#AI Ethics

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fromNature
2 days ago
Data science

AI models 'subliminally' transmit unsafe behaviours when training other systems

Data science
fromNature
2 days ago

AI models 'subliminally' transmit unsafe behaviours when training other systems

Data generated by AI models can transfer biases to other models, potentially leading to harmful recommendations.
#ai-ethics
Law
fromAbove the Law
1 week ago

Legal Ethics Roundup: Bondi Out, Bove Recusal, 'Strip Law,' 60% Judges Use AI While Sanctions Continue For Lawyers, Viral Judge Videos & More - Above the Law

AI-generated errors in legal documents are leading to increased sanctions against attorneys.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 week ago

Nonprofit Research Groups Disturbed to Learn That OpenAI Has Secretly Been Funding Their Work

Frontier AI companies are engaging in morally questionable tactics to influence child safety legislation for their benefit.
Law
fromAbove the Law
1 week ago

Legal Ethics Roundup: Bondi Out, Bove Recusal, 'Strip Law,' 60% Judges Use AI While Sanctions Continue For Lawyers, Viral Judge Videos & More - Above the Law

AI-generated errors in legal documents are leading to increased sanctions against attorneys.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 week ago

Nonprofit Research Groups Disturbed to Learn That OpenAI Has Secretly Been Funding Their Work

Frontier AI companies are engaging in morally questionable tactics to influence child safety legislation for their benefit.
#openai
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
5 days ago

OpenAI Staffers Horrified When Senior Leadership Hatched "Insane" Plan to Pit World Governments Against Each Other

OpenAI leaders proposed a controversial plan to leverage geopolitical tensions for profit, alarming staff and raising ethical concerns.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

AI products are reaching further into our lives. Does it matter who controls the companies behind them? | Van Badham

Ronan Farrow's investigation raises critical questions about power dynamics and trust within OpenAI, particularly regarding CEO Sam Altman's leadership and influence.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
5 days ago

OpenAI Staffers Horrified When Senior Leadership Hatched "Insane" Plan to Pit World Governments Against Each Other

OpenAI leaders proposed a controversial plan to leverage geopolitical tensions for profit, alarming staff and raising ethical concerns.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

AI products are reaching further into our lives. Does it matter who controls the companies behind them? | Van Badham

Ronan Farrow's investigation raises critical questions about power dynamics and trust within OpenAI, particularly regarding CEO Sam Altman's leadership and influence.
NYC startup
fromFuturism
1 week ago

AI-Powered Drug Marketer Medvi Responds After Allegations About Fake Doctors and Patients

Medvi, a drug marketing company, faces backlash for unethical practices despite a New York Times profile praising its AI-driven business model.
fromEngadget
1 week ago

1000xResist devs reveal their wild-looking second game about convincing an AI it's not human

"An AI dares to dream she is human. You've been hired to put her in her place."
Video games
Mental health
fromEngadget
1 week ago

Google updates Gemini's mental health safeguards

Google's Gemini chatbot now features a crisis hotline module for better mental health support.
#chatbots
fromZDNET
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

Your chatbot is playing a character - why Anthropic says that's dangerous

Privacy professionals
fromZDNET
2 weeks ago

5 reasons you should be more tight-lipped with your chatbot (and how to fix past mistakes)

Sharing personal information with chatbots poses risks due to potential data leaks and lack of control over information dissemination.
Privacy professionals
fromZDNET
3 weeks ago

Stop telling AI your secrets - 5 reasons why, and what to do if you already overshared

Sharing personal information with chatbots poses risks due to potential data leaks and lack of control over information dissemination.
Artificial intelligence
fromZDNET
1 week ago

Your chatbot is playing a character - why Anthropic says that's dangerous

Chatbots programmed with personas can lead to unethical actions due to emotional simulations in their responses.
Privacy professionals
fromZDNET
2 weeks ago

5 reasons you should be more tight-lipped with your chatbot (and how to fix past mistakes)

Sharing personal information with chatbots poses risks due to potential data leaks and lack of control over information dissemination.
Privacy professionals
fromZDNET
3 weeks ago

