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@vrandecic@mas.to
2026-10-19 20:22:25

When we start outsourcing thinking to AI and allow to lose accountability, bad things happen.
On July 14, 2025, Angela Lipps was babysitting in her Tennessee home when police arrested her for fraud. She was held in a local county jail until October, then moved to a Fargo jail until December 24, when a judge dismissed the charges. She was released into a frigid North Dakota winter with only the summer clothing she had been wearing when arrested in Tennessee.
It turned out she had …

AI Agnotology, Cognitive Surrender, and Policing Accountability | Stanford Law Review
Law enforcement agencies have increasingly employed artificial intelligence (AI) in their investigatory methods and technology. This usage, however, raises critical concerns regarding the accuracy and fairness of such practices. Additionally, this issue highlights the urgent need to identify accountability mechanisms and guardrails to protect against misuse and bias. In this Essay, Professor Jeffrey L.

@curiouscat@fosstodon.org
2026-09-16 02:10:10

25 Years of Mass Surveillance [is 25 years too many]
"as it becomes increasingly evident that the Trump administration is using mass surveillance to keep itself in power, stifle dissent, and undermine political opponents, these questions are now more urgent than ever."
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25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough - Schneier on Security
This essay was written with Cindy Cohn, and originally appeared in Lawfare. One of the many legacies of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 is the government-wide shift from targeted surveillance—such as individual wiretaps or pen register/trap and trace orders—to mass surveillance techniques—such as tapping into the internet backbone or mass collection of telephone or internet metadata. The legal and technical architecture of modern mass surveillance, initially framed as a necessary defens…

@rberger@hachyderm.io
2026-10-25 20:39:54

“This essay is an exploration of what I learned along the way of making agentic coding work within the context of a smaller product company. I’ll discuss the habits that had to go, the replacements that limit risks, as well as the decades-old fundamentals that we had to double down on.
We’ll cover it all. As is customary, let’s start from the beginning with the pivotal point that made us go agentic.”
#AgenticSoftware
https://adamtornhill.substack.com/p/tales-of-an-old-programmer-in-a-changing

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