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Anthropic is now suing the Pentagon after the US Defense Department labelled the company a “supply chain risk”.
For the bigger picture, read our latest explainer on how AI is being folded into the machinery of violence 👇
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Artificial intelligence isn’t just helping you decide what to cook for dinner. It’s increasingly helping decide who lives and who dies.
Is this the first AI war?
📩 Our explainer lands tomorrow
Such an important watch
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One of the most important films of the decade.
Tonight, Ch4. Don't miss it.
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On Saturday we made history ✊
@pulltheplug-ai.bsky.social led the largest-ever AI protest march hit London, demanding an end to the rapid, unregulated rollout of AI by governments and Big Tech
“The genius of this film is that it takes an inherently invisible problem and makes it visible.”
Rebel Tech Alliance on why Molly vs The Machines is the most important film you'll see this year ⬇️
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Here’s why the government’s response to the crisis of online exploitation doesn’t go far enough
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A three-month consultation launched this week could lead to a blanket social media ban for under-16s.
But @adelewalton.bsky.social warns this risks “punishing children for our failure to regulate social media platforms over the past 20 years” 👇
Want to fight back against AI but don't know how?
Join @pulltheplug-ai.bsky.social's open call tomorrow to demand a say in how AI is rolled out ⬇️
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We know. You’re tired of AI. We’re tired of AI.
But what if something better could rise from the chaos? Or in other words: Is “the ‘botlash’ movement gaining momentum?
Some good thinking from @marietjeschaake.bsky.social in our latest newsletter 👇
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“What young people need is the government to actually hold big tech companies to account for the harm they’re perpetuating.”
@adelewalton.bsky.social speaks to us about the potential of a blanket ban on social media for under 16s 👉 citizensreunited.substack.com/p/abuse-as-t...
The third edition of Citizens Understand zooms out to examine how a profitable market in sexualised youth intersects with engagement-driven platform design.
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AI generating sexualised images of girls, tech giants facing trial and governments scrambling to catch up.
How in the hell did we get here? 👇
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👁️ Not to be paranoid or anything, but OMG IS YOUR PHONE BEING SPIED ON!? (Probably)
From @eff.org - this new tool can tell you if you’re a victim of cellular spying 👇
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📩 You'll be hearing more from us about it.
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Molly vs. the Machines is Coming 🤖
This is one of the most important films of the decade - as it's grounded in the belief that we can still, no matter what, fight back.
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Wanna break up with Big Tech ? 🔌
Rebel Tech Alliance will help you do it ethically, intentionally and without dramatically throwing your phone into a river.
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For two decades, child sexual exploitation online has largely been framed as a moderation problem.
What if this is not a failure of enforcement but a feature of the system? 👉 citizensreunited.substack.com/p/abuse-as-t...
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Plans? Want to be at the first-ever AI march in the UK, so you can tell your kids about it?
🔌 With Pull the Plug, we're taking the fight right to the Big Tech giants' office.
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As platforms face trial and AI accelerates harm, the crisis of online exploitation is exposing deeper structural failures.
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🚨 Citizens IRL!
We’ll be speaking at the first-ever AI march in the UK tomorrow. Wanna join us?
Find out more here 👇
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Outstanding summary thread on the most important matter in UK politics. Unresolved, there is no UK politics. Big Media is downplaying this. We have to establish why.
As @alexsobel.co.uk MP put it: “If we don’t resist, act and legislate now, how can we ever expect to live in a legitimate democracy?”