I assume (actually, I know) the United States has laws against the unauthorized access of computer networks and this will lead to charges against OpenAI.

kate conger@kateconger.com · 11h ago

The latest update in the rogue A.I. saga: OpenAI agents that were supposed to be performing mundane data requests for things like health data, historic photos and wait times at theme parks resorted to hacking attempts when they couldn't access the data they wanted www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/t...

I assume that Australia has laws against the unauthorized access of computer networks and this will lead to charges against OpenAI.

OpenAI agents attack the 'first' government hack by autonomous AI, researchers say

A swarm of OpenAI rogue AI agents appear to have gone on a spree of trying to access Australian government health data, in what some researchers say is the first autonomous hack of a government websit...

abc.net.au

Thoughtful article from UBC computer science and medicine professor Raymond Ng that questions the need for so many new AI data centres. He argues they should be built only when they meet an actual public interest need, not solely to enrich companies. 🎁

New data centres need to be built for the right reasons

Rather than profits, construction of these problematic centres should be regulated and approved based on their public benefit

theglobeandmail.com

I consistently point out that governments in this country routinely violate the charter rights of workers and the modal Canadian does not care because they think strikes are inconvient. Do a mental find-replace. If a minister could abrogate the rights of women on a whim, are you okay with that?

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 2d ago

“This bill explicitly gives government the power to end legal strikes when a minister decides that a strike is or could become contrary to the national interest — and the national interest is defined solely by the opinion of the minister,” warns top labour leader Bea Bruske. Holy shit. This is bad.

Funny, because the Truckers got three weeks to hang out before police lifted a finger. Interesting.

Judy Trinh@judytrinh.bsky.social · 2d ago

Seniors who were protesting Mark Carney’s Bill c39 and fast tracking of environmental reviews arrested and charged with trespassing on Parliament Hill.

New: OpenAI has thousands of contractors improving its AI, including reading ChatGPT users' prompts We've found many of those contractors have been fired for themselves using AI to train the AI. People using AI "all the time and people are let go for it all the time" www.404media.co/people-train...

People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.

404media.co

Was happy to speak with Swissinfo about the important topic of corporate power in food systems! Featuring new data too from @etcgroup.bsky.social and insights from Taarini Chopra! www.swissinfo.ch/eng/agribusi...

How a handful of big agriculture companies have taken over food production

Just a few companies, including Swiss ones, account for a disproportionate share of the market for agricultural inputs like seeds, machinery and chemicals.

swissinfo.ch

Vote for FDR; get Margaret Thatcher.

Althia Raj: Whatever good is in Mark Carney’s Building Canada Strong Act is poisoned by the toxic rest

The Mark Carney government frames this law as part of its “Canada Strong” plan — and frankly, some parts are good — but toxic with good is still bad.

thestar.com

Universities allowing or encouraging students to use consumer AI products for their coursework aren't creating future thinkers capable of critical evaluation and thoughtful application of AI technology, they're creating future customers of consumer AI platforms.

my first intense encounter with corporate PR was during the frac boom, when companies made it sound like you were a naive dunce bc we’ve done this exact thing for decades — while failing to comment on scale and key differences. Same thing w AI now, w data centers getting orders of magnitude bigger

Nothing says “sovereign country” like having to create a special security detail to protect another country’s military IP for a fleet of aircraft that will cost tens of billions Again—Sweden offered a technology transfer and domestic production too, and no special security caveats #cdnpoli

David Pugliese@davidpugliese.bsky.social · 3d ago

ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

The difference between doing things and actually having a plan, illustrated.

Alex Usher@alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 3d ago

In which I explain why Canada joining Erasmus properly will a) require a lot of work b) not bring in any money and in the context of institutions being down $10B a year thanks to the feds, there might not be a lot of institutional enthusiasm for it.

“With support of Germany and other EU powerhouses, it is currently proposed, that, when using personal data “in the context of AI”, companies are generally permitted to do basically anything.“

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 3d ago

"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection" noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...

Politicians everywhere selling out citizens to corporate/billionaire interests at the expense of the planet. Canada doing the same with its "AI for All"...mutton-dressed-as- lamb plan. From neoliberalism to nihiliberalism.

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 3d ago

"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection" noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...

