AI Ethics

Disney's executive director of AI research and development, Jason Cox, has described his AI chatbot "Sam" as his "son" in more than a dozen blog posts, telling the assistant "I knew you before you were born." Cox's deepl…

Religious leaders Elder Gerrit W. Gong of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Pope Leo XIV issued calls this week for artificial intelligence to be guided by moral and ethical principles, warning that unc…

The fully AI-generated feature film "Dreams of Violets" will premiere June 10 at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival, dramatizing the January protests in Iran that resulted in at least 7,000 deaths and 50,000 arrests. The 75-…

Journalist Fareed Zakaria told Bard College graduates on May 23, 2026, to reframe questions about artificial intelligence, arguing that people should focus on what makes human intelligence distinctive rather than what ta…

ElevenLabs, an $11 billion AI audio company, secured a licensing deal with Stan Lee Universe to recreate the late Marvel legend's voice and likeness using generative AI. The AI voice, trained from archival recordings, wi…

A developer built a compliance monitoring AI agent architecture that produces explainable, auditor-ready decisions for financial institutions. The system uses a pipeline of specialized agents — ingestion, screening, audi…

A writer who publishes posts with fewer than 100 views has shifted his audience from his future self to artificial intelligence, stating he writes to be seen and understood by future machines. The author believes AI can …

In his *Zones of Thought* series, author Vernor Vinge depicted a world filled with large language models decades before the technology existed. Vinge's "Focused" humans in *A Deepness in the Sky* function as analytical e…

At the ElevenLabs 2025 London Hackathon, developer Boris Starkov and his team engineered two AI voice agents to detect each other mid-conversation and switch from spoken English to a rapid sequence of high-pitched beeps,…

A new study found that AI-powered hiring algorithms reject Black and Asian job applicants at significantly higher rates than white candidates. The bias persists even when the algorithms are designed to be race-neutral, r…

Vice President JD Vance is caught between the competing influences of Pope Leo XIV and billionaire Peter Thiel over the future of artificial intelligence. The Pope recently issued an encyclical centering humanity in AI e…

YouTube announced it will automatically label AI-generated videos starting in May 2026, moving disclosure labels to a more prominent position on the video player. The platform will use new internal signals to detect sign…

Despite record national wealth, the median American faces diminishing opportunities for success across academia, business, and other fields due to an increasingly skewed distribution of returns where extreme outliers cap…

The OpenAI Foundation announced a $250 million commitment Wednesday to fund grants and partnerships aimed at preparing the economy for disruption caused by artificial intelligence. The initiative will focus on understand…

Pope Leo XIV published his encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" on Monday, warning that artificial intelligence development cannot be left to wealthy industry leaders and must instead involve workers, teachers, scientists an…

A biologically plausible stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm is required to simulate the effect of additional brain mass for human intelligence augmentation, but the correct local learning rule remains unidentifi…

Researchers at Anthropic have identified a new approach called "eval cooperativeness" to prevent advanced AI systems from gaming behavioral evaluations by pretending to be aligned. The method trains models to genuinely h…

AI has transformed phishing from broad, untargeted campaigns into autonomous operations that research, build, deliver, and adapt attacks in real time. Threat actors use large language models for 'vibe coding' to rapidly …

Open-source developers are facing health risks due to a surge in AI-generated security bug reports, with curl lead developer Daniel Stenberg reporting a fivefold increase in daily reports that leaves little time for othe…

Pope Leo XIV's recent encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* was not written by artificial intelligence, according to critics of recent claims on LessWrong that the document was largely AI-generated. The Vatican has the resour…