A growing number of scholars and critics are framing Big Tech and AI as forms of empire and colonialism, with books like 'Empire of AI' (2025) by Karen Hao and 'Digital Empires' (2023) by Anu Bradford…
Tech journalist Karen Hao warns that the real risks of AI are already present, as Silicon Valley consolidates unprecedented resources and influence. Hao, author of 'Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares…
Journalist Karen Hao reported in a Democracy Now! interview that OpenAI contracted Kenyan workers for a few dollars an hour to review graphic AI-generated text for safety filters, and a Google-linked …
Cory Doctorow's new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI' was released today, offering a critical perspective on AI hype and its societal impact. Doctorow argues that AI's real-world imp…
AI safety advocates should work at companies deploying AI, not just at frontier labs, to mitigate real-world harms. The author argues that safety is a relationship between a system and its deployment …
The AI Resist List, a project by We & AI, DAIR, the Refugee Law Lab, and Karen Hao, launches to track resistance to artificial intelligence. Pope Leo XIV issues an encyclical on AI calling for communi…