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Educational AI Risks Becoming an Authoritarian Vehicle for Thought Control
These systems are a dictator’s dream: the perfect infrastructure for the imposition of totalitarianism.
Airlines Are Using AI to Set Personalized, Jacked-Up Prices
Experts say multiple carriers using the same price-setting softwares could amount to “algorithmic collusion.”
States Pass Neural Privacy Laws to Protect Brain Data Collected by Devices
Some argue that federal regulations are needed in addition to these new state laws.
As Private Equity Comes for the Utility Sector, Minnesota Is a Test Case
An administrative law judge has issued a report siding with opponents of BlackRock’s acquisition of an electric utility.
Communities Near Data Centers Struggle Now. Trump’s AI Plan Will Make It Worse.
The plan calls for reducing regulations and making federal lands available for constructing data centers.
Pentagon Signs Contract With Musk’s AI After It Called Itself “MechaHitler”
The AI bot praised Adolf Hitler as the best figure to combat “vile anti-white hate.”
The Trump Administration Is Planning to Use AI to Deny Medicare Authorizations
The government plans to partner with private companies to automate prior authorizations.
Regulating AI Isn’t Enough. Let’s Dismantle the Logic That Put It in Schools.
AI in schools isn’t progress — it’s a sign of how far we’ve strayed from the purpose of education.
Trump Admin and Allies Work to Create One Big Beautiful Database of Surveillance
DOGE has already made progress in assembling the personal details of hundreds of millions of individuals.
Historic Black Community Takes On Elon Musk Over Environmental Racism
South Memphis residents are fighting back against unpermitted pollution from the world’s most powerful supercomputer.