Scholar, author, policy advisor
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Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
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Court holds Google liable for false claims in AI Overviews. Seems significant.
"A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate 'independent, new, and substantive statements' by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites" the-decoder
I made a Firefox add-on that lets you find the federal court opinion/docket mentioned in a news story in one click. Using @free.law's CourtListener and RECAP of course. addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo... (this is a personal project)
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Download The Missing Link for Firefox. Find the case the article didn't link. Claude identifies the U.S. court case discussed on the page and links you straight to it on CourtListener. Bring your own ...
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.
Congratulations to Xavier Becerra. I am excited to offer him all the support I can as he sets out to become our state’s next governor, and I look forward to standing with him as California makes history by electing our first Latino governor in 150 years.
There is so much debate about what AI will do to us in the future.
But @proofnews.bsky.social is reporting about what AI is doing to us right now. This week we dove deep into an AI robot named Moxi that has been deployed to more than 25 hospital systems across the U.S.
www.proofnews.org/moxi/
Alondra Nelson
Kamala Harris
I've had access to Claude 5 Fable for a bit. A genuine jump in capability, I could feed it a 15 page design document for a project and it would work for 9+ hours and deliver terrific results.
But working with it is weird & weirder is coming
Lots of examples: open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...
For the "why is this taking so long" crew, LA County has more registered voters than 41 states.
“NSF silently blocking awards for meritorious proposals coming from certain institutions shows that the agency is no longer aligned with NSF’s founding principle that meritorious research, identified by expert review panels & expert NSF program officers, should be funded w/o political interference”
It is with great sadness that the Council marks the passing of Kenneth Prewitt, eminent social scientist, dedicated public servant, and organizational leader who served twice as president of the Social Science Research Council (1979–1985 and 1995–1998).
www.ssrc.org/news/2026/06...
American Museum of Natural History
Julia Angwin
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Social Science Research Council
Update: The flag on Princeton's grants was removed on June 4, around the same time NSF got this letter from Democrats on the House Science Committee, demanding details. democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...