It sounds horrific. It should. Let's be clear about the material circumstances of what's happening rather than handwaving about 'the dangers of AI'| Blood in the Machine
The LAPD's helicopter mania is both a policy disaster and a symbol of our malignant, badly functioning surveillance state.| Blood in the Machine
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.| Blood in the Machine
Spoiler: Not great. Plus, how AI is raising our electricity bills, the chatbot therapist that failed to intervene in a suicide, and what lays behind Grok's personas.| Blood in the Machine
How Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are concentrating even more power in the age of AI.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
On a year of rehabilitating the luddites, resisting AI, and beginning to build a better future| www.bloodinthemachine.com
Inside a closed-door AI doomer conference with rationalists, tech executives, and the acolytes of Silicon Valley's "new religion"| Blood in the Machine
On AI as a false simulacrum of hope for change. Plus: A copyedit chief on being 'replaced' by AI, Elon Musk is voted least popular newsmaker in America, and the Luddites in National Geographic.| Blood in the Machine
Or how I got Hard Forked| www.bloodinthemachine.com
How the fraught release of the most-hyped AI product yet clarifies the stakes.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
The president is trying to give Silicon Valley nearly everything it wants — at a price.| Blood in the Machine
Plus, OpenAI's absurd listening tour, top AI scientists say AI is evolving beyond our control, Facebook is putting data centers in tents, and the AI bubble question — answered?| Blood in the Machine
Politico journalists are taking on management for using AI products that risk damaging their reputation and replacing their work. Their fight is emblematic of an embattled industry.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
Silicon Valley wins big in the accelerated authoritarianism of Trump's beautiful bill| Blood in the Machine
The 10-year ban on state AI laws may be dead, but let's not forget that OpenAI and big tech tried to subvert democracy.| Blood in the Machine
A mutual aid group has formed to confront the impacts of generative AI, class action lawsuits against the big AI companies yield mixed results for creatives and more in this week's Critical AI report.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
Why no party for the hit app's second anniversary?| www.bloodinthemachine.com
Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.| Blood in the Machine
The pope takes on AI, chatbots abet a mental health crisis, and per MIT, generative AI use impairs learning. The Critical AI report, June 22nd edition.| Blood in the Machine
Sam Altman says the AI utopia is already here — in a manifesto aimed at raising money from the Saudis. On the real vs imagined manifestations of modern AI.| Blood in the Machine
How protestors turned torched Waymos into icons of the anti-ICE demonstrations| www.bloodinthemachine.com
As Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei forecasts mass job loss, Business Insider lays off staff and embraces AI| www.bloodinthemachine.com
If the thing ever gets made, it will be like Google Glass all over again, but worse| www.bloodinthemachine.com
What can we learn about Donald Trump's VP pick from his VC fund's investment portfolio?| www.bloodinthemachine.com
Plus, the AI-generated journalism crisis comes to print| www.bloodinthemachine.com
An interview with one of the best working AI journalists on her new book, why AI companies act like empires, and how to strike back.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
Inside the effort to de-democratize AI| www.bloodinthemachine.com
If so, I want to hear about it. Send your story to AIKilledMyJob@pm.me| www.bloodinthemachine.com
It's not coming, it has already arrived.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
DOGE is feeding workers' emails into an AI to decide if they should keep their jobs. It's a cruel joke in the service of something much worse.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
What a future where iPhones are made in America would really look like.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
On AGI, AI-generated tariffs, and what really threatens the social order| www.bloodinthemachine.com
Musk and Trump are showing us what authoritarian rule looks like when everything's computer.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
The ex-Tesla engineer Thomas Shedd has quietly become the CIO of the labor department as mass layoffs and federal workforce automation continue.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
OpenAI and Google have cozied up to Trump's imperialist approach to AI for a shot at tearing down artists' copyright protections.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
A new study shows workers aren't buying Silicon Valley's hype, and know just who will benefit from AI in the workforce if current trends hold.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
The federal digital services team 18F had a diverse workforce and openly inclusive policies. That's why DOGE killed it.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
JD Vance's AI saber-rattling, DOGE's gutting of the government, and Silicon Valley's thirst for growth show how AI has become a tool for consolidating power.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
Alright, I’m really doing this thing. Support Blood in the Machine and fearless independent tech journalism.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
What it's like to be a federal worker during the dark days of Elon Musk's DOGE campaign| www.bloodinthemachine.com
How and why Elon Musk is trying to automate the federal government| www.bloodinthemachine.com
Stargate vs DeepSeek, Top AI privacy risks, AI's impact on critical thinking, and more. Read this or get left behind.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
How a Chinese app built by a hedge fund has upended not just Silicon Valley, but an economy increasingly tethered to a story about AI| www.bloodinthemachine.com
It was a display of power, and a signal: the tech oligarchy is here, and it will do what it wants| www.bloodinthemachine.com
What really drove the rise of Biden's 'tech industrial complex', and how to stop it| www.bloodinthemachine.com
On living in an LA in flames, our degraded information ecosystem, and trying to put out fires now and in the future| www.bloodinthemachine.com
Five important items for understanding the state of AI. READ THIS OR GET LEFT BEHIND.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
The media has an Elon Musk problem. His vision of the future is Cybercabs *and* mass deportations, and we must make that clear.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
On hurricanes, tech's magnificent bribes, and climate change. Plus: The Nobel laureates of AI, OpenAI's fuzzy financial projections, and Uber's latest assault on workers.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
On AI, workers' resistance, and reimagining a truly democratic technological society| www.bloodinthemachine.com
From a milestone in a class action lawsuit against the AI image companies to animators pushing to contain AI in the workplace, it was a good week for human artists| www.bloodinthemachine.com
Nvidia is shedding value, OpenAI is sputtering, dubious generative AI ads are flooding the market, and signs point to a deflating tech bubble. The great degeneration begins.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
Bosses are using AI to cut corners and kill jobs in gaming, and gamers, workers, and fans are outraged. The reason why is simple.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
Why Silicon Valley's favorite AI buzz phrase is so misleading and insulting| www.bloodinthemachine.com
It's knives out for AI: Engineers, artists, educators and other workers are raising the alarm more loudly than ever before. Here are 8 of their must-read broadsides against the tech.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
Generative AI is the latest in a long line of technologies that promise innovation and fixes but grind away at public life| www.bloodinthemachine.com
There will be no robot jobs apocalypse, but there's still plenty to worry about. How *will* generative AI impact our jobs?| www.bloodinthemachine.com
It's a powerful vision of AI as an engine of entitlement, for one thing| www.bloodinthemachine.com
We mock Musk, Altman and Zuck for using bleak sci-fi references to market products — but these 'useful dystopias' might just be the point| www.bloodinthemachine.com
On the AI-abetted death of VICE and Apple’s handy new visual metaphor for the campaign to squeeze human works into commoditized output paste| www.bloodinthemachine.com
Just not in *exactly* the way you might think.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
Opposition from workers and creators is beginning to hit the infamous generative AI company hard.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
If Silicon Valley doesn't start listening, the torched Waymo car will merely be the beginning.| www.bloodinthemachine.com
OpenAI's text-to-video generator Sora is being hyped as a game-changer by an industry at a crossroads. This time we should know better| www.bloodinthemachine.com
