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More on Clear here.
“…soon enough, if Clear has its way, it may also be in your favorite retailer, bank, and even doctor’s office—or anywhere else that you currently have to pull out a wallet (or, of course, wait in line).”
They will not stop unless the law makes them.
AI adoption continues to be guided by who it can be imposed upon unilaterally:
They will not stop until the law makes them.
As someone who watched the careful stewardship of grants over many years, the lack of care and the dismissal of the hard work of scholars and NEH program staff described here is devastating and shameful.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
Every time an AI CEO hints their system might be conscious, it helps sell the AGI myth. This piece explains why that narrative exists and who benefits from it (no paywall or ads): jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl... (ETA: direct link)
Spoiler from an expert in the field (me): Claude is not conscious.
Generative AI doesn't know about decisions outside the immediate context box. You cannot interview it. It cannot answer for its behavior. Posting an image of a chatbox response explains nothing. It's as fraudulent a piece of information as an AI slop video that fakes a recording of a bombing. /🧵
Mar 4 2026 BlueSky post claiming that it explained why we bombed a school in Iran "INFORMATION THAT IS A DECADE OLD" and had A Claude chat answer as its source
Hey guys this is not a viable source. Besides the fact that any AI system being used by the government presumably has access to more updated date (I sure hope). Claude is not a person, it can't answer questions about why it did something, it confidently lies, it doesn't have access to other's state.
TikTok announces that they’re not going to deploy “controversial privacy tech” that’s actually the same end-to-end encryption most other providers use to protect users’ DMs. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Woodrow Hartzog & Neil Richards: "The Legislature should ignore the high-priced lobbyists and pass a law that actually protects us from data-hungry business practices that benefit no one but big tech." @hartzog.bsky.social www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
EPIC Advisory Board members @hartzog.bsky.social and Neil Richards make a strong case for the Massachusetts Legislature to pass the Massachusetts Consumer Data Privacy Act in WBUR's Cognoscenti today. www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
Today @cogwbur.bsky.social published my op-ed with Neil Richards. We argue in favor of the proposed MA privacy legislation with strong data minimization rules. Surveillance advertising leaves both consumers and small businesses worse off. It only helps Silicon Valley. www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
"Quinn wrote...that 'by removing writing from reporters’ workloads, we’ve effectively freed up an extra workday for them each week.'"
This is how AI destroys institutions. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/03/b...
I've repeatedly said this in the past: the end goal of all AI is surveillance, specifically to influence and control
In their book, Move Slow and Upgrade: The Power of Incremental Innovation, Evan Selinger and Albert Fox Cahn argue society is over-fixated on disruptive innovation and needs to adopt an “upgrader’s mindset,” which should be applied whenever “disruptive changes would pose the greatest social risk.”
“Hostility is the basic mode in which we engage with each other and our government, and filming has become a hostile act. Meta’s glasses are a sleek version of the weapon everyone already has in their pocket; the addition of facial recognition will accelerate the ongoing breakdown in public trust.”
“Just because you are outside of your home doesn’t mean you have consented to having a random bozo collect your face and your name, the latter of which can enable them to search for your digital presence or even home address. The act of existing in public should not carry those risks.”
what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"
Data brokers cost US consumers $20 billion in ID theft themarkup.org/privacy/2026...
It was such an honor to be recently installed at the Andrew R. Randall Professor of Law at @bulaw.bsky.social. It's a privilege and charge to serve that I take seriously and I will do my best to make it count.
AI is a micromanaging misery machine.
Anthropic Rolls Back Safety Protocols as It Waits to Find Out If It's Being Drafted by the Army
Wow - I missed this. "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
Dinner Is Being Recorded, Whether You Know It or Not
As Meta smart glasses capture scenes in restaurants for social media, service workers and customers are becoming captive participants. nyti.ms/4aA9NaH
NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.
