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A newsletter & podcast about AI and politics
A note from Alix | Podcast Highlights | Highlights from the Collective Why are we using chatbots in warfare? Hey everyone, Last week, we watched the start of another war. Thanks to a very public spat between the US military and Anthropic, we can confidently say that AI — and specifically LLMs — was used to assess and accelerate the damage. International law is failing us in this moment. Israel’s use of AI to indiscriminately target people and innovation-wash their genocide in Palestine has...
A note from Alix | Podcast Highlights | Highlights from the Collective All hail scale...what are we doing here? Hey everyone, In Brazil, someone stole a professor’s identity and tried to take $80,000 with it. In Rwanda, a finance minister was warned that funding from the Tony Blair Institute could disappear if Oracle was removed from the government tech stack. In India, a system glitch cut 2 million people off from food rations. What do these stories have in common? They’re all tied to...
A note from Alix | Podcast Highlights | Highlights from the Collective What’s ahead in 2026 Hey everyone, It’s funny how we often treat the start of a new year like a magical clean slate. Lately, I’ve been thinking about why we reach for that feeling in the first place. Especially after a year like 2025, it’s natural to want a moment to imagine something new. But when I look ahead, I don’t see a break between 2025 and 2026. I see a through-line — one shaped by power and profit, yes, but also...