Feel like the tech overlords are taking over every part of life?

Coalitions between feminist movements, minorities, and labor activists will help keep the Silicon Valley moguls in check, Coleen M. Carrigan writes.

René Magritte's Son of Man (1964). © Charly Herscovici, Brussels /Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Wassily Kandinsky, Transverse Line, 1923.

This week, the FBI and CISA published a guide encouraging Americans not to text, and to use encryption messaging as much as possible.

Here's our practical guide on protecting yourself from surveillance, from best encryption messaging platforms to location services:

"None of us thought, when we invented social media, that we would become a threat to democracy." Not a great excuse. 1. It could've been designed better, with #AIEthics and #privacy in mind. 2. We could've improved it years ago, after learning from experience
www.businessinsider.com/eric-schmidt...

"This is the story of the revelation (...) that Bitcoin was, in fact, the opposite of untraceable—that its blockchain would actually allow researchers, tech companies, and law enforcement to trace and identify users"
#privacy #AIEthics
www.wired.com/story/27-yea...

AI is increasingly exploited for sextortion, scams, and child abuse, warns a senior police chief. Deepfakes & realistic voice clones can deceive victims and facilitate abuse. We need more public awareness of these evolving threats
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

#AI #AISafety #AIEthics #KidsMH

Global protections must be in place to safeguard us all from AI corporations stealing and scraping content. This goes for the healthcare industry, journalists, performers, etc.
This is a #HumanRights issue.

#NoFakes #DigitalIdenity #AIEthics

I expect that, as tech companies run out of data from the internet, they will push even harder for #surveillance, using excuses like safety, to get their hands on "multimodal" data. #privacy #AIEthics www.businessinsider.com/generative-a...

"...there is reason to worry about cognitive automation depriving us of the opportunity to build and retain those cognitive muscles. That’s the risk of intellectual and moral deskilling. It’s already happening and I think we have to resist it." -Shannon Vallor #AIethics

www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Teaching children to question the content they see online is essential in today’s digital world!
Encourage them to ask: "Is this real, or could it have been made by #AI?"
Building curiosity and critical thinking skills early helps them navigate technology safely and responsibly. #AIEthics #EduSky

🔥 AI Environmental Impact🍃 docs.google.com/presentation...
Lesson www.caeducatorstogether.org/lesson-plans...
Research pad.riseup.net/p/Against_AI... + @sashamtl.bsky.social
Teaching and learning ideas? #EduSky #AIEdu #AIinEd #CritGenAI #AILiteracy #AIEthics #EnviromentalLiteracy #ClimateJustice

‘I am concerned with the impact it’s going to have on the average person, on old-age pensioners, on people who are already working three jobs to try and stay afloat. I’m worried about us as a species, it’s a much bigger problem.’- Blanchet

#AIEthics #TechSky

Today's AI developers don't face any requirement to divulge the exact sources for their training data, they should and we are working hard to get proper legislation in place.

#AIPrivacy #DataCollection #ChatGPT #AIEthics #TechSky