Are pensioners funding the militarisation of AI?

At least 182 private and public pension funds have invested in companies developing high-risk AI systems, potentially leading pensioners to unknowingly fund technologies used for civilian targeting or surveillance. Generative AI, including foundation models, is already being deployed in conflict zones for intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and cyber warfare.

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Q: Why is deploying generative AI in conflict-affected areas high risk?

Generative AI creates less predictable outputs than other types of AI, making its susceptibility to bias, hallucinations, and misalignment particularly dangerous in high-stakes military uses such as targeting decisions. Generative AI mirrors patterns in its training data, which may underrepresent certain regions, populations or unique conflict scenarios. When information is missing, it invents plausible-sounding details. There is little public, peer reviewed evidence (as opposed to ad-hoc operational examples) that AI-powered weapons are more accurate or capable of managing complex, volatile conflicts. Regarding AI-powered drones deployed in Ukraine, industry experts note that the software frequently still requires refinement and that its effectiveness varies with battlefield conditions. Most military AI tools also lack publicly disclosed safeguards that demonstrate alignment with human rights or humanitarian law.

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/briefings/saving-for-the-future-or-threatening-the-future-are-pensioners-funding-the-militarisation-of-ai/

#promptingwithhitler #ai #openai #claude #google #Palantir #fascism

ABC Philosopher's Zone - Speech Acts and AI

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/philosopherszone/speech-acts-and-ai/106488752

Interesting framing although "Speech Acts" seems like an unnecessarily narrow framing of agency down to the moral stance/status of promises or intention here. The focus could be useful but please someone send these people the debate over self driving car accountability and that old IBM meme that a computer must never make a management decision. #ML #Philosophy #AI #Ethics

Oh, great, this is going to go well. Motorola bought an AI firm which builds software which they claim can "tell the difference between, say, a vehicle breakdown and a multicar collision, and then automatically route those calls to the proper people, freeing up more resources for genuine emergencies..."

(imagine calling 911 and having to battle through trying to convince a machine you are bleeding to death. 😬)

https://www.govtech.com/biz/motorola-solutions-buys-911-call-center-ai-firm-hyperyou

#AI #911

The end of the Internet theories
https://negativepid.blog/the-end-of-the-internet-theories/

#endOfTheInternet #AI #digitalRights #conspiracies #socialMedia #radicalization #politics #hoaxes #fringeTheories #negativepid

#programming #programmer #chatgpt #ai #meme

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Captain America elevator scene. He's on an elevator with many humans. Cap: "I'm a programmer". Bald human: "which programming languages you use?" Cap: "chatgpt". All humans in the elevator piling on top of Cap.

It’s been a demanding week for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. A Molotov cocktail was hurled at his San Francisco home early Friday. That followed The New Yorker’s profile that raised concerns about his trustworthiness. @Techcrunch has more, including Altman’s Friday night blogpost in which he acknowledged “a lot of things I’m proud of and a bunch of mistakes:

https://flip.it/BoNoLW

#Tech #OpenAI #AI #SamAltman #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

PSA: If you use the #MetaAI app, your friends will find out and it will be embarrassing

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/psa-if-you-use-the-meta-ai-app-your-friends-will-find-out-and-it-will-be-embarrassing/

#Meta #AI #privacy #Facebook #Instagram

Oberlin #Luddites Reject "Year of #AI Exploration" Adopted by School

September 19, 2025

To President Carmen Twillie Ambar and Oberlin Community:

We are drafting this letter to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old; this is a machine that we know well. With it, we ditch the crutches of spell-check and generative AI, and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in an inner dialogue.

Most of us did not enroll at Oberlin in search of superficial perfection, nor of lazy convenience. Rather, we chose it for its quirky individualism and a tangible education — the challenging of our young minds’ potential, not the chasing of institutional “gold-star” approval.

This college, which was built on a legacy of learning and labor, now risks straying from these principles. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays, and discussion posts will be generated for us. Not by us. And let’s not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for.

You claim that this year will be one of “experimentation,” not adoption. But even one semester of accepted (even encouraged) chat-bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy, irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction.

