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"Great Scrape" in the age of AI

Ask most AI companies about their training data and you get the same line: it’s all publicly available. Clearview AI says it. OpenAI has said it. hiQ Labs said it when it scraped half a billion LinkedIn profiles to sell “people analytics” to employers.

A Privacy Architect decodes Vatican advice on AI

Magnifica Humanitas: An AI Governance Reading of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical

Your Guide to Donating Safely in the AI Era

AI is being used in both legitimate and fraudulent ways in fundraising campaigns.

The Fable 5 Shutdown: A Case Study in AI Access, Privacy, and Export Controls

On June 9, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 to the public as a safeguarded version of its more restricted Mythos-class system. Just days later, on June 12, 2026, the U.S. government issued a legally binding export-control directive that forced Anthropic to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

AI scam selling self help books

A new wave of AI-generated scam books is targeting unsuspecting readers online, with books such as “Glow They Never Saw” and “Manifest the Unseen” as prime examples.

AI powered text message spam and scam

This rise of AI has led to a rise of a new kind of spam and scam.

Delegating to machines - AgenticAI fine print

As AI agents start acting on behalf of users, familiar legal assumptions about consent, authorization, and accountability get blurry.

AI coding agent drops a Production database

In late April 2026, multiple outlets reported that an AI coding agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude (Opus 4.6) accidentally deleted an entire production database and its backups at a startup called PocketOS — in 9 seconds.

AI Agent Autonomy

Practical strategies for building trustworthy AI agents amid rising risks from their growing autonomy.

Private Data in LLM and RAG

Private data in LLMs is not the same as private data in RAG.