AI Ethics news and analysis on Web Pulse: 16163 curated articles tracking the latest AI Ethics developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word AI manifesto titled 'The Future is for Everyone,' which WIRED's Uncanny Valley podcast hosts Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger criticize as hollow and lacking su…
A 2009 paper titled 'So Long, and No Thanks for the Externalities' criticizes the tech industry for ignoring the negative externalities of its products, arguing that companies have failed to account for social and enviro…
Reporter Matt Smith, with no engineering background, used AI chatbots over 11 months to nearly build a fully autonomous killer drone, revealing that AI guardrails are easily bypassed. The project, a collaboration between…
Republican New York gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman is using AI-generated satirical ads depicting Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul in false scenarios, defending them as humor amid complaints from Democrats, accord…
Ryan Tremblay, CEO of AI music software Treblo, said Tyga's album '$tarface' is 'almost certainly' generated using the company's service, based on its in-house detector app. The album received Pitchfork's first 0.0 score…
Nitro Software introduced Nitro Smart Redact, an AI-powered redaction tool that permanently removes sensitive data from documents, combining automated PII detection with manual controls to help regulated industries avoid…
OpenAI launched Computer History on Thursday, an opt-in ChatGPT feature for Mac that remembers a user's activity across apps and websites and uses that record in future conversations, rolling out globally to Pro, Busines…
Nvidia Corp. has agreed to cover up to 25% of losses if GPUs backing $500 billion in AI data center loans lose value, a guarantee to lenders including Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR. Th…
OpenAI has introduced an opt-in Computer History feature for the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS, replacing the experimental Chronicle feature, which builds a searchable timeline of activity across selected apps and website…
A Ping Identity survey found that 68% of consumers now use AI, up from 41% a year earlier, yet only 17% fully trust organizations to manage their identity data responsibly. The rise of AI-powered consumer agents that aut…
Base language models produce outputs that human-operated AI detection systems classify as human-written, according to arxiv paper 2605.19516, undermining compliance monitoring and governance controls that rely on AI cont…
A peer-reviewed study published in Nature found that Chinese state-controlled media content in AI training data can influence how models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta answer questions about China, with Chinese…
A Guardian report found that 47% of UK jobseekers feel humiliated by AI-led interviews, describing them as 'robotic' and lacking meaningful feedback, while 30% would abandon a recruitment process involving AI. A 2025 Uni…
Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch denied claims that the studio replaced writers with AI on the upcoming game Rideshare "Stimulator," but admitted the game incorporates AI and will update its Steam page accordingly. Fo…
A Hacker News discussion on the meaning of 'slop' and AI-written text concluded that AI undermines human connection in personal writing but is acceptable for technical documents like API docs and earnings reports. User s…
Mirage, the AI startup behind the video-editing app Captions, launched a 24-hour AI-generated news channel called Mirage News Network, which reached 50,000 viewers on X and drew 824,000 impressions on its livestream post…
AI hallucinations are fabricated or incorrect responses produced by AI models, and they are a built-in property of how these models work, not rare edge cases. High-profile incidents include Google's Bard chatbot incorrec…
Muse Ltd. released UncertaintyGym, a benchmark for evaluating large language models' epistemic calibration and uncertainty expression, available on Hugging Face under the Apache-2.0 license. The benchmark measures whethe…
The FBI has 139 approved artificial intelligence use cases, more than double the 50 it disclosed in its January inventory, according to FBI Chief AI Officer Katie Noyes, who spoke at the 2026 DODIIS Worldwide Conference.…
Microsoft is shutting down Copilot features including Deep Research, AI Podcasts, Group Chats, Copilot Labs, and the Mico mascot on August 18, and merging its consumer Copilot app with Microsoft 365 Copilot into a unifie…