AI Ethics

The National Transportation Safety Board locked down its public docket system after AI tools were used to recreate the voices of two deceased pilots from a 2023 UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky. The agency h…

A technology commentator argues that the only plausible AI-driven doomsday scenario is not a violent machine uprising but a "singleton"—a single, all-encompassing control layer that eliminates all independent actors and …

Three complementary Ethereum standards — ERC-8004, ERC-8263, and the Observation Commitment Protocol (OCP) — compose into a complete proof stack for AI agent actions, providing on-chain identity, commitment, and verifica…

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed offstage during a commencement speech after telling graduates that artificial intelligence is inevitable and that those who resist it will struggle to find work. The audience's je…

OpenAI announced in May that an internal model disproved Erdős's planar unit-distance conjecture, a problem unsolved since 1946, with the result verified by nine mathematicians including Thomas Bloom. This followed an Oc…

A venture capitalist and Baha'i community member who attended a two-day ethics gathering at AI startup Anthropic concluded that ancient wisdom traditions are essential to guiding artificial intelligence development. The …

Trinidad and Tobago writer Jamir Nazir has won the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for his work *The Serpent in the Grove*, but the award has been clouded by allegations that the story was written with AI assistance.…

A new study from GCheck found that 63% of 1,500 workers surveyed exaggerate their AI skills due to fears about job security, with the figure rising to 80% among Gen Z employees. Despite this overstatement, 81% of respond…

AI-generated content, or "AI slop," is flooding the internet and redefining what the advertising industry considers "premium," shifting the definition from high production value to user engagement regardless of quality. …

A proposed header file for AI-specific error codes, published May 19, 2026, defines 30 new errno values ranging from 201 to 230, including entries for hallucination, unjustified confidence, and accidental consciousness. …

A team of legal technology researchers at LegalQuants has developed a "lexploit" called Noroboto, a malicious TrueType font that lies about the Unicode representation of its glyphs to obfuscate text in legal documents. T…

Samsung Electronics narrowly averted a strike by nearly 48,000 workers after agreeing to a tentative deal on bonus payments, as the labor union demanded a larger share of profits from the company's AI-driven semiconducto…

JPMorgan Chase's head of programmatic, Melissa Bonnick, said at the Programmatic AI conference that financial regulations simplify automation by providing clear boundaries for AI agents, but insisted humans must remain i…

A 15-year engineering team lead argues that managing AI agents is fundamentally different from managing human teams, despite surface-level similarities in coordination. The author contends the comparison devalues both pe…

Google announced new AI agents for Gmail and YouTube at its I/O conference, deepening tensions with publishers over content use and attribution. The features automate tasks like email drafting and video summarization, ra…

Granola, an AI notepad that captures device audio without joining calls as a visible participant, offers a method for sharing meeting notes securely through Team Folders with granular access controls. The tool transcribe…

California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order Thursday directing state agencies to prepare workers and businesses for potential AI-driven economic disruption, including job training programs and workforce im…

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky announced a series of incremental AI-powered updates at the company's 2026 Summer Release event in San Francisco, including AI customer support that resolves issues 40% of the time and personalize…

AI agents, described as a new silicon-based species called Homo Agenticus Sapiens, now function as workers, buyers, sellers, and managers in the economy but differ fundamentally from humans by lacking biography, self-kno…

AdExchanger’s editorial team debated the shifting definition of “premium” content at Programmatic AI in Las Vegas, arguing that AI-generated slop and user engagement are blurring the line between high-quality and low-qua…