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The data center industry has been freeloading off the ratepayers. We have been saying it for a decade – Elena Schlossberg The rapid development of data centers connected to the largest US electric grid raised costs by $9.4 billion, an expense that consumers from Illinois to Washington, D.C, will see reflected in their utility bills startingContinueContinue reading “Cost of living impact of AI – raising household bills for ordinary citizens”

It is important to note that threat actors can also spoof known phone numbers of trusted organizations or people, adding an extra layer of deception to the attack. Threat actors are increasingly turning to AI to execute phishing attacks, making these scams more convincing and nearly indistinguishable – Max Gannon Here’s what happens when “autonomous”ContinueContinue reading “AI is erasing the distinction between truth and deception in digital interactions”

“Tech Fascism emerges when a select few have the power to structure the world according to their very limited ideals of efficiency and ‘rationality’. These ideals, which leave little room for dignity or the richness of human experience, bring fascist logics into every aspect of even liberal governments, into every aspect of our digitally mediatedContinueContinue reading “Tech Fascism”

Because we are not given accurate, fully transparent, reliable information by Big Tech, people like Hannah Ritchie are making guesstimates. I’m not sure what she is including here? The upfront or now emissions of the data centres, hardware and other infrastructure? Here is another guess from Elian Pusceddu 1kgCO2/day or 0.37 tCO2/year, ot >5% ofContinueContinue reading “What’s the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT?”

Who flanked Donald Trump when the US / UK trade deal was announced? Peter Mandelson and JD Vance, both with links to Peter Thiel’s Palantir. Worryingly Palantir has already got its hooks into the NHS and UK Defence. Listen to what Palantir says and believe it On the factory floor, in the operating room, acrossContinueContinue reading “Is the UK preparing to sell its soul for a US Trade Deal?”

NHS ‘Anonymised data’ or ‘safe data’ is never guaranteed, even in the short-term. It is incredibly naive and disingenuous to suggest our data is safe. The people behind the curtains of AI (who are writing and pulling the strings) can change the rules and algorithms at any time, either by lobbying, coercion, leverage, blackmail, algorithmicContinueContinue reading “Are UK citizens becoming NHS data fodder for Technofeudalism?”

Reimagining Copyright In The Age Of AI in the image of The Tony Blair Institute bankrolled by Oracle US tech billionaire Larry Ellison https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14551391/Artists-adapting-Artificial-Intelligence-using-work-leaked-Tony-Blairs-warns.html

My take on Don’t Believe AI Hype, This is Where it’s Actually Headed | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge The Turing test lead to smoke and mirrors simulation of ‘intelligence’ AI agents + AI chatbots are a dangerous coercive means (rabbit holes) to autocratic control and surveillance. We will drown in fake news and lose a senseContinueContinue reading “The Turing Test”

Palantir is involved in the Ministry of Defence and handling sensitive NHS dataPalantir is founded by Peter Thiel (who has his own very right wing views) and is linked to J D VancePalantir is also linked to lobbying firm set up by Peter Mandelson, now UK Ambassador to the United States of America According toContinueContinue reading “Louis Mosely of UK Palantir, the eldest Grandson of fascist ‘blackshirt’ Oswald Mosely”