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How does automated decision-making affect our daily lives? Where are the systems applied and what happens when something goes wrong? Read our journalistic investigations on the current use of ADM systems and their consequences.

August 20, 2026

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Slow Regulation on AI-Generated CSAM is Failing its Victims

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Students at computers with screens that include a representation of a retinal scanner with pixelation and binary data overlays and a brightly coloured datawave heatmap at the top.

Image credit: Kathryn Conrad | https://betterimagesofai.org/images?artist=KathrynConrad&title=Datafication (CC BY 4.0)

Three police officers stand in the street.

August 18, 2026

How the Dutch Police Clung to Predictive Policing for a Decade Without Evidence

An image of a child, blurred, running in the square of a town.

August 4, 2026

In Small Towns Across France, Victims Face an Uphill Battle for Justice Over AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material

An abstract, pixelated photograph of different skin tones in the frame of a mobile phone.

July 28, 2026

Click, Strip, Repeat: Sex Workers and Digital Violence Amidst the Deepfake Boom

A demonstration takes place in from the parliamentary building in Tbilisi, Georgia.

June 27, 2026

Seen and Silenced: How Russian Surveillance Software Suppresses Georgian Civilians Rights

June 24, 2026

How Algorithmic Systems Govern Kenya’s Content Moderators

A gas-powered powerplant in New York

May 15, 2026

The murky mechanics of data centers’ green electricity

April 17, 2026

How “existential risk” became the AI industry’s most successful strategy

Members of the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme taking part in a Wargaming exercise.

April 2, 2026

Where the army does not use AI

March 20, 2026

AI probably does lead to more computer security disasters

Datacenter Equinix AM3/AM4 Amsterdam

March 6, 2026

Maybe there is no AI bubble

February 20, 2026

Never tell an AI you’re from Naples

A neon sign says "UCK FRONTEX" in Hamburg, 2014.

February 12, 2026

Frontex is building an ‘AI chatbot app’ to encourage repatriations

Prunksaal der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek

January 23, 2026

Large language models as attributes of statehood

January 21, 2026

Despite plenty of renewable energy, data centers split Norwegian society

January 9, 2026

What artificial butter tells us about Artificial Intelligence

View of chimneys from Poolbeg Power Station and Poolbeg Incinerator, across Grand Canal Dock, Dublin.

December 18, 2025

What Ireland’s Data Center Crisis Means for the EU’s AI Sovereignty Plans

A person cleaning the entrance of an office building.

December 12, 2025

Platform work regulation is failing cleaners

Blue illustration showing a person running on a treadmill, surrounded by symbolic elements of digital connectivity: on the left, a smoking factory and a server rack connected to the person through a cable, on the right, multiple speech bubbles and a group of persons.

November 25, 2025

Germany’s Data Center Boom is Pushing the Power Grid to its Limits

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November 14, 2025

Are all LLMs the same? I set out to measure their similarity.

3 Pfeile symbol on red-purple background

November 14, 2025

Why left-wing parties are not pushing for GenAI

Abstract human figures take part in a protest and hold up placards. The placards display images and slogans against the environmental damage caused by AI or the tech industry.

November 13, 2025

How to Resist Data Centers: A Guide For Local Communities in Europe

$A photographic rendering of a simulated middle-aged white woman against a black background, seen through a refractive glass grid and overlaid with a distorted diagram of a neural network.$

October 31, 2025

An AI slop farm stole my identity

Excerpt from Fingerprints by Francis Galton

October 17, 2025

Remote biometric identification is a colonial boomerang

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama

October 6, 2025

AI avatars have been in politics for a decade, but Diella is different

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