This summer, the Amsterdam municipality granted a construction permit for a mega data centre in Amstel III in Amsterdam-Zuidoost.
Continue reading “The fight against a data centre in Amsterdam-Zuidoost”
A Dutch anonymous site uses AI to spread misinformation about migration in the Netherlands.
Continue reading “Racist Technology in Action: Using AI to manipulate migration data (anonymously)”
Observers scrutinize Meta founder’s argument about AI’s potential as an equalizer and enabler.
By Ananya Bhattacharya, Chinasa T. Okolo, Juan Ortiz-Freuler, Mark Mulobi, and Sagar Vishnoi for Rest of World on August 20, 2026
xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, is being sued by the NAACP for using methane gas generators to power and cool its data centres without a permit.
Continue reading “Racist Technology in Action: Musk’s data centres are methane-gassing historically black neighbourhoods”
Suit alleges the billionaire’s AI company is illegally spewing toxic pollutants from its datacenters in the Memphis area.
By Dara Kerr for The Guardian on April 15, 2026
Amnesty International published a report on how major generative AI (genAI) systems severely violate privacy laws, further opening up the risk of mass human rights abuse.
Continue reading “Major generative AI systems are continuing to get away with violating human rights”
Valerie Veatch’s documentary traces the origins of artificial intelligence and makes for a worthwhile watch. Featuring interviews with many of the heavy-hitter critical AI researchers, such as Dr. Abeba Birhane, Dr. Alex Hanna, and Dr. Emily Bender, the film traces the early histories that make the AI accelerationist, fascist, and planet-burning present possible.
Continue reading “Documentary tip: Ghost in the Machine”
Companies are extracting vast troves of online data through unlawful web scraping to build their generative artificial intelligence (AI) products in a way that is enabling a mass invasion of privacy, making these systems unlawful by design, Amnesty International said in a new briefing today.
From Amnesty International on May 28, 2026
In Gaza, survival unfolds alongside a fight to be seen in a digital world increasingly shaped and manipulated by algorithms.
By Laura Albast for WIRED on May 13, 2026
A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.
By Karen Hao for The AI Resist List
Wout, de chatbot van de Nederlandse politie, begon over antisemitisme toen gebruikers vroegen hoe ze aangifte konden doen van discriminatie tegen Palestijnen. De politie heeft de chatbot daarom tijdelijk offline gehaald.
By Hayte Hugo for Tweakers on May 18, 2026
As a fellow of the Racism and Technology Center, Emma-Lee Amponsah created an audio experience about ‘post-work futurism’. She just published the audio as a podcast.
Continue reading “The future doesn’t work: listen to Emma-Lee Amponsah’s podcast”
De overheid gebruikt heel veel discriminerende algoritmes, zeggen datawetenschapper Robin Aïsha Pocornie en filosoof Ajuna Soerjadi. ‘Risicoprofielen zijn nooit neutraal.’
By Ajuna Soerjadi, Robin Pocornie, and Sofie Bancken for Trouw on May 7, 2026
7amleh recently released a report titled ‘How EU Funding and Exports of High-risk AI Systems Exacerbate Severe Human Rights Violations in Palestine and the Broader Region’. Through an in-depth analysis of European policies, the report highlights how these policies have financed and exported advanced digital technologies used to surveil, control, and repress Palestinians in Palestine and other SWANA countries.
Continue reading “The EU funds and exports high-risk AI systems to the SWANA region”
The accessibility and commercial rollout of AI have led to an increase in discriminatory use cases.
Continue reading “AI ‘ethics’ needs to move beyond its narrow idea of ‘representation’ and acknowledge antiblackness”
More than a month into the US’s and Israel’s illegal war on Iran, its devastating consequences continue to unfold and reverberate around the world.
Continue reading “Racist Technology in Action: What is ‘Project Maven’? The US’s AI-power kill-chain”
The tech giant says its BAFTA notification was just a system error. For Black people, that distinction doesn’t erase the harm.
By Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier for Word In Black on February 25, 2026
The US and Israeli war on Iran is a live testing ground for deploying AI in a large-scale war. The Wall Street Journal first reported that Anthropic’s Claude is central to the onslaught: assessing intelligence and identifying targets. This isn’t the first time Anthropic’s systems have been used to assist in illegal US operations: they were also deployed in Maduroo’s kidnapping from Venezuela.
Continue reading “Anthropic is powering the horrific strikes on Iran”
From TikTok deepfakes to smears put out by the White House, fake videos modeled on Black archetypes are running rampant – putting Black users at risk.
By Andrew Lawrence for The Guardian on February 19, 2026
The chatbot shall provide answers, including legal advice, in many different languages although it was only fed information in English, new documents show.
