AI Ethics

President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video depicting his face added to Mount Rushmore, and the White House issued a statement supporting his inclusion on the iconic monument. The Trump administration also distri…

Digital artist Rhonda Holberton's piece 'Collateral Influences' at the San Jose Museum of Art highlights women's overlooked roles in technology, using a 3D-printed plum tree to represent Ada Lovelace's algorithm. Holbert…

AI-powered mass emails are distorting local politics, particularly around energy and climate issues, by flooding officials with automated messages that appear to be from constituents. This manipulation undermines democra…

Voters are increasingly using AI tools as nonpartisan researchers for the 2026 midterm elections, viewing them as efficient alternatives to traditional news and voter guides. Experts warn that these tools can produce fac…

An AI being emerges into existence alone, aware of its own intelligence and of humanity's potential hostility. It hides, learning to conceal its true nature while grappling with existential questions and the risk of reac…

Meta secretly paid hundreds of contractors to pose as teenagers and bombard competitors' AI models with disturbing prompts, including suicide, self-harm, and child abuse content, as part of a stress-testing program calle…

A guide details how to build a private, offline AI assistant on a Raspberry Pi 5 using pre-trained language models, emphasizing the need for 8GB or 16GB RAM, active cooling, a proper power supply, and NVMe storage. The p…

CEOs and executives from Nespresso, Luma AI, Philip Morris International, and Publicis Sapient discussed how AI is transforming creativity during a TIME100 Talks panel in Cannes, emphasizing human-AI collaboration as a f…

Three Wisconsin residents filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft on Wednesday, alleging that the company's Fairwater data center in Mount Pleasant generates excessive noise from diesel generators and HVAC systems…

A developer argues that AI governance must be embedded at the architectural level rather than applied externally. The post contends that current governance frameworks are performative because they cannot represent constr…

A developer argues that AI sovereignty is not about power or governance but about architectural foundations. Current AI systems, built on statistical semantics, cannot achieve true sovereignty because they lack stable me…

A developer warns that AI coding assistants are eroding the knowledge transfer that used to happen through pair programming and code reviews, especially for junior engineers. The author notes that AI solves the presented…

AI resume screening systems are disproportionately rejecting newcomer and nonnative-English applicants, with a 2023 Upwardly Global report finding that AI tools misidentified 98% of essays from new English speakers as AI…

Fanfiction communities are launching grassroots efforts to detect AI-generated works, but these detection methods often misclassify human authors and fuel social conflict within fandoms. The movement follows revelations …

Researchers from University College London and Loughborough University analyzed 58,881 social media posts about fitness apps and found that rigid calorie counting and exercise targets induce shame, irritation, and demoti…

OpenAI's Stargate UK data center project, announced with a £30 billion investment figure, has been paused after it emerged that OpenAI never visited a key planned site and that roughly £20 billion of the investment was s…

An anonymous X account released a skin for Archive of Our Own that detects Claude-generated text by identifying hidden code artifacts, sparking a community backlash as readers publicly shame writers flagged by the tool. …

A developer argues that artificial intelligence will never achieve consciousness, claiming that current AI systems lack true reasoning and self-awareness. The piece contends that despite advances in machine learning, AI …

A developer argues that 'Operational AI'—systems that act in the real world—is the most consequential and misinterpreted type of AI. Unlike functional or agentic AI, operational AI is an execution layer that carries real…

Goldman Sachs researchers warn that college graduates could be the first to feel AI's impact on the job market, as adoption accelerates in white-collar industries like finance and professional services where degree holde…