NEW: Months after FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, she and a guest accepted Kennedy Center gala tickets from the company worth more than $12,000.

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I keep wondering when the bulk of tech workers are going to learn that if they build something they know can/will be used to rob artists, writers, photographers, videographers, illustrators, etc of their creative works, that they are not immune from the unethical uses their paymasters are putting the tool to...

#Unionize #FuckAI #Ethics #EatTheRich

Researchers found that writers using biased AI agents to auto-complete suggestions had their sociopolitical values shifted without their knowledge it was happening.

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We worry about cognitive capture, what the LLMs of big tech are doing to our ability to identify and think through problems. We should be equally worried about them making a grab for our ethos, what we care about, and at population scales.

#ai #bigtech #ethics

Watching ministers talk about NHS data strategy is like watching someone confidently rewire a house with no understanding of electricity. The language sounds polished, the reassurances are endless, but the substance just isn’t there.

Choosing a company like Palantir isn’t a neutral technical decision. It’s a long-term structural commitment with real implications for control, access, and public trust. Yet it’s presented as a simple procurement exercise.

And when political careers move on, as they always do, there’s rarely any reckoning for decisions that reshape public infrastructure for decades. That asymmetry should concern everyone.

#technology #surveillance #nhs #politics #ice #ethics #society #data

Palantir: NHS pilot’s “success” is questioned as second figure at major trust is linked to the tech giant | The BMJ
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Nearly 600 people have been sickened across the state, which has seen an increase in recent #vaccine exemptions among #children.

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