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NEW REPORT: investors must urge companies to mitigate security risks caused by rushed AI adoption

https://materialtech.beehiiv.com/p/ai-security-privacy

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Reminder: Webinar on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 11 a.m. - 12 a.m. ET

AI and Misinformation: How Investors Can Address the Threat

✍️ Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2UMnuWZ6TAyc6humY3wWBw

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: AI and Misinformation: How Investors Can Address the Threat. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. This web session aims to help investors understand the risks related to AI and misinformation while exploring what they can do to press for more accountable corporate AI policies and practices. Pane...

The webinar will consist of a panel discussion led by Michael Connor of Open MIC, followed by questions from the audience.

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Panelists include:

Gordon Crovitz, Co-founder and Co-CEO, @newsguard.bsky.social

Michael Khoo, Climate Disinformation Program Director, @foeus.bsky.social, and policy co-chair, @caadcoalition.bsky.social

Shuwei Fang, Fellow at @shorensteinctr.bsky.social

Join us for a webinar: Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 11 a.m. - 12 a.m. ET

AI and Misinformation: How Investors Can Address the Threat

✍️ Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2UMnuWZ6TAyc6humY3wWBw

For investors, human rights due diligence matters—especially when tech companies sell cloud and AI tools to military end-users.

More from @iasj.bsky.social: https://iasj.org/investors-signal-urgent-need-for-microsoft-to-strengthen-human-rights-due-diligence/

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As technology accelerates, Open MIC remains committed to providing top-quality information and analysis on AI and workers’ rights, privacy and data minimization, disinformation, environmental impacts of data centers, and dual-use risks of emerging technologies.

Under Michael’s leadership, Open MIC built a globally respected model for investor-led advocacy on technology and human rights—work that Audrey will continue to expand.

She succeeds Michael Connor, Open MIC’s founding Executive Director. Michael will continue supporting the organization as senior adviser and project director.

We are entering our next chapter with the appointment of Audrey Mocle as Executive Director.

Audrey has served as Deputy Director since 2022 and brings deep experience in corporate human rights responsibility, investor engagement, and technology governance.

At #IGF2025 in June, experts from @heartlandorg.bsky.social, BHRRC, @openmicmedia.bsky.social, and UN B-Tech held a roundtable on dual-use tech, used by both civilians + military.

Key takeaways here: https://loom.ly/-h_Wn0k

“I certainly think that investors are one of the last really strong bulwarks against the unconstrained development of this new technology," Mocle says.

Union shareholders are fighting back against abusive AI.

Audrey Mocle of @openmicmedia.bsky.social weighs in on the power shareholders have to hold Big Tech accountable.

More from @inthesetimes.com: https://loom.ly/NZz5RTA

In our new Future of Finance episode, @michaelconnor.bsky.social, Executive Director of @openmicmedia.bsky.social, explains how shareholder proposals drive change — even when they don’t pass.

Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkWF...
Listen: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-kcutz...

• Engagement → board-level oversight (e.g., privacy)
• AI risks: misinfo/bias, labor impacts, energy & water use
• Vote proxies, instruct managers, add guardrails in VC/PE
• Smart policy builds trust

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Our director joined @georgesdyer.bsky.social on the @ien-online.bsky.social Future of Finance podcast to unpack how investors can steer AI toward long-term value — and how engagement can move the market toward safer innovation.

Understanding AI: Four-Part Series starts today — 6:00 PM ET

@datasociety.bsky.social is co-hosting a four-part event series exploring the societal implications of #AI.

🌐 Visit the Data & Society website for information and livestream: https://loom.ly/OgpNTyo

Visit our Events page for more information about these events, and links to register: loom.ly/zWtyuPQ

6/23 - 6/27: Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2025 (@intgovforum.bsky.social)‬
7/7 - 7/22: World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 High-Level Event 2025 (WSIS Process)
7/8: AI for Human Rights: Smarter, Faster, Fairer Monitoring (part of AI for Good Summit 2025)

Human Rights | Technology | Artificial Intelligence

Upcoming global events offer insights and opportunities to shape policy on emerging technologies and their impacts on communities around the world 👇

Weaponizing AGI: How Speculative Futures Undermine Worker Protections | TechPolicy.Press Natalia Luka critiques speculative narratives about AI's future and how they are driving policy inaction.

‪@nataliyan.bsky.social‬ of the Berkeley AI Research Lab urges stakeholders to concentrate on the belief systems around AI, which are at least as disruptive as the products themselves.

More in ‪@techpolicypress.bsky.social‬: loom.ly/vXtGsew

Instead, employers are simply masking politically and economically motivated downsizing as "inevitable AI progress." Even worse, legislators are intentionally failing to pass laws that will protect workers if AI does come for their jobs.

Weaponizing AGI: How Speculative Futures Undermine Worker Protections | TechPolicy.Press Natalia Luka critiques speculative narratives about AI's future and how they are driving policy inaction.

"Layoffs described as progress"

Tech companies and the politicians who love them 💕🤖 are cutting jobs with the excuse that AI is better than people. Not only is that bad for workers, but in most cases it's just not true. AI is not nearly as advanced as they're claiming.

Army bringing in big tech executives as lieutenant colonels The Army is swearing in top tech executives from Meta, OpenAI and Palantir as senior officers to be part-time advisors.

Going a big step beyond simply hiring tech companies to build out defense systems, the U.S. Army is actually swearing in tech executives to consult internally.

Palantir, OpenAI, Meta and Thinking Machines Lab are represented by newly minted lieutenant colonels.

More from Mohar Chatterjee in POLITICO: loom.ly/0MiD9WE

AI companies pitch Washington as cuts roil federal landscape How the next wave of technology is upending the global economy and its power structures

To AI startups, it looks like the only certainty right now is national defense spending.

DOGE cuts and Pentagon budget increases are pushing tech companies to move away from products that support health or international development and instead build the AI-powered war machine of the future 👇

If there is a short list of issues that people are less-than-adequately educated on, this is one of them. We need more reports like this.

Google walking back its third-party cookie phase-out is a major setback (and punk out). Real privacy will never be achieved through half-measures/confusing opt-outs.

I'm surprised at you Meta! But I like it...