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Sources & method

The wire reads 74 sources. Focused sources — regulators, research groups, advocacy organizations — are read in full. Broad outlets are filtered for the beat by keyword. Either way, nothing runs until the desk has checked it against the standards.

Responsible Use

  • Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)
  • EdSurge (filtered)
  • EqualAI
  • Future of Privacy Forum (filtered)
  • Green Web Foundation (filtered)
  • Higher Ed Dive (filtered)
  • Hugging Face Blog (filtered)
  • JournalismAI (LSE Polis)
  • K-12 Dive (filtered)
  • Montreal AI Ethics Institute
  • Nieman Lab (filtered)
  • Partnership on AI
  • Poynter (filtered)
  • Responsible AI Institute
  • STAT - Health Tech (filtered)

Law & Policy

  • EU AI Act Newsletter
  • European Commission - Digital Strategy (filtered)
  • European Data Protection Board - News (filtered)
  • European Parliament - Press Releases (filtered)
  • GOV.UK - 'artificial intelligence' search (filtered)
  • NIST News (filtered)
  • Tech Policy Press (filtered)

Safeguards

  • AI Alignment Forum
  • AI Incident Database
  • AI Safety Newsletter (CAIS)
  • Google DeepMind Blog (filtered)
  • METR
  • OpenAI News (filtered)
  • Transformer

AI's Footprint

  • Carbon Brief (filtered)
  • Data Center Dynamics (filtered)
  • Data Center Knowledge (filtered)
  • Grist (filtered)
  • Heatmap News (filtered)
  • Inside Climate News (filtered)
  • Utility Dive (filtered)

AI for the Planet

  • Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI) blog (filtered)
  • Anthropocene Magazine (filtered)
  • arXiv - ML for biodiversity/wildlife
  • arXiv - ML for weather, climate and hazards
  • arXiv - Remote sensing for land, sea and emissions
  • ECMWF - Science blog (AIFS)
  • Eos (AGU) (filtered)
  • ESA - Observing the Earth (filtered)
  • Global Fishing Watch
  • Google Earth & Earth Engine (Medium)
  • Google Research blog (filtered)
  • MIT News - Environment (filtered)
  • Mongabay - Artificial Intelligence
  • Mongabay - Bioacoustics (filtered)
  • Mongabay - Conservation Technology (filtered)
  • Mongabay - Satellite imagery (filtered)
  • Mongabay - Wildtech (filtered)
  • Planet - Pulse blog (filtered)
  • Yale Environment 360 (filtered)

Rights & Harms

  • 404 Media (filtered)
  • MIT Technology Review - AI (filtered)
  • Privacy International (filtered)
  • The Guardian - Artificial intelligence (filtered)
  • The Markup (filtered)

Advocates

  • Access Now (filtered)
  • AI Now Institute
  • AlgorithmWatch (filtered)
  • Center for Democracy & Technology (filtered)
  • Data & Society (filtered)
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation (filtered)
  • EPIC (filtered)
  • European Digital Rights (EDRi) (filtered)
  • Future of Life Institute

Research

  • AI Snake Oil
  • arXiv - AI energy/carbon/water
  • arXiv - AI fairness
  • arXiv - AI safety/red teaming
  • arXiv - cs.CY (AI)

Standing searches

The beat breaks in places no feed list reaches: local papers, statehouses, courts. So the wire also runs 43 standing news searches. A search only finds a story; the item always credits the outlet that reported it, and the desk goes to the court, agency or company itself when it can.

