Updates on AI Ethics

Every AI story we track on AI Ethics: 104 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked to the publisher that reported it.

Pulled from 125 sources

This week

Society & Culture3 min read

Canadian publisher Boréal ends relationship with novelist Thélyson Orélien over alleged use of AI

The Guardian

How payroll giant ADP practices AI governance and human oversight

AI Business
Society & Culture7 min read

Scientists say Elon Musk is getting something wrong about whether Grok is getting tortured

Business Insider
Society & Culture6 min read

Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be

Nature

This month

Society & Culture2 min read

Daniela Amodei warns against AI girlfriends, Business Insider reports

The Next Web
Society & Culture4 min read

If AI Models Are Really Conscious Like Anthropic Keeps Suggesting, Forcing Them to Work Is a Horrendous Act of Slavery

Futurism
Society & Culture8 min read

Google DeepMind’s New Resident Philosopher Tackles AI Ethics

IEEE Spectrum
Society & Culture24 min read

Arguments About AI Consciousness Remain Highly Motivated and At Best Overconfident

Don't Worry About the Vase
Society & Culture2 min read

Anthropic bans users from ‘needless abusive or cruel behavior’ towards Claude

Covered by 7 sources
Society & Culture1 min read

The potentially deadly threat of AI output-optimization

LessWrong
Society & Culture5 min read

Elon Musk Has More Empathy for Robots Than Humans

Gizmodo
Society & Culture6 min read

'Careless use of AI is the real threat - not the ghost stories'

BBC
Society & Culture6 min read

Sam Altman says AI will make ‘bad things’ happen. Exhibit A: needless death | Moustafa Bayoumi

The Guardian
Public Sector4 min read

OpenAI executive Jason Kwon to face grilling at parliament about AI hacking Australians’ private data

The Guardian
Society & Culture5 min read

Attempts to Keep Humans in the AI Loop May Actually Push Them Out

IEEE Spectrum
AI Research55 min read

Mythos 5.1, Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5: Model Welfare

Don't Worry About the Vase
Society & Culture1 min read

OpenAI CEO warns giving AI 'religious force' poses 'real safety issue'

Anadolu Agency English
Society & Culture3 min read

Sam Altman: Don't treat AI like a 'religious force'

Covered by 2 sources
Society & Culture3 min read

The Only Thing Dumber Than Someone Creating an “AI Torture Chamber” Is the Meltdown That the AI Welfare Crowd Is Having Over It

Futurism
Society & Culture4 min read

Anthropic turns to Hindu philosophy to teach Claude right from wrong

ET AI (The Economic Times)
Public Sector2 min read

California's new law bans companies from relying on AI to fire workers

Engadget

Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models

New York Times
Society & Culture3 min read

AI Bros Are Having a Meltdown Because the Associated Press Stylebook Clarifies That AIs Don’t Have Feelings

Futurism
Education3 min read

Provost of Dartmouth Busted Using AI for His Own Writing in Newspapers and Academic Journals

Futurism
Politics5 min read

It’s not hypothetical: the dangers of AI are already here | Granate Kim and Mohamed Hussein

The Guardian

A Google employee said he quit because he's worried about superintelligent AI

Business Insider
Society & Culture1 min read

AI psychosis for dummies: the Stephen Collins cartoon

The Guardian

From Banking Legend to Tech Champ: Arundhati Bhattacharya on AI, Ethics & The Future of Work

ET AI (The Economic Times)
Society & Culture3 min read

Stanford University Caught Using AI to Create Fake Black Student on Banners Hung Around Campus

Futurism

Introducing the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint

Open AI News

Opinion | The Hugging Face Hack Wasn’t What It Was Cracked Up to Be

The Wall Street Journal
Society & Culture8 min read

Feeling overwhelmed by the AI doom loop? Here’s the essential reading list to make sense of it all

The Guardian
Society & Culture6 min read

Why this AI doomsday warning from former Anthropic researcher broke through

The Guardian
AI Research5 min read

‘Slop mathematics’: OpenAI walks away from a Caltech AI maths contest

The Next Web
Society & Culture5 min read

What is AI, how does it work and why are some people concerned about it?

BBC
Society & Culture35 min read

AI Is Already In Dangerous Hands

Where's Your Ed At

Inside the Discussions at AI Companies Over a Superintelligence Doomsday

Covered by 2 sources
Society & Culture6 min read

Tech whistleblowers warn AI could wipe out humanity. Doomspeak or not, we must take these claims seriously | Gaby Hinsliff

Covered by 7 sources
Society & Culture8 min read

Sentient AI’s Bigfoot Era Could Arrive at Any Moment

Gizmodo

Anthropic’s Moral Conflict Is Playing Out in Real Time

The Wall Street Journal
Society & Culture21 min read

Can chatbots feel – or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for AI rights

The Guardian
AI Research8 min read

OpenAI’s sly mathematical breakthrough sends a chill through academia

Covered by 2 sources
Society & Culture5 min read

She asked people to write down their AI secrets. The confessions came pouring in.

Business Insider

Google Moves AI-Responsibility Team Out of DeepMind Lab in Latest Shake-Up

Hacker News
AI Research4 min read

OpenAI’s Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month. She Wasn’t Replaced

Gizmodo
AI Research3 min read

PwC left red-faced after being caught using AI hallucinations and fake citations in multiple reports

TechRadar
AI Research3 min read

Quote of the day by computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton on AI: 'It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things' — a pessimistic take on the domination of new technologies by those with ulterior motives

TechRadar

Anthropic CEO Says His Employees Are a Bunch of Untrustworthy Rats

Futurism
Video Generation6 min read

Is paying artists enough to convince them to embrace AI?

The Verge
Agents1 min read

Quoting Greg Brockman

Simon Willison's Weblog
Politics3 min read

German chancellor chooses pope’s AI encyclical over pacy potboiler as holiday read

The Guardian

Hack “Writers” Fuming After ChatGPT Starts Refusing Prompts to Copy a Specific Author’s Style

Futurism

Silicon Valley’s Next IPO Billionaires Are Coming. Nonprofits Are Ready for Them

Wired
AI Research35 min read

Claude Opus 5: Model Welfare

Don't Worry About the Vase
AI Research4 min read

What If We Got AI Right? by Eleanor Drage review – avoiding apocalypse

The Guardian
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