#AI Ethics

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 Suspect arrested after OpenAI CEO Altman's home targeted with Molotov cocktail — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  A 20-year-old suspect was taken into custody on Friday morning after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail toward OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home in San Francisco, the company confirmed to The Associated...

  Related: #Cybersecurity, #Corporate Security
• 🇺🇸 Anthropic’s Mythos Will Force a Cybersecurity Reckoning—Just Not the One You Think — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  The new AI model is being heralded—and feared—as a hacker’s superweapon. Experts say its arrival is a wake-up call for developers who have long made security an afterthought.

  Related: #Cybersecurity, #Software Development
• 🇺🇸 Stalking victim sues OpenAI, claims ChatGPT fueled her abuser’s delusions and ignored her warnings — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  OpenAI ignored three warnings that a ChatGPT user was dangerous — including its own mass casualty flag — while he stalked and harassed his ex-girlfriend, a new lawsuit alleges.

  Related: #Legal Liability, #Technology Safety
• 🇺🇸 Suspect Arrested For Allegedly Throwing Molotov Cocktail at Sam Altman's Home — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  An attacker allegedly threw a molotov cocktail at the OpenAI CEO's residence before making threats outside of the startup's headquarters.

  Related: #Cybersecurity, #Corporate Security
• 🇺🇸 Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI? — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Our tales of AI developing the will to survive, commandeer resources, and manipulate people say more about us than they do about language models. The post Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary ...

  Related: #Media Narratives, #Human Psychology
• 🇺🇸 Why your Whoop might tell you to up your testosterone — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life...

  Related: #Wearable Technology, #Health & Wellness
• 🇺🇸 Fear and loathing at OpenAI — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Sam Altman's tenure at OpenAI has been… messy. Messy to the point where Altman was briefly fired from his role as CEO, only to be reinstated days later, at which point he began reshaping the organizat...

  Related: #Corporate Governance, #Leadership
• 🇺🇸 Meta’s New AI Asked for My Raw Health Data—and Gave Me Terrible Advice — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Meta’s Muse Spark model offers to analyze users’ health data, including lab results. Beyond the obvious privacy risks, it’s not a capable stand-in for a real doctor.

  Related: #Healthcare Technology, #Data Privacy
• 🇺🇸 Half of Gen Z Uses AI, but Their Feelings Are Souring, Study Shows — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  A new study from Gallup found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about artificial intelligence.

  Related: #Technology Sentiment, #Generational Trends
• 🇺🇸 Say Something Else: Rethinking Contextual Privacy as Information Sufficiency — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2604.06409v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents increasingly draft messages on behalf of users, yet users routinely overshare sensitive information and disagree on what counts as private...

  Related: #Data Privacy, #Human-Computer Interaction
• 🇺🇸 Digital Skin, Digital Bias: Uncovering Tone-Based Biases in LLMs and Emoji Embeddings — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2604.06863v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Skin-toned emojis are crucial for fostering personal identity and social inclusion in online communication. As AI models, particularly Large Language...

  Related: #Algorithmic Bias, #Digital Communication
• 🇺🇸 Self-Preference Bias in Rubric-Based Evaluation of Large Language Models — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2604.06996v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-as-a-judge has become the de facto approach for evaluating LLM outputs. However, judges are known to exhibit self-preference bias (SPB): they ten...

  Related: #Machine Learning, #Research Methodology
• 🇺🇸 The Impact of Steering Large Language Models with Persona Vectors in Educational Applications — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2604.07102v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Activation-based steering can personalize large language models at inference time, but its effects in educational settings remain unclear. We study p...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Education Technology
• 🇺🇸 Ohio man first in nation convicted under Melania Trump's deepfake law — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  An Ohio man has become the first person in the United States convicted under the Take It Down Act, a federal law championed by First Lady Melania Trump that criminalizes the nonconsensual publication ...

  Related: #Cybersecurity Law, #Digital Crime
• 🇺🇸 Suno is a music copyright nightmare — 05/04/2026 [USA]

  AI music platform Suno's policy is that it does not permit the use of copyrighted material. You can upload your own tracks to remix or set your original lyrics to AI-generated music. But, it's suppose...

