Joanita Nagaba
@joanita-n.bsky.social
Navigating the terrains of AI, Society and Democracy .||. Human from planet Earth trying to do better.
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Amidst legal challenges and press reports on the dangers of AI chatbots to teens, OpenAI has made multiple announcements about its approach to safety and new parental controls. Vaishnavi J unpacks what they say and considers how we can build AI systems that genuinely serve young users.
Teen Safety is the Price of Admission for OpenAI and Its Peers | TechPolicy.Press
The scrutiny facing OpenAI today signals that innovation on teen safety is fast becoming the price of admission for operating AI tools, writes Vaishnavi J.
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October 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Amidst legal challenges and press reports on the dangers of AI chatbots to teens, OpenAI has made multiple announcements about its approach to safety and new parental controls. Vaishnavi J unpacks what they say and considers how we can build AI systems that genuinely serve young users.
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"The United Nations on Thursday announced a plan to establish itself as the leading global forum to guide the path and pace of artificial intelligence, a major foray into the raging debate over the future of the rapidly changing technology."
Countries Consider A.I.’s Dangers and Benefits at U.N.
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
"The United Nations on Thursday announced a plan to establish itself as the leading global forum to guide the path and pace of artificial intelligence, a major foray into the raging debate over the future of the rapidly changing technology."
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The crisis of synthetic child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is getting worse. In the US, the federal government could create a safe harbor for red teaming models for child sexual abuse material, reports Tech Policy Press fellow Jasmine Mithani.
How Congress Could Stifle The Onslaught of AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material | TechPolicy.Press
Cleaning training data might not be enough to hinder a model from creating CSAM, writes Jasmine Mithani.
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September 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The crisis of synthetic child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is getting worse. In the US, the federal government could create a safe harbor for red teaming models for child sexual abuse material, reports Tech Policy Press fellow Jasmine Mithani.
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Even a broken clock…
“‘We have no idea what AI will be capable of in the next 10 years and giving it free rein and tying states hands is potentially dangerous,’ House Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on X. ‘This needs to be stripped out in the Senate.’” on.ft.com/3G58dAX
“‘We have no idea what AI will be capable of in the next 10 years and giving it free rein and tying states hands is potentially dangerous,’ House Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on X. ‘This needs to be stripped out in the Senate.’” on.ft.com/3G58dAX
Big Tech pushes for 10-year ban on US states regulating AI
Call by Amazon, Google and Microsoft lobbyists for a ‘moratorium’ has split industry and the Republican party
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June 18, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Even a broken clock…
“‘We have no idea what AI will be capable of in the next 10 years and giving it free rein and tying states hands is potentially dangerous,’ House Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on X. ‘This needs to be stripped out in the Senate.’” on.ft.com/3G58dAX
“‘We have no idea what AI will be capable of in the next 10 years and giving it free rein and tying states hands is potentially dangerous,’ House Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on X. ‘This needs to be stripped out in the Senate.’” on.ft.com/3G58dAX
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NLP's @hannahcov.bsky.social spoke with 12 high school students about news habits & what it’s like trying to find credible info online.
Said Kelsey Perry, 18, of seeing conspiracy theories everywhere: “It gets to the point where it’s kind of hard not to believe some of them."
@the74.bsky.social
Said Kelsey Perry, 18, of seeing conspiracy theories everywhere: “It gets to the point where it’s kind of hard not to believe some of them."
@the74.bsky.social
I Talked to Teenagers About Conspiracy Theories, Here’s What They Told Me
Covington: For students who watched the viral social media response to a classmate’s death, news literacy is key.
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June 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
NLP's @hannahcov.bsky.social spoke with 12 high school students about news habits & what it’s like trying to find credible info online.
Said Kelsey Perry, 18, of seeing conspiracy theories everywhere: “It gets to the point where it’s kind of hard not to believe some of them."
@the74.bsky.social
Said Kelsey Perry, 18, of seeing conspiracy theories everywhere: “It gets to the point where it’s kind of hard not to believe some of them."
@the74.bsky.social
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"LLMs do not distinguish between fact & fiction. They are not designed to tell the truth. They are designed to persuade, yet they are implemented in sectors where truth & detail matter, e.g. education, science, health, the media, law, & finance." My interview @washingtonpost.com tinyurl.com/2e7253ja
AI is more persuasive than a human in a debate, study finds
When provided basic demographic information on their opponents, AI chatbots adapted their arguments and became more persuasive than humans in online debates.