We see this fetish for efficiency in other ways at this college: in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a “bookstore” with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service — through automated instead of hand-pulled coffee.

Who gains from this if not the students? Sam Altman of ChatGPT and Sundar Pichai of Gemini may be plying their wares to colleges at low or no cost, but it’s no secret that every engagement with these platforms is an effort in surveillance in which our data is extracted and monetized. President Ambar, as you embark on your year of AI, we’ll embark on our own year of self-actualization — of realizing the fruits of our labor, and of embracing human imperfection and raw inquiry. We reject information technologies operating out of data centers that guzzle water and precious energy sources (and that contradict our campus’ carbon-neutral policy). We will not stand by and witness the further atrophying of our liberal arts education. Rather than strengthening Silicon Valley, we build our own skills and generative sweat. We urge all members of the Oberlin community who feel similarly to join us and sign our “AI-Opt-Out Letter.”

As for you, President Ambar, we ask that you terminate the College’s contract with Google Gemini and OpenAI. Our position may risk disapproval, perceived backwardness, and the outward appearance of naiveté. But let us not ask what the Silicon Valley oligarchs can do for Oberlin students, but what Oberlin students can do for ourselves while we still have the brain capacity to do so.

–The Oberlin Luddite Club

Charlie Mclaughlin, Logan Lane, Mary Claire McGreivey, Simon Puchner-Noel, Marlowe Blantz, and Sawyer Van Dyck

#LudditeClub #OberlinCollege #AISucks #NoAI

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A letter on paper. The title set is in "Old English" typeface, but the rest of the letter is typewritten, single-space, flush left.

#Anthropic's #ClaudeMythos Finds Thousands of Zero-Day Flaws Across Major Systems

https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/anthropics-claude-mythos-finds.html

#cybersecurity #AI #ProjectGlasswing

After #DataBreach, $10B-valued startup #Mercor is having a month

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/09/after-data-breach-10b-valued-startup-mercor-is-having-a-month/

#cybersecurity #AI #LiteLLM

#OpenAI To Limit New Model Release On #Cybersecurity Fears

https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/04/09/194221/openai-to-limit-new-model-release-on-cybersecurity-fears

#AI

"When you outsource judgment about vulnerable children to a surveillance company, you are reaching into the very core of local democratic accountability. These are decisions that should be made by trained, experienced social workers embedded in their communities – not by an algorithm built by a firm whose first clients were spy agencies.”
Clive Lewis MP

#Palantir #AI #Coventry
‘Safeguarding via algorithm’: Coventry doubles down on Palantir ties with new £750,000 contract
https://www.thenerve.news/p/coventry-council-palantir-renews-contract-children-social-services-zarah-sultana-campaign-kick-out

#microsoft #windows #copilot #ai

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Screenshot of Windows where everything is Copilot.

Have mercy on yourself and save yourself some time by skipping this movie that was seeminly written by AI.

In today’s environment of constant surveillance from location tracking on phones to Ring and Flock cameras, Mercy is a disturbing movie coming from the owners of Ring. Even more troubling is that the theme explored by the movie draws conclusion that this surveillance is necessary and that AI using this surveillance technology is actually good, positing that the actual flaw are humans.

Rated 3 out of 10.

Full review here.

#movies #ai #surveillance

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Mercy movie poster with Rebecca Ferguson looking very serious. Chris Pratt is strapped down to a chair looking exceedingly serious.

System1 adds AI layer to Test Your Ad as creative measurement race heats up: System1 adds AI-assisted summaries and a predictive measurement tool to Test Your Ad, its platform backed by a 100,000-ad emotional norms database. https://ppc.land/system1-adds-ai-layer-to-test-your-ad-as-creative-measurement-race-heats-up/ #AI #CreativeMeasurement #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #MarketingTechnology

I've always been leery of the AI debate over creative content – audio or visual media, including written material. A recent interview between Rick Beato and Justin Hawkins provided me with a frame.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/10/art-or-content/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

It reminds me of the old argument between high and low art, another bollocksed argument in my opinion. Homey don't play dat.

