Hundreds of activists staged a protest outside the UN's “AI for Good” summit in Geneva demanding: No AI for genocide and war crimes.

The UN’s partnership with tech companies enabling Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza is: UNethical UNlawful UNacceptable

By providing cloud infrastructure and AI technologies to the Israeli military, UN tech partners Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Cisco, Oracle, Palantir and IBM are deeply complicit in Israel’s regime of apartheid and genocide against Indigenous Palestinians.

Israel’s is the first AI powered genocide.

We call for global pressure on the UN and its member States to take the below actions.

AI’s impact on human rights is not limited to Palestinians. But as the “test subjects” for militarized technologies exported globally and as survivors of Israel’s ongoing, AI-assisted genocide, Palestinians are a canary in the coal mine warning the world of the catastrophic future of weaponized AI.

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Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has registered three of the nine codes submitted to eSafety by the online industry, creating safeguards to protect children from exposure to pornography, violent content, and themes of suicide, self-harm and disordered eating. The three include a code relating to search engine services, as well as codes covering enterprise hosting services and internet carriage services such as telcos.

“These three codes needed to create a high level of protections, especially for kids, to be registered. In particular, the fact the search engine code has achieved this is incredibly important as search engines are often the windows to the internet for all of us.”

David Franklin Slater, 64, of Nebraska, after retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel from the U.S. Army, worked in a classified space at USSTRATCOM and held a Top Secret security clearance from in or around August 2021 until in or around April 2022. Slater pleaded guilty to willfully, improperly, and unlawfully conspiring to transmit National Defense Information classified as “SECRET,” which he had reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation, on a foreign online dating platform to a person not authorized to receive such information.

Slater attended USSTRATCOM briefings regarding Russia’s war against Ukraine that were classified up to TOP SECRET//SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION (TS//SCI). Slater then conspired to transmit classified National Defense Information that he learned from those briefings via the foreign online dating website’s messaging platform to his co-conspirator, who claimed to be a female living in Ukraine on the foreign dating website. The co-conspirator regularly asked Slater to provide her with sensitive, non-public, closely held, and classified National Defense Information and called Slater in their messages her “secret informant love” and her “secret agent.” In furtherance of that conspiracy, Slater did, in fact, transmit classified National Defense Information to her, including regarding military targets and Russian military capabilities relating to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has seized the domain names of several gaming-related pirate sites, including NSW2U.com, which has been Nintendo's nemesis for years. The operation was carried out in collaboration with other law enforcement agencies, including the Dutch fiscal police. It is not immediately clear whether the action is linked to any arrests or indictments.

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~Spot the differences: Original drug bust photo (left) vs. AI-modified version (right)~

A Maine police department's attempt to add their logo to a drug bust photo backfired spectacularly when citizens caught them lying about using artificial intelligence to alter evidence photos.

"This is NOT an AI-generated photo," Westbrook Police declared on Facebook when first questioned about oddities in their photos of seized meth and fentanyl. They doubled down, insisting "Westbrook PD is not and would never generate an AI photo to try and depict evidence." But internet sleuths weren't buying it. Missing "cookie" stickers, vanished drug residue, and mysteriously altered colors pointed to AI manipulation. Within days, the department was forced to admit the truth — they had indeed used AI software, supposedly just to add their department patch to the image.

The incident exposed an alarming gap between police technological capabilities and understanding. When an officer fed the evidence photo through what they thought was "a photoshop app," the AI rewrote reality — altering drug packaging, removing key details, and creating what amounts to falsified evidence documentation. Even more troubling, the department didn't notice these changes before posting.

"The fact that the person who posted it and put it through ChatGPT didn't notice the differences because they were very obvious…it makes me wonder how much people understand about technology and how easy it is to fool people," said local resident Jessica Wellman, capturing widespread concern about police departments wielding powerful AI tools they don't fully grasp.

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