The "surveillance business model" is using AI to expand its reach, the privacy expert says.
Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having 'profound' security and privacy issues | TechCrunch
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking onstage at the SXSW conference in
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A Collectivist, Economic Perspective on AI
Information technology is in the midst of a revolution in which omnipresent data collection and machine learning are impacting the human world as never before. The word ``intelligence'' is being...
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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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
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For AI products, people generally think the intelligence dominates everything, while privacy and cost are seen as secondary. The industry’s path shows this: we’ve spent huge money in leading labs to build the largest models with exceptional intelligence.But I believe we’ve… pic.twitter.com/oobAyk55rh— Luozhu (@LuozhuZhang) September 10, 2025
AI is now unpopular. That may not make a difference.
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Weatherby argues that the current discourse around AI, especially the buzz around “artificial general intelligence,” is a distraction from its actual impact: the expansion of bureaucracy through massive data systems…
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Google maps the future of AI agents: Five lessons for businesses
Google's groundbreaking white paper reveals how AI agents leverage advanced reasoning, real-time data access and autonomous decision-making.
How should social science think about AI?
Big structures and large processes are back, baby
AI is eating website traffic, websites are blocking AI – and reliable information is getting harder to find
AI has broken the economic bargain behind the web, and everybody is losing.
Americans Turning to AI to Supplement Healthcare Visits
One in four Americans use AI for health information. Most do so to supplement care, but some are using AI in place of a provider visit when barriers arise.