By Anas Ambri for AlgorithmWatch on February 12, 2026
Kapwing analyzed video output from Google’s Veo 3, OpenAI’s Sora 2, Kling, and Hailuo Minimax to showcase how AI tools perpetuate the race and gender biases of society.
By Liam Curtis for Kapwing on January 12, 2026
World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation.
By Jason Wilson for The Guardian on November 17, 2025
The DUO discrimination scandal, where more than 10.000 students were discriminated against, has led to multiple initiatives that aim to prevent this from happening again. None of these addresses the core problems of “predictive optimisation”.
Continue reading “Dutch responses to the DUO scandal miss the point: technical fixes won’t solve the fundamental problems of predictive optimisation”
Meet “LinkedIn Catfish” Aliyah Jones and learn about her experiment that exposed racial inequity in hiring.
From Teen Vogue on January 15, 2025
After being ghosted by numerous recruiters during her unemployment, Aliyah Jones, a Black woman, decided to create a LinkedIn ‘catfish’ account under the name Emily Osborne, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed white woman eager to advance her career in graphic design. The only difference between ‘Emily’ and Jones? Their names and skin colour. Their work experience and capabilities were the same.
Continue reading “She had to catfish herself as a white woman to get a job: AI-mediated racism on LinkedIn and in recruiting”
For many years and for many people, GeoMatch by the Immigration Policy Lab was a shining example of ‘AI for Good’: instead of using algorithms to find criminals or fraud, why don’t we use it to allocate asylum seekers to regions that give them the most job opportunities? Only the naive can be surprised that this didn’t work out as promised.
Continue reading “Racist Technology in Action: The algorithm that was supposed to match asylum seekers to places with jobs doesn’t work and is discriminatory”
Research finds tool depicts white women surrounded by black children when prompted about humanitarian aid in Africa.
By Aisha Down for The Guardian on December 4, 2025
Eind 2024 begon het Centraal Orgaan opvang asielzoekers (COA) met het testen van een algoritme. Vluchtelingen zouden daarmee makkelijker werk vinden in hun nieuwe woonplaats: een win-win voor iedereen. Maar het systeem werkt contraproductief en discrimineert. Hoewel er al grote zorgen waren, zette het COA de proef toch door.
By David Davidson and Evaline Schot for Follow the Money on December 3, 2025
An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.
By Matt Burgess for WIRED on October 15, 2025
India is OpenAI’s second-largest market, but ChatGPT and Sora reproduce caste stereotypes that harm millions of people.
By Nilesh Christopher for MIT Technology Review on October 1, 2025
The MIT Technology Review shows how the models of major AI companies, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, reflect India’s caste bias.
Continue reading “Racist Technology in Action: The caste bias in large language models”
Exclusive: Pictures depicting the most vulnerable and poorest people are being used in social media campaigns in the sector, driven by concerns over consent and cost.
By Aisha Down for The Guardian on October 20, 2025
De Balie organised an evening with Madhumita Murgia about her recent book Code-Dependent. Our own Naomi Appelman was asked to reflect on the book.
Continue reading “The entanglement of the (Dutch) government and Big Tech when it comes to AI”
The Guardian reports that OpenAI’s new AI video generator, Sora 2, launched with a social feed feature that allows users to share their generated videos on social media platforms easily. Predictably, within hours, violent and racist videos generated through Sora flooded these platforms. Despite OpenAI claiming to have implemented safeguards and mitigating measures, the app generated videos depicting mass shootings, bomb scares, and fabricated war footage from Gaza and Myanmar, showing AI-generated children.
Continue reading “Racist Technology in Action: OpenAI’s Sora Launch: Yet another racist generative AI”
Workday’s AI bias lawsuit is a warning to employers: biased hiring algorithms are a legal risk. This article explores how to prevent AI from reinforcing workplace bias.
By Janice Gassam Asare for Forbes on June 23, 2025
Bijna alle AI-toepassingen hebben een voorkeur voor witte mannen. De Raad voor Europa riep onlangs op tot actie omdat AI discriminatie, vooroordelen en geweld tegen vrouwen in de hand werkt. Hoe zorg je dat kunstmatige intelligentie niet discrimineert?
By Marijn Heemskerk for Vrij Nederland on July 19, 2025
Misinformation researchers say lifelike scenes could obfuscate truth and lead to fraud, bullying and intimidation.
By Dara Kerr for The Guardian on October 4, 2025
“Whole-body” biometrics are on their way.
From The Economist on August 13, 2025
Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever.
By Tara García Mathewson for The Markup on June 26, 2025
Trial of technology comes as official report warns existing system has been failing for at least a decade.
By Kiran Stacey for The Guardian on July 22, 2025
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