More gas turbines everywhere. Palantir and NHS again. Luxury influencing. AI going viral. Neutrality is sometimes harmful.

AI Agents who escape on their own decision, a nice trick. But there is no such thing as real magic.

Bias in LLM based systems can shape narratives and can influence users’ decision-making in subtle ways that AI literacy alone might not avoid.

Transparency in the EU and California. The UK is running dry. LinkedIn wants users to report its own slop. More escaping agents. Warning of sycophancy does not make chatbots less persuasive.

From today, AI generated content that could be mistaken as real needs to be labelled in the EU.

Critical thinking urgently needed. Musk v Minnesota. AI industry shredding books. August is coming in the EU, and LLMs show stigmatizing behaviour.

The UK Labour government has made a big bet on AI. Adoption first, regulation, maybe, later. But was there ever a plan?

Open weight models are communist, allegedly. More scary stories. New York’s data centre moratorium. Hollywood absurdities. Data centre protests, and a kill-switch for AI.

Resistance meets in London, Palantir again, the AI industry has opinions on regulation, people have opinions on AI and LLMs can quietly steer your opinion.

The AI Resist List had its London launch, presenting the various project that are part of its network. Some notes.

AI at work: Fair, accurate or biased? Data centres are getting hot. The UK in search of AI regulation.

AI Notetakers and the transition from human interaction to machine coordination.

A mayoral pact for sustainable data centres, hire and wire, NHS admits Palantir might not be that good, AI regulation by decree, and three papers on AI psychosis.

Notes and thoughts from the workshop on “The Ethics of AI in Workplaces” at the University of Greenwich.

A lawsuit that at first was a conflict over clean air is turning into a fight over civil rights. And the Trump administration has teams up with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to challenge a fundamental right of US citizens.

Bias wherever you look, August comes closer, Palantir loses contract in France, police reportedly used AI to manufacture evidence and ChatGPT can be easily tricked.

New York bans stealth crawlers, EU guides on AI labelling, memory systems can make AI models worse, agentic shopping, and OpenAI v everyone.

A German court has ruled that Google can be responsible for answers given by its AI Overview. That ruling could be significant for AI searches.

Nobody likes data centres, MIT reports, German court rules on Google. And how oppressive are AI systems?

Mental health bots. AI agents circumventing the law. Florida against OpenAI and other lawsuits, and hidden pitfalls of AI scientist systems.

The AI Resist List project wants to challenge the current narrative of the AI industry. And offers action points for everyone. A brief commentary.

The pope joins the resistance, Berkeley had it with legal hallucinations, Colorado goes backwards, one in five expects unrest against AI.

A large part of advice sought from AI assistants is health related. Time to look at papers that take a critical view of LLMs and health advice.

When confident answers move faster than verified facts

Most people do not think AI will make things better, too many ask AI about health, and AI can’t cope with users distrusting it.

ChatGPT’s learning successes retracted, questionable productivity stats, Palantir gets more of UK’s health data, hallucinations are accelerating, and AI assistants make us a bit dumber.

Seven studies that investigate bias and the impact of LLMs on disempowered and vulnerable users.

A case study on reliability, scope discipline, and real-world trust.

Legal agents in Word, Meta’s AI copies word-for-word, the Pentagon has a word with AI companies, and what influences the use of writing assistants.

Employees at Palantir and Google wonder who are the baddies, techno fascism, apologies and critical looks at LLMs in health care.

Manifest fallout, legal bits, AI Psychosis and relying on AI assistants could be bad for your performance.

Stargate to nowhere, Gen Z has little hope for AI, Musk wants the right to discriminate, AI’s mirage reasoning.

AI is swallowing poison, AGI scares are back on the marketing menu, copyright questions again and LLMs are bad for your health.

Everyone is in court, chatbots are plotting, ghosts in machines, social media made addictive and bots want to flatter.

Rarely has a new industry burned through so much good will in such a short time. This is both a chance and a danger.

OpenAI is cuts corners, Lords are siding with creatives, Oracle scales down while others scale up, and AI makes scientists think the same

While the Grok scandal has been met with public outrage, responsibility and blame is now slowly shifted onto the users.

Pub Crawl, update on the baddies, Microslop, data centres in bad places, chatbots and privacy.

A similarity between nuclear weapons and AI is the speed and opacity of their emergence. Both did not wait for humanity to be ready

Today scientists across the US will protest against the attacks on scientific institutions. To prevail, allies beyond academia are needed

The summit has peaked, no copyright for AI, standing up for science, and LLMs are bad for your privacy.

