AI Ethics

A survey of nearly 52,000 Americans by Anthropic found that 64% fear job losses from AI and 56% worry about losing their ability to think independently. Daily AI users expressed significantly less concern, yet most respo…

Community opposition groups have blocked or delayed $130 billion in data center projects across 40 states this year, according to Data Center Watch. The 188 organized groups are using environmental reviews, public hearin…

A new PwC report finds that artificial intelligence is driving up U.S. healthcare costs, with one of its most widespread uses being to justify higher medical bills. AI note-taking tools are documenting more specific diag…

A developer has identified a persistent security threat to AI agents called memory poisoning, where malicious instructions stored in an agent's memory can influence all future interactions indefinitely. The developer con…

U.S., French, and Italian authorities seized the domains CFAKE.com and SOCFAKE.com, which hosted thousands of AI-generated nude images of famous women without their consent, including politicians, royalty, and entertaine…

Only 1% of Firefox users have activated the browser's AI kill switch, which Mozilla added after community demand for control over artificial intelligence features. Mozilla CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo said the feature's value…

Ukrainian drone manufacturer Aero Center revealed that fully autonomous drones killed Russian soldiers during a battlefield test two years ago, marking a potential first in warfare. The drones were preprogrammed to activ…

A giant inflatable caricature of Elon Musk appeared in Times Square on Thursday, one day before SpaceX's record-setting initial public offering, as advocacy group Safe AI Now protested the company's AI platform Grok for …

An open source developer has announced he will no longer accept unsolicited pull requests after determining that nearly all contributions to his projects are now generated by large language models. The developer, who pre…

A new essay argues that software teams should stop hiding bugs and instead "fail loudly" by making errors visible and obvious. The author contends that concealing failures prevents learning and allows small issues to com…

New Microsoft research finds that roughly 70% of skills used in most jobs are expected to change by 2030, with AI literacy appearing in job listings six times more often than a year ago and 66% of leaders saying they wou…

Google filed a lawsuit Friday against an alleged Chinese cybercrime network, Outsider Enterprise, accusing it of using AI to send scam text messages impersonating Google and other brands to steal passwords and credit car…

Spry Fox's Spirit Crossing playtest delivers a deeply satisfying cooperative life sim experience, though the studio faces controversy over its use of Anthropic's Claude AI in code development. The game, a spiritual succe…

A Hacker News user reported a job posting from Gauntlet AI, which they believe is linked to Lambda School (YC S17), as a potential scam website being advertised on the platform. The user expressed concern that Y Combinat…

Right-wing officials and data center investors are claiming that Chinese government influence is fueling opposition to data center development in the US, though experts say there is no evidence of organized foreign inter…

Two Florida men were wrongfully arrested after AI facial recognition software falsely identified them as suspects in separate crimes, with one spending nearly three months in jail and losing his job, car, and home before…

Mozilla CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo expedited the development of a kill switch that lets Firefox users completely disable AI features in the browser, responding to community concerns about unwanted artificial intelligence. O…

Anthropic released Fable 5, a restricted version of its powerful Mythos AI tool, but faced backlash after researchers discovered the system silently downgraded to a less capable model when processing certain advanced que…

Anthropic reversed course on secretly degrading responses for users seeking help with frontier AI development after a developer backlash, instead routing those requests to a less capable model and informing users. The co…

An engineered pandemic response model designed for high-income countries would likely fail in resource-limited settings like Nigeria, where weak institutions, fragmented healthcare, and low public trust undermine deploym…