#Transparency

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 Disclosure By Design: Identity Transparency as a Behavioural Property of Conversational AI Models — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.16874v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As conversational AI systems become more realistic and widely deployed, users are increasingly uncertain about whether they are interacting with a hu...

  Related: #AI Ethics
• 🇬🇧 PM swerves questions on whether he spoke to Mandelson over Epstein friendship — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch repeatedly asks if the prime minister spoke to Peter Mandelson about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein before picking him to be a UK ambassador.

  Related: #Political Scrutiny
• 🇬🇧 Pauline Hanson fails to properly declare more free flights from Gina Rinehart — 17/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p><strong>Exclusive</strong>: One Nation leader updates register after questions from the Guardian to include multiple flights courtesy of Rinehart’s company</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.thegua...

  Related: #Political Ethics
• 🇺🇸 Quality Assessment of Public Summary of Training Content for GPAI models required by AI Act Article 53(1)(d) — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.13270v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The AI Act's Article 53(1)(d) requires providers of general-purpose AI (GPAI) models to publish a sufficiently detailed public summary about the cont...

  Related: #AI Regulation
• 🇺🇸 On Iran, don’t expect honesty but do demand the truth — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  There is an awful lot of straight-line projecting going on about the Iran war right now. As I sat down to write this, my fingers twitched with hesitation because of the remoteness of the possibility ...

  Related: #Foreign Policy
• 🇺🇸 Release the rest of the Epstein files — now — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  The Pentagon Papers caused lasting damage to the American people’s trust in the federal government. That trust is being damaged again by Jeffrey Epstein’s “Pedophile Papers,” the millions of documents...

  Related: #Accountability
• 🇺🇸 Is the president required to disclose military actions to the public? — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  Policymakers, pundits and the press go on TV to strenuously assert that the president “owes” the American people an explanation. But in reality, it is wholly unrealistic to expect the president to ful...

  Related: #Executive Power
• 🇺🇸 Looking Through Glass Box — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.06272v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This essay is about a neural implementation of the fuzzy cognitive map, the FHM, and corresponding evaluations. Firstly, a neural net has been design...

  Related: #Technology
• 🇬🇧 The Guardian view on secrecy in parliament: hiding the names of MPs’ staff would undermine democracy | Editorial — 08/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Security concerns must be treated seriously. But with trust in politics fraying, transparency has never been more necessary</p><p>The recommendation that the names of MPs’ staff should be <a href="...

  Related: #Democracy
• 🇬🇧 Trump's war with Iran... what we still don't know — 06/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Plus, has the president persuaded Americans to back his war?

  Related: #Geopolitics
• 🇺🇸 Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  A draft assessment of the health of nature in the United States is grim but shot through with bright spots and possibility.

  Related: #Environmental Science, #Political Interference
• 🇬🇧 Transparency fears over plan to redact 2,000 staff names on Commons register — 05/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Exclusive: Standards committee proposal aims to improve staff safety but critics say it will further reduce public trust</p><p>MPs are planning to redact the names of 2,000 parliamentary staff from...

  Related: #Politics, #Public Records
• 🇺🇸 Apple Music adds optional labels for AI songs and visuals — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  Apple is asking artists and record labels on its music streaming platform to voluntarily label songs that were made using AI. The new "Transparency Tags" metadata system for Apple Music was announced ...

  Related: #AI Music, #Apple Music, #Metadata
• 🇺🇸 House Oversight Committee votes to subpoena Pam Bondi over Epstein files — 04/03/2026 [USA]

  The Republican-led House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi over the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files.

  Related: #Government Oversight, #Legal Proceedings
• 🇺🇸 Red spot on Trump's neck caused by skin cream, White House says — 03/03/2026 [USA]

  The White House didn't elaborate on what condition it is treating.

  Related: #Health, #Politics
• 🇺🇸 Training Agents to Self-Report Misbehavior — 27/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.22303v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frontier AI agents may pursue hidden goals while concealing their pursuit from oversight. Alignment training aims to prevent such behavior by reinfor...

  Related: #AI Safety, #Alignment Research
• 🇺🇸 GOP senators warn Justice Department to release all Epstein files mentioning Trump — 26/02/2026 [USA]

  Republican senators are putting pressure on Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department to release all files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that mention President Trump’s ...

