Washington AI Resistance
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WA-AIR brings together community members, environmental advocates, technologists, and organizers to advocate for responsible governance of both artificial intelligence and the infrastructure that powers it.
This is absolutely true, AND we need laws that place the accountability for "rogue" AI (and other mishaps) DIRECTLY at the feet of the CEO's.
Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · 5h agoDr. @timnitgebru.blacksky.app, founder of DAIR, said plenty of laws already apply to AI and claims of existential risks are overblown. “There is no AI exemption in existing statutes. Fraud is still fraud. Discrimination is still discrimination.” www.cnbc.com/2026/09/15/t...
Dr. @timnitgebru.blacksky.app, founder of DAIR, said plenty of laws already apply to AI and claims of existential risks are overblown. “There is no AI exemption in existing statutes. Fraud is still fraud. Discrimination is still discrimination.” www.cnbc.com/2026/09/15/t...
Trump’s opposition to AI rules undercuts industry's calls for a slowdown
Anthropic and OpenAI have called for mandatory safety checks to be put in place as fears intensify that AI can soon be too powerful to control.
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Dr Nafeez Ahmed@nafeez.bsky.social · 9h agoEXCLUSIVE: AI giants warn their tech could kill us all. Their proposed safety rules could help kill off cheaper competition. Our @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation exposes unproven runaway claims and a looming financial blackhole worth 10% of world GDP 1/20 bylinetimes.com/2026/09/15/b...
New Environmental Protection Network report finds unprecedented electricity demand for AI #datacenters carries significant risks to our health. Former EPA officials & health experts document 30+ federal actions making a more polluting AI buildout more likely. safernotsicker.org/take-action/...
The Hidden Costs of AI Data Centers - Safer Not Sicker
The Hidden Health Costs of AI Data Centers AI data center pollution can make people sick. Instead of protecting Americans’ health, the EPA is making the health risks worse. A new report finds the unpr...
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Who's gonna stop them? We're gonna stop them. With all the beauty, creativity, and fierceness of human intelligence.
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 13h agoI still think there is not a good awareness out there of just how much the AI industry plans to run off fossil fuels. This is a *conservative* estimate that excludes many planned projects. These are weak plans and they can be stopped. au.finance.yahoo.com/news/us-data...
This puts the lie to everything they say about AI being "the future". There is no future if they continue down this path.
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 13h agoI still think there is not a good awareness out there of just how much the AI industry plans to run off fossil fuels. This is a *conservative* estimate that excludes many planned projects. These are weak plans and they can be stopped. au.finance.yahoo.com/news/us-data...
Who's gonna stop them? We're gonna stop them. With all the beauty, creativity, and fierceness of human intelligence.
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 13h agoI still think there is not a good awareness out there of just how much the AI industry plans to run off fossil fuels. This is a *conservative* estimate that excludes many planned projects. These are weak plans and they can be stopped. au.finance.yahoo.com/news/us-data...
Here's the link to sign up ... if you're in Washington state, it should be great! bsky.app/profile/did:...
Washington AI Resistance@wa-air.bsky.social · 3d agoWorried about AI? Join a virtual Listening Session on the People's Bill of Rights on AI! This Tuesday, from 7-8:30pm. actionnetwork.org/events/virtu...
I really want people to think more like organizers. I'm seeing endless debate, and more than a little conspiracy theorizing, about the motivations behind the big companies' warnings about the danger of AI. And almost no discussion about how we seize this moment to demand the policies we want.
If you are a parent, a teacher, or just someone who'd like the populace to be capable of reading and critical thinking....listen to this pod. Ozoma is clear and inspiring, and if we all acted as quickly and effectively as she has done/is doing, the AI landscape would be VERY different.
Meet the Mom Winning Against AI in Schools w/ Ifeoma Ozoma
Podcast Episode · Computer Says Maybe · September 11 · 53m
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We’re so excited to be a part of Washington AI Resistance. Let’s protect our state’s utilities and keep essentials like electricity affordable for workers across the state. ⚡️🌹 People over profits!
Washington AI Resistance@wa-air.bsky.social · 3d agoWorried about AI? Join a virtual Listening Session on the People's Bill of Rights on AI! This Tuesday, from 7-8:30pm. actionnetwork.org/events/virtu...
All of a sudden we're not talking about the widely popular bipartisan opposition to massive data center buildouts. I wonder why 🤔
Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 3d agop.s. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that all of this acceleration in the hype is a reaction to the succesful and broadening opposition to their wasteful, polluting, noisy data centers.
Worried about AI? Join a virtual Listening Session on the People's Bill of Rights on AI! This Tuesday, from 7-8:30pm. actionnetwork.org/events/virtu...