  Related: #Copyright
• 🇺🇸 Really, you made this without AI? Prove it — 04/04/2026 [USA]

  "This looks like AI." It's a phrase I dread seeing as a writer who dabbles in illustration and amateur photography. In a world where generative AI technology is increasingly adept at mimicking the wor...

  Related: #Content Authenticity
• 🇺🇸 Penalties stack up as AI spreads through the legal system — 03/04/2026 [USA]

  Early scandals have not slowed lawyers' adoption of AI tools, even as court sanctions over fake legal briefs continue to rise.

  Related: #Legal Technology
• 🇺🇸 OpenAI shelves erotic chatbot ‘indefinitely’ — 26/03/2026 [USA]

  OpenAI ​has paused plans to release a sexualized "adult mode" for ChatGPT, in its latest move to refocus on the company's core ​products. According to The Financial Times, the erotic chatbot has been ...

  Related: #Corporate Strategy
• 🇺🇸 The AI Hype Index: AI goes to war — 25/03/2026 [USA]

  AI is at war. Anthropic and the Pentagon feuded over how to weaponize Anthropic’s AI model Claude; then OpenAI swept the Pentagon off its feet with an “opportunistic and sloppy” deal. Users quit ChatG...

  Related: #AI Militarization
• 🇺🇸 The hardest question to answer about AI-fueled delusions — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. I was originally going to write this week’s newsletter about A...

  Related: #Mental Health
• 🇺🇸 Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  Today, I’m talking with Shishir Mehrotra, who is CEO of Superhuman — that’s the company formerly known as Grammarly, which is still its flagship product.  Shishir also used to be the chief product off...

  Related: #Journalism Conflict
• 🇺🇸 The Bay Area’s animal welfare movement wants to recruit AI — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  In early February, animal welfare advocates and AI researchers gathered in stocking feet at Mox, a scrappy, shoes-free coworking space in San Francisco. Yellow and red canopies billowed overhead, Pers...

  Related: #Animal Welfare
• 🇺🇸 The Robot's Inner Critic: Self-Refinement of Social Behaviors through VLM-based Replanning — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.20164v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conventional robot social behavior generation has been limited in flexibility and autonomy, relying on predefined motions or human feedback. This stu...

  Related: #Robotics
• 🇺🇸 Depictions of Depression in Generative AI Video Models: A Preliminary Study of OpenAI's Sora 2 — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.19527v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative video models are increasingly capable of producing complex depictions of mental health experiences, yet little is known about how these sy...

  Related: #Mental Health, #Technology
• 🇺🇸 Responsible AI Technical Report — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2509.20057v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: KT developed a Responsible AI (RAI) assessment methodology and risk mitigation technologies to ensure the safety and reliability of AI servic...

  Related: #Technical Standards
• 🇺🇸 AI Psychosis: Does Conversational AI Amplify Delusion-Related Language? — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.19574v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational AI systems are increasingly used for personal reflection and emotional disclosure, raising concerns about their effects on vulnerable ...

  Related: #Mental Health
• 🇺🇸 Crimson Desert dev apologizes for use of AI art — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  Reviews of Crimson Desert have been mixed, but the bigger issue for the game has been the discovery of what appeared to be AI-generated assets in the final release. Now the developer has acknowledged ...

  Related: #Game Development
• 🇺🇸 AI-generated ads are trickling into political campaigns, sparking big worries — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  At least 15 campaign ads featuring AI-generated content have run since November, stoking concerns that the now-ubiquitous technology could cause confusion or even mislead voters ahead of the 2026 midt...

  Related: #Political Advertising
• 🇬🇧 AI videos of sexualised black women removed from TikTok after BBC investigation — 22/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Dozens of Instagram and TikTok accounts have used AI avatars to promote explicit content, the BBC finds.

  Related: #Content Moderation
• 🇺🇸 Publisher pulls horror novel ‘Shy Girl’ over AI concerns — 21/03/2026 [USA]

  Hachette Book Group said it will not be publishing “Shy Girl” over concerns that artificial intelligence was used to generate the text.

  Related: #Publishing