#Technology ethics

Articles (11)

• 🇺🇸 Anthropic's Claude hits No. 2 on Apple's top free apps list after Pentagon rejection — 28/02/2026 [USA]

  OpenAI's ChatGPT remains the top free app in the U.S. on Apple's rankings, but Claude has steadily gained traction.

  Related: #AI competition, #Government regulation, #Public-private sector relations
• 🇺🇸 Justine Bateman’s No-AI Film Festival Enlists Sean Baker and Matthew Weiner to Speak — 24/02/2026 [USA]

  The confab run by her Credo 23 organization is also bringing in Gus Van Sant as auteur criticism grows.

  Related: #AI in entertainment, #Human creativity preservation, #Filmmaking advocacy
• 🇬🇧 Met police using AI tools supplied by Palantir to flag officer misconduct — 22/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Exclusive: Police Federation condemns deployment of US firm’s tech to analyse behaviour as ‘automated suspicion’</p><p>Scotland Yard is using AI tools supplied by the US tech company Palantir to mo...

  Related: #AI surveillance, #Police accountability
• 🇺🇸 Microsoft’s new gaming CEO vows not to flood the ecosystem with ‘endless AI slop’ — 21/02/2026 [USA]

  Is Microsoft's gaming division doubling down on AI?

  Related: #AI in gaming, #Corporate leadership
• 🇬🇧 Macron defends EU AI rules and vows crackdown on child ‘digital abuse’ — 19/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>French president rejects US criticism as António Guterres and Narendra Modi warn on child safety and AI monopolies</p><p>Emmanuel Macron has hit back at US criticism of Europe’s efforts to regulate...

  Related: #European AI regulation, #Child protection and digital safety, #International policymaking and diplomacy, #G7 leadership and priorities
• 🇺🇸 Less than half of adults think they can spot AI, survey finds — 18/02/2026 [USA]

  CNET recently found that less than half of adults think they can spot AI online. Abrar Al-Heeti, senior technology reporter for CNET, joins CBS News to discuss.

  Related: #AI awareness, #Digital literacy
• 🇺🇸 Privacy in Human-AI Romantic Relationships: Concerns, Boundaries, and Agency — 16/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2601.16824v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: An increasing number of LLM-based applications are being developed to facilitate romantic relationships with AI partners, yet the safety and ...

  Related: #Privacy, #Human-AI relationships
• 🇺🇸 More Than Ever, Videos Expose the Truth. And Cloud It, Too. — 15/02/2026 [USA]

  In Minneapolis, videos of the Alex Pretti killing undermined the federal government’s account. But an A.I. video of Brad Pitt shows the dangers ahead.

  Related: #Media authenticity, #Truth verification
• 🇺🇸 ‘Something Will Go Wrong’: Anthropic’s Chief on the Coming A.I. Disruption — 12/02/2026 [USA]

  Dario Amodei shares his utopian — and dystopian — predictions for the near-term future of artificial intelligence.

  Related: #AI disruption, #Future predictions
• 🇺🇸 The AI Hype Index: Grok makes porn, and Claude Code nails your job — 29/01/2026 [USA]

  Everyone is panicking because AI is very bad; everyone is panicking because AI is very good. It’s just that you never know which one you’re going to get. Grok is a pornography machine. Claude Code can...

  Related: #AI capabilities, #Generational impact, #Digital safety
• 🇺🇸 Social media giants face trial over allegations their tech is addictive — 27/01/2026 [USA]

  In a potentially bellwether case, a plaintiff alleges that social media companies deliberately design their platforms to target children.

  Related: #Children's protection, #Legal accountability