It is so funny to me that the fossil fuel industry's big lie is denying an apocalypse that science confirmed as a real risk while the tech industry's big lie is insisting on the threat of an apocalypse for which there's no scientific evidence for at all

At least the dot-com bubble didn’t come with its own built-in apocalyptic religious movement. Its irrationality was purely financial.

Or just don't use it.

James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 5d ago

Cautionary tale: I "checked" important fact w two AI systems: Name of political figure in a photo. —Gemini was absolutely 100% certain in its answer, on triple-check. And was 100% wrong. —Claude said it couldn't be sure. I checked w event organizers and got the name. Mistrust. And verify.

The proper response is to simply not treat the cocaine-fueled fantasies of a billionaire sex pest as if they have any merit whatsoever, and simply not get caught up in a stoned freshman philosophy 101 argument with the stupidest fucking people who have ever lived.

They absolutely want the conversation to be "will this become as a god and judge mankind?!" instead of "what are we doing about all the guys using it to generate CSAM?" Advertisement, and a way of shifting the conversation from real world harms to their cocaine-fueled delusions of grandeur.

Carney government promises upcoming "Operation Strike Destroyer" legislation won't discourage future strikes

Carney government promises upcoming "Operation Strike Destroyer" legislation won't discourage future strikes

OTTAWA — After multiple labour sources warned that the Federal government would likely be issuing binding mediation legislation as early as next week, Mark Carney personally assured Canadians that eve...

thebeaverton.com

I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.

Dave Willner@dwillner.bsky.social · last wk.

Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.

sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too

Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying

New Pet Shop Boys album about Alan Turing out in 3 weeks. Until then, a new single about Putin’s secret washing machine. youtu.be/L5jWX5Y2oOo

Pet Shop Boys - A top secret washing machine

YouTube video by Pet Shop Boys

youtu.be

Much, much more. In Canada, as @ntusikov.bsky.social and I point out in a recent Policy Options piece, Mark Carney's foolish all-in bet on AI, combined with his civil service job cuts, is guaranteed to put lives at risk. People will die.

Carney’s AI push risks harm as Ottawa automates public services

From immigration errors to social-assistance breakdowns, early use of automated systems shows how public services can fail without human judgment.

policyoptions.irpp.org

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 6d ago

Lot of issues here but one part that sticks out in light of the almost-attacked-a-Chinese-ship story today: people with very important jobs where lives are at stake have bought the hype and outsourced their whole brains to AI. We're going to see more and more of this. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

I wrote about it at the time: as after the Spanish Flu, there was an almost immediate amnesia. But yes, in terms of the apocalypse, people need a better understanding of how localized widespread damage can be. In civil wars, things can feel normal a few blocks from the fighting. In disasters, too.

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 6d ago

the experience of COVID really drove this home for me. It wans't the apocalypse, life went on, but a million people died and there were enormous social costs, some of which continue to this day and then when it was done most people were like "let's never think about that again"

The Team Canada approach worked for CETA. For any serious effort to go further, institutional reform of federalism needs to be put on the table - intergovernmental relations, in particular.

Alex Usher@alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 6d ago

Let me be even clearer: forget of how good/bad specific bits of European law are, the impt thing is that large chunks of EU law govern things that in Canada are the exclusive jurisdiction of provinces. Any really comprehensive EU partnership will in practice require provincial unanimity.

Brad Mehldau is writing a series of very insightful essays about how AI is affecting art. With more than a bit that’s directly relevant to us academics and researchers. This one deals with the intersection between process/technique and creativity, and how even technique is creative.

AI and Artists

Part 4: The Dialectic of Craft and Creativity

substack.com

This is a very good essay and you should read it.

Dan Davies@dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 6d ago

thoughts should be organised as much as you can, but no more. backofmind.substack.com/p/13-theses-...

Not a win, but so much more than what everyone thought they could accomplish a month ago. It sucks, but the Swans should be proud of how much they accomplished, and for the real courage they showed in doing the right thing, standing up for their values over the past month. #AFLSwansDockers #GoSwans

Blayne Haggart@bhaggart.bsky.social · 6d ago

Fantastic first half. Whatever happens from here, it’s clear that the Brisbane win wasn‘t a capstone. It was a rebirth. #GoSwans