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Activists break into building site of Microsoft datacentre in Amsterdam

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Separate actions also take place outside fence and across Europe in backlash against impact of AI boomActivists have stormed the site of a Microsoft datacentre being built in Amsterdam, as the backlash to the social and environmental harms of the AI boom spreads across Europe.Protesters from Geef Tegengas, a Dutch direct action group, clashed with

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Activists across Europe prepare two days of protests against datacentres

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More than 100 campaign groups will join together in 15 countries this week to call for a halt to major AI projectsProtesters across Europe are planning two days of action against datacentres this week with demonstrations taking place in 15 countries.More than 100 groups are joining together for the “Stop Dirty Data Centres” events on

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‘Pull the plug’: protesters resort to direct action against AI firms

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Campaign groups report surge in membership after a spate of AI safety alerts and apocalyptic warningsIn a bar below Waterloo Bridge, a cell of a fast-growing anti-AI protest movement met last week to plot their latest move: disrupting a tech industry dinner being addressed by a senior executive from the chip maker Nvidia.Emma, a 28-year-old

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Stop shaming people for using AI. Start organizing to prevent our obsolescence | Garrison Lovely

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The industry is engaged in a perverse quest to replace humans. We cannot cede the best tools available to the other sideI don’t need to tell you that people hate AI. The list of grievances is long: slop, cheating, bias, enfeeblement, electricity bills, environmental destruction, exploitation, theft, cybercrime, doom. But resistance to the technology has

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Climate protesters say tech companies, not AI, are the real ‘danger to humankind’ – and the planet

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Activists gathered outside the OpenAI offices on Monday during climate week in New York CityOn Monday evening, protesters gathered outside the unmarked Manhattan offices of OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, holding signs calling to “Eat the rich, save the planet”. Over the next two days, groups also picketed outside the offices of fellow tech giants Google

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The first anti-AI protester to be jailed has a message for OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta: ‘Regain your humanity’

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Wynd Kaufman, 69, chained and locked the front doors of OpenAI’s headquarters last year with members of StopAIAn activist who blocked the entrance to one of the world’s biggest AI companies is believed to have become the first person jailed for protesting against artificial intelligence as supporters dub her the “Rosa Parks of AI risk”.Wynd

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Inside the growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras

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An underground network of privacy activists is disabling or destroying the ubiquitous surveillance devices sprouting up across the USThe first time that “NoMark” tried to knock out a Flock camera feed, he waited an hour for the perfect moment – pacing in and out of bushes that towered over him, a few feet behind a

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Why an up-and-coming indie developer is returning Microsoft’s money

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In this week’s newsletter: the creator of All Will Rise standing up to the tech giant –and joining the No Games for Genocide movement• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereVideo games are in a funding crisis. Investor money flowed freely during the pandemic gaming boom, but now the well has

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No, the human-robot singularity isn’t here. But we must take action to govern AI | Samuel Woolley

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Moltbook, a social media site for AI agents, is nothing new. Still, the marriage of big tech and politics demands we take a standOn a recent trip to the San Francisco Bay Area, I was shocked by the billboards that lined the freeway outside of the airport. “The singularity is here,” proclaimed one. “Humanity had

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‘How is it possible?’: Berliners demand answers after sabotage causes blackout

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Arson attack that left parts of German capital in darkness for days stirs outrage over infrastructure insecurityEurope live – latest updatesWhen Silke Peters bought a crank radio and a camping stove just after the start of Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine, her husband thought she was “a little crazy”. “He put me down, only half-jokingly,

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