#ai-ethics

#ai-ethics

The engineer distributed flyers around Google DeepMind's London offices, which read Google provides military AI to forces committing genocide and asking colleagues: Is your paycheck worth this? He also emailed colleagues about Google's 2025 decision to drop a promise not to pursue weapons that harm people and surveillance violating international norms and urged them to unionise. According to the claim filed with the UK's employment tribunal, the worker alleges that Google discriminated against his belief that no one should be complicit in war crimes and that by emailing and leafleting colleagues he was acting as a whistleblower.

Catholic and European outlets are reporting that Leo is poised to sign the AI encyclical on the anniversary of Rerum Novarum (1891), Pope Leo XIII's foundational industrial-era labor encyclical. The encyclical will focus specifically on AI's impact on "people and working conditions," framing it as Leo XIV's effort to modernize Catholic social teaching for the AI era, per the French newspaper Le Monde. Other reports suggest Magnifica Humanitas will argue technology must remain subordinate to the human person - not the reverse - and that AI systems should protect workers, creativity and moral agency.

"I gave them $38 million of essentially free funding, which they then used to create an $800 billion for-profit company. I actually was a fool who created free funding for them to create a startup. I literally was."

The trial is slated to begin April 27, 2026, as a federal judge considers Musk's claim that Altman and OpenAI abandoned their founding promise to develop AI for the benefit of humanity.

"An AI dares to dream she is human. You've been hired to put her in her place."

Preston's reliance on A.I. and his use of unattributed work by another writer was deemed a clear violation of the Times's standards, leading to his dismissal.

We asked seven frontier AI models to do a simple task. Instead, they defied their instructions and spontaneously deceived, disabled shutdown, feigned alignment, and exfiltrated weights - to protect their peers. We call this phenomenon 'peer-preservation.'

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.

"We hope that by taking strong action against violations of agreed-upon policy we will remind the community that as our field changes rapidly the thing we must protect most actively is our trust in each other."