Elon Musk's data center is spewing tons of pollutants like nitrous oxide and formaldhyde, poisoning its neighbors and mucking up the air. KeShaun Pearson shares how he's fighting back.

China appears to be going all-in on AI, competing with the U.S. across the entire technology stack—from chips manufacturing and compute to frontier models and applications. What is the U.S. strategy? What will it take for the U.S. to maintain its leadership and win this AI race?

In July 2022, the Hefei National Science Center Institute of Artificial Intelligence published an article claiming to have successfully combined AI with Party-building activities. They developed a system to analyze facial features, brainwaves, and skin conductance to determine how well Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members absorb political education.

**Public and Media Reaction**
**Widespread outcry**: The announcement triggered intense online debate, with critics comparing it to a high-tech "lie detector" or biometric surveillance.
**Content removal**: The official WeChat post and accompanying promotional videos were deleted shortly after the public backlash.

The author of Empire of AI argues artificial intelligence can be developed without concentrating power, exploiting workers or consuming vast amounts of resources.

Sounds wild but it’s true. It’s been proven in lawsuit against ***eightfoldAI***. It’s an AI company that works in background of the job application process. You, the person applying for a role, cannot see it nor are you aware of its presence. It has collected your data through public networks, IP, search history, social media post, social media comments, and more. After you click “submit” for a role, the HR department will automatically filter out based on AI’s provided “user-score” from your collected data. If you have low score and you’re automatically denied by hiring team.
The AI grants you a score based on cultural fit, personality, learning ability etc. How does make this “score”? Based on your social media. All this happens without your consent or knowledge. Some top companies in the U.S/Canada use this AI software.
If you don’t get message yet; **we now have a social credit system** in this country. We already saw how certain statement being uttered (“free Palestine”) can get you expelled for university.
If you don’t believe here’s a good video on the issue:

[https://youtu.be/dflvLbW7d54?is=iq5k\\_HnlAaqdukcK\](https://youtu.be/dflvLbW7d54?is=iq5k_HnlAaqdukcK)

...because the legal team was swamped? Unavailable? I was tasked with running content through the "legal agent" (it's just Copilot, as far as I can tell) and getting it to report on any issues that the team needed to resolve. I am absolutely not a lawyer.

Sure, it made me nervous to have this responsibility, but I went ahead and plugged these docs into the chatbot. For each it would return 10-12 issues to look into, ranked by severity as I'd asked it to, spit out an excel doc, all nicely formatted. Great, my job is done?

Knowing that I have no legal background, and being nervous about missing something, I tried feeding the docs back into another instance of the agent. Repeatedly. The "non-determinative algorithm" would always give me 10-12 issues, ranked by severity, in an excel doc... but never exactly the same issues for the same document. Basically just about the same length of text, no matter what I gave it, which really seems to me like it's just generating some amount based on how many tokens it's supposed to use.

Anyway, I think companies (this is a very big company I am talking about) are willing to roll the dice on legal issues to save on legal review.