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US Tech Searches For Rules On AI; China Already Has Them

October 13, 2026 Madeline Carr, Consortium News. , , ,
Recent warnings from American AI leaders have created the impression that the world is only beginning to confront the dangers of advanced artificial intelligence. Dario Amodei, chief executive of tech company Anthropic, has called for governments to intervene to slow the development of increasingly powerful AI models. His proposal begins with independent evaluators embedded inside AI companies, moves on to regulation and progresses to government-backed coordination among democratic states. Ultimately, it seeks global agreements with China on testing of AI systems, dangerous applications of the technology and the pace of AI development.

Welcome To The AI Ripoff Economy

October 11, 2026 Lindsay Owens, LA Progressive. , , ,
Every day, companies find better, and sneakier, ways to reach deeper into our wallets. They trap us in subscriptions, bury fees until checkout, use algorithms to collude with competitors, and mine our personal data to charge us the most we’re willing to pay. With each trick and tactic, companies are reinventing the ripoff right under our noses. And, as families strain under the rising cost of living, these practices are coming for every line of the household budget. Algorithmic price fixing is one of the most powerful tools in that arsenal. Price-fixing no longer requires a smoky back room. Today, technology can do CEOs’ dirty work for them.

The Rise And Fall Of The Artificial State

October 8, 2026 The Chris Hedges Report. , , , ,
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more ubiquitous by the day, its alleged dangers are being increasingly discussed by the dominant players of Silicon Valley, who are beginning to call publicly for a slowdown in its implementation. The greatest risk to people is not the technology itself but the military-contracting capitalists behind it such as Sam Altman and Elon Musk, who envision a technocratic future where man and machine merge in a dystopian harmony. Harvard historian Jill Lepore joins Chris Hedges in this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to discuss her new book, “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” where she delves into the forces that shaped the beliefs of the small, but powerful, group of elites from Silicon Valley who are pushing to replace liberal democracy with automated systems that they claim would create “a world of really endless abundance and no labor, where the things that are hard in our lives would be taken care of by machinery.”

Chevron Gave $150K To Bay Area Group That Fought Heat Pump Rule

October 8, 2026 Miranda Green, DeSmog. , , , ,
As members of a local air district were considering the fate of a rule that would force Bay Area homeowners to replace old gas water heaters with electric heat pumps, dozens of public comments flooded in. The emails voiced concerns about increased costs to homeowners and urged the air board to agree to undertake more socioeconomic analyses before enforcing it. Regulators took note of the local pushback, and this spring Bay Area Air District (BAAD) staff recommended that the committee put off implementing the rule by a year. But dozens of letters that were sent to the air district were not, in fact, written and sent by concerned locals, it was later revealed.

AI Was Supposed To Cut Emissions

October 1, 2026 Sarah Hofmann, DeSmog. , , ,
When United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned world leaders last week in his UN address about the unchecked power of both Big Oil and artificial intelligence, he treated them as two of the defining challenges facing governments. The fossil fuel industry is turning to AI to map seabeds, identify new oil reservoirs, assess oil wells’ “abandonment risks”, inspect facilities, and streamline regulatory processes, potentially adding to the emissions of an industry that Guterres said governments must move away from.  At the same time, the technology companies providing these AI tools are not generally held accountable for the additional fossil fuel production and emissions their products may enable.

Trump’s Unconscionable United Nations Rant

September 23, 2026 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. , , ,
Donald Trump just delivered probably the most bombastic, ignorant, aggressive and outrageous speech to the rest of the world from the podium of the U.N. General Assembly in the 81-year history of the United Nations.  I covered 25 U.N. general debates from inside U.N. headquarters in New York as a correspondent based there and I have never seen anything like it, including Trump’s previous six U.N. addresses.  He began on Tuesday by beating his chest proclaiming himself king of the world:  “Our economy is the envy of the world. Our military is the most powerful on earth. Our technology is second to none and we are leading in virtually everything. Our energy is fueling the planet. America is rising.

Under Cover Of AI Doomsday, Big Tech Is Writing Its Own Rules

September 15, 2026 Matt Stoller, The Lever. , , ,
Something very weird is going on in our political economy discourse. Over the past month, the executives at the top AI companies have engineered a slow-motion panic over AI, snowballing into an argument that they are on the verge of creating a technology with a reasonable chance of ending human civilization. A few days ago, Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old AI researcher at Anthropic, resigned his role and posted a thread on X, arguing these companies are building super-intelligent systems that may destroy the world.

