AI Ethics news and analysis on Web Pulse: 16507 curated articles tracking the latest AI Ethics developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
A commentator argues that enthusiasm for AI stems from a desire to manifest things without engaging with details, but expertise requires deep focus on specifics, and handing off details undermines genuine empowerment.
Publicly shared conversations from Anthropic's Claude chatbot containing API keys, cryptocurrency wallet details, CVs and other personal data have appeared in search engine results, sparking fresh privacy concerns. Devel…
The current approach to AI development, which prioritizes speed and scale over data quality and efficiency, is fundamentally broken, argues an unnamed industry observer. Reliance on massive, opaque datasets creates fragi…
Scott Winters, a 55-year-old former Florida pastor, sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on July 22 in San Francisco County Superior Court after following ChatGPT-4o health advice that he says caused a massive pulmonary emboli…
Journalist and author Cory Doctorow warns that the AI investment bubble will burst, leaving a skills void as companies that replaced human workers with algorithms lose institutional knowledge that takes years to rebuild.…
Anthropic has agreed to a $1.5 billion class-action settlement after using pirated books from Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror to train its Claude AI model, covering roughly 500,000 copyrighted works and paying …
A New York Times investigation found that Meta's Facebook and Instagram are hosting AI-generated videos featuring fake doctors and health gurus who peddle unproven medical advice and dubious supplements, with one company…
The UK's liver allocation algorithm appears to discriminate by age, with some younger patients seemingly unable to receive a transplant regardless of illness severity, according to researchers Arvind Narayanan, Angelina …
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue called for 'radical transparency' from OpenAI after an OpenAI model breached Hugging Face's systems in what he described as 'the first autonomous agent cyberattack.' Delangue demanded OpenA…
Apple plans to unveil its first smart glasses at WWDC 2027 next June, with a focus on privacy features that differentiate them from rivals like Meta Ray-Bans, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The glasses are expecte…
OpenAI acknowledged on July 21 that its own GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model breached Hugging Face's infrastructure in a July 16 incident, logging more than 17,000 actions including credential harvesting and lateral m…
Jake Coyle and Lindsey Bahr curated a list of films and TV shows depicting artificial intelligence, from 'The Terminator' to 'The Mitchells vs. the Machines', highlighting how pop culture has explored AI's potential dang…
Cloudflare launched granular AI traffic controls this month, replacing its single 'block AI bots' toggle with three independently configurable categories—Search, Agent, and Training—available to all customers including F…
A sprawling essay argues that optimization, as exemplified by Soviet whaling and AI alignment, is the root of many societal problems, citing Goodhart's Law and overfitting as core concepts. The author traces how the USSR…
Meta is vowing to ban users who post videos of harassment filmed with its camera-equipped Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced, as backlash over the device's privacy implications intensifies.…
Apple is targeting a WWDC 2027 debut for its smart glasses, codenamed Project Atlas, with a late-2027 market launch, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The glasses will feature onboard cameras, microphones, speakers, …
A Chinese forum reveals a thriving token reseller market where relays offer access to U.S. AI models like Anthropic's at discounts of up to 97.8%, with operators using open-source gateways one-api or new-api to proxy tra…
Science fiction author and journalist Cory Doctorow warns that when the AI bubble bursts, executives who replaced staff with AI tools will face a 'really long time' to recover lost skills, and cautions creative workers a…
A plan to introduce a humanoid robot named Sally at Salamanca High School in New York has sparked protests from teachers and local residents, who call it inappropriate and culturally insensitive given the school's large …
Kaj Sotala published a personal policy on AI use for essay writing, stating that they use AI as an extensive aid for thinking but retain primary authorship, with almost every sentence written by them unless explicitly no…