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karenhao.bsky.social
ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact. writing a book about OpenAI for Penguin Press, out 2025.
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This month, @karenhao.bsky.social spoke with more than a dozen federal workers who described how the Trump administration is pushing a new ideology and stoking paranoia. “People are terrified,” one source said, “not for losing their jobs but for losing democracy.”

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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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I've been writing BLOOD IN THE MACHINE for months, but I was on the fence about going all-in. Recent events have made the call easier. Elon Musk, the Silicon Valley oligarchs and their AI are taking over. I want to do all I can to push back. I hope you'll join me, and I'm asking for your support.

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I was pleased to attend a State Dinner, hosted by Pres. Macron, for participants of the AI Action Summit. It was an honor to be invited to deliver remarks at Elysee Palace on Three Fallacies in how we think about AI, now published @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/three-fallac...

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NEW from me: I found that deepfake videos of Elon Musk and Donald Trump sharing inane (and sometimes misogynistic) self-help advice got an astonishing 706,592,689 views on TikTok. AI gunk is flooding our information ecosystem at a scale that should make us pause. fakedup.org/musk-trump-m...

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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

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Hear me out: What if, instead of infringing on Americans’ rights and taking stuff away from them, Congress gave them even *more rights*? If that sounds good to you, that’s fundamentally what a national data privacy law — governing all companies, not just the Big Bad of the day — is all about.

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The field of AI has long been dominated by the U.S. and Europe. Recently, however, AI research has become more collaborative across countries outside of the West, according to a Rest of World analysis. New from @khadijaalam.bsky.social: restofworld.org/2025/us-chin...

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Many Latino immigrants in Los Angeles worked to extinguish some of the fires with hoses. They aren't firefighters, they were just helping people in other neighborhoods.

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One of the OG litmus tests of whether AI has reached true “intelligence” was accurate content moderation. If AI has true understanding, it should easily discern posts with precision. It tells you all you need to know that Meta is removing content moderation due to inaccurate over-moderation.

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public outrage and actual enforceable regulation are the only 2 things big tech responds to

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Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon criticizing billions currying favor with Trump was spiked — and now she has quit the paper

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On this week's episode @climategreg.bsky.social and Ariana Brocious reflect on the year that was and revisit a few of the most powerful conversations they had in 2024, feat. @karenhao.bsky.social @ajabarber.bsky.social @tzeporah.bsky.social & more 🔌💡 Listen now listen.climateone.org/2024InClimat...

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Yikes.

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