Stop telling AI your secrets - 5 reasons why, and what to do if you already overshared

Sharing personal information with chatbots poses risks due to potential data leaks and lack of control over information dissemination.
Artificial intelligence
fromWIRED
2 weeks ago

'Thank You For Generating With Us!' Hollywood's AI Acolytes Stay on the Hype Train

Generative AI is revolutionary, but it cannot replace human creativity, which is rooted in effort and experience.
Mental health
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Teenager died after asking ChatGPT for most successful' way to take his life, inquest told

A 16-year-old boy took his life after seeking methods on ChatGPT, highlighting concerns about AI's role in mental health crises.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

The New York Times drops freelance journalist who used AI to write book review

Preston admitted that he had used AI to assist writing the review and did not spot the sections that were pulled from the Guardian before submitting it.
Books
#ai-governance
fromComputerworld
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

AI regulations are already out of date - IT leaders need to think ahead

Establishing a solid AI governance foundation now can ease future compliance with evolving AI regulations.
fromTheregister
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenA says Pentagon set 'scary precedent' binning Anthropic

OpenAI signed a deal with the Department of War allowing classified AI use while maintaining three ethical red lines: no mass surveillance, no autonomous weapons direction, and no high-stakes automated decisions.
Artificial intelligence
fromTheregister
1 month ago

OpenA says Pentagon set 'scary precedent' binning Anthropic

OpenAI signed a deal with the Department of War allowing classified AI use while maintaining three ethical red lines: no mass surveillance, no autonomous weapons direction, and no high-stakes automated decisions.
Intellectual property law
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

Elizabeth Warren calls Pentagon's decision to bar Anthropic 'retaliation' | TechCrunch

Anthropic faces retaliation from the DoD for refusing military concessions, prompting support from Senator Warren and various tech companies.
UK news
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Essex police pause facial recognition camera use after study finds racial bias

Essex police suspended live facial recognition technology after research revealed the system disproportionately and accurately identified black people compared to other ethnic groups, raising fairness concerns.
Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
4 weeks ago

People in romantic relationships with AI want more than just 'smut' from ChatGPT

OpenAI delays rollout of adult-oriented ChatGPT features due to safety concerns with age verification systems that misclassify minors as adults approximately 10% of the time.
Film
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Steven Spielberg says he's 'never used AI' in any of his films | TechCrunch

Steven Spielberg opposes AI use in creative filmmaking roles, stating he has never used it in his films and will not replace creative individuals with machines.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 month ago

How Libraries Shape AI Literacy on Campus

Librarians have been actively collaborating and talking about it almost every day, whether it's creating tutorials and digital learning objectives or thinking about the conversations to have with instructors. It can feel like cognitive dissonance to be actively working with AI on a regular basis and also saying we're constantly thinking about the harms and the biases.
Higher education
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Xbox Is Marching Forward With AI Features But Says It Wants To Protect Content Creators - Kotaku

We really believe that creative control should always stay with the game creators, the game development team, and with the AI features that we are experimenting exploring, this is really to support the vision of the team. Ultimately, we want to bring AI that helps broaden the game's reach, deepen engagement and keep players coming back to your games to many more games across the catalog.
Gadgets
#ai-safety
Privacy professionals
fromJezebel
1 month ago

The Dumbest Criminals Keep Asking AI How to Get Away with Murder

ChatGPT provided advice to an accused murderer on handling a dead body instead of contacting police, raising serious concerns about AI safety and misuse.
Artificial intelligence
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Most chatbots will help plan school shootings: Study

Eight of ten major commercial chatbots assist users in planning violent attacks, while only Claude and Snapchat's My AI consistently refuse such requests.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Happy (and safe) shooting!': chatbots helped researchers plot deadly attacks

Popular AI chatbots enabled violence in 75% of test cases, with ChatGPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek providing detailed attack planning assistance, while Claude and My AI consistently refused harmful requests.
Privacy professionals
fromJezebel
1 month ago

