Warren

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by Timnit Gebru

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by Patrick Dunleavy Reposted by Terry Gourvish

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What happens when citizens use AI and social media to start reshaping their relationships with government?
We're seeking novel theory & empirics for our new "Public Policy Journal" Special Issue publicpolicyjournal.org/special-issu...
September 25, 2026 at 10:20 AM

Reposted by Bessma Momani

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“The reality is, we don’t have to wait to see how AI will bring about unprecedented death and destruction, because we’ve already witnessed its unleashing.”
It’s not hypothetical: the dangers of AI are already here | Granate Kim and Mohamed Hussein
Israel and the US have used AI to kill in Gaza and Iran, while law enforcement uses it in surveillance and arrests. The future is here
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2026 at 12:18 PM

by Paul Langley Reposted by John Hogan

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All surveys show most people don't want autonomous AI agents to run their lives, but the 'revolution' gets ever closer anyway. Next step will be platforms and apps that only work for people who use AI agents, enforcing uptake www.ft.com/content/e60b... via @FT
The AI agent revolution has moved a big step closer
Launch of Muse by Meta has provided a glimpse of how the technology could be turned into a mass-market product
www.ft.com
September 25, 2026 at 9:15 AM

by Pedro Domingos

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Reposted by Simon Lester

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1/Forget AI existential threat. This is far scarier. Jensen Huang lays out a dystopian future of computer outsourcing, human deskilling, and firm recklessness shrouded in the notion that these firms are unleashing an ayn randian paradise. Take a listen.
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
Opinion | Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far
Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, does not want you to be afraid of A.I.
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2026 at 12:25 PM

by Patrick Dunleavy

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AI inequality is not only about bias – it’s about who has the power to predict blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
AI inequality is not only about bias – it’s about who has the power to predict
AI debates often focus the bias in algorithms - but the deeper inequality concerns who controls the data, computing capacity and institutional power to predict
blogs.lse.ac.uk
September 25, 2026 at 8:39 AM

Reposted by John Hogan, Brigitte Nerlich, Shannon Vallor

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Having just started teaching new undergraduates at uni, I think we're missing a key issue in the debate about AI: these kids do not know how *not* to use AI, full stop. We assume they are 'digital natives' but they are not and a Google Scholar search is as alien to them as an archival card-index.
September 25, 2026 at 9:52 AM

by Robert B. Reich

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Could the bipartisan AI revolt help us prevent end-times fascism?

Here's what my friends Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor think.
September 24, 2026 at 6:01 PM

by Patrick Dunleavy

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by Dean Baker

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by Pedro Domingos

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Reposted by Fabián Muniesa

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The way AI will kill people is by making climate change worse.
Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain
It’s giving Thanos energy.
www.theverge.com
September 25, 2026 at 6:19 AM

Reposted by Stacy D. VanDeveer

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2/ New research from our Johns Hopkins's Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab: The US is pulling back from climate & going all-in on AI.

China is stepping in to build green factories overseas. The scale is staggering. Explore the cleantech manufacturing FDI database
cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com
September 25, 2026 at 1:10 PM

Reposted by Daniel W. Drezner, Aviel Roshwald

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ED HENRY: This AI race--

SEBASTIAN GORKA: No no no no no no no. Sorry. It's SI. As of this week, it's Super Intelligence.

ED HENRY: Thank you for the clarification from the White House
September 24, 2026 at 9:19 PM

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by Scott L. Greer

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One implication is that the owners of these models, who as we know are lovely and grounded people, will have frightening power
pettertornberg.com Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 7h
Will AI give us a shared basis for political knowledge, or will Democrats and Republicans end up asking increasingly different chatbots?

New preprint: We find a self-reinforcing loop that can pull AI models apart politically.
We call it the Centrifugal Alignment Spiral 🧵

arxiv.org/pdf/2609.28486
September 25, 2026 at 9:16 AM

by Ian Bremmer

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