AI surveillance capitalism denotes socio-technical systems in which artificial intelligence is built on pervasive data extraction, monitoring, and behavioral profiling across workplaces, cities, and digital platforms. It encompasses algorithmic management of labor, predictive policing, facial recognition infrastructures, and emerging neurotechnologies that capture neural and biometric signals. Scholarship in this area examines hidden data labor, geoeconomic and corporate surveillance infrastructures, mental and data privacy, differential impacts on marginalized workers and refugees, and evolving legal frameworks such as neural data protection and democratic accountability mechanisms for high-risk surveillance technologies.
Business
AI companies and evangelists frequently use terms such as copilot, coworker, cocreator and co-scientist to imply these rapidly developing systems can happily coexist with us humans. Their inference is clear: People should ...
Jul 30, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Imagine you've always wanted your own app. Perhaps one that tracks your household budget, organizes the family shopping list or reminds you when to water your plants.
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Business
A series of recent AI security lapses—including the OpenAI–Hugging Face breach—is raising a fundamental question: Can tech companies safely govern the powerful AI systems they build, or is stronger outside oversight now essential?
Jul 24, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
ChatGPT maker OpenAI says it is still investigating the "unprecedented cyber incident" that led its artificial intelligence systems to break out of a testing environment and hack into another AI company.
Jul 22, 2026
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Business
South Africa's mining industry risks increased inequality through the adoption of fourth industrial revolution technologies unless automation is matched by stronger governance and workforce support, according to a review ...
Jul 21, 2026
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Internet
A comprehensive analysis of age assurance technologies co-authored by CISPA faculty member Dr. Wouter Lueks concludes that many currently proposed systems for protecting minors online come with significant trade-offs for ...
Jul 20, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
Tech firms are racing to roll out advanced smartphones that use artificial intelligence to do everything from ordering food to composing messages with a simple voice command.
Jul 19, 2026
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Business
Twenty-six Meta employees have filed a lawsuit accusing the tech giant of using artificial intelligence to select workers for mass layoffs, a claim strongly denied by the trillion-dollar company.
Jul 15, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
People are increasingly choosing to limit or reject the use of AI tools, according to a new report published by the Digital Futures Institute at King's College London and Responsible AI UK.
Jul 10, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Launching an artificial intelligence tool to take notes and summarize important information from a virtual meeting can be alluring. Seconds after one of the agents attends an hour-long video conference, it can deliver a recap ...
Jul 9, 2026
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