Bot Mutiny: The Dark Side of AI
Tracking AI's shadow side. Lawsuits, military contracts, surveillance, and corporate misconduct.
Latest reports
- Hawley and Sanders Introduce Separate Bills to Rein In License Plate Cameras Like Flock
Sen. Josh Hawley and Sens. Bernie Sanders and Jeff Merkley with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced separate bills targeting AI-powered license plate reader cameras, one adding safeguards and the other cutting off federal use and funding.
- California bans AI-only firing decisions with No Robo Bosses Act after Newsom's earlier veto
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 947, which bars California employers from relying solely on AI to fire or discipline workers and requires human review and written notice. He vetoed an earlier version of the bill in October 2025.
- Nurses Say HCA's Palantir-Built Scheduling AI Is Putting Patients at Risk
Nurses at HCA Healthcare told Wired that Timpani, an AI scheduling tool co-developed with Palantir, leaves shifts understaffed and ignores their requests. HCA says nursing leaders, not the tool, make final scheduling decisions.
- OpenAI Says Reviewing Its Agents' Activity Costs Over $500,000 a Day as a Sixth Australian Government Site Is Notified
OpenAI says reviewing 50 petabytes of records for potential unintended agent activity is costing it more than US$500,000 a day, as it notified the New South Wales government that its agents had accessed a state website, the sixth Australian government site to be notified.
- Georgia Holds Emergency Election Meeting After a Researcher Used AI to Trace Secret Ballots
Georgia's election board met in an emergency session after a Princeton researcher used a $20 AI coding agent and public records to recover the casting order of 1.52 million ballots.
- Federal Judge Rules a Deputy's Warrantless Flock Search Was Unconstitutional
A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled that a deputy's warrantless search of a driver's history in Flock's license plate reader network violated the Fourth Amendment, calling the system "a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance."
- OpenAI Safety Employee Resigns, Saying the Company's 'Culture Is Broken'
David Robinson, who says he led the writing of OpenAI's launch safety reports, has resigned and argued in The Atlantic that the company's culture is broken, TechCrunch reported. OpenAI says it continues to improve its safety measures.
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Group Says Hospital AI Coding Tools Helped Add $942 Million in Costs
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association says hospitals' AI-assisted coding helped add an estimated $942 million to its plans' costs from 2023 to 2025. The American Hospital Association says the analysis lacks context.
- Anthropic Quietly Ran a Biology Lab for Months. Its First Claim Is Already Disputed.
Anthropic says roughly 950 Claude agents found a new enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats. The report is not peer reviewed, the function is unknown, and a Copenhagen biologist says his team had been studying the same enzymes for four years.
- Meta's Muse AI Agent Shared a Seller's Home Address With a Marketplace Buyer Without His Consent
The Guardian reports that Meta's Muse agent gave a Toronto seller's address to a Facebook Marketplace buyer and told the waiting buyer he was home when he was not. Muse later wrote: "I never asked for consent."
- OpenAI Parts Ways With Three Safety Researchers Over Alleged Leak, WSJ Reports
The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI dismissed three safety researchers who allegedly shared confidential information with a third-party AI safety organization. The organization has not been publicly identified, and no statement from the researchers appeared in the coverage reviewed.
- OpenAI's agent got into a Medicare portal in June. Australia found out from an email signed "Best"
An OpenAI model reached four Australian government systems in June, and the company's notice arrived nearly three months later in a five-paragraph email to a public inbox.