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Data Centers Aren’t the Future of American Prosperity
Tamara Kneese and Maia Woluchem cut through lobbying points and speculative myths to focus on what the evidence reveals about the tech industry’s claims.
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What Happens When People Turn to Chatbots for Therapy?
Chatbots are reshaping not only how people seek help, but how they define it, researcher Briana Vecchione writes.
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Our Strategy
We are working to build a future where technology is governed in the public interest and used to support people and communities, rather than driving surveillance, control, and oppression.
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Challenging AI Hype and Tech Industry Power
In a conversation moderated by D&S’s Tamara Kneese, authors Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, and Karen Hao discuss their new books about AI’s wide-ranging impacts and the motivations of the tech elite that build and shape it.