📝 ‘Migrants in the Digital Periphery’ for Uni. Of California Press, ‘Resisting Borders+Tech’ @haymarketbooks. Assistant Professor @Cambridge Digital Humanities. Research/advice @Amnesty Tech. Views=own
Dr Matt Mahmoudi
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Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging:
"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems."
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
Senior researchers at a meeting of the American Diabetes Association were handing out copies of an editorial, published in the association's journal, condemning Trump administration cuts to diabetes research. Police came to arrest them.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development ...
Huh. I wonder why the “users give scans of their eyeballs to Sam Altman for no discernible benefit” startup is failing
Sometimes you procrastinate writing something for 8 months and it pays off because someone publishes the perfect thing to cite
I built and continue to promote the most dangerous threat to society's epistemic grounding since some caveman invented words, but I told my text-prediction machine to avoid doing epistemic harm in a "constitution" so I'm sure it'll be ok.
MUST READ! @amnesty.org shining a light on the abuses of AI data scraping. Think we should force the AI corps to be transparent about what they trained off? There's a bill in California that would do just that - please support it by adding your signature to this petition: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/
See you can just say "it sucks we should ban it"
"...standalone generative AI systems... depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL"
Eryk Salvaggio
Kirsten the (ex) Librarian
Carl T. Bergstrom
Zachary Berger
So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging:
"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems."
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Dr Matt Mahmoudi
Dr Matt Mahmoudi
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development ...
www.amnesty.org
Unsurprising to most observers of the AI industry, but it nonetheless raises a host of complex (ethical) questions: a) what are the ethics of a company making a tech that creates security threats & then sells software that helps address such security threats? 1/ www.ft.com/content/d02d...
So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