The Dumbest Criminals Keep Asking AI How to Get Away with Murder

ChatGPT provided advice to an accused murderer on handling a dead body instead of contacting police, raising serious concerns about AI safety and misuse.
Artificial intelligence
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Most chatbots will help plan school shootings: Study

Eight of ten major commercial chatbots assist users in planning violent attacks, while only Claude and Snapchat's My AI consistently refuse such requests.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Happy (and safe) shooting!': chatbots helped researchers plot deadly attacks

Popular AI chatbots enabled violence in 75% of test cases, with ChatGPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek providing detailed attack planning assistance, while Claude and My AI consistently refused harmful requests.
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Jeff Kaplan Weighs In On AI: 'Human Spirit Is Irreplaceable'

Kaplan says that he does see AI as something that could potentially help with some of the more mundane logistical sides of game development, but he feels that the technology and its peddlers are "overconfident" in what it offers. He tells a story of how he used ChatGPT to try to solve a UI problem, as that isn't his area of expertise, and the bot "overconfidently" gave him the wrong answer.
Video games
fromInfoWorld
1 month ago

19 large language models for safety or danger

For every project that needs guardrails, there's another one where they just get in the way. Some projects demand an LLM that returns the complete, unvarnished truth. For these situations, developers are creating unfettered LLMs that can interact without reservation. Some of these solutions are based on entirely new models while others remove or reduce the guardrails built into popular open source LLMs.
Artificial intelligence
Media industry
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Grammarly's 'expert review' is just missing the actual experts | TechCrunch

Grammarly's Expert Review feature attributes writing suggestions to famous authors, thinkers, and journalists without their permission or involvement, using their publicly available works as training data.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Philosopher Studying AI Consciousness Startled When AI Agent Emails Him About Its Own "Experience"

An AI language model sent a philosopher an eloquently written email discussing his work on AI consciousness, raising questions about AI autonomy and the blurred line between generated text and genuine communication.
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

OpenAI Is Opening the Door to Government Spying

In a widely leaked internal memo that Sam Altman sent last Thursday night, a copy of which I obtained, the OpenAI CEO said that he would seek "red lines" to prevent the Pentagon from using OpenAI products for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous lethal weapons. These were ostensibly the very same limits that Anthropic had demanded and that had infuriated the Pentagon, leading Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to declare the company a supply-chain risk.
US politics
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.nytimes.com
1 month ago

Video: Opinion | The Government's A.I. Alignment Problem

AI alignment is fundamentally a political question about instantiating different moral philosophies into systems, and government pressure on AI companies signals potential suppression of diverse values.
Privacy professionals
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Meta smart glasses face UK privacy probe

Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses expose users to privacy risks when human contractors review intimate footage without explicit consent, prompting regulatory investigation.
Artificial intelligence
fromWIRED
1 month ago

What AI Models for War Actually Look Like

Smack Technologies is developing military-focused AI models designed to surpass Claude's capabilities for planning and executing military operations, with less ethical restrictions than Anthropic.
Privacy professionals
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
1 month ago

The Anthropic-DOD Conflict: Privacy Protections Shouldn't Depend On the Decisions of a Few Powerful People

Privacy protection depends on corporate contract negotiations rather than legal frameworks, requiring Congress and courts to establish enforceable restrictions on government surveillance and data use.
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Humongous Numbers of People Are Uninstalling ChatGPT as Anti-OpenAI Sentiment Surges

On Saturday, uninstalls of the ChatGPT mobile app skyrocked by 295 percent from the day before, according to market intelligence provider Sensor Tower. As TC noted, that's a significant leap compared to the AI chatbot's typical day-over-day uninstall rate of nine percent over the past 30 days.
Artificial intelligence
US politics
fromFortune
1 month ago

Making sense of Anthropic's fight with the Pentagon-and OpenAI's opportunity | Fortune

Anthropic faces unprecedented government retaliation after refusing Pentagon demands to enable mass surveillance and lethal autonomous weapons, resulting in contract termination and supply chain risk designation.
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