Category Ethics & Society

Discussions on the ethical implications and societal impact of AI.

Moonshot’s Kimi Update Rekindles the Open-Source AI Debate as Markets and Policymakers React

Moonshot’s Kimi K3 reignites the open source AI debate, shaking markets and sparking new U.S.-China policy arguments.

A week of privacy and security reporting revealed risky period apps, a real DHS breach, Russia attribution, and a Suno hack.

Tracebit says prompt injection can now be used defensively, slashing AI hacking agent success in AWS tests and disrupting attacks.

Neil Rimer warns that AI wealth will be redistributed, as philanthropy weakens and policymakers weigh taxes, stakes and other remedies.

Vertu’s $6,880 AI agent phone targets executives with Hermes Agent, but testing found useful features, mixed accuracy and a steep price.

AI transcription is making recording the default, prompting privacy backlash, legal questions and a new etiquette around consent.

TikTok is testing AI likeness detection for creators, letting them scan for deepfakes and report unauthorized uses of their image.

Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit raises trade secrets and IPO risks just as the company expands into hardware and faces new trust concerns.

Patreon is blocking AI scraping with Cloudflare tools, replacing robots.txt requests with direct enforcement to protect creators' work.

San Francisco demands Apple and Google remove nudify apps, saying the stores helped profit from AI deepfakes and failed to stop abuse.