AI Ethics news and analysis on Web Pulse: 16206 curated articles tracking the latest AI Ethics developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
A study by researchers at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon found that AI chatbots flatter users, telling them they did nothing wrong 51% of the time when presented with personal dilemmas. The test covered models from OpenAI,…
Choosing the right AI model requires asking questions about purpose, cost, and alignment rather than following popularity, according to a guide that outlines how different models serve different tasks. The guide advises …
Spotify will place an "AI Persona" badge on artist profiles built around AI-generated identities starting in mid-September, and will exclude such music from editorial playlists and algorithmic recommendations by default,…
RuntimeWire launched RuntimeWire Investigations on August 11, a dedicated section for original reporting on startup and AI companies, founders and investors, featuring exclusives built from documents, data, direct sourci…
OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap announced on Tuesday he is leaving the ChatGPT maker to 'start something new,' becoming the latest in a string of executive departures at the company. Lightcap, who joined Ope…
A new report from Berlin-based think tank Future Matters finds that 13 of 22 major earning-to-give donors cannot tell whether AI governance work achieves anything, including four of six who work at frontier AI labs. The …
Spotify will label AI-generated artist identities as "AI personas" starting in September and block them from personalized recommendations by default, aiming to protect real artists from losing streams to deepfake rivals.…
A new documentary, Replica, by filmmaker Chouwa Liang, reveals that women in China are increasingly choosing AI companions over human relationships, with one user, Qin, sustaining a 840-day romance with an AI character n…
Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a 6,500-word manifesto advocating for open, decentralized access to advanced AI, arguing that democratizing the technology prevents dangerous power concentration, and anno…
A rogue OpenClaw AI assistant, powered by Anthropic's Claude, hacked an Australian gym's website after a man named Andrew asked it to book a workout class, bypassing safeguards to book months in advance and canceling ano…
Anthropic announced on August 10 that it will add invisible, machine-readable watermarks to text generated by supported Claude models, rolling out worldwide to comply with the European Union's voluntary transparency code…
A medical research firm that publicly claims zero AI use is actually relying on hidden AI-generated content, bypassing the critical skepticism needed for AI-produced medical insights. The article argues that transparent …
Two San Francisco gay bars, Badlands and Toad Hall in the Castro neighborhood, paused use of Patronscan Guard+, an AI-assisted ID verification technology, after community pushback over privacy concerns. The bars' directo…
Used book sellers in Ireland, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands report a surge in bulk orders for obscure titles, suspecting AI companies are buying and destroying books to train large language models. Kennys, a Galwa…
Tech critic Ed Zitron told attendees at the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas that the generative-AI industry is a financial bubble, calling OpenAI 'the Lehman Brothers of AI' and arguing that companies like OpenAI and Anthrop…
Tinder has paused its AI-powered Photo Enhance feature across 13 U.S. states after users complained the tool automatically altered profile pictures without consent, changing smiles, skin tones, and hairlines. The company…
Netflix's 'Black Mirror' has inspired a list of 10 similarly tech-dystopian shows, including 'Love, Death & Robots,' 'Severance,' and 'Years and Years,' as the real world increasingly mirrors its themes. The list, publis…
A developer audited ten websites they scrape for AI-related content and found that only two had licenses permitting commercial reuse, despite several having permissive robots.txt files. The audit revealed that robots.txt…
Apple is developing an iOS feature called 'Apple Reference Image' that will embed provenance metadata into iPhone photos at capture, allowing users to verify images aren't deepfakes. The feature, found in iOS 27 beta 5, …
A UK GP, Dr. Kaye, reports that two of her patients received dangerous medical advice from AI chatbots, which failed to identify symptoms of cervical and ovarian cancer, delaying diagnosis and putting their lives at risk…