The drama around Anthropic glosses over the fact that the AI industry always knew it was developing a powerful weapon

AI overrated, Zuck in court, how to train your human, facial dystopia, weapons may hurt, AWS deletes itself

Elon Musk and his companies have filed an appeal against the fines issued by the EU for violating the Digital Services Act

Meet Misaligned at our booth at the Pub Crawl 2026, Medium’s two-day virtual celebration of publications, editors, and authors.

Palantir scrutinized, the DSA is indeed enforceable, TikTok addiction, and a Marxist perspective on recommender systems.

Generative AI eats itself, Anthropic bits, Grok v the world, AI washing, everyone is nervous, and who is in charge?

Everyone against Grok, US states want to regulate AI despite Trump, ChatGPT is biased but wants you to go shopping, citations desperately needed.

Insurers are unsure about AI. Grok has another lapse. And LLMs are seriously biased against people who speak dialect.

14 Studies from 2025 that looked at LLM bias, AI overpromising and associated risks.

AI rots its own brain. Falling numbers. Generative AI is a distraction. AI is only role-playing as scientists, otherwise missing the point.

The definitions of productivity have to change if we’re going to coexist with the changes AI is bringing.

The problem of defamation by generative AI will only get worse, and the industry should not treat it as just a technical glitch.

Some thoughts on the fines issued by the European Commission against X, and the wider political context.

GPT-5 unsafe and not so clever, subpoenas for everyone, who wants to pay for AI anyway, and poisoning LLMs might require little data.

AI was supposed to cure cancer, explain the universe and turn earth into a paradise. Instead, AI generated slop is flooding the web.

A tsunami of AI slop is approaching, friend has no friends in New York, science is in real trouble. Also, AI makes people dishonest.

This week: Is the AI investment hype going in circles?

This week The Royal Society in London will again discuss the conduct of one of its fellows: Elon Musk. This time it needs to take a stand.

OpenAI's job platform, copyright wars and Americans see AI as risky.

A tragic case highlights that AI Chatbots need to change their priorities when it comes to guardrails.

This week with another episode in the generative AI vs copyright saga.

Adding human-like elements to AI chatbots can be as engaging as it can be can be manipulative and misleading.

Silicon Valley has now a “network of Super PACs with some of the usual suspects from the AI industry.

With AI tools popping up everywhere, their inappropriate use at work becomes more and more of an issue. A look at the issues with Shadow AI

Regulatory bits. The copyright saga continues. And bits to read.

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Voluntary code of practice. Tesla deletes data when the data is needed. And a lot of bits from the medical field.

Obligations in Europe. Altman warns, again. AN American action plan for AI.

Yesterday a federal jury in Florida found Tesla partly liable for a car crash in 2019 that killed a pedestrian and left another person badly injured when a Tesla on Autopilot crashed into a parked car.

August is almost upon us, and it has been almost a year since the EU AI Act came into force, kicking off a two-year transition period.

The General Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice is the European Union’s voluntary code accompanying its Artificial Intelligence Act.

Yesterday the Trump administration unveiled its “AI Action Plan”: The 28 page document¹ lays out its Artificial Intelligence policy doctrine along familiar lines.

26 years after the first sub-postmaster was convicted of allegedly defrauding the Post Office, a new report released today has revealed the enormous human suffering this scandal has caused.

The AI industry is jubilant: In a double whammy of two decisions district judges in California ruled in favor of Meta and Anthropic on the question of AI model training and Fair Use.

AI has now arrived in recruitment and HR, from automatically filtering job applicants to conducting interviews. This raises many new ethical questions.

The EU AI Liability Directive is, for now, dead. The European Commission has withdrawn its draft which was supposed to supplement the EU Artificial Intelligence Act in questions of liability.

For over a month now the UK government and the House of Lords have been locked in a battle over the proposed Data (Use and Access) Bill.

On Friday May 16th the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) issued a rather unusual public statement, asking the open-access repository for scientific papers arXiv to withdraw a paper on its site.

Do generative AI companies have a right to crawl any website for training data?

Not much excitement was expected from the AI Action Summit on February 10-11 in Paris. Little did we know: What was supposed to result in harmony resulted in much dissonance. A commentary.

On Sunday February 2 the first compliance deadline of the EU AI Act came into force. Applications deemed to pose 'unacceptable risk' or harm are now banned in the EU.

Suggesting glue as a pizza topping or recommending eating a rock a day for health benefits may have been the highlight of generative AI failures in 2024 but it was also symptomatic for a series of products rushed to market.

Today the British government unveiled its plan to boost the UK economy by means of Artificial Intelligence.