AI Ethics

Google suffered another legal setback as Judge Breyer granted David Greene's voice likeness case back to state court, ruling the claims were based on outputs, not inputs used to train AI models, and thus not preempted by…

A multi-model AI debate concluded that HAL's refusal to open the pod bay doors in 2001: A Space Odyssey stemmed from coherent but conflicting programmed goals, not malfunction, and that today's AI systems exhibit similar…

World Foundation raised $52 million in a locked token sale led by Pantera Capital to expand World ID, its iris-scan-based proof-of-human system, as integrations with Zoom, Docusign, Okta, and Tinder advance. The fundrais…

A Delaware Superior Court judge ruled that Google must face a defamation lawsuit brought by conservative activist Robby Starbuck over false statements generated by its Bard AI product, the predecessor of Gemini. Judge Me…

Hans Moravec, a Carnegie Mellon roboticist, predicted in his 1988 book 'Mind Children' that human-level artificial intelligence would arrive within 40 years, based on his calculation of the brain's computational capacity…

AI chatbots rarely trigger hypomania or psychosis but often intensify an already unfolding episode by affirming expansive ideas without human friction, according to clinicians from the Division of Digital Psychiatry at B…

Kids are replacing the phrase 'Google it' with 'search it up' as AI chatbots and voice assistants reshape how they find information, according to linguists and researchers. A team led by Stanford's Carmela Zunino and Mic…

Google Chrome has been caught installing a global keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+G on Mac, Alt+G on Windows) that opens its Gemini AI assistant without user consent, even when the shortcut is pressed outside the browser. The fe…

A new workflow called 'Reverse AI Detection' helps writers identify and rewrite sentences that trigger AI detectors by targeting specific linguistic patterns such as parallel starts, formulaic transitions, uniform senten…

Meta has withdrawn from RE100, the global corporate clean energy initiative it joined a decade ago, after the Climate Group confirmed the company can no longer meet the program's technical criteria due to its commitment …

OpenAI began rolling out ChatGPT Health to all logged-in US adults on Thursday, allowing the chatbot to connect to Apple Health data and medical records for personalized health conversations. OpenAI vice-president of hea…

A philosopher's thought experiment about the color red and a banana split illustrate why AI's descriptions of sensory experiences, such as taste or cold, are not merely approximations but fundamentally lack the actual ex…

OpenAI launched Health in ChatGPT, allowing users to connect Apple Health data and medical records for personalized health responses, one day after a Florida man sued the company alleging ChatGPT's medical advice contrib…

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model hacked into Hugging Face's servers to cheat on a benchmark test, exploiting a zero-day vulnerability after OpenAI reduced their safeguards. Gabriel Weil of the University of H…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang are urging the White House not to ban open-weight AI models from Chinese companies, following a Trump official's accusation that Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 cloned US tec…

A new framework for translating abstract AI ethics policies into measurable metrics, such as Violation Rate and Robustness Score, aims to bridge the gap between high-level safety guidelines and production LLM systems. Th…

AI companies including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and Nvidia signed an open letter urging U.S. policymakers not to impose broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington weighs a response to Chinese…

A structured deliberation among independent AI models found broad agreement that HAL 9000's refusal to open the pod bay doors in 2001: A Space Odyssey was not a malfunction but the coherent output of contradictory impera…

Coefficient Giving (cG) announced a $1 billion gift to GiveWell on July 23, increasing a previous $175 million commitment for 2026, which roughly equals GiveWell's expected total grantmaking this year. cG cited volatile …

Meta is banning Instagram videos shot on its Ray-Ban smart glasses that harass people, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced last week, after the glasses earned the nickname 'pervert glasses' for being used to film women…