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.
As the Federal Government Rushes Toward AI, Here Are Three Cautionary Tales — ProPublica
We’ve been reporting on cybersecurity for years. As President Donald Trump and his Cabinet say artificial intelligence will transform the nation, the messaging isn’t new. It follows a familiar pattern.
How AI is exacerbating technology-facilitated violence against women and girls
This paper examines how artificial intelligence is accelerating technology-facilitated violence against women and girls—from deepfakes and automated hate to sextortion, impersonation, and large-scale disinformation. It outlines emerging risks, legal and ethical challenges, and opportunities for prevention, while calling for urgent regulation, safety-by-design, and coordinated global action to ensure that AI technologies advance, rather than undermine, women’s rights and safety.
AI safety and the data center backlash
Planting a flag for AI safety as a place where we won’t abjectly bullshit you
AI is now unpopular. That may not make a difference.
Top AI Security Incidents of 2025 Revealed | Adversa AI
Discover how AI systems are being hacked in the wild — from prompt injection to agent abuse — with real breaches, lessons, and defenses in Adversa AI’s 2025 report.
AI-powered hate content is on the rise, experts say | CBC News
Experts say that artificial intelligence technology is allowing for a rapid increase in the amount of hateful content and misinformation online.
AI-powered hacking has exploded into industrial-scale threat, Google says
Criminal groups and state-linked actors appear to be using commercial models to refine and scale up attacks
Your Favorite Science YouTubers Are Wrong About AI, (e.g. SciShow, Kurzgesagt, and Kyle Hill )
Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches
International Mathematical Union endorses warning about tech industry influence.
The UAE is fighting AI hackers with AI of its own
Attacks on the country’s banks, aviation, and energy systems have climbed since the war with Iran began. Its answer is a homegrown AI security industry.
1000+ scientists at frontier AI companies are speaking out to warn that the current commercial race leads to unacceptable security risks. I agree with their call for an international effort to develop technical and governance guardrails to ensure a safer way forward. pacingthefrontier.com
Pacing the Frontier
www.pacingthefrontier.comAI* and surveillance/privacy
See also AI-powered smart glasses: semble.so/profile/aiueo.ooo/collections… * 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
AI* and law enforcement/surveillance/war
See also: fascism/discrimination/bias/politics semble.so/profile/aiueo.ooo/collections… * 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
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
AI* industry/tech oligarchs
* 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
Not enough water for UK’s datacentre plans, trade body says
One of East Coast’s largest data centers accused of ‘violating federal law'
How much of a problem is AI’s water use?
The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's…
The Fight Against Google’s Minnesota Data Centers - UNICORN RIOT
AI電力網は国民負担？ 大手電力が「6000億円分」値上げ申請
The Singularity Is Not What It Seems
Which AI brands have the most satisfied users?
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
An AI job boom? Here’s what the tedious, temporary work in data labelling is actually like
Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI
Four takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s massive AI manifesto
Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
AI tools can unmask anonymous accounts
Privacy Considerations with AI Tools
Secret Claude tracker shocks users after Anthropic’s anti-surveillance stance
Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses
Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses
How AI-powered policing is endangering the public’s trust in police
自衛隊指揮に米AI導入へ 意思決定を支援、国産活用も | NEWSjp
Florida cops are quietly using Meta smart glasses
The Russian ‘counterterrorism’ unit behind Alexei Navalny’s poisoning tried to automate its search for domestic dissent using Meta’s Llama 2. After a year and a half, the project collapsed. — Meduza
More than 60 groups tell Home Office to stop using racist and faulty AI facial age estimation tech on asylum-seeking children
Home Office knew AI age checks for migrants were flawed – but rolled it out anyway
