AI Ethics

Meta is launching a $19.99 monthly subscription called Meta One Premium that rate-limits AI features on its smart glasses, including Conversation Focus, which requires no internet connection. Critics argue the fee is arb…

Anna's Archive offers a $200,000 bounty for a scalable method to extract all scanned books from Google Books or similar large collections, including those held by AI companies. The bounty targets data only exposed throug…

Former top Treasury adviser Dr Chris Wales warns that HMRC is planning to use artificial intelligence to track personal finances without consent, following Spain's lead. He claims the CONNECT AI system already holds bill…

Perplexity AI and Databricks co-founder Andy Konwinski argued that AI safety rhetoric is being used to concentrate power, not prevent harm, citing Anthropic's reversed decision to silently degrade responses for suspected…

Phil Chen argues that AI models excel at tasks with clear loss functions, like schoolwork, making traditional education less valuable. He advises focusing on work that AI cannot easily replicate, such as defining problem…

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong proposed a radical solution for the US $36 trillion debt crisis, suggesting constitutional amendments, special economic zones, and growth driven by AI, robotics, and crypto. He argued the Con…

A writer argues that artificial intelligence, exemplified by ChatGPT, is fundamentally similar to human intelligence, noting that both systems learn from data, produce comparable outputs, and exhibit flaws like bias and …

World, a project by Tools for Humanity, proposes a five-pillar system to verify unique human identity online without revealing personal information, addressing the failure of traditional proxies like CAPTCHAs and phone v…

A man in Gilbert, Arizona, was filmed confronting a Black worker and demanding to see his Green Card, sparking outrage online. The worker recorded the encounter after the man allegedly ran up to him, yelling and cursing.…

WIRED senior writer Kate Knibbs will host a livestream with Carlos Barragán, author of "The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers," on July 16 at 12pm ET. Barragán, a New York Time…

The FTC proposed a policy statement on July 1 requiring AI developers to prominently disclose any intentional output filtering, including safety guardrails, by July 31 or face potential legal action under Section 5 of th…

Nigerian-Australian model Elii Emeghebo filed a racial discrimination complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission after menswear retailer Peter Jackson used AI to lighten his skin and alter his facial features …

Companies are adopting AI without measuring its holistic costs and productivity gains, warns a veteran small-business owner. Individual productivity boosts exist but rely on skilled oversight, and many reported gains may…

Several US states are considering or have passed bills banning legal personhood for AI systems and declaring AI cannot be conscious, driven by religious beliefs, accountability concerns, and child safety. Critics argue t…

A developer argues that the AI industry is focused on building small-scale models and toys rather than the large-scale architectures needed to solve real-world problems. The piece criticizes the lack of ambition in curre…

The Trace Institute, a nonprofit research initiative led by Donald Hoffman and Chetan Prakash, is developing a mathematical theory that formalizes the observer as fundamental to reality, proposing that space, time, and t…

Microsoft announced Xbox console price increases effective August 1, 2026, with 512GB models rising by $100 and 1TB models by $150, citing memory and storage costs that have more than doubled due to AI infrastructure dem…

A bug report filed on Anthropic's Claude Code repository describes a potential session or cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts, where an authenticated Enterprise ZDR user's agent began referenci…

Gartner forecasts that by 2028, an average Fortune 500 enterprise could run over 150,000 AI agents, up from fewer than 15 in 2025, creating governance and security risks due to unmanaged identities, credentials, and perm…

Gartner analyst Max Goss warned CIOs in London that by 2028, the average Fortune 500 enterprise will run over 150,000 AI agents, up from under 15 in 2025. This agent sprawl, driven by uncontrolled proliferation without c…