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May 21, 2025 at 7:41 AM
"LLMs do not distinguish between fact & fiction. They are not designed to tell the truth. They are designed to persuade, yet they are implemented in sectors where truth & detail matter, e.g. education, science, health, the media, law, & finance." My interview @washingtonpost.com tinyurl.com/2e7253ja
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"After Google announced in February that it was abandoning its standing commitment not to use AI for weapons or surveillance, employees on the company’s internal message boards were remarkably quiet,"
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By @naominix.bsky.social, @nitasha.bsky.social & Trisha Thadani
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By @naominix.bsky.social, @nitasha.bsky.social & Trisha Thadani
Big Tech takes a harder line against worker activism, political dissent
A tighter labor market and lower corporate tolerance have stifled employee input on controversies over company policy, AI safety and the Israel-Gaza war.
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May 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
"After Google announced in February that it was abandoning its standing commitment not to use AI for weapons or surveillance, employees on the company’s internal message boards were remarkably quiet,"
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By @naominix.bsky.social, @nitasha.bsky.social & Trisha Thadani
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By @naominix.bsky.social, @nitasha.bsky.social & Trisha Thadani
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“It would be nice to think that humans won’t want and will resist A.I. therapists, friends, & companions--but then, of course, the same companies that are pushing them on us are the companies responsible for the loneliness that makes them an attractive prospect.”
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The A.I. girlfriend industry
From A.G.I to to A.I.G.
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May 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“It would be nice to think that humans won’t want and will resist A.I. therapists, friends, & companions--but then, of course, the same companies that are pushing them on us are the companies responsible for the loneliness that makes them an attractive prospect.”
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Each time you ask an AI chatbot to summarize a lengthy legal document or conjure up a cartoon squirrel wearing glasses, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water
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May 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Each time you ask an AI chatbot to summarize a lengthy legal document or conjure up a cartoon squirrel wearing glasses, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
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🚨 Hiring! Are you passionate about shaping the future of AI governance and safety? Partnership on AI is looking for an AI Safety Research Scientist to join our team and help advance the responsible development of advanced AI systems.
👉 Apply here: partnershiponai.org/careers/
👉 Apply here: partnershiponai.org/careers/
Careers - Partnership on AI
Join us as we help build a future where Artificial Intelligence empowers humanity by contributing to a more just, equitable, and prosperous world.
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April 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
🚨 Hiring! Are you passionate about shaping the future of AI governance and safety? Partnership on AI is looking for an AI Safety Research Scientist to join our team and help advance the responsible development of advanced AI systems.
👉 Apply here: partnershiponai.org/careers/
👉 Apply here: partnershiponai.org/careers/
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Neurotechnology is advancing rapidly. José M. Muñoz and José Ángel Marinaro say there is an urgent need to develop procedural mechanisms to effectively protect and enforce fundamental rights in situations where abuse is committed through the use of neurotech.
Habeas Cogitationem: A Writ to Enforce the Right to Freedom of Thought in the Neurotechnological Era | TechPolicy.Press
There is an urgent need to effectively protect and enforce fundamental rights when neurotechnologies are used in abusive ways.
www.techpolicy.press
April 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Neurotechnology is advancing rapidly. José M. Muñoz and José Ángel Marinaro say there is an urgent need to develop procedural mechanisms to effectively protect and enforce fundamental rights in situations where abuse is committed through the use of neurotech.
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Drawing from a series of podcasts on the subject, Computer Says Maybe's Hanna Barakat evaluates how Big Tech firms have strategically obscured the landscape of available information about their products' effects on people and society, hindering efforts to track what harm occurs and how it unfolds.
How Information Asymmetry Inhibits Efforts for Big Tech Accountability | TechPolicy.Press
Computer Says Maybe's Hanna Barakat analyzes Big Tech’s playbook to control information related to its harms.
www.techpolicy.press
April 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Drawing from a series of podcasts on the subject, Computer Says Maybe's Hanna Barakat evaluates how Big Tech firms have strategically obscured the landscape of available information about their products' effects on people and society, hindering efforts to track what harm occurs and how it unfolds.
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Alt headline: Europeans to open cans of worms?
Virkkunen: all digital rules to be reviewed in simplification push - Euractiv
If DMA, DSA, and AI Act need to be reopened in order to strip out overlapping requirements, then so be it.
www.euractiv.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Alt headline: Europeans to open cans of worms?
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Some news many years in the making: My book EMPIRE OF AI, out May 20, is ready for pre-order at empireofai.com. It tells the inside story of OpenAI as a lens for understanding the moment we’re in: the tech elite's extraordinary seizure of power and its threat to democracy. 1/
March 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Some news many years in the making: My book EMPIRE OF AI, out May 20, is ready for pre-order at empireofai.com. It tells the inside story of OpenAI as a lens for understanding the moment we’re in: the tech elite's extraordinary seizure of power and its threat to democracy. 1/
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I remember the good old days a few years ago when the AI companies asked to be regulated . . . now we know how seriously they meant it. I created a cartoon about it here teachprivacy.com/cartoon-ai-r...
