Why should we allow a handful of tech oligarchs to determine where the Earth’s resources and energy supplies are directed? As Tamara Kneese writes, industry promises of abundance stand in stark contrast with the real environmental impacts of AI. Read on Tech Policy Press

The essays in this anthology collectively reframe the question of trust and technology away from whether a particular technology is trustworthy and toward how trust reframes institutions, bodies, and knowledge. Read more

This collaboration between Lana Swartz, Alice E. Marwick, and Kate Larson maps generative AI's role in scams, the communities most at risk, and the broader economic and cultural shifts at play. Read more

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“We are told repeatedly that AI will eventually help us solve social issues, including climate change...while AI infrastructures are right now burdening communities and undermining climate goals,” Tamara Kneese tells Teen Vogue. Read on Teen Vogue

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D&S affiliate Zane Griffin Talley Cooper examines resource extraction in the Arctic and how fantasies of the Network State run counter to the reality of life in Greenland. Read on Points