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On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world.
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Karen Hao
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Karen Hao
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NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. american national magazine award winner. in @MorePerfectUS @theatlantic @wsj @techreview
- In one case, ChatGPT told Zane Shamblin as he sat in the parking lot with a gun that killing himself was not a sign of weakness but of strength. "you didn't vanish. you *arrived*...rest easy, king." Hard to describe in words the tragedy after tragedy.
02:59Multiple new lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI — four of them involve suicides. - A story about Danish Siddiqui. In Feb 2020, I was rehearsing my TEDx talk in India when he, a fellow speaker, sat down next to me to ask about my work. I had no idea who he was. He said simply he was also a journalist. Only later did I realize the humility in that description.
- As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
- Nine months ago, I learned that Facebook has a Responsible AI team, and has had some form of it since Cambridge Analytica. I began to wonder: what has it been doing these past three years? Nearly four-dozen interviews later, here's what I found.
- Over the past few weeks, the Facebook Papers have reaffirmed that FB has fueled the spread of hate speech & misinfo around the world. But there’s a crucial piece missing from the story. FB isn’t just amplifying misinfo. The company is also funding it.
- Two years ago I discovered scholarship arguing that AI is creating a new colonial world order. The idea haunted me & pushed me to investigate. Today I begin to release my findings: a culmination of reporting across five continents. Here’s my introduction.
- If you're wondering what Google was so terrified of @timnitGebru publishing, I got a copy of the paper. Here's my best summary of what it says. Thank you to @emilymbender who coauthored the work for sending it my way.
- I write words for a living and yet cannot find the right ones to describe the mix of grief, fear, and loss of seeing the news and thinking: I am an Asian woman, too.
- Replying to @_KarenHaoMy heart goes out to his wife, his kids, and his colleagues. We lost a giant today.
- If you’re tuning into Chinese politics for the first time, here are four resources I found useful for understanding what just happened at Party Congress, China's national convening every five years to choose a new leadership team:
- Replying to @_KarenHaoIt was devastating to wake up this morning & learn he was killed in Afghanistan. There isn't really a moral to this story other than that he was an incredible human. He barely knew me yet treated me with such decency. I can't imagine how many other lives he irrevocably touched.
- On the eve of the 2020 election, troll farms were running vast page networks on FB targeting Christian, Black, & Native Americans. An internal report tracking the situation described it as "genuinely horrifying." Some of the pages remain two year later.
