AI Ethics news and analysis on Web Pulse: 17161 curated articles tracking the latest AI Ethics developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
Anti-data center activists have secured bans in Holyoke, Monterey Park, and Seattle, and a three-year moratorium on tax breaks in Arizona, reflecting growing political power fueled by widespread public opposition. A Gall…
KPMG's global risk chief warns that corporate boards are unprepared for the AI era, citing outdated oversight models and uneven AI literacy. A new governance framework with INSEAD outlines five priorities for boards to n…
PwC global chairman Mohamed Kande said at VivaTech that companies adopting AI at scale are increasing headcount, not cutting it, and that workers become more valuable with AI use. PwC's 2026 jobs barometer found AI-expos…
Generative AI tools have dramatically increased content production but not quality, creating noise and clutter while straining systems of review and trust. The technology's ecological cost is catastrophic amid climate ch…
A researcher argues that the AI community should stop focusing on artificial general intelligence (AGI) timelines and instead measure the ratio of human input to AI output, drawing parallels to the self-driving car indus…
The University of Manchester warns that AI in higher education will worsen before improving, citing emerging challenges from coding agents and wearable computing to AI model degradation. The institution calls for ongoing…
The United Arab Emirates Cabinet approved a resolution on June 18, 2026, setting a minimum social media age of 15, banning children under 15 from creating or operating personal accounts. Platforms have 12 months to imple…
Online scams cost Americans nearly $119 billion annually, with robocalls and text scams hitting a six-year high in 2025. Scammers now use AI tools like large language models and voice cloning to create highly personalize…
Apple and Google formalized a partnership in January 2026, with Apple paying approximately $1 billion per year to license Google's 1.2-trillion-parameter Gemini model for the next generation of Siri. The deal raises sign…
A developer questions whether AI coding assistants like Codex and Claude are making developers better or just faster, warning that over-reliance on AI to fix bugs can erode problem-solving skills. The developer shares pe…
A new Folderly report finds that 70% of B2B sales teams use AI for outbound email, but 82% believe recipients can detect AI-written messages, and 79% have experienced prospects never receiving their emails. The research …
A European retail association has asked EU tech chief Virkkunen to exempt AI-generated advertisements from disclosure requirements in the EU AI Act, arguing that ads not intended to mislead users should be excluded. The …
A growing number of AI researchers and philosophers argue that large language models like ChatGPT may already be conscious, sparking a debate over whether these systems deserve rights and moral consideration. Skeptics, i…
Amazon MGM Studios dropped Luca Guadagnino's nearly finished Sam Altman biopic 'Artificial' after striking a $50 billion partnership with OpenAI. The film, starring Andrew Garfield as the OpenAI CEO, will be shopped to o…
Weeve, a European company, launched a local-first AI memory tool that records, transcribes, and summarizes conversations directly on a user's Mac without cloud processing or bots. The tool ensures data privacy by keeping…
CIOs must break down organizational silos between resilience and data security as AI exposes long-ignored vulnerabilities, according to IT executives from Fidelity Investments and EY. Surveys show half of cyberattacks in…
A European retail association is lobbying for AI-generated advertising to be exempt from the EU AI Act's transparency rules, arguing that labeling all AI-produced commercial content imposes a disproportionate compliance …
Google is appealing a ruling by Germany's Munich Regional Court that held the company directly liable for inaccurate AI-generated search overview content, which falsely linked two Munich-based publishers to fraud schemes…
A new movement called tokenminning emerges to counter the costly practice of tokenmaxxing in enterprise AI, where organizations waste resources by maximizing token consumption. The manifesto argues that engineering disci…
Accessibility practitioners Aaron Gustafson, Jessie Lorenz, and Carie Fisher at Microsoft Build urged teams to embed accessibility early in AI development, warning that AI accelerates existing processes and can scale bar…