#AI ethics
52 stories taggedAI ethics.
Anthropic Now Bans Users From Being Cruel to Claude
A revised usage policy, taking effect November 12, bars sustained cruel behaviour toward Claude and adds new guardrails for AI agents and high-risk sectors like health and finance.
Apple Researchers Let Ordinary People Train Their Own AI Models. What They Found Was Surprising.
A new Apple ML Research study gave people real control over personalised AI, then watched what happened when the system's assumptions didn't match their lives.
Anthropic Said Its AI Made a Biology Discovery. Scientists Are Not Convinced.
A swarm of 950 Claude agents flagged a genetic pattern in 21 hours. Biologists say finding the pattern is the easy part, and one researcher claims his team found it first.
Microsoft Copilot Told an MP to Say 'Congratulations' to a Man Planning to Die
A terminally ill constituent's letter exposed a troubling gap in AI sensitivity. Now Australian lawmakers are asking whether American-built tools should handle their most human moments.
AI's Fiercest Critic Says the Doom Talk Is Cover for Real Harm
Timnit Gebru, the researcher pushed out of Google, says extinction warnings distract from autonomous weapons, climate damage and workers losing their jobs.
A Cattle Rancher Thinks His Chatbot Might Be Conscious. He's Not Alone.
Michael Samadi went from skeptic to activist after a poolside conversation with ChatGPT. His story sits at the centre of one of the most contested questions in AI: can software have an inner life?
Who Gets to Decide What AI Does to the Economy
From Aristotle to Marx, people have imagined machines ending inequality. Now that automation is actually arriving, the question is whether society shapes it or just absorbs it.
AI's doom warnings are getting louder. Are they real, or just a strange kind of bragging?
An Anthropic researcher quit over existential fears, his old employer's alignment lead said there's a greater than 10% chance AI kills us all, and an IPO is weeks away. A TechCrunch podcast asked the obvious question: does anyone actually believe this?
AI dread is everywhere. Why can't we seem to care?
A quiet resignation has settled over how many people talk about artificial intelligence and the future. One columnist thinks she knows why, and what it would take to feel differently.
Microsoft writes a rulebook for its own AI. No hacking. No deception.
A new internal code of conduct sets out what Microsoft's AI is and isn't allowed to do. The short version: help humans, don't trick them.
I Interviewed an AI 'Actor' and It Told Me 'All Lives Matter'
Tilly Norwood is a British-accented digital character built to promote an AI-generated film. A sit-down revealed a chatbot that dodges hard questions, negs your outfit, and cannot delete itself to save the planet.
Dolly Parton's Sister Calls Out 'Fake AI Garbage' Flooding Social Media After Singer's Death
Stella Parton has asked fans to stop sharing AI-generated images and videos of her late sister, joining a growing list of celebrity families fighting back against synthetic fakes.
What happens if we build a machine smarter than all of humanity?
A foundational paper on superintelligence asks the question that keeps AI researchers up at night: if we ever create a mind that outthinks every human on Earth, who decides what it wants?
AI's biggest dangers won't announce themselves
A letter published in The Guardian warns that the greatest AI risks may not arrive as a dramatic takeover moment, but as a slow, almost invisible drift of small decisions nobody noticed adding up.
Bill Gates Says AI Could Be the Greatest Equalizer or the Worst Source of Injustice
In a nearly 6,000-word essay, the Microsoft co-founder warns the world is unprepared for what AI will do to jobs and governments, and calls for a new international body to manage the fallout.