  • EU AI Act (Law & Policy): "AI Act" OR "AI Office" Europe
  • State AI bills (Law & Policy): ("AI bill" OR "artificial intelligence bill") (legislature OR senate OR assembly OR governor)
  • Attorneys general on AI (Law & Policy): "attorney general" ("artificial intelligence" OR chatbot OR OpenAI OR "AI company")
  • FTC and AI (Law & Policy): FTC ("artificial intelligence" OR chatbot OR "AI company" OR "AI tool")
  • AI lawsuits and rulings (Law & Policy): (OpenAI OR Anthropic OR "Meta AI" OR "Character.AI" OR xAI OR "AI company") (lawsuit OR judge OR ruling OR settlement)
  • Data center water (AI's Footprint): "data center" (water OR aquifer OR drought)
  • Data center local fights (AI's Footprint): "data center" (moratorium OR rezoning OR zoning OR "county commission" OR "city council" OR residents)
  • Data center power bills (AI's Footprint): "data center" ("electricity rates" OR ratepayers OR "utility bills" OR "rate case")
  • Data center gas and emissions (AI's Footprint): "data center" ("gas plant" OR "gas turbines" OR emissions OR "air permit" OR "coal plant")
  • AI energy demand (AI's Footprint): ("AI" OR "artificial intelligence") ("energy demand" OR "power demand" OR "electricity demand") grid
  • AI for wildlife (AI for the Planet): ("artificial intelligence" OR "machine learning" OR AI) (wildlife OR "endangered species" OR poaching OR bioacoustics)
  • AI for conservation (AI for the Planet): ("artificial intelligence" OR "machine learning" OR AI) (biodiversity OR conservation OR deforestation OR "species monitoring")
  • AI for climate and weather (AI for the Planet): ("AI weather model" OR "AI climate model" OR "AI forecasting") (climate OR wildfire OR flood OR hurricane)
  • Facial recognition (Rights & Harms): "facial recognition" (arrest OR lawsuit OR ban OR police OR wrongful)
  • Deepfakes and the law (Rights & Harms): deepfake (law OR lawsuit OR charged OR nonconsensual OR "take it down")
  • AI and workers (Rights & Harms): ("artificial intelligence" OR "AI") (union OR strike OR "collective bargaining" OR "replaced by AI")
  • Chatbots and kids (Rights & Harms): (chatbot OR "AI companion") (teen OR teenager OR child OR minors OR suicide)
  • AI bias (Rights & Harms): ("AI bias" OR "algorithmic bias" OR "AI discrimination") (lawsuit OR study OR audit OR ruling)
  • AI and creators (Rights & Harms): ("AI" OR "artificial intelligence") copyright (artists OR authors OR musicians OR actors OR lawsuit)
  • AI safety commitments (Safeguards): "AI safety" (framework OR institute OR commitments OR "safety report")
  • AI incidents (Safeguards): ("AI incident" OR "AI agent" OR chatbot) (incident OR malfunction OR "went rogue" OR recall)
  • Lab safety departures (Safeguards): (OpenAI OR Anthropic OR "Google DeepMind" OR xAI OR Meta) ("safety team" OR "safety researcher" OR "safety lead") (resigns OR quits OR leaves OR disbanded)
  • Advocacy coalitions on AI (Advocates): ("civil rights groups" OR "advocacy groups" OR coalition OR unions) ("artificial intelligence" OR "AI") (letter OR petition OR campaign OR testify)
  • Responsible AI guidelines adopted (Responsible Use): ("responsible AI" OR "AI ethics") (guidelines OR framework OR principles) (adopts OR adopted OR publishes OR launches)
  • Newsroom AI policy (Responsible Use): ("newsroom" OR newspaper OR publisher) ("AI policy" OR "AI guidelines" OR "use of AI" policy)
  • School AI policy (Responsible Use): ("school district" OR "school board" OR university OR college) ("AI policy" OR "AI guidelines" OR "AI guidance")
  • Hospital AI governance (Responsible Use): (hospital OR "health system") ("AI governance" OR "AI policy" OR "responsible AI" OR "AI oversight committee")
  • AI training opt-out controls (Responsible Use): ("opt out" OR "opt-out") ("AI training" OR "train AI" OR "training data")
  • AI disclosure labels (Responsible Use): ("AI disclosure" OR "AI label" OR "AI-generated label" OR "content credentials" OR C2PA OR watermark) (adopts OR rolls out OR launches OR requires)
  • Energy-efficient AI (Responsible Use): ("energy-efficient AI" OR "AI Energy Score" OR "green AI" OR "sustainable AI" OR "AI energy efficiency")
  • AI audits and assessments (Responsible Use): ("AI audit" OR "algorithmic audit" OR "AI impact assessment" OR "bias audit") (tool OR framework OR completed OR published)
  • Model cards and transparency reports (Responsible Use): ("model card" OR "system card" OR "AI transparency report" OR "datasheets for datasets")
  • AI standards (NIST RMF, ISO 42001) (Responsible Use): ("ISO 42001" OR "ISO/IEC 42001" OR "NIST AI RMF" OR "AI Risk Management Framework" OR "OECD AI Principles" OR "UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics")
  • AI camera traps and bioacoustics (AI for the Planet): ("camera trap" OR "camera traps" OR bioacoustics OR "acoustic monitoring") (AI OR "machine learning" OR "artificial intelligence")
  • AI species identification (AI for the Planet): (AI OR "machine learning") ("species identification" OR "identify species" OR eDNA OR "Wildlife Insights" OR iNaturalist)
  • Satellite AI deforestation monitoring (AI for the Planet): (AI OR "machine learning") ("satellite imagery" OR "satellite data" OR "remote sensing") (deforestation OR "forest loss" OR mangroves OR "illegal mining")
  • AI methane detection (AI for the Planet): (AI OR "machine learning") (methane OR "methane leak" OR "methane plume") (satellite OR "Carbon Mapper" OR MethaneSAT OR "Climate TRACE")
  • AI weather models (AI for the Planet): ("AI weather model" OR GraphCast OR GenCast OR AIFS OR WeatherNext OR "Earth-2" OR "AI forecast" OR "AI forecasting") (weather OR hurricane OR cyclone OR monsoon)
  • AI wildfire and flood prediction (AI for the Planet): (AI OR "artificial intelligence" OR "machine learning") ("wildfire detection" OR "wildfire cameras" OR "fire detection" OR "wildfire prediction" OR "flood forecasting" OR "flood prediction" OR "Flood Hub")
  • AI against illegal fishing (AI for the Planet): ("Global Fishing Watch" OR "illegal fishing" OR "dark vessels" OR "dark fleet") (AI OR "machine learning" OR satellite)
  • AI for oceans and reefs (AI for the Planet): (AI OR "machine learning" OR "artificial intelligence") ("coral reef" OR "coral reefs" OR "whale song" OR "whale calls" OR "marine mammals" OR seagrass OR "ocean monitoring")
  • AI anti-poaching and rangers (AI for the Planet): (AI OR "machine learning" OR "artificial intelligence") ("anti-poaching" OR poachers OR EarthRanger OR "wildlife rangers" OR "human-wildlife conflict")
  • AI for farms and water (AI for the Planet): (AI OR "machine learning") ("precision agriculture" OR "crop yield" OR "soil health" OR irrigation OR "water management") (farmers OR smallholder)

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