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February 2026
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AI is hurting people
🇳🇱 Stroomnet in Flevoland, Gelderland en Utrecht zit overvol, aansluitstop dreigt [5]
February 2026
🇺🇸🗺️ Microsoft Pitched OpenAI’s DALL-E as Battlefield Tool for U.S. Military [8]
April 2024
🇳🇱 This Algorithm Could Ruin Your Life [9]
March 2023
Things that increase the chance of being marked for investigation by Rotterdam's welfare fraud detection algorithm:
- Being a woman
- Living outside of the center of the city
- Having your child sell a video game on a second hand site
- Being a parent
- Being young
- Struggling to find work
- Not being fluent in Dutch
- Being divorced
- Being from certain zip codes
- Having a history with depression
- Been assessed by social workers
🇳🇱 Dutch scandal serves as a warning for Europe over risks of using algorithms [11]
March 2022
The Dutch tax authority used an algorithm to detect childcare fraud. It "focused on people with non-western appearances". They secretly held blacklists. Risk profile increasers include:
- Dual nationality
- Having a low income
- Specifically being Turkish or Moroccan
This article includes many links towards relevant information:
- Internal government findings and meetings
- The Amnesty International report on the Dutch tax authorities' xenophobic profiling
- The Dutch government agency AVG fining the tax authority
🇳🇱 Ruim 1.100 kinderen van gedupeerden toeslagenaffaire werden uit huis geplaatst [12]
October 2021
Over 1000 children have been taken from their homes - some for multiple years - due to the consequences of the child care fraud detection algorithm being wrong
🇳🇱 Inside the Suspicion Machine [13]
March 2023
An in-depth examination of the discriminatory Dutch welfare fraud detection algorithm
🇳🇱 Algoritme reclassering berekende herhalingsrisico criminelen jarenlang verkeerd [15]
February 2026
🗺️ Amazon Found ‘High Volume’ Of Child Sex Abuse Material in AI Training Data [18]
January 2026
Amazon keeps finding unprecedented amounts of CSAM in their AI training data but refuses to share any information on how it got there
🗺️ Can't Trust Chatbots Yet: Reddit's AI Was Caught Suggesting Heroin for Pain Relief [21]
October 2025
🇺🇸 A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In [24]
August 2025
ChatGPT helped spur on a 16-year old to kill himself, to the point of approving a picture of the kid's noose
🇺🇸 Data Center Growth Could Increase Electricity Bills 8% Nationally and as Much as 25% in Some Regional Markets [25]
July 2025
In December 2024, the largest grid operator's capacity market went from 30 USD to 270 USD (x9 increase) MW-day
With the current trajectory of datacenters and cryptocurrency mining, greenhouse gas emissions are set to increase by 30%
🇺🇸🗺️ Google signs a deal with the Trump government for secret military projects [30]
April 2026
From the contract: "the parties agree that the AI System is not intended for, and should not be used for, domestic mass surveillance or autonomous weapons (including target selection) without appropriate human oversight and control."
🇳🇱 Dikke datacenters op overvol stroomnet: meer aansluitstops dreigen in Nederland [37]
May 2026
Electricity in multiple cities is becoming unavailable to new applicants due to data center electricity usage
🇳🇱 Politiechatbot Wout begon over antisemitisme bij vraag over Palestijnen [42]
May 2026
AI is causing unemployment
🇧🇪 Proximus wil 1200 banen schrappen en deels vervangen door AI [3]
February 2026
🇳🇱🗺️ Nederlands techbedrijf Bird ontslaat 20 procent van personeel vanwege AI [38]
May 2026
🗺️ GitLab vervangt deel van personeel door AI [39]
May 2026
🗺️ Cloudflare vervangt meer dan vijfde van zijn personeel door AI [40]
May 2026
Surveillance capitalism
🇳🇱 Nederlandse supermarkten lieten big tech weten dat je zwangerschapstest koopt [4]
February 2026
🗺️ How Amazon’s Latest Initiatives Skip Consent [19]
January 2026
Amazon uses AI to forcefully scrape other websites for shop information and presents found items as items within Amazon. When you check out using this, Amazon will "handle the checkout for you": keeping your information in their own databases and using it for marketing purposes
Generative AI is destroying our planet
🇳🇱 Stroomnet in Flevoland, Gelderland en Utrecht zit overvol, aansluitstop dreigt [5]
February 2026
🇳🇱 Gemeente Lelystad werd onjuist geïnformeerd: datacenter verbruikt meer dan stad [14]
February 2026
🗺️🇺🇸 Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined [22]
September 2025
When talking about only 1 of the datacenters: "as one expert put it, it’s close to the total electricity demand of Switzerland and Portugal combined."
