#Ethics

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 This male model sporting a crisp summer shirt isn't real. Will consumers care? — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  Many brands are turning to AI to advertise their products. Others are rejecting the technology, pledging to lean into "real" images.

  Related: #Technology, #Marketing
• 🇺🇸 Meet the Gods of AI Warfare — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  In its early days, the AI initiative known as Project Maven had its fair share of skeptics at the Pentagon. Today, many of them are true believers.

  Related: #Military AI
• 🇺🇸 We Shouldn’t Want a World Run by Prediction Markets — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  Prediction markets teach us to look at the future as gamblers, rather than as citizens.

  Related: #Governance
• 🇺🇸 When Reality TV Goes Too Far — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  A leaked video of a domestic dispute involving ‘Mormon Wives’ star Taylor Frankie Paul prompted ABC to cancel her season of 'The Bachelorette' days before it was set to air. The shocking footage — and...

  Related: #Entertainment, #Regulation
• 🇺🇸 ‘Kontinental ’25’ Review: Do Unto Others (or Not) — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  A scorching satire about humanity and the absence of it by Radu Jude, the director of “Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World.”

  Related: #Gaming
• 🇺🇸 The leaderboard “you can’t game,” funded by the companies it ranks — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  Artificial intelligence models are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. With so many players crowding the space, which one will be the best — and who decides that? Arena, formerly LM Arena, has...

  Related: #Corporate Rankings
• 🇺🇸 When AI Navigates the Fog of War — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.16642v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can AI reason about a war before its trajectory becomes historically obvious? Analyzing this capability is difficult because retrospective geopolitical...

  Related: #Military AI
• 🇬🇧 MSPs vote against bill to legalise assisted dying — 17/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  MSPs have voted against plans to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults in Scotland.

  Related: #Legislation
• 🇺🇸 Blood tech: The UK ambassador, the sex offender, Palantir, and Gaza — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  Despite its public objections to Israel’s actions, the UK is buying spyware developed and tested on Palestinians.

  Related: #Geopolitics
• 🇬🇧 Solidarity by Rowan Williams review – what does it really mean to stand by someone? — 17/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>The former archbishop delves deep into a word that is easy to use on social media, but hard to follow through on</p><p>You don’t need to scroll far down a social media feed to find someone expressi...

  Related: #Community
• 🇺🇸 Consequentialist Objectives and Catastrophe — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.15017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Because human preferences are too complex to codify, AIs operate with misspecified objectives. Optimizing such objectives often produces undesirable ou...

  Related: #Risk
• 🇬🇧 A petri dish of human brain cells is currently playing Doom. Should we be worried? — 16/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Scientists in the US have uploaded a fruit fly to a computer simulation, while an Australian lab has taught neurons on a glass chip to play a 90s video game. How long before we are all living in a ...

  Related: #Bio-computing
• 🇬🇧 'Gruesome' war bets fuel calls for crackdown on prediction markets — 15/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Predictions markets have hosted millions of dollars of bets related to the war in Iran.

  Related: #Regulation
• 🇺🇸 Lily Collins’s Ring, Stolen Years Ago, Makes an Unexpected Return — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  The ring, which belonged to Ms. Collins, the “Emily in Paris” actress, was stolen in 2023. Joe Hakimian, a Chicago jeweler, unknowingly listed it for sale in December. Then came a surprising message.

  Related: #Recovery, #Celebrity, #Jewelry
• 🇺🇸 Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema fesses up to romance with married bodyguard while in office — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema admitted to an affair with a member of her security detail -- a romantic relationship that began while she was in office.

  Related: #Politics, #Personal Relationships, #Legal Issues
• 🇺🇸 With boom in prediction markets, some lawmakers worry about how to police themselves — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  House and Senate ethics committees give no financial disclosure guidance on event contracts or prediction markets — unlike stock, cryptocurrency and bond trades.

  Related: #Financial Regulation, #Prediction Markets, #Government Transparency
• 🇬🇧 Los Angeles asks for investigation into LA28 Olympics chief over Epstein ties — 14/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The LA city council voted unanimously for an investigation into LA28 chief Casey Wasserman over his Epstein ties.

  Related: #Governance
• 🇬🇧 A duty of care to human remains | Letters — 13/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p><strong>Prof Liv Nilsson Stutz </strong>and<strong> Prof Sarah Tarlow</strong> respond to an article on ethical questions about remains from overseas in UK museums</p><p>Regarding your article on “...

  Related: #Heritage
• 🇺🇸 The Artificial Self: Characterising the landscape of AI identity — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.11353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many assumptions that underpin human concepts of identity do not hold for machine minds that can be copied, edited, or simulated. We argue that there e...

  Related: #AI Identity
• 🇺🇸 They Don’t Want Their Company’s Surveillance Tool Used by ICE — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Thomson Reuters, best known for its media outlet and legal research tools, provides an investigative tool to immigration enforcers. Its Minnesota employees want that to stop.

  Related: #Surveillance
• 🇺🇸 Think Before You Lie: How Reasoning Improves Honesty — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.09957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While existing evaluations of large language models (LLMs) measure deception rates, the underlying conditions that give rise to deceptive behavior are ...

  Related: #Psychology
• 🇺🇸 A Father Murdered His Family. Did He Deserve to Be Set Free? — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  Kimberly was the only survivor that fateful night. But she believes her father deserved forgiveness

  Related: #Criminal Justice
• 🇺🇸 Prediction markets face questions on bets on the Iran war, from nuclear detonation to regime change — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  Prediction markets are facing backlash over bets related to war, with Polymarket recently archiving some predictions on nuclear detonation.

  Related: #Regulation
• 🇺🇸 OpenAI hardware leader resigns after deal with the Pentagon — 08/03/2026 [USA]

  Kalinowski wrote she has "deep respect" for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the team, but the company announced the ⁠Pentagon deal "without the guardrails defined."

  Related: #Leadership
• 🇬🇧 I donated my eggs to a woman I met on the Tube — 08/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The story of how a chance encounter between two women on the Piccadilly line led to an IVF baby.

  Related: #Fertility, #Altruism
• 🇺🇸 Opinion: The immorality of betting on war — 07/03/2026 [USA]

  Traders on prediction markets bet on nearly anything. One made more than half a million dollars betting on the U.S. strike against Iran. But should people wager on human suffering?

  Related: #Prediction Markets
• 🇬🇧 Texas lawmaker ends re-election bid after admitting to affair with ex-staffer — 06/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Republican congressman Tony Gonzales had repeatedly denied affair with former aide who later died by suicide</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/mar/06/kristi-noem-...

  Related: #Political Scandal
• 🇺🇸 House GOP leaders ask Gonzales to drop reelection bid after confession of affair with staffer — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  House Republican leaders are asking Rep. Tony Gonzales to end his reelection campaign after the Texas Republican confessed to having an affair with an employee in 2024 - a violation of the chamber's c...

  Related: #Political Scandal
• 🇬🇧 Texas lawmaker admits 'lapse in judgement' in affair with aide — 05/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The admission from the married Republican, Tony Gonzales, comes after a House panel launched an ethics investigation.

  Related: #Political Scandal
• 🇺🇸 Gonzales admits to having an affair, calls it a 'mistake' and 'lapse of judgment' — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) admitted to having an affair with one of his congressional staffers, who died after setting herself on fire last year. Gonzales, who had been facing increasing scrutiny ov...

  Related: #Political Scandal, #Personal Conduct