#philosophy #music #art #ai #language #perception #popculture #popmusic #protectionism #psychology #society #taste #technology #video #virtue #writing

Man arrested for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktail at home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Read more from @abc:

https://flip.it/0opQ_v

#Tech #SamAltman #ChatGPT #Technology #AI

As Liberals Look to Gain a Majority, Age Verification Pushed

The Liberal party seems destined to get a majority - just in time for their convention to be pushing age verification.

https://www.freezenet.ca/as-liberals-look-to-gain-a-majority-age-verification-pushed/

#Censorship #News #Privacy #Security #AgeVerification #AI #convention #Liberal #LiberalParty #politics #resolution #SocialMedia

📰 Google Rolls Out Gmail End-To-End Encryption On Mobile Devices

Gmail's end-to-end encryption is now available on all Android and iOS devices, letting enterprise users send and read encrypted emails directly in the app without any extra tools. "This launch comb...

📰 Source: Slashdot
🔗 Link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/04/10/1620217/google-rolls-out-gmail-end-to-end-encryption-on-mobile-devices?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

📰 Google adds E2E to Gmail for iOS and Android enterprise users

Google has announced that end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Gmail on Android and iOS is now rolling out for its enterprise users. Emails that require E2EE in Workspace can be composed and read withi...

📰 Source: Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics
🔗 Link: https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/google-adds-e2e-to-gmail-for-ios-and-android-enterprise-users-165345116.html?src=rss

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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#Police corporal created #AI #porn from driver’s license pics

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/state-police-corporal-created-porn-deepfakes-from-drivers-license-photos/

#privacy #nsfw #deepfake #nudify

First man convicted under #TakeItDown Act kept making #AI nudes after arrest

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/first-man-convicted-under-take-it-down-act-kept-making-ai-nudes-after-arrest/

#nsfw #privacy #AI #nudify #deepfake

#Mozilla #artificialintelligence #AI #0DIN #OpenSource

#0DIN is open-sourcing #AI security and the hard-earned knowledge behind it

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla-new-products/0din-ai-security-scanner/

#cybersecurity #Mozilla #0DINScanner #FOSS

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is lovingly handcrafted without AI:

* we take a hard look in/at the mirrors
* #Lichess is gone, long live #Lichess
* #SessionMessenger on its last 90 days
* Butterfly app Easter update
* #NewsBlur uses #AI to put AI in your news about AI feeds
+ 16 new apps
& 184 updates

— — — — — https://f-droid.org/2026/04/09/twif.html

Leaders across the open source ecosystem gathered to discuss the priorities shaping AI agent development.
Four themes stood out: trust and identity, security and privacy, adoption in regulated industries, and the role of open source.

The direction is clear. Progress in AI must be supported by systems that are reliable, accountable, and grounded in human oversight.

Read the full report:https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/ai-exec-forum-2026
#OpenSource #AI #AgenticAI #CyberSecurity #LinuxFoundation

A student at UVA Wise has built an AI-powered tool to help rural patients navigate complex healthcare systems. By connecting residents with providers and insurance information, "Wise Care" is using #AI to bridge the access gap in underserved communities.
https://cardinalnews.org/2026/03/24/ai-tool-built-by-uva-wise-student-aims-to-help-connect-patients-with-health-care/

@EUCommission seriously, what's wrong with your Yeyo?

• Stop getting high on your own supply!
  • Don't do #AIslop!

https://gabboman.xyz/fediverse/post/1f02d899-91e2-4a80-a06f-d39ff6602c4c

#Sarcasm #commentary #AI #slop #Enslopification #EUpol

🐧 Debian Linux waiting on further info for how age verification will affect it

With all the different countries and US states expanding age verification laws for various devices, here's what the Debian Linux team had to say about it.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

📰 Source: GamingOnLinux Latest Articles
🔗 Link: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/debian-linux-waiting-on-further-info-for-how-age-verification-will-affect-it/

#Linux #OpenSource #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

📰 Meta’s New AI Asked for My Raw Health Data—and Gave Me Terrible Advice

Meta’s Muse Spark model offers to analyze users’ health data, including lab results. Beyond the obvious privacy risks, it’s not a capable stand-in for a real doctor.

