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Open Media and Information Companies Initiative (Open MIC) works to hold companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google & Meta accountable via shareholder engagement.
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#shareholderengagement #responsibleinvestment
At #IGF2025 in June, experts from @heartlandorg.bsky.social, BHRRC, @openmicmedia.bsky.social, and UN B-Tech held a roundtable on dual-use tech, used by both civilians + military.
Key takeaways here: https://loom.ly/-h_Wn0k
Key takeaways here: https://loom.ly/-h_Wn0k
November 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
At #IGF2025 in June, experts from @heartlandorg.bsky.social, BHRRC, @openmicmedia.bsky.social, and UN B-Tech held a roundtable on dual-use tech, used by both civilians + military.
Key takeaways here: https://loom.ly/-h_Wn0k
Key takeaways here: https://loom.ly/-h_Wn0k
Union shareholders are fighting back against abusive AI.
Audrey Mocle of @openmicmedia.bsky.social weighs in on the power shareholders have to hold Big Tech accountable.
More from @inthesetimes.com: https://loom.ly/NZz5RTA
Audrey Mocle of @openmicmedia.bsky.social weighs in on the power shareholders have to hold Big Tech accountable.
More from @inthesetimes.com: https://loom.ly/NZz5RTA
October 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Union shareholders are fighting back against abusive AI.
Audrey Mocle of @openmicmedia.bsky.social weighs in on the power shareholders have to hold Big Tech accountable.
More from @inthesetimes.com: https://loom.ly/NZz5RTA
Audrey Mocle of @openmicmedia.bsky.social weighs in on the power shareholders have to hold Big Tech accountable.
More from @inthesetimes.com: https://loom.ly/NZz5RTA
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In our new Future of Finance episode, @michaelconnor.bsky.social, Executive Director of @openmicmedia.bsky.social, explains how shareholder proposals drive change — even when they don’t pass.
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkWF...
Listen: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-kcutz...
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkWF...
Listen: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-kcutz...
October 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
In our new Future of Finance episode, @michaelconnor.bsky.social, Executive Director of @openmicmedia.bsky.social, explains how shareholder proposals drive change — even when they don’t pass.
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkWF...
Listen: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-kcutz...
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkWF...
Listen: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-kcutz...
Our director joined @georgesdyer.bsky.social on the @ien-online.bsky.social Future of Finance podcast to unpack how investors can steer AI toward long-term value — and how engagement can move the market toward safer innovation.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Our director joined @georgesdyer.bsky.social on the @ien-online.bsky.social Future of Finance podcast to unpack how investors can steer AI toward long-term value — and how engagement can move the market toward safer innovation.
Understanding AI: Four-Part Series starts today — 6:00 PM ET
@datasociety.bsky.social is co-hosting a four-part event series exploring the societal implications of #AI.
🌐 Visit the Data & Society website for information and livestream: https://loom.ly/OgpNTyo
@datasociety.bsky.social is co-hosting a four-part event series exploring the societal implications of #AI.
🌐 Visit the Data & Society website for information and livestream: https://loom.ly/OgpNTyo
September 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Understanding AI: Four-Part Series starts today — 6:00 PM ET
@datasociety.bsky.social is co-hosting a four-part event series exploring the societal implications of #AI.
🌐 Visit the Data & Society website for information and livestream: https://loom.ly/OgpNTyo
@datasociety.bsky.social is co-hosting a four-part event series exploring the societal implications of #AI.
🌐 Visit the Data & Society website for information and livestream: https://loom.ly/OgpNTyo
Human Rights | Technology | Artificial Intelligence
Upcoming global events offer insights and opportunities to shape policy on emerging technologies and their impacts on communities around the world 👇
Upcoming global events offer insights and opportunities to shape policy on emerging technologies and their impacts on communities around the world 👇
June 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Human Rights | Technology | Artificial Intelligence
Upcoming global events offer insights and opportunities to shape policy on emerging technologies and their impacts on communities around the world 👇
Upcoming global events offer insights and opportunities to shape policy on emerging technologies and their impacts on communities around the world 👇
"Layoffs described as progress"
Tech companies and the politicians who love them 💕🤖 are cutting jobs with the excuse that AI is better than people. Not only is that bad for workers, but in most cases it's just not true. AI is not nearly as advanced as they're claiming.
Tech companies and the politicians who love them 💕🤖 are cutting jobs with the excuse that AI is better than people. Not only is that bad for workers, but in most cases it's just not true. AI is not nearly as advanced as they're claiming.
