AI Ethics news and analysis on Web Pulse: 17046 curated articles tracking the latest AI Ethics developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
More than 322,000 Californians have signed up to have data brokers delete their personal information under the state's Delete Act, which requires brokers to begin processing deletion requests by Aug. 1. The law allows re…
A 2015 Apple data center project in Athenry, Ireland, was abandoned in 2018 after years of legal battles with local residents over noise, light pollution, and environmental concerns, foreshadowing a wave of community opp…
Meta launched and quickly retracted a feature in its Muse Image model that allowed users to generate AI images of Instagram users without their consent, citing a failure to meet ethical standards. The incident highlights…
The University of Chicago has banned first-year law students from using laptops, phones, and tablets in class starting this fall to combat reliance on AI and promote critical thinking. The policy is part of a broader str…
Oakes Energy Services' AI datacentre project in Lanarkshire, Scotland, faces local backlash as residents question the viability of promised renewable energy and economic benefits, fearing displacement and loss of green b…
AI can serve as a creative partner when users craft specific prompts and iterate on initial outputs, according to a guide on prompt engineering. The article emphasizes treating AI as a collaborator that requires detailed…
Meta removed a controversial feature from its Muse Image AI model that allowed users to generate AI images of Instagram users by @-mentioning their public accounts without consent, after widespread criticism. The company…
Director Christopher Nolan criticized AI in filmmaking, calling it "slop" and noting that younger generations are rejecting the technology. He praised young directors Kane Parsons and Curry Barker for their ambivalence t…
A growing body of research reveals that while the global AI ethics landscape has converged around a stable set of principles—transparency, fairness, non-maleficence, accountability, and privacy—enforcement remains catast…
Automation is expanding opportunities for smallholder farmers in Kenya, enabling them to scale operations from two acres to twenty without displacing workers, according to farmers and CEO Arora. The technology is seen as…
Software engineers are adapting to AI by focusing on fundamentals and new skills as AI reshapes the profession, with Google reporting 75% of its code now AI-generated. The shift has led to over 600,000 US tech layoffs si…
A Sunday Morning Movie newsletter features the 1974 Hungarian war film 'Hószakadás' (Snowfall) and includes a TED talk by neuroscientist Anil Seth arguing that AI is not conscious, warning against projecting human traits…
Microsoft, Amazon and Google's collective carbon emissions rose nearly 20% to 119 million metric tonnes in the past year, driven by datacentre construction for AI, reaching about a third of France's emissions. The surge …
AI is reshaping software engineering, shifting developers from coding to code review and raising concerns about skill erosion. Some engineers, like Matt, resist AI reliance to preserve their craftsmanship, highlighting t…
Zhipu co-founder Tang Jie argued that open AI is safer than closed models, as U.S. government restrictions on Anthropic's Claude models highlighted sovereignty risks. Zhipu released the open-weight GLM-5.2 model under an…
AI model performance increasingly depends on data quality rather than compute power, as researchers shift focus from scaling model size to refining datasets. This trend affects real-world applications like autonomous veh…
Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta are conducting large-scale layoffs while simultaneously investing heavily in AI, reallocating resources toward artificial intelligence. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince suggested such moves could…
Lip Sync AI uses advanced algorithms to synchronize audio with video, enabling instant creation of realistic talking videos. The technology has potential applications in education, virtual meetings, and customer service,…
A proposed class action lawsuit alleges that a man used Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to generate 7,000 sexually explicit images of his stepdaughter, and that xAI (now SpaceXAI) failed to flag the abuse and obstructed law enf…
Hundreds of protesters marched from OpenAI's office to Anthropic's headquarters in San Francisco on Saturday, demanding that major AI lab CEOs commit to pausing frontier model development if all other labs do the same. T…