📰 Source: Feed: All Latest
🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.wired.com/story/metas-new-ai-asked-for-my-raw-health-data-and-gave-me-terrible-advice/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DataScience

Daily Digest | 10 April 2026

Your daily dose of Privacy, Data Protection, AI & Cybersecurity news.

5 stories you should not miss.

Read more: https://www.nicfab.eu/daily-digest/

#Privacy #AI #GDPR #Cybersecurity #TechLaw

#pennyArcade #webcomic #AI #enshittification https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2026/04/08/hidden-mechanics (this link is to the writing de jour)

> You get in more trouble running a hooch still than you do manufacturing doomsday weapons. It's the most American thing I can imagine.

Yesterday, I've read a vibe coded script for the first time in my life, and I've cried.

It wasn't ugly. "Ugly" is not the right term. It was as if someone wasn't able to comprehend beauty, but badly tried to mimic it. It felt like "malicious compliance" to beauty. The kind of awful verbose pedantry that feels wrong every step of the way.

It's the kind of code you'd expect in a corporate environment when you know that the code would be read by the top suits who have no idea about coding, but judge it by the volume and expect science fiction level of make-believe.

It's the kind of code is abstracted away into the tiniest details. Every function returns a complex dataclass explaining precisely what it did, for no reason at all. What would be two lines of code is a function. What would be a function is a whole module. It's a caricature of good programming practices.

I was supposed to add modifying a second field on the same object via GitHub API. I've guessed it would take me about an hour to figure out the code enough to be able to do that — what ought to be 2-3 extra lines. I suspected I'd discover that most of the code does precisely nothing. Just meaningless API exchanges that are absolutely unnecessary. It felt like the kind of parody of bureaucracy where you have to file 10 forms to do something, and only one of them actually means anything.

What used to be "do one thing well" became "doing ten totally random things is fine, as long as one of them happens to be what I need, and the whole thing doesn't blow anything up in an obvious way".

Perhaps it's just because this way a throwaway script. Maybe "production" stuff takes more, err, prompt refining? Maybe it actually can produce stuff that's comprehensible.

But if that code was any indicator, then I'm not going to believe that any big LLM contributions are actually reviewed by humans. A review will take more time than rewriting from scratch. This is a ticking time bomb. That LLM-generated code isn't introducing exploits right now is either a statistical accident, or it's just that nobody bothers.

Clarification: I didn't "prompt" it or request one. I'm not a hypocrite.

#NoAI #NoLLM #AI #LLM

They won't announce when AI isn't doing what it was supposed to be doing...

But there will be signs...

Microsoft begins removing Copilot from Windows 11, starting with Notepad, Snipping Tool, but not entirely

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/04/09/microsoft-begins-removing-copilot-from-windows-11-starting-with-notepad-snipping-tool/

#Microsoft #Copilot #Windows11 #AI #Tech

The Guardian: US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock after Pentagon entered agreement with company

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/09/pentagon-ai-xai-emil-michael

#corruption #AI #USpol

"The percentage of respondents ages 14 to 29 who said they felt hopeful about A.I. declined sharply since last year, down to 18 percent from 27.

Young adults’ excitement about artificial intelligence dropped, too, and nearly a third of respondents indicated that the technology made them feel angry."

That's rough.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/style/gen-z-ai-gallup-study.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZlA.wN1w.cqoDFMOIp-qT&smid=url-share

#news #technology #TechNews #AI #LLMs

Deepfake celebrity scams
https://negativepid.blog/deepfake-celebrity-scams/

#deepfakes #celebrities #celebrityScams #impersonation #scams #onlineScams #AI #fraud #internetFraud #identityTheft #onlineIdentity #romanceScams #financialScams #socialMedia #accounts #negativepid

If #Claude code only write regexes and crontabs, it would be 100% worth the money!

#ClaudCode #Anthropic #AI #DevLife