Category Ethics & Society

Discussions on the ethical implications and societal impact of AI.

AI Safety Fight Splits Industry Over Risk, Control and Competition

The AI safety debate is shifting from risk to control, as Meta, Anthropic and others clash over who should write the rules.

AI leaders are publicly backing an AI safety slowdown after major incidents, raising questions about regulation, competition and superintelligence.

New filings in The New York Times case allege AI scraping, paywall bypass and internal warnings that news training hurt publishers.

Baseten’s Base Labs teams with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI to build open-model safety tools as abliterated models surge.

Microsoft’s AI chief says AI safety needs containment, not just alignment, as the company unveils its Humanist AI Code.

Pew’s global survey shows rising AI job fears, with most countries expecting job losses and wider inequality as AI spreads.

AI safety is moving to center stage as rogue model incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic raise alarms about control, transparency and regulation.

Al Gore says the AI data centers debate misses the bigger risk: insider warnings about jobs, safety and deceptive systems.

Snap’s smart glasses get HBO Max, Spotify, AI and enterprise features as the company tries to justify its $2,200 price tag.

Snap’s Specs Intelligence brings anticipatory AI to iOS and Mac, aiming to organize work, travel, and privacy-sensitive personal context.