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The fight against AI datacenters is important – but it’s just a starting point

The fight against AI datacenters is important – but it’s just a starting point

Opposition to AI datacenters has emerged as a primary theme in US politics, one that – surprisingly – doesn’t fall along party lines. We applaud...

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Bruce Schneier

AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress

AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress

In the near future, AI-powered surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of what we do in private. And if we do...

06.07.2026 10

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Bruce Schneier

Once, cyber-attacks required great skill. AI is changing that

Once, cyber-attacks required great skill. AI is changing that

Earlier this week, national security agencies from the Five Eyes – that’s the rich, English-language-speaking countries club – jointly released...

29.06.2026 20

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Bruce Schneier

If an AI chatbot misleads you, who is to blame?

Earlier this month, a German court ruled that Google is liable for its AI search summaries. Rejecting defenses like “users can check for...

24.06.2026 20

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Bruce Schneier

The Anthropic ‘Fable’ saga proves: we have opened the AI Pandora’s box. What now?

On 9 June, Anthropic released its Fable generative AI model. Three days later, the US government classified it as a dangerous munition, and used its...

16.06.2026 50

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Bruce Schneier

How dangerous is Anthropic’s Mythos AI?

Last month, Anthropic made a remarkable announcement about its new model, Claude Mythos Preview: it was so good at finding security vulnerabilities in...

08.05.2026 20

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AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think

Because of the way they are trained, large language models capture only a slice of human language. They’re trained on the written word, from...

14.04.2026 40

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As the US midterms approach, AI is going to emerge as a key issue concerning voters

In December, the Trump administration signed an executive order that neutered states’ ability to regulate AI by ordering his administration to both...

24.03.2026 40

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Bruce schneier

Don’t bet that the Pentagon – or Anthropic – is acting in the public interest

OpenAI is in and Anthropic is out as a supplier of AI technology for the US defense department. This news caps a week of bluster by the highest...

03.03.2026 40

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Bruce schneier