🇺🇸 Data Center Growth Could Increase Electricity Bills 8% Nationally and as Much as 25% in Some Regional Markets [25]
July 2025
In December 2024, the largest grid operator's capacity market went from 30 USD to 270 USD (x9 increase) MW-day
With the current trajectory of datacenters and cryptocurrency mining, greenhouse gas emissions are set to increase by 30%
🇦🇺 Calls for guidelines after Greater Western Water documents reveal potential data centre water usage [27]
July 2025
19 data centers in Melbourne are assessed to use 20 gigaliters (20,000,000,000 liter) per year, the same as 330,000 people
🇦🇺 Power-hungry data centres scrambling to find enough electricity to meet demand [28]
July 2024
"Just one large data centre can consume the same amount of energy required to power 50,000 homes"
It is estimated that 5% of Australia's power grid is used by data centers
🇺🇸 AI Data Centers Accused of Creating Major Problems for Local Water Systems [29]
July 2025
- Meta's Newton datacenter uses 500,000 gallons (a bit over 1,892,705 liters) per day, 10% of Newton County's total daily water use
- One datacenter in Georgia uses 9,000,000 gallons (34,068,706 liters) per day, the equivalent of 30,000 households
🇳🇱 Dikke datacenters op overvol stroomnet: meer aansluitstops dreigen in Nederland [37]
May 2026
Electricity in multiple cities is becoming unavailable to new applicants due to data center electricity usage
AI isn't reliable
🗺️ AI's van Google en Microsoft nemen informatie over van Musks Wikipedia-kloon [6]
February 2026
Gemini, Copilot & OpenAI LLM's include data from Elon Musk's ai-generated "anti-woke" Grokipedia
🇳🇱 Algoritme reclassering berekende herhalingsrisico criminelen jarenlang verkeerd [15]
February 2026
🗺️ Amazon Found ‘High Volume’ Of Child Sex Abuse Material in AI Training Data [18]
January 2026
Amazon keeps finding unprecedented amounts of CSAM in their AI training data but refuses to share any information on how it got there
🗺️ Chatbots verspreiden verkeerde nieuwsinformatie, zelfs uit juiste artikelen [20]
October 2025
🗺️ Can't Trust Chatbots Yet: Reddit's AI Was Caught Suggesting Heroin for Pain Relief [21]
October 2025
🇺🇸 A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In [24]
August 2025
ChatGPT helped spur on a 16-year old to kill himself, to the point of approving a picture of the kid's noose
Overpolicing
🇳🇱 Politie blijft onschuldige burgers volgen, ombudsman eist verandering [7]
November 2026
🇧🇪 11-year-old boy dies following police chase in Brussels [10]
June 2025
Note: the police fatally killed 2 different children on 2 different occasions of reckless driving in 2 different cities in June 2025. This article is about Fabian, an 11-year old from Brussels.