March 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I remember the good old days a few years ago when the AI companies asked to be regulated . . . now we know how seriously they meant it. I created a cartoon about it here teachprivacy.com/cartoon-ai-r...
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@timnitgebru.bsky.social speaking on @ajlunited.bsky.social about how @dairinstitute.bsky.social came to be
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#SHeroForOurTime
“What we need to fear most is not what AI will do to us on its own, but how people in power will use AI to control & manipulate us”
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#SHeroForOurTime
“What we need to fear most is not what AI will do to us on its own, but how people in power will use AI to control & manipulate us”
Timnit Gebru on AI Bias, Google Firing & The Dark Side of Tech
YouTube video by Algorithmic Justice League
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March 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
@timnitgebru.bsky.social speaking on @ajlunited.bsky.social about how @dairinstitute.bsky.social came to be
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE95...
#SHeroForOurTime
“What we need to fear most is not what AI will do to us on its own, but how people in power will use AI to control & manipulate us”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE95...
#SHeroForOurTime
“What we need to fear most is not what AI will do to us on its own, but how people in power will use AI to control & manipulate us”
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Around the world, policymakers appear increasingly eager to satisfy the interests of tech firms that claim they can deliver AGI. But there is danger in making AI policy goals just as invested in the promise of AGI as the tech sector's leaders, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.
Most Researchers Do Not Believe AGI Is Imminent. Why Do Policymakers Act Otherwise? | TechPolicy.Press
Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio says it is dangerous to the public interest for policymakers to center the pursuit of AGI in AI policy.
www.techpolicy.press
March 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Around the world, policymakers appear increasingly eager to satisfy the interests of tech firms that claim they can deliver AGI. But there is danger in making AI policy goals just as invested in the promise of AGI as the tech sector's leaders, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.
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The UK’s war on encryption is dangerous | Opinion
https://www.ft.com/content/a934150f-e0f5-4e75-a2d1-a3671ea52ca0
https://www.ft.com/content/a934150f-e0f5-4e75-a2d1-a3671ea52ca0
The UK’s war on encryption is dangerous | Opinion
Government demands to access encrypted data via back doors will leave it vulnerable to hacks, breaches and theft
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March 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The UK’s war on encryption is dangerous | Opinion
https://www.ft.com/content/a934150f-e0f5-4e75-a2d1-a3671ea52ca0
https://www.ft.com/content/a934150f-e0f5-4e75-a2d1-a3671ea52ca0
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"Across a range of tests...ability to reason and solve novel problems appears to have peaked in the early 2010s and has been declining ever since."
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Have humans passed peak brain power?
Data across countries and ages reveal a growing struggle to concentrate, and declining verbal and numerical reasoning
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March 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"Across a range of tests...ability to reason and solve novel problems appears to have peaked in the early 2010s and has been declining ever since."
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The judge took issue with DOGE staffers’ ability to see people’s income data and Social Security numbers.
Federal judge blocks Musk's DOGE from access to student loan borrowers' personal data
Elon Musk's government-slashing effort, DOGE, is temporarily barred from accessing personal data on 42 million student loan borrowers, a federal judge ruled.
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February 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The judge took issue with DOGE staffers’ ability to see people’s income data and Social Security numbers.
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They found TikTok “consuming,” “addicting” and occasionally “toxic.”
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Opinion | How 12 Americans See Life After Watching a Lot of TikTok
People who use TikTok daily talk about why they love the app, how consuming and addicting social media can be and why they wouldn’t want their kids to use it.
www.nytimes.com
February 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
They found TikTok “consuming,” “addicting” and occasionally “toxic.”
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Prepare the lawsuits against systematically biased algorithmic firing systems
UPDATE: Responses to the Elon Musk-directed email to government employees about what work they accomplished over the past week are expected to be fed into an artificial intelligence system to determine whether those jobs are necessary or not, sources say.
DOGE will use AI to assess the responses from federal workers who were told to justify their jobs via email
The revelation comes as federal workers face a midnight deadline to respond to an email from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
nbcnews.to
February 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Prepare the lawsuits against systematically biased algorithmic firing systems
Why AI is a threat--and how to use it for good | John Tasioulas | TEDxAthens
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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February 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Algorithmic necropolitics, quantified
AP finds that the Israeli military stored 13.6 petabytes of data on Microsoft servers, and usage of OpenAI/Microsoft tools was 200x higher than the week before Oct. 7.
If there was any doubt of US tech companies and complicity in Israeli apartheid.
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If there was any doubt of US tech companies and complicity in Israeli apartheid.
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As Israel uses US-made AI models in war, concerns arise about tech’s role in who lives and who dies
U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services.
apnews.com
February 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Algorithmic necropolitics, quantified