The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.

Even as they create and enable expansive virtual worlds, data centers are physical buildings in real communities around the nation and the globe.

In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million.

Artificial Intelligence is not only responsible for worrying amounts of earth-warming greenhouse gases: the technology's environmental footprint is also expanding at a pace that could strain the planet’s natural resources.

Looks closely and you’ll see that everything is equally off.

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

As East Bay communities raise concerns about civil liberties and immigration enforcement, the license plate camera company is seeking support from its customers — law enforcement officers.

The Card Players by Maria Helena Viera da Silva (1948)

We Have A Transparency Problem When It Comes To Data Center Construction

From South Africa’s historic policy withdrawal to $1.2 million Deloitte reports in Canada, AI hallucinations are infiltrating official documents. Inside the global crisis of institutional trust.

International academics, victims, social media companies and industry bosses have come together to discuss how to tackle tech-enabled abuse.

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But can it clean the floors?

This week we have an in-depth briefing from our Data Security team and updates from Archives & History, Infectious Disease Control, and Trans Healthcare.

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Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

470 public sources document cross-border coordination of age verification laws, corrupted legislatures, intelligence-linked verification companies, and the surveillance infrastructure being built under the banner of child protection.

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Large Language Models like ChatGPT have led people to their deaths, often by suicide. This site serves to remember those who have been affected, to call out the dangers of AI that claims to be intelligent, and the corporations that are responsible.

As large language models take over more and more cognitive tasks, researchers are warning this mental outsourcing comes with a cost.

The Department of Homeland Security is developing smart glasses for ICE, according to budget documents.

Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...

“This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”

I coined the term “Borg Complex” on a whim, and, though I’ve written on the concept a handful of times, nowhere have I presented a clear, straightforward description. That’s…

So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand.

Google’s former AI chief, Geoffrey Hinton, says there are two ways in which AI poses an existential threat to humanity. But he misses the biggest existential risk of all.

Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.

Humans, however flawed, are

People increasingly consult generative artificial intelligence (AI) while reasoning. As AI becomes embedded in daily thought, what becomes of human judgment? We