Weaponizing AGI: How Speculative Futures Undermine Worker Protections | TechPolicy.Press
Natalia Luka critiques speculative narratives about AI's future and how they are driving policy inaction.
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June 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
"Layoffs described as progress"
Tech companies and the politicians who love them 💕🤖 are cutting jobs with the excuse that AI is better than people. Not only is that bad for workers, but in most cases it's just not true. AI is not nearly as advanced as they're claiming.
Tech companies and the politicians who love them 💕🤖 are cutting jobs with the excuse that AI is better than people. Not only is that bad for workers, but in most cases it's just not true. AI is not nearly as advanced as they're claiming.
Going a big step beyond simply hiring tech companies to build out defense systems, the U.S. Army is actually swearing in tech executives to consult internally.
Palantir, OpenAI, Meta and Thinking Machines Lab are represented by newly minted lieutenant colonels.
Palantir, OpenAI, Meta and Thinking Machines Lab are represented by newly minted lieutenant colonels.
Army bringing in big tech executives as lieutenant colonels
The Army is swearing in top tech executives from Meta, OpenAI and Palantir as senior officers to be part-time advisors.
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June 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Going a big step beyond simply hiring tech companies to build out defense systems, the U.S. Army is actually swearing in tech executives to consult internally.
Palantir, OpenAI, Meta and Thinking Machines Lab are represented by newly minted lieutenant colonels.
Palantir, OpenAI, Meta and Thinking Machines Lab are represented by newly minted lieutenant colonels.
To AI startups, it looks like the only certainty right now is national defense spending.
DOGE cuts and Pentagon budget increases are pushing tech companies to move away from products that support health or international development and instead build the AI-powered war machine of the future 👇
DOGE cuts and Pentagon budget increases are pushing tech companies to move away from products that support health or international development and instead build the AI-powered war machine of the future 👇
AI companies pitch Washington as cuts roil federal landscape
How the next wave of technology is upending the global economy and its power structures
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June 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
To AI startups, it looks like the only certainty right now is national defense spending.
DOGE cuts and Pentagon budget increases are pushing tech companies to move away from products that support health or international development and instead build the AI-powered war machine of the future 👇
DOGE cuts and Pentagon budget increases are pushing tech companies to move away from products that support health or international development and instead build the AI-powered war machine of the future 👇
"...transparency and accountability can no longer be optional."
One of the key findings in the latest Ranking Digital Rights Index shows that privately owned platforms (like X and TikTok) are failing to provide basic transparency on governance, risks, and corporate responsibility.
One of the key findings in the latest Ranking Digital Rights Index shows that privately owned platforms (like X and TikTok) are failing to provide basic transparency on governance, risks, and corporate responsibility.
June 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
"...transparency and accountability can no longer be optional."
One of the key findings in the latest Ranking Digital Rights Index shows that privately owned platforms (like X and TikTok) are failing to provide basic transparency on governance, risks, and corporate responsibility.
One of the key findings in the latest Ranking Digital Rights Index shows that privately owned platforms (like X and TikTok) are failing to provide basic transparency on governance, risks, and corporate responsibility.
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NEW REPORT: Artificial Power, our 2025 Landscape Report, is out.
Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible.
Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape
Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible.
Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape
June 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
NEW REPORT: Artificial Power, our 2025 Landscape Report, is out.
Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible.
Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape
Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible.
Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape
📣 Open MIC will attend this year's Internet Governance Forum in Oslo!
@intgovforum.bsky.social is an annual event established by United Nations mandate that brings together governments, NGOs and companies in collaboration to solve pressing issues related to internet governance.
@intgovforum.bsky.social is an annual event established by United Nations mandate that brings together governments, NGOs and companies in collaboration to solve pressing issues related to internet governance.
June 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
📣 Open MIC will attend this year's Internet Governance Forum in Oslo!
@intgovforum.bsky.social is an annual event established by United Nations mandate that brings together governments, NGOs and companies in collaboration to solve pressing issues related to internet governance.
@intgovforum.bsky.social is an annual event established by United Nations mandate that brings together governments, NGOs and companies in collaboration to solve pressing issues related to internet governance.
Hidden in the "Big Beautiful Bill" is a 10-year moratorium on state and local laws regulating AI.
@techpolicypress.bsky.social reports in their May tech policy roundup:
@techpolicypress.bsky.social reports in their May tech policy roundup:
May 2025 US Tech Policy Roundup | TechPolicy.Press
A roundup of the most important US tech policy developments in the federal government, the courts, and beyond from Freedman Consulting and Tech Policy Press.
