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AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · 7d

OpenAI, Anthropic & others have shifted from championing ethics to signing $200M+ defense contracts that embed gen AI into high-risk military systems. In @theverge.com, @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social explains why the move toward defense partnerships is a safety risk.

Listen here: shorturl.at/mTAZq

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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 11d

Yes: apnews.com/article/isra...
And
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

As Israel uses US-made AI models in war, concerns arise about tech’s role in who lives and who dies

U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services.

apnews.com

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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 12d

I'm sorry what? We're now back to British colonial officers in British Mandate Palestine who hold “supreme political and legal authority”?

Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 12d

Tony Blair proposed as chief of Gaza transitional authority, reports say - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/tony-blair-proposed-chief-gaza-transitional-authority-reports-say

Tony Blair proposed as chief of Gaza transitional authority, reports say

BBC reports that former UK prime minister has held talks about leading the interim authority

www.middleeasteye.net

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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 12d

It was great speaking to @haydenfield.bsky.social on the Decoder podcast, where we discussed the relationship between safety and the push for generative AI to be deployed within military applications.
www.theverge.com/podcast/7848...

How AI safety took a backseat to military money

Heidy Khlaff discusses the industry shift toward military applications and what it means for AI safety.

www.theverge.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22d

"The State of Israel has committed genocide."

Navi Pillay, chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, has told Al Jazeera that Israel’s war on Gaza is a genocide.

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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 23d

Given that the US passed multiple EO to lower the thresholds of nuclear safety, it's concerning that "Britain and the US will accept each other’s safety checks on reactor designs, almost halving the time for a nuclear project to be licensed to about two years."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

UK and US line up string of deals to build modular nuclear reactors in Britain

Agreements include plan to build 12 reactors in Hartlepool with Centrica, creating 2,500 jobs, and fast-tracking UK and US safety checks

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · Sep 8

Being recognised in MIT's 35 Under 35 just a week after being in TIME100 AI is such an honour! The profile gets to the heart of the motivation of my work, which includes the use of AI in Gaza that has contributed to a devastating death toll: www.technologyreview.com/innovator/he...

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AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are excited to announce that AI Now’s Chief AI Scientist, Dr. @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social, is one of MIT @technologyreview.com's 2025 Innovators Under 35, which recognizes scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs from around the world.

Read about Dr. Khlaaf’s work here: ter.li/5iqt4y

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AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 28

We are excited to announce that AI Now’s Chief AI Scientist, @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social, is included on this year’s #TIME100AI list, which features leaders, policymakers, artists, and entrepreneurs who are advancing major conversations about how AI is reshaping the world: time.com/collections/...

TIME100 AI 2025: Heidy Khlaaf

Find out why Heidy Khlaaf made TIME’s list of the most influential people in artificial intelligence

time.com

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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · Aug 28

Excited to be included on TIME 's list of the #TIME100 AI of 2025!

Grateful to @ainowinstitute.bsky.social for supporting my work on addressing the safety revisionism of AI in defense/safety-critical contexts where safety has been obscured with little to no accountability.
time.com/collections/...

TIME100 AI 2025: Heidy Khlaaf

Find out why Heidy Khlaaf made TIME’s list of the most influential people in artificial intelligence

time.com

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AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 26

As the US considers acquiring agentic AI systems to produce AI-generated propaganda campaigns, @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social warned @sambiddle.com of @theintercept.com that these systems are easily compromised, threatening national security rather than protecting it:
theintercept.com/2025/08/25/p...

Pentagon Document: U.S. Wants to “Suppress Dissenting Arguments” Using AI Propaganda

The U.S. is interested in acquiring machine-learning technology to carry out AI-generated propaganda campaigns overseas.

theintercept.com

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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · Aug 26

I spoke to the Intercept on the use of agentic AI for disinformation campaigns, and how SOCOM framing it as a mitigation to adversaries' "use" is a misrepresentation, as offensive and defensive uses are two sides of the same coin that allows them to use it in the same way.

Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · Aug 25

U.S. Special Operations Command, recently implicated in a covert anti-vax campaign targeting Asian countries, is seeking machine learning tools to automate digital propaganda and “suppress dissenting arguments" online, according to a procurement document I obtained theintercept.com/2025/08/25/p...

Pentagon Document: U.S. Wants to “Suppress Dissenting Arguments” Using AI Propaganda

The U.S. is interested in acquiring machine-learning technology to carry out AI-generated propaganda campaigns overseas.

theintercept.com

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hind Khoudary explains what happened in the attack on Nasser hospital.

An explosive drone targeted two civilians, one of whom was a journalist. Then, as rescuers went to retrieve the bodies and additional journalists were filming what had happened, a missile targeted them.

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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · Aug 25

Fuck the IOF forever.

After bombing the hospital, their airstrike murders the medics and journalists who arrive to assist/document.

No words...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 22

The UN-backed IPC has found that Gaza now faces famine after 22 months of Israel’s war on the Palestinian territory.

What has led to a famine being confirmed in Gaza?

The UN-backed IPC has found that Gaza now faces famine after 22 months of Israel’s war on the Palestinian territory.

bit.ly

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Aug 15

🚨 SCOOP🚨: Records obtained by Mother Jones almost uniformly show police departments are deactivating safeguards meant to prevent AI bias while making it difficult or impossible to audit which police reports were generated by AI.

@tekendra-parmar.bsky.social reports:

Government documents show police disabling AI oversight tools

Departments aren't reviewing or disclosing AI-written police reports—which are now being used in plea deals.

www.motherjones.com

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · Aug 15

I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪

The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.

That is *pure fantasy*.

Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

Article on BBC news.
Title: AI designs antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs
Description: Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.

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∞ ever @everafterengine.bsky.social · Aug 14

So Bluesky deleted an account I made (here, in the US) to provide updates on the condition of my friend Sondos Jad Al-Haq and her family of four, who are in Gaza.

Sondos has never used this account. She does not have the password, and has never logged into it.

@mommunism.bsky.social

Automated email from Bluesky:

“Hi there,

A Bluesky account you control has been taken down. A previous account of yours was taken down for a violation of Bluesky’s Community Guidelines. The previous takedown was not a temporary suspension. Please do not create additional accounts on our service. We will take action against any additional accounts as we become aware of them.”

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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · Aug 11

It dispels the myth that AI is somehow objective or in control of itself, as this behaviour was due to an updated system prompt by the Grok team itself. A model can always be nudged and tampered by AI companies which gives them far too much control over our military systems.

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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · Aug 11

We’ve warned before that commercial models pose a much more significant safety and security threat than military purpose-built models (see lnkd.in/e66fRhwh). The recent incident of Grok referring to itself as "MechaHitler" further reveals the risks of relying on commercial models.

Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · Oct 24

New paper with @smw.bsky.social & @meredithmeredith.bsky.social. We challenge the narrative emphasising AI bioweapons risks, and bring attention to the covert proliferation of military intelligence, surveillance, targeting, and reconnaissance (ISTAR) already occurring via foundation models. 1/5

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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · Aug 11

Last week I spoke to DefenseScoop on the DoD's recent contracts with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI and the risks that arise not only with the use of commercial AI models in the military, but the lack of testing and evaluation with their adoption.
defensescoop.com/2025/08/04/d...

Experts worry about transparency, unforeseen risks as DOD forges ahead with new frontier AI projects

Pentagon leadership recently tapped four major tech companies to accelerate DOD's enterprise-wide adoption of some of the most advanced commercial algorithms and machine learning capabilities and depl...

defensescoop.com

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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · Aug 10

This is Anas's final will and testament "I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you to take care of my family."

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Aug 10

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · Aug 10

They claimed already he's a member of Hamas, and the BBC has parroted these points. Western media outlets fully intend to cover for Israel and their final solution in Gaza city. He was one of the last remaining journalists in Gaza city to be able to document the horrors to come.

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