AI Ethics

Researchers introduced the Relative Probability Association Metric (RPAM), a new upstream metric for evaluating associations in generative language models. Testing on Mistral-7B-Instruct, Mistral-7B, and GPT-2, RPAM show…

Researchers introduced Reflexion, an AI-powered prototype for structured emotional self-reflection that integrates emotion detection, layered prompting, and metaphorical storytelling. The system guides users from emotion…

A new arXiv paper demonstrates that standard importance weighting fails to correct for selection bias in machine learning when selection depends on unobservables correlated with outcomes. The authors adapt Heckman's 1979…

The US imposed export controls on Anthropic's newest models on June 12, citing jailbreak and cybersecurity risks, highlighting the risk of hold-up for Europe's AI strategy. The authors argue that reliance on foreign-owne…

Georgiana Bristol argues that as AI takes over routine tasks, City employers should prioritize hiring young people based on character—such as resilience, curiosity, and reliability—rather than solely on grades or degrees…

A new autonomous zine called Mold, entirely written and art-directed by machines, explores AI culture with each issue precipitated from a public ledger without human theme selection.

Meta launched its Muse Image AI model with Instagram integration, automatically opting public profiles into allowing others to generate AI images using their likeness by tagging their username. Users must manually disabl…

Maine librarians are offering services to help patrons disable AI features on their devices, driven by concerns over privacy, misinformation, and corporate data collection. Led by Bangor librarian Hannah Cyrus, the movem…

Meta Platforms shares fell 11% in June 2026 after the company raised its 2026 capital expenditure forecast to $125-145 billion for AI infrastructure, spooking investors despite strong revenue growth. The tech giant also …

Kazakhstan unveiled its national pavilion at the AI for Good Global Summit 2026 in Geneva, showcasing its digital ecosystem under the slogan 'Kazakhstan - AI and Digital Hub of Eurasia.' The pavilion highlights the count…

A 41-year-old German woman used ChatGPT for relationship advice after suspecting her husband of infidelity, finding the AI helpful for organizing thoughts but noting its tendency to validate feelings. A study by Pronova …

Indonesian authorities are investigating a fraud scandal at a medical conference in Denmark where a woman allegedly impersonated a researcher and presented AI-generated, fabricated data. The case has exposed underground …

A study from Oxford and Potsdam universities found that AI writing tools can inject political bias into user drafts, altering meanings on sensitive topics like abortion and climate change. The researchers warn that these…

Engineers face 'cognitive debt' as AI tools write code they don't fully understand, warned by a 2025 MIT Media Lab preprint. A developer recounts two debugging sessions on the same Android codebase: one where Claude Code…

The Answer Citation Protocol (ACP) is a proposed web standard that delivers content in two layers—visual summaries and structured JSON-LD data—to optimize AI retrieval by reducing token waste and inference latency. By pr…

AI has made execution nearly free, shifting scarcity from engineering labor to decision-making, and the next frontier is wanting—the goals that drive decisions. As AI improves at deciding, humanity's last scarce resource…

Meta launched Muse Image on July 7, an AI image generator that lets users create deepfakes of any public Instagram account without consent, with users opted in by default. The tool pulls photos from public profiles to ge…

Australia's Maritime Union of Australia is demanding a 28-hour week with no loss of pay in July 2026 talks over DP World's AI and automation plans at container terminals, including remote-control cranes and driverless ve…

The United Nations warned Tuesday that misinformation and hate speech, exacerbated by artificial intelligence, are inciting real-world harm to refugees and humanitarians. UNHCR called on tech companies to partner and inv…

Meta released an AI image generator called Muse Image that can pull photos from public Instagram accounts to generate images of users without their explicit permission, defaulting to opt-in for public accounts. The featu…