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June 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Hidden in the "Big Beautiful Bill" is a 10-year moratorium on state and local laws regulating AI.
@techpolicypress.bsky.social reports in their May tech policy roundup:
@techpolicypress.bsky.social reports in their May tech policy roundup:
"Optimizing for engagement" is tech-industry shorthand for increasing the time people spend scrolling, swiping or chatting with bots. It's bad enough with old-school social media, but harms are compounded with AI-powered friends, girlfriends, and therapists.
June 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"Optimizing for engagement" is tech-industry shorthand for increasing the time people spend scrolling, swiping or chatting with bots. It's bad enough with old-school social media, but harms are compounded with AI-powered friends, girlfriends, and therapists.
"This proxy season, over 98% of investors have voted in support of maintaining current corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs."
Proposals from right-wing think tank NCPPR have targeted DEI programs at 13 corporations so far. 13 times the proposals have been decisively voted down.
Proposals from right-wing think tank NCPPR have targeted DEI programs at 13 corporations so far. 13 times the proposals have been decisively voted down.
May 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"This proxy season, over 98% of investors have voted in support of maintaining current corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs."
Proposals from right-wing think tank NCPPR have targeted DEI programs at 13 corporations so far. 13 times the proposals have been decisively voted down.
Proposals from right-wing think tank NCPPR have targeted DEI programs at 13 corporations so far. 13 times the proposals have been decisively voted down.
"The AI boom has taken off at an awkward time for the fight against climate change," says journalist @kenzabryan.ft.com.
Despite commitments to clean energy and decarbonization, Big Tech's data centers are increasing our reliance on fossil fuels.
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Despite commitments to clean energy and decarbonization, Big Tech's data centers are increasing our reliance on fossil fuels.
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May 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"The AI boom has taken off at an awkward time for the fight against climate change," says journalist @kenzabryan.ft.com.
Despite commitments to clean energy and decarbonization, Big Tech's data centers are increasing our reliance on fossil fuels.
loom.ly/fQssNbg
Despite commitments to clean energy and decarbonization, Big Tech's data centers are increasing our reliance on fossil fuels.
loom.ly/fQssNbg
Chinese tech companies have historically been some of the least transparent in the Ranking Digital Rights Index – not surprising, given the country's "tightly controlled" internet.
This year that changed: three Chinese companies showed significant improvements in governance transparency.
This year that changed: three Chinese companies showed significant improvements in governance transparency.
The 2025 Ranking Digital Rights Big Tech Edition
A comprehensive ranking of top big tech disclosed policies and practices affecting people’s rights to freedom of expression and privacy.
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May 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Chinese tech companies have historically been some of the least transparent in the Ranking Digital Rights Index – not surprising, given the country's "tightly controlled" internet.
This year that changed: three Chinese companies showed significant improvements in governance transparency.
This year that changed: three Chinese companies showed significant improvements in governance transparency.
This week several Big Tech companies are holding their annual meetings, and shareholders are already expressing concern that the companies will backslide on their environmental promises due to AI's heavy use of energy and water.
19 Practical Ways To Reduce AI’s Environmental Impact
As AI scales, so does the need to prioritize sustainability—both in how these models are built and when and where they’re run.
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May 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
This week several Big Tech companies are holding their annual meetings, and shareholders are already expressing concern that the companies will backslide on their environmental promises due to AI's heavy use of energy and water.
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AI study aid chatbots are supposed to help kids with homework.
Instead, they provide date rape-drug recipes and “pickup artistry” advice.
KnowUnity’s ‘SchoolGPT’ chatbot was “helping 31,031 other students” when it produced a detailed how-to for synthesizing fentanyl
www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...
Instead, they provide date rape-drug recipes and “pickup artistry” advice.
KnowUnity’s ‘SchoolGPT’ chatbot was “helping 31,031 other students” when it produced a detailed how-to for synthesizing fentanyl
www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...
May 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
AI study aid chatbots are supposed to help kids with homework.
Instead, they provide date rape-drug recipes and “pickup artistry” advice.
KnowUnity’s ‘SchoolGPT’ chatbot was “helping 31,031 other students” when it produced a detailed how-to for synthesizing fentanyl
www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...
Instead, they provide date rape-drug recipes and “pickup artistry” advice.
KnowUnity’s ‘SchoolGPT’ chatbot was “helping 31,031 other students” when it produced a detailed how-to for synthesizing fentanyl
www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...
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⏰ Application deadline in 1 week
🚨 Opportunity to support our work investigating and exposing the use of data and technology in the migration context.
