Moms for Ethical AI - MN
@momsforethicalai.bsky.social
Moms for Ethical AI is a growing movement of parents concerned about the unregulated algorithms and AI shaping the emotional, cognitive, and social development of our children. www.MomsForEthicalAI.org www.CancelChatGPT.com
"the bulk of the seven-hour meeting involved parents, children, and educators arguing against the city’s spending on AI and educational technology contracts and the city’s preliminary AI policy." www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026...
NYC parents slam AI in schools in 7-hour school board meeting
"Gen Z Is Turning Against AI": 100+ New Yorkers testified against the DOE's AI policies at marathon meeting
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Disneyland is now the Creepiest Place on Earth. When a company synonymous with childhood feels emboldened and insulated by a culture that treats children’s data as corporate assets. This should raise the alarm for every parent about what type of future “surveillance capitalism” is building.
Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition
Walt Disney Company says technology at California theme park will prevent fraud and streamline re-entry
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Published in the Minneapolis StarTribune today.
Here is John Oliver @lastweektonight.com barely scratching the surface of harms from AI companion bots and chatbots.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver@lastweektonight.com · 5mo agoThis week’s main story is about AI chatbots! Why they are overly flirtatious, often incorrect, and posing a genuine threat to the public. But the story is also about what John would ask AI Satan. In case you were worried we had overlooked that. We haven’t.
1/ Last week, my son's school district sent a newsletter explaining their approach to teaching AI. It opened with: “Artificial Intelligence refers to computer systems that can perform tasks that typically require human thinking.”
LLMs have internalized not just human expression but the distortions imposed by commercial platforms. Their training data is human expression downstream of algorithmic manipulation shaped by recommendation engines, outrage loops, engagement metrics, and social performance.
Good. Tech companies must be held accountable for the harms they cause.
Meta and YouTube found liable on all charges in landmark social media addiction trial
The verdict, which caps a weeks-long trial in Los Angeles, could set a legal precedent for similar allegations brought against social media companies.
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If AI companies can't be penalized for design flaws that allow harm because they are "used by others," when they are expressly created to be "used by others," any consumer protection law is unenforceable as it creates the same legal paradox that has shielded social media platforms for far too long.
White House releases AI policy blueprint for Congress
The proposal to encode federal laws document follows jockeying between the administration and the Hill over plans to establish federal rules governing the technology.
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For a limited time, you can spy on your neighbor for less!
The Verge@theverge.com · 7mo agoGoogle’s battery-powered Nest Doorbell is $40 off right now
"We find that indiscriminate use of model-generated content in training causes irreversible defects in the resulting models, in which tails of the original content distribution disappear." Hmmmmmm.....
AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - Nature
Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scraping data from the Internet, can lead to a collapse in th...
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The silver lining in the ubiquitous nature of student use of AI for coursework, is that it is exposing the weaknesses in the methodology and expectations.
AI has exposed age-old problems with university coursework | Letter
Letter: Instead of romanticising a pre-AI past, universities should use this moment to rethink what they actually want students to demonstrate, says Dr Nafisa Baba-Ahmed
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The title is misleading as "random stranger" was in fact, "randomly selected fellow first-semester college student," (also don't text random strangers), but the point that human to human communication is better than human to bot is an important takeaway.
404 Media@404media.co · 7mo agoA newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.
“Humans betray what we feel. What we think. What we desire. What we intend. What makes us anxious. And what we fear.” Joe Navarro - The Power of Nonverbal Communication - TEDxManchestet
The dangers are ever present and the harms are climbing. Talk to your kids about AI.
Teens are turning to AI for nearly everything. But diet information may be a big risk | CNN
Many teens report wanting to lose weight, and many say they use AI daily. Chatbots for getting meal plans could have huge health consequences, a new study says.
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"Generally people say that AI refers to the concept of recreating human intelligence in computers. But we also don't have a scientific consensus around what human intelligence is." - Karen Hao
Silicon Valley Insider EXPOSES Cult-Like AI Companies | Aaron Bastani Meets Karen Hao
YouTube video by Novara Media
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"When people say AI, they're referring to an umbrella of all these different types of technologies that appear to simulate different human behaviors or human tasks." - Karen Hao
Silicon Valley Insider EXPOSES Cult-Like AI Companies | Aaron Bastani Meets Karen Hao
YouTube video by Novara Media
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“A group of Amazon corporate employees told The Guardian that the company’s internal push for all employees to use AI tools was actually unhelpful and just added to their workload, with one employee describing some of the tools as “half-baked.””
Amazon Employees Say AI Is Just Increasing Workload. A New Study Confirms Their Suspicions
Silicon Valley promised AI would make work less intense. Employees would beg to differ.
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The authors claim, "Large language models (LLMs) are poised to become a ubiquitous feature of everyday life, mediating communication, decision making, and information curation across nearly every domain." We still have a choice. LLMs don't HAVE TO be ubiquitous if we don't allow them to be.
Artificial intelligence-associated delusions and large language models: risks, mechanisms of delusion co-creation, and safeguarding strategies
Large language models (LLMs) are poised to become a ubiquitous feature of everyday life, mediating communication, decision making, and information curation across nearly every domain. Within psychiatr...
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Honored to join @thepoliticschicks.bsky.social on their podcast to talk about kids and AI.
The Politics Chicks@thepoliticschicks.bsky.social · 7mo agoNew podcast episode just dropped 🎙️ AI chatbots. Kids. Big Tech. Safety questions no one seems to be asking. Meet Naomi Richman as we talk about ChatGPT, surveillance capitalism, & why parents should be paying attention. Watch here or listen wherever you get your podcasts: youtu.be/81r1dmqW7-0
Another lawsuit aimed at OpenAI - this time for harm that could have been prevented. AI companies monitoring chats for monetization but not to prevent harm.
Family of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim suing OpenAI | CBC News
The mother of Maya Gebala, a 12-year-old who remains in hospital after the shooting on Feb. 10, alleges the tech company failed to alert authorities to prompts from the shooter related to violence.
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"These workers are required to stare at horrific content for many hours straight with few mental health resources, are largely managed by opaque algorithms, and, crucially, are the workers powering the runaway valuations of some of the richest and most powerful companies in the world."
404 Media@404media.co · 7mo ago“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.
"AI chatbots, now embedded into our daily lives, could be helping the next school shooter plan their attack or a political extremist coordinate an assassination,"
ChatGPT, Meta AI, and Gemini help plan violence, report says
Researchers posing as teens got popular AI assistants to help them map out shootings and bombings.
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Earlier this month, WIRED reported on Grammarly’s controversial AI tool that presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics, without their consent. Now Grammarly parent company Superhuman is facing a class action lawsuit over the tool.
Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature
The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.
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If an LLM was a human (and couldn’t remember its training material) - THIS is how it would behave.
The Independent@the-independent.com · 7mo agoWATCH | DOGE staffer who flagged grants to reject for ‘DEI’ struggles to define the term More here: www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/doge...
The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek. www.wired.com/story/nvidia...
Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models, Filings Show
The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.
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Companies including Google, Microsoft, and Palantir were listed as targets by Iranian media as the conflict with Israel and the US spills into digital infrastructure. www.wired.com/story/iran-w...
Iran Warns US Tech Firms Could Become Targets as War Expands
Companies including Google, Microsoft, and Palantir were listed as targets by Iranian media as the conflict with Israel and the US spills into digital infrastructure.
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X’s Grok is failing to accurately verify video footage from the Iran conflict and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the war. www.wired.com/story/fake-a...
Fake AI Content About the Iran War Is All Over X
X’s Grok is failing to accurately verify video footage from the Iran conflict and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the war.
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