5 - All of this will harm racialised groups and migrants first, but will hurt us all eventually.

Do we want more surveillance tech, more police, more border guards? Or do we want the resources for everyone to thrive?
accessnow.org/press-release/…

🧵1 - The EU has (finally) passed the EU #AIAct

After four long years of negotiations, many will celebrate.

But this text does NOT equally protect the rights of everyone facing dangerous surveillance tech

#ProtectNotSurveil outlines why the law fails migrants + racial justice

📢 This project spotlights market-shaping policies that get left out of the highly charged AI boom-or-doom regulatory debate.

Industrial policy is technocratic terrain, insulated from politics on-the-ground. But these moves make claims to the public good *and* public $$ (1/3)

Frances Haugen: 'Age of focusing on content moderation for safety on social media platforms is over' -- in era of adversarial AI, and where we have 'abdicated control' of what we see online to algorithms.

‼️Breaking‼️

Amazon Europe is to be banned from the European Parliament after weeks of pressure from MEPs, unions and NGOs.

This is an important signal that Amazon's disregard for democratic scrutiny won't be tolerated.

#MakeAmazonPay

NEW: Do we need “public AI” ? It depends on what we mean by public and whose interests this will serve.

In this essay Foreign Policy, we scrutinize the National AI Research Resource, the latest in a global wave of industrial policies for AI: foreignpolicy.com/2024/02/12/ai-…

I pray this #PMQs is a wake up call for certain politicians and pundits: that their transphobic jibes and headlines are wrong *everyday*.

It shouldn’t take the murder of a trans child, or the presence of her mother, to remind them that culture wars have real life consequences.

🚨Publication alert🚨

Based on the work of Dr. Keren Weitzberg and Roya Pakzad - رویا پاکزاد, and countless incredible migrants' and digital rights organisations, Amnesty International has published our 'primer' on Defending the Rights of refugees and Migrants in the Digital Age, today.

amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

This is just another play in the sick game that keeps a few thousand homeless refugees on the front pages, which is good for Rishi & good for Piers.

It isn't any good for those of us who need politicians pressured to build social housing, fix the NHS & invest in our communities.

In recent decades, the size of a handful of mega-corporations has soared to extreme levels, as markets have become ever more concentrated, and the private power of the few is increasingly used to dictate how our economies operate. Download full report ➡️ somo.nl/taken-not-earn…

Just read the Lina Khan hit piece by Ankush Khardori at @nymag. Criticizing the FTC is fair game, but violation of basic duties of journalism is not. In this case the major derelictions are (1) failing to mention this FTC's major successes (1/3)

Great overview of what the #AIAct means for regulating Aritificial Intelligence globally with quote from Amnesty Tech Mher Hakobyan

Our key points below👇🏾

apnews.com/article/eu-ai-…

Harvard claims that they own my life’s work. So much that they were willing to lie to the public about the origin of the FB Archive project. If they admit that I started it then they have to admit the project was taken from me and my progress was stopped.

The UK Competition authority is now (at last) investigating Microsoft's acquisition(?) of Open AI.

Microsoft and Amazon says their mega investment in AI firms Open AI and Anthropic are 'non-ownership' deals. But that may not be the full story.

🚨EU AI Act🚨

As others have said, the Parliament is under extreme pressure to accept a package deal on the prohibitions in Article 5

I have the document & it is an absolute disgrace

Parliament cannot accept this, no deal can be made based on this, here's why...

Elon Musk blames the advertisers for leaving, but let's be clear:

He fired trust and safety staff.
He laid off 80% of the company.
He rolled back content moderation.
He reinstated white supremacists.
He endorsed anti-semitic hate speech.

He's responsible for Twitter's downfall.

🧵I am watching the news from Gaza with a deep dread. It's almost impossible to think of anything else.
But I know that your capacity for solidarity and resistance is deep. So here's a thread to uplift 7 neglected crises across the Global South.

🚨 BREAKING: Another total communications blackout will happen in #Gaza *imminently* if fuel supplies are not immediately delivered. Allowing the entry of fuel and restoring power is an urgent humanitarian imperative. 🧵 1/10 amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

Respect for those Labour MPs who chose to put conscience first and vote for #CeasefireNowInGaza