If you are a legal researcher interested in migration, please apply before EOD 30th May 2025: privacyinternational.org/opportunitie...
🚨 Opportunity to support our work investigating and exposing the use of data and technology in the migration context.
If you are a legal researcher interested in migration, please apply before EOD 30th May 2025: privacyinternational.org/opportunitie...
Research Consultant - Migration
BackgroundPrivacy International (PI) has been investigating and exposing the use of data and technology in the migration context, and we aim to build the knowledge and expertise of organisations and…
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May 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
⏰ Application deadline in 1 week
🚨 Opportunity to support our work investigating and exposing the use of data and technology in the migration context.
If you are a legal researcher interested in migration, please apply before EOD 30th May 2025: privacyinternational.org/opportunitie...
🚨 Opportunity to support our work investigating and exposing the use of data and technology in the migration context.
If you are a legal researcher interested in migration, please apply before EOD 30th May 2025: privacyinternational.org/opportunitie...
Essay by @janrydzak.bsky.social as part of the 2025 Ranking Digital Rights Index outlines the state of Big Tech's human rights impacts.
"The U.S. tech giants had three years to make progress. But our results strongly suggest they don’t have much to show for it."
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"The U.S. tech giants had three years to make progress. But our results strongly suggest they don’t have much to show for it."
loom.ly/HFLRtu4
The 2025 Ranking Digital Rights Big Tech Edition
A comprehensive ranking of top big tech disclosed policies and practices affecting people’s rights to freedom of expression and privacy.
loom.ly
May 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Essay by @janrydzak.bsky.social as part of the 2025 Ranking Digital Rights Index outlines the state of Big Tech's human rights impacts.
"The U.S. tech giants had three years to make progress. But our results strongly suggest they don’t have much to show for it."
loom.ly/HFLRtu4
"The U.S. tech giants had three years to make progress. But our results strongly suggest they don’t have much to show for it."
loom.ly/HFLRtu4
#FacialRecognition is a privacy nightmare, and is rightly banned in many jurisdictions. But a new tool called Track gives law enforcement agencies a loophole: instead of faces, it tracks non-biometric parameters like bodyweight, height, gender, hair color, and shoe color.
May 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
#FacialRecognition is a privacy nightmare, and is rightly banned in many jurisdictions. But a new tool called Track gives law enforcement agencies a loophole: instead of faces, it tracks non-biometric parameters like bodyweight, height, gender, hair color, and shoe color.
📫 The latest Open MIC newsletter is out:
-New Report ranks Big Tech on human rights
-“WTF Are Data Centers?”: Open MIC joins video panel
-Webinar on changing EU regulations
-Upcoming AGMs to watch
mailchi.mp/openmic/apri...
-New Report ranks Big Tech on human rights
-“WTF Are Data Centers?”: Open MIC joins video panel
-Webinar on changing EU regulations
-Upcoming AGMs to watch
mailchi.mp/openmic/apri...
Open MIC News & Updates – May 2025
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May 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
📫 The latest Open MIC newsletter is out:
-New Report ranks Big Tech on human rights
-“WTF Are Data Centers?”: Open MIC joins video panel
-Webinar on changing EU regulations
-Upcoming AGMs to watch
mailchi.mp/openmic/apri...
-New Report ranks Big Tech on human rights
-“WTF Are Data Centers?”: Open MIC joins video panel
-Webinar on changing EU regulations
-Upcoming AGMs to watch
mailchi.mp/openmic/apri...
📺 Panel video from MediaJustice explores the real harms Big Tech data centers are causing to communities, feat. Michael Connor of @openmicmedia.bsky.social, @keshaunpearson.bsky.social of Memphis Community Against Pollution, and Vincent Acuña of @athenaforall.bsky.social and @powerswitchaction.org.
May 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
📺 Panel video from MediaJustice explores the real harms Big Tech data centers are causing to communities, feat. Michael Connor of @openmicmedia.bsky.social, @keshaunpearson.bsky.social of Memphis Community Against Pollution, and Vincent Acuña of @athenaforall.bsky.social and @powerswitchaction.org.
DOGE isn't just cutting the fat in Washington. It's also combining data on U.S. citizens in an unprecedented way -- potentially creating a "database of ruin," as warned by @georgetownlaw.bsky.social prof. @paulohm.bsky.social.
May 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
DOGE isn't just cutting the fat in Washington. It's also combining data on U.S. citizens in an unprecedented way -- potentially creating a "database of ruin," as warned by @georgetownlaw.bsky.social prof. @paulohm.bsky.social.