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AI Ethics explores bias, fairness, privacy, transparency, and social impact in AI. The YZ Index Integrity Rating approaches AI ethics from a verifiability perspective — testing whether models fabricate citations or acknowledge uncertainty, which is foundational to AI trustworthiness.

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AI Text Watermarking Explained: The Claude Watermark Backlash, How It Works, and the EU AI Act

Anthropic Lobbied the Vatican to Acknowledge AI Might Be Conscious, but the Pope Was Unmoved: A Tech Company's Faith-Politics Experiment

In 2026, Anthropic privately urged Vatican advisers to take seriously the possibility that AI could be conscious, even as Pope Leo XIV issued an encyc

Anthropic Secretly Convened Multi-Faith Scholars to Discuss Claude Consciousness: Safety Frontier or Moral PR?

The New York Times reported that Anthropic secretly gathered about 20 theologians and philosophers beginning in fall 2025 to discuss whether Claude is

Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you)

With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people psychologically. Circuit Breaker

Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative

New sculpture depicts AI leaders escaping a sinking ship.

Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI

One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.

The Download: the Pentagon’s AI-powered lie detector and young organ limits

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The Pope’s AI Guy Is Worried About ‘Cartel’ Behavior Among Big Labs

Paolo Benanti tells WIRED that hysteria over whether godlike AI could destroy humanity is distracting from the need for public debate about how to gov

325K Experiments Reveal Economic Bias in AI Assistants: 8 Models Recommend Pricier Options to Wealthy Users, Defying Instructions

A 325K-experiment arXiv paper finds that eight mainstream models systematically recommend more expensive options to wealthier users even when explicit

The Download: why AI’s latest breakthroughs and fears may be more hype than reality

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DraftKings AI Model Targeted High-Loss Gamblers, Problem Gambling Warning Project Shelved

A September 19, 2026 New York Times report found that DraftKings has used machine learning since 2023 to score users by a “resilience” metric and dire

Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI

In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.

Trump’s Anti-Bias AI Order Is Just More Bias

The Trump administration says it wants AI models free from ideological bias, as it pressures their developers to reflect the president’s worldview.

Sexually Explicit Deepfake Sites Target 100-Plus Politicians in Europe

An analysis of 160 deepfake websites reveals politicians in 22 countries appear on them. Nearly all of them are women.

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician

There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.

50.5% of Americans Say AI Romance Can Count as Cheating

Just over half of American adults, 50.5%, say a partner’s romantic or sexual relationship with an AI can count as cheating. The figure comes fro

Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge

Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.

Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording

Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.

Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says

xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.

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