UK staff of Google's AI research lab hope to block the use of the company's artificial intelligence models in military settings. www.wired.com/story/google...
"Investors have also raised concerns. A coalition of shareholders who own about $2.2bn of Alphabet’s shares wrote a letter to Google’s parent company last week demanding a meeting and greater transparency about Google Cloud and AI deployments in “high-risk” contexts."
The theme for this year is "AGENCY" and our call is now out! Share your creative practice, show how you mold AI and how AI prompts you, discuss the friction, resistance and inspiration.
Deadline: 3 August (AoE)
Decision: 18 September
Location: Sydney, Australia, 6-12 December 2026
"I have joined the union due to concerns about AI being used to empower authoritarianism, whether through military or surveillance applications, both foreign and domestic [...] By unionizing, we are taking the traditional route for workers to [...] have a say." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Nice work by the ICML chairs ... love it. Signal boosting this to help make it known.
I hope that the effect will be that reviewers will less "delegate" (sigh) reviewing to LLMs instead of spending more effort on finding watermarks.
Piotr Mirowski
Piotr Mirowski
Piotr Mirowski
WIRED
Piotr Mirowski
In 2016, 1000s of AI researchers and business leaders signed this open letter calling for a ban on lethal autonomous weapons. futureoflife.org/open-letter/... Worth having a little scroll through some of the names highlighted in the top 100.
I still remember the early days and glitch aesthetic at its first instalment in 2017 (led by @elluba.bsky.social, @sedielem.bsky.social, David Ha, @douglaseck.bsky.social, @arkitus.bsky.social and @rebeccafiebrink.bsky.social), when Kory Mathewson and I were gloriously failing at improv with AI.
2/n
Rachel Coldicutt
Christian Wolf
More than 600 Google employees, directors and vice presidents have signed an open letter to chief executive Sundar Pichai urging him to refuse to let the US government use its AI technology for classified military operations.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
