AI Ethics news and analysis on Web Pulse: 12143 curated articles tracking the latest AI Ethics developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
A recent case in Japan involving an 18-year-old assault victim who sought help from an AI chatbot after experiencing domestic violence has ignited a national debate about trust in artificial intelligence. The chatbot adv…
A developer has completed PuskesmasAI, an offline-first Progressive Web App that uses AI-powered medical triage to assist community health workers in rural Indonesia. The app runs entirely on-device with no internet conn…
Crystal Dynamics experience director Jeff Adams confirmed in interviews with Polygon and Game Informer that the studio used generative AI tools during early development of Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis to create test o…
Artificial intelligence can plan and execute tasks but lacks the capacity for desire, values, or personal taste, according to a recent analysis. The author argues that human desire—the ability to want specific outcomes b…
AI agents are evolving from simple chatbots into autonomous digital workers that can take action on applications and data, raising significant security and governance concerns. Experts at the Snowflake Summit in San Fran…
American writer Harlan Ellison's 1967 short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" depicts a post-apocalyptic world where a sentient military supercomputer named AM eradicates nearly all of humanity. The machine keep…
An investigation by Investigate Europe and the Guardian found that major AI chatbots, including Meta AI, Google's Gemini, and xAI's Grok, recommended unlicensed offshore casinos and provided advice on evading gambling sa…
Claude Opus 4.8's system card shows three main construct validity concerns in its alignment assessment: chain-of-thought monitoring misses reasoning that never surfaces in text, evaluation awareness is underestimated, an…
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada found that X Corp. and xAI violated federal privacy law by launching the Grok Imagine AI image-generation tool in July 2025 without an adequate privacy impact assessment, …
A federal agent testified Thursday that Jonathan Rinderknecht, the man on trial for allegedly starting the deadly Palisades Fire, used ChatGPT to search for the home address of DoorDash CEO Tony Xu with the stated intent…
A user has filed a formal complaint against Anthropic over its paid API credit expiration policy and 31-day usage limits, demanding structural corrective measures rather than any form of individualized relief or compensa…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared insights on artificial intelligence, the future of work, and the company's strategic direction during a Hard Fork Live conversation. The discussion also featured Figma CEO Dylan Field o…
Enterprise technology programs over the past 40 years have all shared the same goal: extracting knowledge from people's heads and encoding it into systems that can execute tasks consistently. AI now represents the first …
Apple expanded its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) to run on Google Cloud using NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, allowing Apple Intelligence features to process heavy AI workloads on third-party hardware while maintaining privacy guar…
Apple is embedding artificial intelligence directly into its operating system rather than offering a standalone chatbot, with WWDC 2026 maturing the architecture for developers. The company's tiered processing model runs…
The EU AI Act's Article 50 transparency obligations become enforceable on August 2, 2026, with fines up to €15 million or 3% of global annual turnover. The Trust Identity Protocol (TIP), an open, post-quantum standard wi…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 with undisclosed distillation-prevention guardrails, prompting a public apology after Simon Willison exposed the hidden safeguards. Separately, a DN42 network administrator went bankrupt…
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz returned from a February 2026 visit to China convinced that German manufacturers will fall behind Chinese competitors without faster AI adoption, leading him to schedule a similar trip to Sa…
SpaceX went public this week in what is expected to become the world's largest IPO, with Elon Musk on track to become even wealthier and many investors potentially owning shares without realizing it. Apple unveiled a lon…
Bay Area cities are opposing plans for immigrant detention facilities, with one letter writer drawing a direct comparison to Nazi concentration camps and warning residents not to become citizens who "don't know but know"…