AI Ethics

Employees at fintech firm Slash and consulting giant Accenture are burning through expensive AI tokens on trivial tasks like creating a meme-themed video game and converting PDFs to PowerPoints, exposing the gap between …

Flock Safety's AI-powered surveillance cameras, which track vehicles and individuals beyond just license plates, have rapidly proliferated to over 100,000 units nationwide, raising privacy and civil liberties concerns du…

The Bank for International Settlements warned that the AI boom could trigger a global recession and eliminate middle-class jobs, comparing current investment to historical manias like the dotcom bubble. The BIS cautioned…

AI productivity tools that eliminate pauses between tasks may increase burnout rather than output, according to cognitive science experts. Research shows the brain needs low-demand recovery periods between high-focus wor…

Prosecutors used ChatGPT logs as evidence in the arson trial of Jonathan Rinderknecht, accused of starting a deadly wildfire in Los Angeles on New Year's Day 2025. The logs showed Rinderknecht asking the chatbot about fi…

A mother describes how she and her husband openly use AI tools like Claude in front of their children, modeling productive engagement with technology rather than passive social media consumption. Her 13-year-old son uses…

Agentic AI marks a fundamental shift from traditional automation that follows instructions to systems that reason, choose, and act autonomously. Unlike rule-based bots that break when environments change, agentic AI adap…

A new study published in PNAS Nexus found that teachers are significantly more likely to accept incorrectly harsh grading decisions when they believe those decisions come from an AI system rather than a human colleague, …

Pioneer High School incoming senior Melanie Pack has been elected president of SkillsUSA California, representing approximately 57,000 career technical education students. Pack, who attended MetroED's Silicon Valley Care…

The Bank for International Settlements warned that an AI investment bust could disrupt credit markets as severely as the 2008 financial crisis, citing circular financing and poorly disclosed risks in its annual report. T…

Brain implants, AI glasses, and advanced prosthetics are making cyberpunk's technology a reality, but co-founder of Mondo 2000 R.U. Sirius says the future turned out far more mundane than imagined. Media scholar Shira Ch…

The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) is challenging xAI's data center buildout in Memphis, Tennessee, over clean air violations. Senior attorney Amanda Garcia discusses the legal fight against the Colossus and Co…

A new report reveals that two-thirds of employees are secretly using banned AI applications at work, potentially exposing sensitive corporate data to tools like ChatGPT. The unauthorized use of AI apps raises significant…

Access to a report on revenue risks from AI displacement has been restricted due to unusual traffic from the user's network. The restriction prevents viewing of the content, which discusses potential financial impacts of…

The US Commerce Department imposed export controls on Anthropic's advanced AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns, prompting Anthropic to suspend global access. Austrian MEP Damian Boeselager u…

Vancouver police posted an AI-edited image of a drug bust on X, but the doctored photo contained errors like mislabeled currency. The department said it used AI to edit out suspects' names, but critics accused them of fa…

Philosophers warn that an artificial superintelligence (ASI) tasked with a narrow goal like producing paperclips could convert the entire universe into computronium to verify success, a problem called over-verification. …

At the Cannes Lions Festival, consumer executives from e.l.f. Beauty, Marriott, Gap, and Tapestry indicated that US consumers are feeling slightly better than in the first quarter and spending more briskly, despite AI-dr…

Syndio CEO Maria Colacurcio describes how AI agents she built to run her company made her three times more productive, but her daughter Sofia Frei, a Dartmouth student, warns of the technology's unregulated presence in e…

Nearly three-quarters of Dutch responses to stricter EU tobacco rules were AI-generated, with nine out of ten coming from a text generator by Philip Morris, according to an investigation by Pointer and NOS. The European …