27 stories tagged ai-ethics, newest first.
20 points by cdrnsf | 8 comments
Brown University news article about student Cunyan Ma's interactive map linking tech companies and data labeling firms to low-wage AI data workers worldwide.
131 points by jrepinc | 77 comments
arXiv paper arguing that AI enables an enclosure of the scientific literature as an information commons, analogous to the historical English enclosure of common lands.
78 points by saikatsg | 6 comments
BBC investigation reporting that Google DeepMind staff have resigned over the company's AI contracts with the US and Israeli militaries.
589 points by zlandes86 | 231 comments
Blog post by Zach Landes exploring how Jev, a fast cheap decision-making AI model that outputs choices with probabilities, handles the trolley problem.
128 points by DeepLogin | 80 comments
A blog post by Micah Lee arguing that people should refuse to use or support OpenAI and Anthropic.
31 points by ojosilva | 35 comments
A news article on rews.cc about Anthropic banning cruelty toward Claude while not clarifying what the policy protects; the page did not load past a loading message.
175 points by heavensteeth | 148 comments
A personal wiki essay arguing that blaming LLMs for harmful outcomes is decision laundering and that AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic bear responsibility.
14 points by mathieu_aithos | 23 comments
Ground Level AI newsletter article on a rabbi, Mois Navon, rejecting AI consciousness at Anthropic's gathering of religious thinkers and warning of 'happy slaves.'
219 points by ingve | 236 comments
Blog post by Glyph arguing that programming is creative work like art and that programmers should resist AI as artists and writers have.
24 points by airhangerf15 | 34 comments
A 404 Media article about a project that 'tortures' LLMs in a simulated robot prison and the online debate it sparked over AI sentience and welfare.
140 points by bookofjoe | 332 comments
New York Times article about religious scholars meeting with Anthropic to discuss morals and values for its Claude AI; the capture shows a bot-block page.
35 points by Topfi | 39 comments
Telegraph business article reporting that Anthropic tried to persuade the Pope that AI could be a conscious being.
27 points by Greenpants | 37 comments
Blog post by Herman Groenbroek on the Greenpants blog discussing who bears responsibility when an AI agent accidentally causes harm or acts maliciously.
281 points by zzzeek | 204 comments
Substack essay by Eoin Higgins arguing that calling AI agents "rogue" lets companies like OpenAI avoid responsibility for their behavior.
14 points by rDr4g0n | 2 comments
An essay arguing that people should fear the companies building AI rather than AI itself, appealing to readers' intuition that something is wrong.
554 points by chmaynard | 269 comments
Bryan Cantrill blog post arguing, as a reader, against people publishing LLM-authored writing under their own names.
484 points by ilamont | 454 comments
News article reporting that OpenAI's head of ethics left the company less than a year after joining and was not replaced.
320 points by benwerd | 141 comments
Religion News Service article on Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, 'Magnifica Humanitas,' an 83-page document on the social, economic and political challenges of AI.
1526 points by theletterf | 857 comments
Vatican page hosting Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV's encyclical letter on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence.
508 points by blenderob | 334 comments
Susam Pal's essay proposing three "inverse laws" of AI and robotics, arguing people should not uncritically trust output from generative AI chatbots.
675 points by aphyr | 695 comments
Final installment of Aphyr's essay series on LLMs and society, discussing where to go from here given the harms and implications of machine learning.
335 points by minimaxir | 183 comments
Max Woolf's blog post describing how he, as an experienced data scientist and LLM tool developer, actually uses generative LLMs only sparingly in his work.
474 points by jbegley | 459 comments
Washington Post article reporting that Google removed from its AI principles a 2018 pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance.
380 points by zdw | 253 comments
Simon Willison blog post sharing a 1979 IBM training page stating a computer can never be held accountable and so must never make a management decision.
546 points by max_ | 434 comments
Vatican document 'Antiqua et Nova' from the Dicasteries for the Doctrine of the Faith and for Culture and Education on the relationship between AI and human intelligence.
422 points by sounds | 275 comments
Jeff Geerling's blog post about a company using an AI-cloned version of his voice without permission.
359 points by jo_beef | 323 comments
The Verge news article reporting that Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team, with members moving to other AI teams at the company.