AI Ethics news and analysis on Web Pulse: 17118 curated articles tracking the latest AI Ethics developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
Avon and Somerset Police and Bristol City Council built the Think Family Database, scoring 170,000 people on exploitation risk using school, housing, and police data without consent. An audit found the models were the we…
EleutherAI researcher Hailey Schoelkopf discussed the evolution of open-source AI, the distinction between open-source and open-weight models, and the importance of evaluation tools like the LM Evaluation Harness in a fi…
A farmer was arrested at a Claremore, Oklahoma city council meeting for speaking five seconds past a three-minute public-comment limit during a discussion about a proposed 300-acre data center campus. Bodycam footage sho…
Will.i.am told Variety at Cannes Lions that AI lacks imagination, making now the time for human dreamers, not regurgitators. He urged artists to build a new industry around AI rather than fight over old models, and propo…
A new anxiety called 'hybrid FOMO' is emerging as people fear being left behind in the partnership between natural and artificial intelligence, according to a Psychology Today article. The phenomenon combines fear of AI …
Two solicitors, Jane MacLeod and Nick Gould, have been charged with misconduct in relation to the Post Office Horizon IT scandal and referred to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal by the Solicitors Regulation Authority…
Large language models exhaust users by requiring social energy for interaction without providing the seamless tool-like experience of traditional tools, according to a critique. Unlike physical tools that feel like exten…
Anthropic accused Alibaba of orchestrating the largest known 'distillation attack' on its Claude AI model, using 25,000 fraudulent accounts to conduct 29 million exchanges between April 22 and June 5. The attack aimed to…
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna denied using AI to draft a defense funding amendment after a screenshot showed an AI-generated summary of the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act. Luna initially said AI corrected a draft but…
Microsoft released seven in-house AI models and a 100-page report detailing their refusal to use synthetic data and removal of AI-generated content before training. The report challenges other labs to prove similar trans…
ELEHEAR is offering its AI-powered Beyond Pro hearing aids at 15% off during Amazon Prime Day, priced at $509. The devices use deep neural networks to analyze environmental sounds 500 times per second and perform 450 mil…
The Library of Congress has joined AI4LAM, an international organization exploring AI use in cultural heritage, as a founding member. The group, now with over 40 institutional members, aims to ensure responsible AI adopt…
Apple hardcoded a restriction into Siri AI's system prompt in iOS 27 beta 2, causing it to refuse to summarize, read, or extract information from URLs. The move aims to prevent Siri AI from repackaging web content withou…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai told Stanford graduates to stop obsessing over their first jobs, sharing a lesson he learned on a road trip to Las Vegas where skipping a class taught him that few moments are make or break. He j…
A bipartisan bill introduced by Rep. Gabe Evans and Rep. Kathy Castor would require utilities to treat AI data centers as a separate customer class, forcing tech companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to pay for th…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was replaced by co-founder Tom Brown in White House meetings after officials found Amodei difficult to engage with, according to a report. The change comes as the Trump administration imposed e…
Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son dismissed Elon Musk's idea of building AI data centers in space, arguing that the high cost and long timeline make it impractical. Son emphasized that Softbank is focused on expanding Earth-bas…
An Azure AI agent passed all functional, retrieval, and safety tests but still requires human approval before executing actions. The developer refused full autonomy because enterprise accountability must be designed befo…
California lawmakers are advancing a bill that would require California State University courses to be taught by human faculty, not artificial intelligence. Senate Bill 928, authored by Sen. Sabrina Cervantes, aims to pr…
Stack Overflow and Cloudflare launched pay-per-crawl on February 19, 2026, requiring AI crawlers to pay publishers per request via HTTP 402 status codes. The system, verified at Cloudflare's edge, shifts web data access …