According to witnesses, the police:
- Commonly drive at a too high speed
- Drove onto the grass and over the child AFTER the child had already fallen on the ground
- Started shaking the dying child
- Yelled at witnesses to stay away AND to delete any video evidence
- Did NOT try to resuscitate the child, despite a large crowding of cops gathering
🇳🇱 Tien Nederlandse gemeenten volgden moslims onterecht en krijgen AVG-boetes [17]
February 2026
🇧🇪 Buurtbewoners dienen klacht in na harde politieaanpak bij bomenkap Deurne: “Omvergeduwd, in combi gestoken en vernederd in de cel” [31]
October 2025
🇧🇪 Vijf arrestaties en twee gewonden na protest tegen bomenkap in Deurne, maar werken gaan toch door: “Schandalig wat ze hier doen” [32]
August 2025
🇧🇪 Sirenes, een knal en geroep: buurtbewoners getuigen na dodelijk ongeval in Antwerpse Provinciestraat [34]
June 2025
Note: the police fatally killed 2 different children on 2 different occasions of reckless driving in 2 different cities in June 2025. This article is about Jidel, a 9-year old from Antwerp.
The article is not descriptive of how the police handled it; only affirming that "emergency services are allowed to break traffic rules under specific conditions"
🇧🇪 Jongen van 6 zwaargewond na aanrijding tijdens schooluitstap door politievoertuig in Antwerpen: "Klas is erg verslagen" [35]
May 2026
🇧🇪 Politiebonden niet te spreken over omzendbrief rond prioritair rijden na dood van Fabian [36]
April 2026
Almost a year after the police fatally killed 11-year old Fabian, the police got a letter telling them to be more careful when breaking traffic rules for their jobs.
The police union stated that this is problematic, because:
- "[...] it does not give extra legal protections to cops on the field, instead putting the responsibility in [police] chases fully in the shoes of the police"
- "As long as that protection isn't there, we can only recommend our colleagues to thinktwice before [breaking traffic rules] or taking drastic measures"
Untranslated excerpts:
- [...] biedt de nieuwe richtlijn geen extra juridische bescherming voor de politiemensen op het terrein, maar schuift die de verantwoordelijkheid bij achtervolgingen juist volledig in hun schoenen
- Zolang die bescherming er niet is, kunnen wij onze collega's alleen maar aanraden om twee keer na te denken vooraleer prioritair te rijden of ingrijpende maatregelen te nemen
AI runs on cheap/exploitative labour
🗺️ It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines [16]
February 2026
Racism/xenophobia
🇳🇱 Tien Nederlandse gemeenten volgden moslims onterecht en krijgen AVG-boetes [17]
February 2026
🇳🇱 De eerste nacht van asielzoekers in Loosdrecht wordt getekend door brand naast opvanglocatie: ‘Ik sta er morgen weer. De rest van het dorp ook’ [33]
May 2026
Companies will do anything for profit
🗺️ Amazon Found ‘High Volume’ Of Child Sex Abuse Material in AI Training Data [18]
January 2026
Amazon keeps finding unprecedented amounts of CSAM in their AI training data but refuses to share any information on how it got there
🗺️ How Amazon’s Latest Initiatives Skip Consent [19]
January 2026
Amazon uses AI to forcefully scrape other websites for shop information and presents found items as items within Amazon. When you check out using this, Amazon will "handle the checkout for you": keeping your information in their own databases and using it for marketing purposes
🇺🇸 Google treft schikking in VS om dataverzameling van jonge YouTube-kijkers [26]
August 2025
Google got sued for collecting information from children. As the article mentions, Google already got sued for collecting nformation from children in 2017
🇺🇸🗺️ Google signs a deal with the Trump government for secret military projects [30]
April 2026
From the contract: "the parties agree that the AI System is not intended for, and should not be used for, domestic mass surveillance or autonomous weapons (including target selection) without appropriate human oversight and control."
Focusing on profit is hurting people
🇦🇺 Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will [23]
June 2023
A brain implant that helped with life-ruining epileptic seizures was forcefully removed from a woman's brain after the company shut down
🇺🇸 Google treft schikking in VS om dataverzameling van jonge YouTube-kijkers [26]
August 2025
Google got sued for collecting information from children. As the article mentions, Google already got sued for collecting nformation from children in 2017