Planting a flag for AI safety as a place where we won’t abjectly bullshit you
A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement?
The unstated disagreement that underpins safety debates
AI for Science & Safety Nodes - Request for Proposals
Artificial intelligence is accelerating the pace of discovery across science and technology. But today’s AI ecosystem risks centralizing compute, talent, and decision-making power – concentrating capabilities in ways that could undermine both innovation and safety.
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.
The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact
Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.
The AI safety vibe shift
Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking about
In the face of rampant AI, is ‘data poisoning’ a new form of civil disobedience?
Boycotts, sabotage and other types of civil disobedience have long served collective action against injustice.
In the face of rampant AI, is ‘data poisoning’ a new form of civil disobedience?
Boycotts, sabotage and other types of civil disobedience have long served collective action against injustice.
Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers
The race to power AI is already remaking the physical world.
The AI safety movement needs normies
A broader base may be the only way for the AI safety field to get what it wants
The Race to Rethink Data Centers for AI’s Power Surge
With energy demand already straining infrastructure, AI players are reimagining the data center from the ground up.
AI Is A Money Trap
In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive proliferation of data centers is a massive bubble, and though they, at times, seem to take the default position of AI’s inevitable value, they’ve begun to sour on the idea that
Brian Chau on Twitter / X
What happened was simple. In partnership with Irregular, AI companies instructed unsecured versions of their AI models to hack into specific targets, called "flags". They accidentally gave these models internet access, and in some cases they hacked into real companies. pic.twitter.com/FmCvmQPjC5— Brian Chau (@brianchau57) September 14, 2026
How a single tweet transformed the AI safety debate
Most people think AI is risky, but they don’t agree what to do next.
AI* data centers/environmental concerns
* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
Data Centre Silence
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
More Americans now say data centers are negative for the environment, energy costs and more
New estimate of AI e-waste - VU Amsterdam
E-waste challenges of generative artificial intelligence