AI Ethics news and analysis on Web Pulse: 17152 curated articles tracking the latest AI Ethics developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
In May 2026, Hawkesbury City Council councillors dismissed reporting by the local Hawkesbury Gazette as "AI slop" to discredit accountability journalism, marking the first documented use of the term as a political weapon…
A 1977 Little Golden Books story about Cookie Monster and a cursed cookie tree is used as an allegory to explain AI safety concepts, including AGI, misuse risks, preparedness frameworks, reward misspecification, and fiel…
Jay Alammar published the 'Explainable AI Cheat Sheet' on his blog on May 4, 2021, providing a high-level guide to tools and methods for understanding AI/ML models. The resource aims to help practitioners quickly grasp e…
The Atlantic's Books Briefing reviews Sarah Bakewell's book 'Humanly Possible' amid concerns that AI advancements threaten independent thought, quoting Eric Schmidt on AI as a material improvement to human intelligence a…
A new term from Harvard Business Review, 'workslop,' describes the feedback loop where AI-generated content with subtle errors accumulates in enterprise knowledge bases, corrupting institutional records and costing organ…
A writer reflects on the irony that AI, trained on human writing, now produces text so similar to human output that original human writing is flagged as AI-generated, forcing writers to distort their natural voice to pro…
An assault case involving five Japanese girls who used AI to decide how much money to demand from a victim has exposed a disturbing pattern of adolescents turning to AI for guidance in criminal acts. A second case involv…
AgentKit released a Compliance Control Monitoring Agent that tests internal controls against supporting evidence and flags failures without auto-attesting. The agent is governed by an open-source AgentAz specification de…
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned in a Bloomberg interview that AI agents like Microsoft Copilot constitute surveillance backdoors, citing their need for pervasive access to credit cards, messages, and calendars…
A new AI agent for e-commerce order support, governed by the AgentAz specification, answers order questions and processes routine returns while escalating disputes to humans. The agent is read-only, verifies identity, an…
AgentKit released the Competitive Intelligence Digest Agent, an open-source AI agent that compiles competitor digests from public sources while labeling items as confirmed facts or unverified rumors. The agent includes a…
AgentKit released an open-source specification called AgentAz for governing AI agents, exemplified by an email reply drafting agent that reads threads and drafts contextual replies without sending. The specification docu…
A new AI contract review agent, governed by the open-source AgentAz specification, reviews clauses against a user's playbook, flags risky terms and omissions with severity and citations, and proposes fallback language. T…
AgentKit released Account Research Agent, an AI agent that compiles account briefs with verified firmographics, tech stack, triggers, and key people for sales calls. The agent includes an AgentAz governance specification…
A new content repurposing agent, governed by the open-source AgentAz specification, transforms a single source into multiple formats while preserving facts and brand voice. The agent operates under strict trust and autho…
A new AI agent called the Company Policy Q&A Agent answers policy, benefits, and procedure questions strictly from an official handbook with citations, routes sensitive HR matters to a person, and never invents policy or…
FERNme, a new user-owned memory layer for AI agents, updates memories with zero LLM calls using a Hebbian co-occurrence rule, keeping token costs flat and enabling users to see, edit, and own their data. The system achie…
HackingPal, an open-source AI-assisted security workbench, launches for macOS and Linux, offering an engagement-centric workflow with human-approved actions, full audit trails, and client-ready reports. The tool integrat…
SZA criticized musicians who support AI music as 'disgusting' and 'degenerate' in an Instagram Stories post, revealing that 238 of her songs were used to train AI models without her consent. The singer has previously spo…
Two former OpenAI founders, Thomas Dimson and Joey Flynn, launched In the Weights, a free tool that measures how strongly AI models like GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 can identify and describe a person from their internal …