The Signal — April 23, 2026
April 23, 2026
-
BRIEF
What to Do If the AI Bubble Bursts
If you read, watch, or listen to financial news, you’ll find there is a boom in discussion over whether the AI boom is a bubble, and what the consequences might be if it bursts. Today’s guest says that if such a crash occurs, it will represent a significant policy opportunity—a potential point of in…
- AI governance
- media and technology
- structural power
-
BRIEF
Trump Officials Built an AI Tool to Turbocharge Deregulation
Artificial intelligence has a history of making poor regulatory decisions with disastrous effects on people’s lives. Newly released documents show the Trump administration sought to deploy a powerful AI tool to accelerate its deregulation spree. SweetREX, an AI tool developed by an Elon Musk acolyte…
- structural power
-
BRIEF
The AI Revolution Could Usher In a New Age of Stagnation
Governments and tech moguls have bet hundreds of billions on artificial intelligence. If the technology does what it promises, we will have to radically rethink how the global economy functions. Job seekers line up outside of a career fair in Midtown Manhattan. (Craig Warga / Bloomberg via Getty Ima…
- structural power
-
BRIEF
AI warfare triggers Putin, as Kremlin moves to dismantle the last pieces of Russian internet
Telegram is blocked, VPNs are being chased after, but Putin suddenly talks about a national AI again.
- geopolitics
- media and technology
-
BRIEF
For AI to work for us, it will have to stop pretending to be us
Could there be a version of this technology that allows us, as feminists and human rights advocates, to engage with it without compromising our politics or our commitment to defending intersectional human rights?
- geopolitics
- media and technology
-
BRIEF
AI is about to make the global e-waste crisis much worse
As demand for AI hardware surges, much of the resulting waste will end up in non-Western countries.
- AI governance
- media and technology
- geopolitics
-
BRIEF
Why AI alone cannot fix social problems
Even sophisticated AI systems need human support and institutional capacity to succeed.
- AI governance
- media and technology
- geopolitics
-
BRIEF
How “existential risk” became the AI industry’s most successful strategy
When their key product was faced with unfavorable scientific evidence and the risk of regulation, most businesses in the 20th century defended themselves by sowing doubt on an industrial scale. Big AI is doing something radically different: it floods the zone with potential future risks.
- AI governance
- structural power
- media and technology
-
BRIEF
AI Data Centers in the Land of Diminished Local News
“At least some of these big companies look for communities that are news deserts to build projects,” a local journalist said, “because it’s easier for them when there’s less public scrutiny.”
- media and technology
- structural power
-
BRIEF
AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think
- media and technology
- AI governance
- structural power
-
BRIEF
These 3 Agreements Secured AI Protections for 30,000 Union Workers
The post These 3 Agreements Secured AI Protections for 30,000 Union Workers appeared first on Partnership on AI.
- AI governance
-
BRIEF
ProPublica journalists walk off the job in first U.S. newsroom strike over AI
On Wednesday, roughly 150 members of the Propublica Guild, one of the largest nonprofit newsroom unions in the country, went on a 24-hour strike. About two dozen Guild members picketed ProPublica’s headquarters in New York City’s Hudson Square neighborhood during working hours, as simultaneous picke…
- media and technology
-
BRIEF
AI and the Future of Cybersecurity: Why Openness Matters
- AI governance