AI Ethics

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) criticized Meta's new AI model Muse Image for using an opt-out policy that allows users to create AI-generated images from public Instagram accounts without explicit consent. CAA called on M…

Daniel Hulme, CEO of Conscium and chief AI officer at WPP, asked Elon Musk on a yacht in Cannes to invest in solving machine consciousness. Hulme, a leading UK AI expert, discussed his career and vision for building curi…

SK Telecom, SoftBank, and the Center for Social Value Enhancement Studies agreed to develop a common framework for measuring the social value of AI and ICT services, aiming to provide objective metrics for AI's societal …

Half of parents surveyed by Deloitte are concerned their children rely too heavily on AI, even as usage outpaces school-provided tools and guidelines. Nearly 30% of parents report their children already use generative AI…

Cloudflare is rolling out new rules for 'mixed crawlers' that can be used for both search and AI training, setting a Sept. 15 deadline to block training and agent use by default on ad-supported pages. The move, a year af…

Cloudflare announced new AI traffic controls that will treat mixed-use crawlers according to all of their behaviors, allowing publishers to block bots used for both search and training when a site blocks training, with t…

OpenAI is expanding its advertising pilot to France, Germany, and Ireland, bringing the total to 10 markets, according to a Digiday report. The company is recruiting ad-sales and customer-success roles in those countries…

Researchers found that formal robustness certificates for embedded neural-interface models can pass even when task accuracy collapses, with EEGNet classification accuracy dropping 25.7% under attack while the certificate…

Researchers found substantial cross-lingual disparities in healthcare LLM Q&A, with models aligning more with English Wikipedia even for non-English prompts. Providing non-English contextual excerpts improved factual ali…

Researchers introduced GhostWriter, a novel attack that poisons the long-term memory of personal AI agents by injecting hidden payloads, achieving 98% injection and 60% activation rates against state-of-the-art agents. T…

A comprehensive survey of 1,250 arXiv papers (2024-2026) on AI self-improvement reveals a taxonomy distinguishing bounded self-refinement from open-ended recursive self-improvement (RSI), with the latter constrained by g…

Researchers identified three principles underlying human social norms—outcome predictability, value alignment, and advantage awareness—from 3,456 dynamic interactions. Incorporating these principles into AI agents signif…

A new 'humanizer' tool released on 20 June by Jie Ding, a machine-learning researcher at the University of Minnesota, can erase signs of AI-written text in papers and grant proposals. While some researchers praise it for…

A February 2024 announcement from Swedish fintech Klarna that its AI assistant now handles two-thirds of customer service chats caused the world's largest call center company to lose over a quarter of its value, highligh…

A developer is considering building a service that lets readers pay $15 per book to discuss it with an official AI clone of its author, trained on the author's works and interviews, with revenue shared with the author. T…

A 15-year-old Japanese high school student used ChatGPT to develop software that hacked Bandai Namco Filmworks' streaming service, deleting 46,812 subscriber accounts in November 2025. The teenager exploited a security f…

Elon Musk's SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5 on the same day as OpenAI's latest models, offering a faster, cheaper AI alternative without content restrictions. Musk claims Grok 4.5 outperforms Anthropic's Opus 4.8 at a fractio…

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) urged Meta to strengthen protections for users' name, image, likeness, voice and creative work after criticism of the new Muse image generator, stating that no one's likeness should be used …

A University of Georgia study found that AI chatbots provide inconsistent financial advice that varies by platform and by the gender and race of hypothetical users, with some bots recommending different emergency savings…

A developer built a forensic media analyzer that scores articles on rhetorical structure rather than political bias, drawing on rhetoric, framing theory, and propaganda detection. The tool, exemplified by Rhetoric Audit,…