  Related: #Political pressure, #Government accountability
• 🇺🇸 Counterfactual Simulation Training for Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness — 25/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.20710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inspecting Chain-of-Thought reasoning is among the most common means of understanding why an LLM produced its output. But well-known problems with CoT ...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Machine Learning
• 🇬🇧 Minister signals government won’t stop MPs voting to publish Andrew trade envoy documents – UK politics live — 24/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>MPs to debate the release of documents relating to the appointment of ex-prince Andrew as UK trade envoy</p><p>Good morning. Spare a thought for Cabinet Office officials. They are already embarked ...

  Related: #Parliamentary procedure, #Royal relations
• 🇺🇸 The Epstein Files Should Never Have Been Released — 23/02/2026 [USA]

  Putting millions of pages online is a sign of institutional failure.

  Related: #Privacy, #Investigation, #Institutional Failure
• 🇺🇸 Records show ICE agent fatally shot U.S. citizen nearly a year ago in Texas — 21/02/2026 [USA]

  Ruben Ray Martinez was fatally shot in South Padre Island, Texas, in March 2025. ICE's involvement in the shooting was not disclosed until more than 11 months after the shooting.

  Related: #Immigration Enforcement, #Government Accountability
• 🇺🇸 Seymour Hersh, the Investigative Journalist, Is the Subject of Netflix’s “Cover-Up” — 19/02/2026 [USA]

  The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who exposed a U.S. Army massacre in Vietnam is profiled in a new documentary directed by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus.

  Related: #Investigative journalism, #Military accountability, #Media scrutiny
• 🇺🇸 RUVA: Personalized Transparent On-Device Graph Reasoning — 18/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.15553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Personal AI landscape is currently dominated by "Black Box" Retrieval-Augmented Generation. While standard vector databases offer statistical match...

  Related: #Personal AI, #Accountability, #On‑device reasoning, #Vector databases
• 🇺🇸 Hillary Clinton tells BBC "we have no links" to Jeffrey Epstein — 17/02/2026 [USA]

  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in an interview with our partners at the BBC, said the Trump Justice Department has not complied with the law requiring the release of all files related to c...

  Related: #Politics, #Legal Compliance, #Sex Crimes
• 🇺🇸 California lawmakers promise accountability after CBS News uncovers ignored audit warnings — 16/02/2026 [USA]

  State lawmakers are promising accountability after a CBS News California investigation found they failed to enact three out of four state audit recommendations. CBS News California built an audit acco...

  Related: #Government Accountability, #Legislative Oversight
• 🇺🇸 How The Times Is Digging Into Millions of Pages of Epstein Files — 13/02/2026 [USA]

  Two dozen journalists. A pile of pages that would reach the top of the Empire State Building. And an effort to find the next revelation in a sprawling case.

  Related: #Investigative Journalism, #Legal Accountability, #Freedom of the Press, #Clandestine Networks
• 🇺🇸 Mystery of the missing minute from Epstein jail cell solved — 12/02/2026 [USA]

  Documents that were part of the Epstein files release help explain why a video released from the night of Epstein's death was missing one minute close to midnight.

  Related: #Justice, #Technology
• 🇺🇸 Argumentative, combative exchanges between Pam Bondi, lawmakers at Epstein files hearing — 11/02/2026 [USA]

  Attorney General Pam Bondi faced heated questioning on Wednesday from members of the House Judiciary Committee. Much of the sparring with lawmakers was over the Justice Department's handling of the Ep...

  Related: #Justice, #Politics
• 🇺🇸 House committee wraps combative Bondi hearing over Epstein files — 11/02/2026 [USA]

  Attorney General Pam Bondi faced tough questions from lawmakers on Wednesday over the Justice Department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion jo...

  Related: #Justice, #Politics
• 🇺🇸 Bondi: DOJ "will of course unredact" mens' names in Epstein files that "should not have been" hidden — 11/02/2026 [USA]

  At a House hearing on Wednesday, Democratic Rep. Lou Correa of California criticized some of the redactions in the Justice Department's files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In response, At...

  Related: #Justice, #Politics