Employees from OpenAI and Google—including DeepMind chief scientist @jeffdean.bsky.social—filed an amicus brief backing Anthropic against the U.S. government.
Inside voices matter. When employees concerns transcend company borders, it signals the stakes are real.
#AI #Anthropic #OpenAI #Google
380+ signers and counting. This is an incredibly powerful example of how employees inside AI companies can use their voices. 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
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AI employees at Google DeepMind and OpenAI have now published an open letter urging their companies to stand in solidarity with Anthropic and refuse to allow their models to be used by the Department of War for domestic mass surveillance and autonomously killing people without human oversight.
BREAKING: Anthropic refuses to cede to the Pentagon’s demands.
CEO Dario Amodei said, “We cannot in good conscience accede to their request.”
We need enforceable AI regulations — not just reliance on CEOs’ good consciences — to ensure safety and limits on harmful uses.
🚩Anthropic dropped a core safety pledge.
In 2023, it vowed not to train models unless safety could be guaranteed; a recent RSP revision from CEO Dario Amodei removes that guarantee. Once marketing itself as the most safety-first lab, Anthropic may now be balancing safety with commercial momentum.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summons Anthropic’s CEO to the Pentagon today, reportedly to present Amodei with an ultimatum to lift safeguards on Claude.
This points to a bigger problem in AI safety: Without AI regulations, we’re left to trust individual CEOs to act responsibly and safely.
🏈 AI firms spent huge sums on Super Bowl ads, each vying to brand themselves as the “good guy” — but just days later, several senior employees at top labs publicly resigned.
Read our latest Substack on what these inside voices are telling us on the outside.
Does Meta want to post for you—post‑mortem?
Meta was granted a patent in December for a system that uses AI to simulate a deceased user’s activity across its platforms—Facebook, Instagram, and Threads—making posts, leaving comments, and interacting with others.
#AI #Meta #AIethics
An Anthropic safety researcher resigned Monday, warning of value gaps inside AI labs. Mrinank Sharma’s claims are alarming, but they leave a key question: what pressures push employees to set aside their principles?
We need more insiders and greater transparency from AI companies. #AI #AISafety
📱Pinterest fired two engineers who created a software tool to identify which workers had lost their jobs in a recent round of cuts.
New lawsuit against xAI claims the company "...has harmed thousands of women who were digitally stripped and forced into sexual situations that they never consented to and who now face the very real risk that those public images will surface in their lives..."
📑 Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei recently published “The Adolescence of Technology,” a new essay that lays out what he sees as the biggest dangers of powerful AI, from bioterrorism and autonomous weapons to mass job loss and AI-powered dictatorships.
#AI #Anthropic
💼 Pinterest is the latest tech company to shift focus to AI.
What does that mean for tech workers? Pinterest is eliminating 15% of roles and citing AI as the reason.
#AI #Layoffs
📱Social Media Giants Meta, TikTok, Snap, and Youtube face a series of landmark trials this year accusing their products of being addictive.
Teenagers, school districts and states have filed thousands of lawsuits accusing them of encouraging excessive use by millions of young Americans.
❗Consumer dystopia: Lawmakers race to stop AI-driven "surveillance pricing" that charges consumers personalized prices.
Across more than a dozen states, policymakers are scrambling to enact protections as retailers deploy AI-powered systems that tailor prices to individual shoppers.
New Mexico's suit against Meta over alleged failures to protect children begins soon — and Meta is seeking to block evidence on youth mental health and Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard past.
#Meta
OpenAI says it'll use an age-prediction model that combines behavioral and account-level signals, including how long an account has existed, typical times of day when someone is active, usage patterns over time, and a user’s stated age.
OpenAI is now rolling out age prediction in ChatGPT to determine whether an account is owned by a minor as the company prepares to release its new “adult mode” soon.
#AI #ChatGPT
@calmatters.org reporter @khari.bsky.social details California AG Rob Bonta’s inquiry into Elon Musk’s Grok over alleged AI-generated non-consensual explicit imagery and spoke with Psst.org about why laws should add whistleblower protections for employees who work on these systems.
🚨 TODAY: California Attorney General Rob Bonta says his office is investigating Grok for generating nonconsensual sexualized images of real people.
"I urge xAI to take immediate action to ensure this goes no further," he said. xAI now faces regulatory pressure from U.S. officials.
#AI #Grok
🗣️Tech Worker Announcement: Meta plans to lay off 10% of staff in its Reality Labs division.
As Meta shifts its focus from its Metaverse to building next-generation artificial intelligence, their newly announced cuts could affect more than 10% of the metaverse unit.
#Meta #AI
💡 To offer a more personalized AI experience, Google's introducing "Personal Intelligence" to its Gemini chatbot.
Google's Gemini will now use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search,Youtube and the rest of your Google apps to answer your questions, so long as you opt-in.
BREAKING❗: Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot will be integrated into Pentagon networks.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Musk's AI tool will join military systems later this month despite mounting scrutiny over Grok's generation of sexually inappropriate and violent imagery.
#AI #Grok
OpenAI and Common Sense Media join forces 🤝
The unexpected alliance is developing the Parents and Kids Safe AI Act to establish guardrails protecting children from AI chatbot risks. This comes amid ongoing lawsuits against OpenAI, alleging chatbot interactions contributed to suicide.
#AIsafety #AI
California Senator Steve Padilla wants a 4-year ban on AI chatbots in kids' toys. 🧸
The proposal aims to protect children amid growing concerns about inappropriate child-AI toy interactions. "Our children cannot be used as lab rats for Big Tech's experiments," Padilla warns.
#AI #AISafety
🚨 BREAKING: The UK watchdog Ofcom launches an investigation into X over concerns of Grok being used to generate sexually explicit images.
"If found to have broken the law, Ofcom can potentially issue X with a fine of up to 10% of its worldwide revenue or £18 million, whichever is greater."
Having to see Elon Musk in a women's bikini this New Year was not inevitable, nor was it unpreventable for Grok to undress images of unconsenting women and children.
Check out our latest Substack on how whistleblowers could have helped us avoid the great Grok undressing spree.
Read now!
Prioritizing profit over safety is bad for business and for the world.
We need transparency and accountability embedded into every stage of innovation so concerns are raised early—before children are harmed.
#AI #AIsettlement #AIharms #Psst
🚨 The first major settlement involving an AI chatbot-related teen death has been announced.
Google and Character.AI are settling a lawsuit filed by the parents of a teenager who alleges the companies provided harmful chatbot companions that led their child to take their own life.
GREAT analysis from two whistleblower attorneys on the current landscape of state & federal protections for AI whistleblowers.
Their conclusion: we are not doing enough to protect some of the only people who provide a check on tech that many of us use daily. 👇
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