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Artificial Intelligence
2026-10-04: 'Empire of AI' - artificial intelligence as an imperialist project
2026-09-29
2026-09-26
Pope Leo warns of AI threat to humanity at start of three-day France visit: ‘Pope Leo has warned against losing humanity in a “paradise of machines”’
2026-09-20: Person of Interest - an action sci-fi show from 15 years ago - raises questions about AI and surveillance we still need to urgently grapple with
2026-09-20: 🎥 Watched The Creator. It’s a few decades from today, where humans, of course, gave up many of …
2026-09-19: The Monevator blog summarises the darkly hilarious offer our big tech AI overlords incessantly …
2026-09-07
2026-09-01: So ‘quietly’ has pushed its way through the ranks to be the word that I now most assume …
2026-09-01
Anthropic sued over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songs: ‘The plaintiffs claim they are victims of “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.’
2026-08-27
AI is coming for your glasses: ‘Critics call it cringe stalkerware’, seems right, given Meta make them.
2026-08-16
2026-08-12
Mark Zuckerberg is back, and still talking bollocks about AI: It’s almost like these tech bro billionaires aren’t actually geniuses.
2026-08-01
2026-07-28: Most Internet traffic is now 'non-human'
2026-07-16
Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims: The workers allege that those AI tools targeted them after they asked for protected or maternity leave or disability accommodation.
2026-07-04
UK parents warned over posting images of children amid AI sexual abuse fears: ‘The average parent or carer does not post a picture of a child online thinking that it might be scraped to be turned into CSAM’.
2026-06-25
Meta pauses employee tracker for AI training amid privacy concerns: Funnily enough its employees were not fans of ‘a tool that tracked staff keystrokes, mouse clicks and content displayed on computer screens in order to collect data for training its AI models’.
AI helps read papyrus scroll burnt to crisp during Vesuvius eruption: Seems a decent use of AI if accurate - the doc was all about Stoic philosophy.
2026-06-17
France to ditch Palantir’s AI data tools in favour of domestic provider: A wise move that needs to happen elsewhere too.
2026-06-13: The Trump administration forces Anthropic to stop foreign nationals accessing its latest AI models
2026-06-06: On the grimmer side of Wikipedia entries I see there’s now an official page for ‘Deaths …
2026-05-30: Pure nerd in-joke perfection from @KyleTrainEmoji: PICARD: Data, shields up DATA: Brilliant! …
2026-05-28: The pope has (very lengthy) thoughts on AI. I can’t pretend to have read it all yet, but the …
2026-05-02: When my OneDrive sync started seemingly permanently destroying some of my files I was surprised to …