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Anduril in 2024: We will make AI weapons which "will give us the ability to swiftly win any war" Anduril in 2025: We will need to field systems, not "just for a few days or months, but potentially years at a time" 🤷‍♀️

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SURPRISE>>>>Elon Musk SpaceX (and other commercial space companies, but particularly SpaceX) are the big winners in Trump's new federal budget plan. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

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This was quite a thought-provoking event / book launch yesterday on Noam Yuran’s The Sexual Economy of Capitalism, with @aminsamman.bsky.social and Anat Rosenberg, hosted by @finandsoc.bsky.social and @ucl-ccs.bsky.social A lesson in how to think things otherwise.

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Nothing gives you those warm and fuzzy feelings like a surveillance instrument that keeps constant tabs on your body heat and interactions ...

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So excited to see this super cool looking volume in print! Stacked with incisive chapters from great scholars … and myself. Thank you to the editors for the invite to contribute.

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So apt for our present time

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This whole series looks excellent, not least because they are talking to scholars like Elke who have incisive and important critiques

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I spoke with the @financialtimes.com on the topic of AI use for targeting for their Tech Tonic podcast. The full episode is available here www.ft.com/content/a203...

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I’m excited to be giving a talk at the Vienna Digital Cultures Festival on May 10. If you’re in the area, come join! Details below: kunsthallewien.at/en/exhibitio....

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What for? And why should I care?

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These are the people who have thrown all their resources behind shaping defence in the image of Silicon Valley. Litigation was always part of the strategy. These are the people forcing (us into their) visions of the future of war.

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'a government is not a business. The parameters that (should) matter for governments are not the same as those that guide business principles, or indeed, the technology industry at large. To be sure, a government’s responsibility is to facilitate economic prosperity' but while protecting from harm.

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This is precisely what I wanted to highlight in my piece earlier this year. The conflict of interest is already declaring itself in the very language with which the plan was presented www.justsecurity.org/106837/uk-ai...

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Pennies are essentially worthless. But if I stole 7 billion of them from Mark Zuckerberg, I think he’d call that theft. If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in busiess — you’re in organized crime.

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A chilling escalation to enrol young minds into bellicose endeavours. An ambiguity in "build to dominate" is par for the course, but if you follow the trajectory of Karp's statements, it's clear that more than industrial competition is conjured up here.

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Someone grab the A1! The LLM-to-malware pipeline is a perfect downward spiral: AI generates code with imaginary packages, attackers register those package names with malware, and unsuspecting developers execute the code. Another way AI errors cascade into real-world threats.

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"In an era when there is so much overlap between the dystopian vision presented in Black Mirror and our many instances of real-life dystopia, perhaps it is time for the show’s characters to join the resistance."

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@sunewith.bsky.social has put together a stellar line up for a very timely & thoughtful podcast series on AI, weapons and war. I'm honoured to be among the interviewees for the series. Check it out here: open.spotify.com/episode/6IMD... And the whole series here: open.spotify.com/show/4195im6...

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There is a new podcast series on the battlefield. I’m excited to launch Death by Algorithm. Together, we explore autonomous weapons. Meet Dr Neil Renic, Elke Schwarz, PhD Schwarz, Lasse Kronborg, Iben Yde, Charlotte Akin, Claus Borg Reinholdt. More to come lnkd.in/dFMtK8eA lnkd.in/dNm_se6N

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@heidykhlaaf.bsky.social is spot on in her critique. I wish the article had given it a bit more space earlier on in the piece.

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"Of 36 recent airstrikes verified by the UN human rights office, all those killed were women and children."

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Critics of surveillance, datafication and AI are often accused of being alarmist and even hysterical in pointing out the potential for supposedly benign systems to be used in malign and expansive ways. But we’re seeing now how dangerous it was for those critiques to be dismissed.

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"Skip the indoctrination" Rich.

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Ok, time to dust off some Hannah Arendt, for absolutely no particular reason: "In totalitarian regimes, provocation, once only the speciality of the secret agent, becomes a method of dealing with his neighbor which everybody, willingly or unwillingly is forced to follow" (OT, ed. 2004, p. 556) 1/

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It is tiring to see critical engagements with tech cast as 'techno fearmongering' in an effort to undermine what I see perhaps as 'techno-realism': a theoretically & historically informed effort to situate new technologies within socio-political environments & consider their foreseeable effects.

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This by @joolia.bsky.social is excellent and deserves a close read. The erosion of empathy by the techno-right wing is exceptionally alarming. Where empathy is subverted, atrocity will flourish. Paired with this other headline, it makes for extremly cruel theater www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Somehow I missed this story about the nomination of an Anduril executive for the post of Army undersecretary, a role which will be overseeing "a budget of more than $185 billion" and the equipping of the force. I guess conflict of interest is not longer a thing ... defensescoop.com/2025/03/11/t...

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I agree, I think it really is as simple (and perturbing) as this.

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I couldn’t agree more, especially as they aim to significantly expand their business with UK government

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Thank you Siri 🥰

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This is what abstracts are for you silly tech corporations.

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Aside from the fact that you can't run government matters like an auto parts manufacturing plant, the involvement of Thiel's Palantir in this process comes as no surprise. The mantra from Musk et al has been the need to "change the operating system" for government. It seems, quite literally.

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On the entanglement of industry interests with UK policy: "The Prime Minister has described AI as the “defining opportunity” of the age. With economic growth at a standstill, Labour has rested its hopes of becoming an “AI superpower” in Palantir’s hands." www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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