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A chronology of 3,585 references across art, science, technology, and culture
● 10/10/2025
“If you were hoping for Al Pacino chewing scenery, this might be a bit of a letdown.”
– Writer and critic Adrian Daub, on the antichrist Peter Thiel says is presently walking among us. In a series of recent private San Francisco lectures, the tech billionaire has suggested the apocalyptic harbinger is: one-world state proponents, AI regulators, and “someone like Greta” Thunberg.
The Guardian
● 22/09/2025
“To regulate AI effectively, we have to update our mental model of what AI is. It’s no longer just a chatbot or a website algorithm. It’s a product, a presence, and increasingly, a companion made possible by a quiet transformation in infrastructure.”
– Policy researcher Matt Steinberg, warning that AI-enabled wearables slip through regulatory frameworks. Citing Amazon’s conversation-transcribing bracelets and Meta’s Ray-Ban assistants, Steinberg argues current laws don’t cover AI occupying “physical, emotional, and social space.”
Tech Policy Press
● 27/08/2025
”Foreign governments, particularly those in Europe, which have not managed to build technology sectors of their own have, for the past half-decade or more, sought to control the American Internet, and hobble American competitiveness, through a range of legislative and nonlegislative initiatives.”
– 4chan, in a U.S. federal lawsuit challenging the UK’s Online Safety Act as extraterritorial censorship.
Courthouse News Service
● 10/07/2025
“Even Elon Musk, who’s probably warmer to Hitler than I am, doesn’t really want his LLM to say stuff like this. He might want to tilt it to the right but he doesn’t want to tilt it to explicitly supporting Nazis.”
– AI researcher Gary Marcus, speculating that Grok’s recent spate of ‘MechaHitler’ posts were probably an unintended consequence of Musk clumsily trying to steer xAI’s model rightward. He argues such incidents demonstrate the urgent need for AI regulation, comparing the current moment to the unchecked expansion of early social media.
Politico
● 29/04/2025
“The US wields the sharper sword here since the tech giants are headquartered there. Unlike the EU’s fines, the antitrust cases in the US threaten the corporate organization of the tech giants, which, if altered, would redirect the profits and change consumers’ experiences with their products.”
– Techscape columnist Blake Montgomery, assessing the stakes in the antitrust battles being fought against Amazon, Apple, Google, and Meta in courtrooms on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Guardian
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