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Does AI Fight or Fuel Election Disinformation?
A Brennan Center for Justice report examines whether AI chatbots help correct or worsen election-related disinformation. Testing found that popular…
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Our Position on Open-Weights Models
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei clarifies that the company does not support banning open-weights AI models, despite recent speculation to the…
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Separating AI’s Technological Problems From Its Capitalism Problems
Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier argue that many of the harms attributed to AI stem less from the technology itself…
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Why Businesses Lie About AI
Cory Doctorow examines why corporate leaders systematically overstate the benefits of AI deployment inside their own companies. Drawing on consultant…
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Seven Reasons I Wouldn’t Count Google Out
Gary Marcus argues against the narrative that Google has fallen behind in the AI race despite recent leadership departures at…
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The One Issue Unifying the American Public
In a Substack essay, Gary Marcus presents polling data showing rapidly growing, bipartisan opposition to local AI data centers. He…
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Open-Weight AI Models Are Catching Up to the Frontier. The Safety Gap Remains.
According to TechCrunch, Chinese company Z.ai’s open-weight GLM-5.2 model now rivals frontier AI systems in capability while lacking comparable safety…
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We’re Headed Toward the First True AI Election
According to Axios, the current election cycle marks the first in which artificial intelligence is both a dominant policy debate…
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Post-American Compute for a Post-American Internet
In a Pluralistic post, Cory Doctorow argues that both Americans and people abroad face growing digital-sovereignty risks from Big Tech…
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The Bureaucratic AI Arms-Race Is Mutually Assured Destruction
In a Pluralistic essay, Cory Doctorow argues that AI-driven bureaucratic defense systems are triggering an arms race comparable to mutually…
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Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?
In a Stratechery essay, Ben Thompson argues that concerns over Chinese open-weight AI models such as Kimi K3 are largely…