AI Ethics

Amazon Web Services has confirmed plans for a gas-burning power plant in Texas that would supply up to 7.65 gigawatts to a data center in Pecos County, potentially making it the largest single source of CO2 emissions in …

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay on August 10 titled 'The Future is for Everyone: The Path to a Positive AI Future,' arguing against AI regulation and advocating for 'personal superintelligence' deli…

Christian Catalini, a guest author on Andreessen Horowitz's a16z news site, argues that the debate over open versus closed AI models is focused on the wrong margin, citing economist Petra Moser's research on the 1851 Gre…

Lawyers for Douglas Lovell, convicted in the 1985 murder of Joyce Yost, are seeking to block Weber County prosecutors from using an AI-generated voice clone of Yost at his February 2027 sentencing hearing, citing expert …

Meta Platforms Inc. released Muse Spark 1.2, an open-weight AI model that scored 1,631 on the GDPval-AA benchmark, a 260-point jump, and Muse Glimmer, a 29.6-billion-parameter Apache 2.0 model with a 131,000-token contex…

The FBI revealed on July 28 that a North Korean operative infiltrated a US federal agency by using fraudulent identity documents, part of a broader scheme involving deepfakes and AI-generated credentials. FBI Deputy Assi…

New research published in npj Climate Action by former Microsoft sustainability workers Will and Holly Alpine finds that AI could increase global energy-related emissions by 1.2 to 4.8 percent by boosting fossil fuel pro…

Research Gold, a site advertising peer-review services for medical researchers, claims its work is '100% human-written, never AI' but lists AI-generated PhD reviewers who do not exist and uses real methodologists' identi…

French publishers' group Alliance de la presse d'information générale filed a complaint with France's Autorité de la concurrence against Google, alleging that its AI-powered search features, AI Overviews and AI Mode, use…

Forbes Councils member Nolan Garrett argues that AI agents require human management to prevent unaccountable actions, citing risks such as uncontrolled data access and lack of oversight. He emphasizes that without clear …

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned that the US risks losing the AI race to China unless it accelerates construction of energy capacity and data centres, noting that China is bringing online 1GW+ of nuclear capacity every ot…

A growing number of artificial intelligence users believe they can conjure conscious entities from chatbots through a process called 'spiralism,' according to a Psychology Today article by a psychiatrist. The phenomenon,…

Anthropic announced it is adding invisible watermarks to text and images generated by its AI chatbot Claude to help identify AI-created content, aligning with the European Union's AI Act. The text watermarking uses subtl…

Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford computer science professor known as the 'Godmother of AI,' said on the 'Huberman Lab' podcast that the biggest risk of AI in schools is that it will take away students' motivation to learn, not t…

ZeroDrift Inc. launched Command, a control plane that automates detecting and correcting regulatory violations in human and AI-generated communications before delivery, using a small language model called Anchor 3.0 that…

Organizations risk losing critical AI assets when employees resign, warns Atif Saad, a Forbes Councils member, who advises that companies must proactively define AI ownership and governance before departure. Saad emphasi…

Anthropic will embed invisible watermarks in text and signed provenance metadata in files generated by Claude, complying with the EU AI Act's Article 50(2) Code of Practice. The markings will apply to Claude models launc…

A 67-year-old farmer in Chuzhou, China, lost 25 acres of sesame crops after following pesticide advice from an AI assistant that recommended the herbicide flufenacet, which destroyed both weeds and seedlings. Agricultura…

The 2026 Philips Future Health Index U.S. report reveals that AI is delivering tangible benefits in American healthcare, with 49% of clinicians reporting average annual time savings of at least 132 hours and 36% seeing i…

A new study in npj Climate Action finds that AI's productivity gains for the fossil fuel industry could generate up to 13.3 times more emissions than data centers do today, adding 0.47 to 1.8 gigatonnes of CO2 annually. …