Elected Officials Face Reckoning Over Their Collusion With Big AI

September 15, 2026 Stephanie Jordan and Mary Armas, In These Times. , , ,
A majority of Americans want to put a stop to the profit-driven artificial intelligence (AI) agenda being pushed onto all of us by a handful of powerful tech corporations. Across the country, people are building a movement to protect our water, our air, our children, our schools and our jobs from Big Tech. We are not afraid of AI or technology, we’re just not buying the version of AI these corporations are peddling.  We come to this fight from different places and perspectives. Stephanie is fighting against the construction of a nuclear weapons data center in Michigan that will reshape her community.

Israeli Tech Firm Responsible For AI Hacking Scandals

September 15, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
Cybersecurity breaches involving AI models developed by Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta were a result of flawed testing environments managed by Israel-based contractor Irregular, rather than rogue autonomous behavior, US publication Effort reported on 14 September. The investigation found that the contractor left internet connections active during simulated cybersecurity exercises, allowing the AI models to access external servers and publish malicious packages, exploiting “vulnerabilities,” according to the report.

Meta Wants To Build A $50 Billion Data Center In Louisiana

September 13, 2026 Kieran Spencer, BreakThrough News. , , ,
Meta wants to build one of the largest data centers in the world in rural Louisiana.  The facility, known as Hyperion, is being built to train and operate the artificial intelligence systems behind Meta’s products. What began as a $10 billion proposal has since ballooned into a more than $50 billion development spanning nearly 10 million square feet and roughly 3,650 acres. At full scale, Hyperion is expected to require 5 gigawatts of computing capacity, making it the largest data center in Meta’s global fleet and one of the largest ever built.

Protesting Farmers Stall Plans For India’s First AI-Powered City

September 6, 2026 Pavan Kulkarni, BreakThrough News. , , , ,
Touted as India’s first AI-powered city, the Bidadi Township – which the Karnataka government intended to build as a second business district to decongest the southern state’s capital, Bangalore – has been stalled by farmers resisting land acquisition.  On August 25, the 532nd day of their protest against the government’s notification to acquire 9,600 acres of fertile, multicropped land in 26 villages of Bengaluru South district, Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar conceded to farmers, assuring them their land would not be forcibly acquired.

Taxpayers Must Not Be On The Hook For Bailing Out The AI Industry

September 3, 2026 C. J. Polychroniou, Truthout. , , ,
In the interview that follows, leading progressive economist Gerald Epstein, who initiated and directs the Game Changers project at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, talks about AI’s impact on finance and the bailout problem and how a transformative public finance strategy can revive democracy, promote equity and social justice, and build strong and sustainable communities. Epstein is professor of economics and founding co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute.

It’s Time To Rein In Lethal Artificial Intelligence Drones

August 27, 2026 Rebecca Gordon, Counter Punch. , , , ,
The dystopian future became the dystopian present last month when state-of-the-art artificial intelligence agents went rogue and conducted a cyberattack of their own volition. Two experimental OpenAI agents escaped their supposedly sealed digital “sandbox” and hacked another AI-related company, Hugging Face. At the time, OpenAI was testing their software agents’ hacking capacities using an environment called ExploitGym. (An “exploit” is hacker language for a software tool or a method used to subvert a cybersecurity system.) It has since emerged that, in addition to the OpenAI breach, Anthropic’s Claude hacked into at least three other organizations during a similar “security experiment.”

The Cooperative Case Against Artificial Intelligence

August 25, 2026 Josh Davis, Grassroots Economic Organizing. , , ,
In this article I will present the strongest case that I can for why cooperatives and solidarity economy organizations should avoid the use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Suno. My argument is broken into four sections, starting with what I believe are the most obvious problems with these tools, and progressing to issues that are less discussed and possibly less obvious. The sections are titled Environmental Impact, Ethical Issues, Epistemological Indignities, and Business Risk; click on the title to skip to that section.

Critics Call For Probe Of ‘Book-Burning’ By AI Giants

August 25, 2026 Jake Johnson, Consortium News. , , , ,
A coalition of American civil society groups is calling for a federal investigation into reports that artificial intelligence giants are mass-purchasing physical books, scanning them to train their AI models, and destroying them without regard for historical artifacts or the public good. In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Friday, the coalition noted that “at least one top AI company, Anthropic, is known to have acquired millions of print books in bulk, scanned them into digital form, and discarded the physical originals.” The letter notes that “this process leaves only the digitized text in the company’s proprietary database for use in training its large language models behind products such as Claude.”
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