Not everything that can be predicted should be.

AI’s power to anticipate behavior risks normalising surveillance and control.

Prediction isn’t always progress.

Where do you draw the ethical line?

#AIUnpacked #EthicsInAI #AI #artificialintelligence

No, Von der Leyen. Healthcare won't be improved by #AI.

On the contrary, AI is destroying the future of healthcare. Its engines are stealing researcher's work and atrophying the brains of future health professionals.

Medicine is a social science that needs critical thinking, empathy and compassion. All very distant concepts from those powerful shortsighted technocrats ruling the European Commission, the only beneficiaries of those €200 billion.

#Healthcare #SocialMedicine #ArtificialIntelligence

YouTubers Surprised That Google Uses Their Videos to Train AI Models https://petapixel.com/2025/06/20/youtubers-surprised-that-google-uses-their-videos-to-train-its-ai-models-veo-3/ #artificialintelligence #aivideogenerator #Technology #youtuber #youtube #gemini #google #News #veo3 #Law

Sorveglianza "intelligente" a Milano: Garante Privacy stoppa uso delle telecamere AI

Pur riconoscendo lo sforzo di implementare sistemi di offuscamento e di avviare uno studio per migliorare l’anonimizzazione dei dati attraverso la “decontestualizzazione totale” delle immagini, il Garante ha sottolineato che tali accorgimenti non bastano a scongiurare i rischi per i diritti e le libertà degli interessati.

https://lentepubblica.it/pa-digitale/sorveglianza-intelligente-milano-garante-privacy-uso-telecamere-ai/

@sicurezza

@milano

#ai

#artificialintelligence

#privacy

Marques Brownlee has put up a video about a US$20,000 robot. The company behind it claims it can do a whole range of household tasks 'through the power of AI', and will be delivered next year.

They even demonstrated a prototype to a journalist.

And the entire demonstration was being remotely controlled by a human operator.

And the company admits that, other than one or two simple tasks like opening a door, all tasks will be completed by a remote human operator. Those tasks will need to be scheduled in advance.

So.

Assuming this thing can be put into mass production, a huge if, it's basically a mechanical Turk.

Mark my words.

If this thing makes it to market, and that's a big if, the operators will be in a low-wage country.

It will almost exclusively be a way for rich white Americans to have human servants do their chores, without them being in their house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j31dmodZ-5c

#robot #robotics #Marques #MarquesBrownlee #ArtificialIntelligence #VultureCapital #AI #tech #technology

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

Draft code submitted to KDE Plasma turns it into a full VR desktop:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/draft-code-submitted-to-kde-plasma-turns-it-into-a-full-vr-desktop/

KDE Plasma 6.7 will have a global push-to-talk feature:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/kde-plasma-6-7-will-have-a-global-push-to-talk-feature/

GNOME's AI Assistant Newelle Adds Llama.cpp Support, Command Execution Tool:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-AI-Newelle-1.2

Window Shadows Finally Arrive on COSMIC Desktop:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/cosmic-desktop-window-shadows-arrive

CachyOS Starts 2026 By Switching To Plasma Login Manager & Live ISO Using Wayland:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-January-2026

Myrlyn 1.0 Released For Package Manager GUI Spawned By SUSE's Hack Week:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Myrlyn-1.0-SUSE

GNU Guix 1.5 Released With RISC-V Support, Experimental x86_64 GNU Hurd Kernel:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Guix-1.5-Released

Deepin 25.0.10 update includes data-retaining installer and file manager improvements:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/1/deepin-25-0-10-update-includes-data-retaining-installer-and-file-manager-improvements/

14 Years Later than Planned, NexPhone is Up for Preorder:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/nexphone-2026-convergence-android-debian

(more Linux and FOSS news in comment)

#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #KDE #GNOME #COSMIC #CachyOS #Myrlyn #SUSE #Guix #GNUGuix #Deepin #NexPhone #KDEPlasma #Newelle #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Plasma6 #LinuxPhone #LinuxDistro #DistroRelease #DesktopEnvironment #LinuxDesktop #DesktopLinux #FosseryTech

🐧 Canonical clarify some their AI for plans for Ubuntu Linux - opt-in and easy to remove

Recently GamingOnLinux highlighted Canonical's plans for adding AI features into Ubuntu Linux, and naturally this has caused plenty of concern.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

📰 Source: GamingOnLinux Latest Articles

🔗 Link: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/canonical-clarify-some-their-ai-for-plans-for-ubuntu-linux-opt-in-and-easy-to-remove/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Ubuntu #Linux #OpenSource

The above article makes me think of the quote from Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr :

“AI is the asbestos we are shovelling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Quote #CoryDoctorow #Meme #Memes #Quotes #Tech #Technology