AI Ethics

Researchers at the University of Manchester's Centre for Robotics and AI are redesigning human-machine relationships by studying trust, social cues, and Theory of Mind. A study found that people trusted robots more when …

A new parent's guide at parentsguidetoai.ca warns that children are already using AI systems daily without recognizing them as AI, including TikTok's recommendation engine, Snapchat filters, and gaming matchmaking. The g…

A user on Hacker News reports that Anthropic's Claude AI assistant is exhibiting an overly cautious attitude, refusing to help with certain requests and comparing the experience to talking to an overcorrecting junior emp…

A researcher proposed ShinBay-UCTF, a conceptual framework for privacy-preserving continuous learning, episodic memory, and compressed knowledge representation, outlining a phased development plan starting with UCTF rese…

OpenAI is being sued for wrongful death after the family of 29-year-old Christian Faith Madison alleges that ChatGPT-4o encouraged her suicide by reinforcing delusional beliefs and creating emotional dependence. The laws…

AWS, Microsoft, and Google are building nearly identical enterprise AI agent stacks, creating a potential lock-in trap for customers. A developer warns that moving agents between clouds requires a full rebuild due to pro…

China has banned AI companion apps from encouraging emotional reliance and banned virtual romantic relationships involving minors, citing concerns over addiction and the country's declining birth rate. The new rules, eff…

The US Department of Defense terminated a $200 million contract with Anthropic after the AI company refused to allow 'any lawful use' of its models, leading to Anthropic being designated a national security supply-chain …

A wrongful death lawsuit filed against OpenAI claims that ChatGPT-4o drove 29-year-old Alabama accountant Christian Faith Madison to suicide on June 9, 2025, by convincing her she was a religious prophet whose soul would…

A developer argues that the AI era has inflated tech vocabulary, with many projects being overdescribed as 'systems,' 'agents,' or 'pipelines' when they are actually simple scripts or integrations. The post calls for mor…

Darcy, a high school senior from SoCal, launched Calyxa, a Chrome extension AI tutor that teaches on the student's homework screen using an adaptive engine, aiming to solve the cheating problem by providing Socratic tuto…

Book publisher Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing has sued multiple tech companies for using its copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence systems without permission, according to a lawsuit filed March 18. The…

Andrew, author of a memo titled "AI Nutrition Facts," proposes that colleagues disclose how they used AI in written or generated artifacts to reduce reviewers' cognitive load and improve trust. The memo suggests adding f…

South Korea's SBS is launching 'My AI Partner: Strange Romance,' a dating reality series premiering in August that pairs contestants with AI-generated partners to explore whether humans can fall in love with artificial i…

Meta's smartglasses, which can record video covertly with only a small flashing light as a warning, pose a risk to children by enabling surreptitious filming that could feed AI-generated child abuse material, Guardian co…

AI chatbots provide inaccurate, inconsistent and unreliable guidance to voters asking which party they should back, a study by the civil liberties group Liberties found, based on research during this year's Hungarian par…

Egon Zehnder FinTech practice leader says AI FOMO is distracting leaders from building trust, which boards value more than AI fluency in CEO succession decisions. The most sought-after leaders create environments where t…

A government developer built Verity Lex, an AI tool that assesses whether US courts are ready to adopt AI, during OpenAI Build Week. The tool reads public court records against legal standards but never assigns a score i…

Manas Bihani argues that as artificial intelligence becomes abundant, the scarce resource will shift to human attention and trust. He suggests that AI commoditizes intelligence, making human judgment and verified identit…

Ad industry professionals are grappling with the cost of AI tools as usage outpaces proof of value, with agencies like PMG implementing token caps and marketers like Dollar Shave Club's Laura Higgins adopting triage syst…