Ethics & Society
Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians
One advertisement featured a pornographic video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician. Apple removed the app after an inquiry from WIRED.
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What Flock’s Defenders are Missing: The True Cost of Mass Surveillance
Flock's new safeguards against officer misuse contain significant loopholes, raising fundamental questions about the design and intent of mass surveillance networks.
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Hidden AirTag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI
An investigation using a hidden AirTag has revealed that Amazon is bulk-purchasing rare books only to destroy and scan them for its frontier AI training models.
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Dead Robot Friends and the 'Censorship-Industrial Complex': Tech's New Reality
From children grieving for defunct AI companions to the rise of 'censorship-industrial complex' theories in policy, technology is reshaping social and political structures.
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Public Distrust in AI is a 'Big Problem,' Says Anthropic CEO
Dario Amodei argues that only tangible scientific breakthroughs, such as curing cancer, can overcome growing public skepticism toward AI and its promises.
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Dario Amodei: AI Faces a ‘Crisis of Trust’ Over Unfulfilled Promises
Anthropic's CEO admits the public fears companies and governments are 'cooking up ways to screw them over,' stressing that AI firms must deliver real benefits to regain trust.
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OpenAI reportedly disbands its preparedness team
In a move raising safety questions, OpenAI has reportedly disbanded the team responsible for assessing model risks, redistributing duties as it prepares for a massive IPO.
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Brian May: "We Don't Need AI" – Queen Guitarist’s Sharp Critique of Meta AI
The legendary musician questions the necessity of AI following a failed experiment with 'The Game' album cover, warning about the impact of technological infrastructure.
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Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu says AI and liberal democracy share the same crisis: ‘there is a tendency to escalate everything’
Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu warns that the polarized AI debate mirrors a broader crisis in liberal democracy, fueled by social media and lost shared prosperity.
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AI at Work: Guarding Your Career Against 'Algorithmic Mediocrity'
Excessive reliance on AI threatens critical thinking and interpersonal bonds, risking a shift toward professional stagnation and uniform output.
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Agreement Is Not Alignment: Divergent Moral Grounds in Human and LLM Ethical Judgments
New research reveals that matching human moral labels does not guarantee that LLMs and humans share the same values or underlying principles.
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LLMs Fail One-Third of Integrity Tests Under Pressure, Study Finds
A new benchmark, IntegrityBench, reveals that frontier AI models struggle to maintain research ethics when faced with institutional pressure, failing 33% of critical decisions.
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