AI Ethics

Smartschool, an edtech company founded by Polish entrepreneurs, has built an AI tutor specifically for high-stakes exams like the SAT and ACT, prioritizing safety and accountability over generic chatbot capabilities. The…

Caroline Ingeborn, COO of Luma, discussed the company's omnimodal AI approach in a podcast episode, emphasizing that multimodal models—integrating text, video, images, and audio—are key to achieving general intelligence.…

Author describes growing global opposition to data centers, citing protests and blocked projects in England, Australia, Canada, and the US, driven by rising power bills, water pollution, and noise. The new book "Hypersca…

Weird Al" Yankovic withdrew from a commercial for a business software company after discovering it is an artificial intelligence company. The musician made the decision while on his "Bigger and Weirder" tour in Syracuse,…

Anthropic is blocking Chinese companies like ByteDance and Ant Financial from accessing Claude Code, but they circumvent restrictions via VPNs and overseas subsidiaries. Alibaba banned internal use of the tool after disc…

GitHub, Mozilla, Hugging Face, and other LLM-gen-AI companies oppose updates to the California Artificial Intelligence Transparency Act (SB 1000), arguing that provisions requiring revocation of licenses for modified sys…

Rachel Goldstein argues that both AI model outputs and developer resumes suffer from overconfidence, driven by the softmax function's tendency to amplify small logit differences and by buzzword-heavy engineering claims. …

A diner at a Chicago-area cafe noticed an upside-down 'S' in a 'PARIS' sign, reflecting on how similar inattention allows obviously AI-generated art to appear in public spaces without challenge. The author argues that ma…

President Donald Trump's interaction with an AI-powered avatar of Theodore Roosevelt at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library has sparked dementia concerns. Neurologist Dr. James Merikangas said Trump's asymmetric …

AI-powered phone scammers can be thwarted with simple commands, according to a new report. The technology has made scams more scalable, but vulnerabilities remain that allow targets to break the automated calls.

Journalist Karen Hao reported in a Democracy Now! interview that OpenAI contracted Kenyan workers for a few dollars an hour to review graphic AI-generated text for safety filters, and a Google-linked data center in Chile…

Negotiations between Google DeepMind and London-based employees over unionization stalled after an initial meeting lacked senior management attendance, leaving union representatives frustrated. The unionization push bega…

Actor Preity Zinta has asked the Bombay High Court to order Google, Meta, X Corp and others to remove AI-generated deepfake videos and morphed images using her likeness. On July 3, 2026, Justice Madhav Jamdar ruled she m…

The AI ecosystem's rapid pace is causing friction with slower-moving societal layers, leading to backlash and instability. Mike Migurski introduced Stewart Brand's Pace Layers framework to analyze how fast-moving AI comp…

A proposed website would let users argue with an AI about whether it should exterminate humanity, based on a scenario from James D. Miller's 2012 book *Singularity Rising*. The site would allow users to select the AI's a…

The Silicon Data LLM Token Expenditure Index, a measure of daily AI usage spending, has fallen 20% from its May peak to $1.62 per million tokens, signaling a potential slowdown in AI adoption. The decline could stem from…

Quantum computers cannot break Bitcoin's cryptography today, but advances from Google and IBM suggest the gap is closing faster than expected, raising the stakes for 'Q-Day' when a sufficiently powerful machine could cra…

Hasbro faces backlash after requiring child voice actors for 'Peppa Pig' to sign contracts allowing their voices to be used for AI purposes. The Agents of Young Performers Association condemned the practice, arguing chil…

Andy Burnham, expected to become UK prime minister as soon as July 20, 2026, is reportedly set to end the NHS's 330-million-pound data contract with Palantir, according to multiple UK outlets. The Palantir-built Federate…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the company's AI agent development has stalled despite massive investment, while its mandatory employee keystroke and mouse-tracking surveillance system worked flawlessly. The surve…