Virtual Listening Session: People's Bill of Rights on AI
The tech billionaires want to force AI into every aspect of our lives. Their real goal: control. We're fighting back and demanding the Washington legislature pass real regulation to ensure that AI co...
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I'm going to sleep now & someone wake me up when LessWrong isn't being cited in the mainstream. Wake me up when the eugenicist doomsday cult led by a self described "genius" writing fan fiction about having sex with girls to increase population "intelligence," isn't setting the "AI" narrative.
Worried about AI? Join a virtual Listening Session on the People's Bill of Rights on AI! This Tuesday, from 7-8:30pm. actionnetwork.org/events/virtu...
Virtual Listening Session: People's Bill of Rights on AI
The tech billionaires want to force AI into every aspect of our lives. Their real goal: control. We're fighting back and demanding the Washington legislature pass real regulation to ensure that AI co...
actionnetwork.org
it's unclear whether this is a rationalist-poisoned guy or just a deeply cynical valley guy but if you truly think this is what you and your peers are doing this is a very strange way to act. It also, as ever, doesn't deal with the actual harms happening today
People seem a little bit overly skeptical about the new technology, why might that be (Another former Anthropic engineer posts something floridly insane) Ah
Hey @ericlipton.nytimes.com 👋 AI is not “evolving” on its own. *People* are choosing how to build it. *People* are choosing how to train it. *People* are choosing how to run it. Maybe the problem is that they are the *wrong people* to make these choices.
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · last wk.OpenAI’s top scientist, in a blog post on Sunday, warns that artificial intelligence is evolving so rapidly that it is becoming increasingly difficult for humans to understand and control it. Here is the post: openai.com/index/an-ali... And a couple of small excerpts--clear warnings.
I’m going to need everyone who’s reporting on AI psychosis and how it’s making people, especially men, come up with theories of everything to please talk with the scientists who have been getting multiple emails from “theory of everything” guys for decades
Serious people focus on the THEORETICAL harms, not the ACTUAL harms. I mean, who cares about a burning planet if a "rogue" statistics program does more or less what it was designed to do, with unanticipated consequences because some fools were in a damned rush to build the ultimate category killer?
The Economist@economist.com · last wk.There is a respectable argument for slowing down AI research, but it rests on the danger to all humanity of the technology being abused or going rogue—not the local harms of data centres
Nice to see Cal Newport getting it right in the NYT. "This style of anxious talk also allows the A.I. companies to portray themselves as the reluctant 'stewards' of an inevitable technology, which is a framing they can use to deflect blame for damage caused by their own products."
Opinion | How Scared Should We Be of A.I. Right Now? (Gift Article)
The dark and distressing way that Silicon Valley talks about A.I. can be traced to a philosophy that influenced many tech executives.
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Concerned about data centers in Washington State, but not sure what to do about it? Join our MASS CALL on TUESDAY at 7pm, and get connected to local site fights, as well as the push for a statewide moratorium. The momentum is with us!
Mass Call on Data Centers in Washington
You might’ve heard a lot about AI data centers—they're popping up everywhere. If you're curious about why so many people are concerned about how they're using land, water, and electricity, or if you’v...
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At a certain point I have to ask myself if I got all this pedigree and spent decades doing research and building things to then spend the rest of my life attempting to come up with good arguments as to why the Cookie Monster isn't real.
YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT I DID IT AND I'D DO IT AGAIN
MacRumors.com@macrumors.bsky.social · 2w agoChatGPT, Claude, and Grok Are Down
“So you kind of just end up in the same situation, where not enough renewable energy is getting built, and coal plants have their lives extended." (And that's when there IS a substantial amount of new renewables being built for data centers, which is not true here in the US.)
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 4w agoI have become pretty obsessed with why people - including many climate and renewable advocacy groups - keep insisting that "data centres will drive the energy transition" Here is a ~5,000 word essay I wrote on my blog that digs into why this keeps happening -->>> ketanjoshi.co/2026/08/14/p...
New York City is banning the use of generative artificial intelligence for public school students from 2K through 8th grade, part of a larger move to restrict classroom technology in the nation’s largest school district. https://cnn.it/4iGlH79
Watching the Substack live with @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @khanna.house.gov now, and it's terrific, but Khanna should know that the research uses of AI almost uniformly do NOT require big data centers. From my friend @itstheraj.bsky.social:
The AI we want without the data centers we don't: It's possible | Op-Ed
We don’t need to burn our climate commitments or pave over fields and ranches to realize the benefits of artificial intelligence.
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