AI funding from ads, surveillance and war

Reuters Institute
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2026年04月10日
In our recent AI and the Future of News conference Max Kasy at Oxford University's Economics Department spoke about some of the more negative driving factors behind the growth of AI firms including mass surveillance and autonomous weapons systems.

"It's all, at the end of the day, some form of optimisation of some measurable objectives, and the objectives are determined by, by who controls the means of prediction," says Kasy

More from the conference on our website:
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/ai-and-future-news-2026-what-we-learnt-about-its-impact-newsrooms-fact-checking-and-news