Category Ethics & Society

Discussions on the ethical implications and societal impact of AI.

OpenAI Unveils a New Misalignment Disclosure Policy as Pressure Grows for AI Safety Standards

OpenAI unveils an AI misalignment framework to report model failures faster, alongside new examples of risky behavior from internal models.

AI regulation is stalled in Washington as the White House backs off and Congress lacks the votes or time to pass a bill.

A new report says AI e-waste could hit 617 million tons by 2050 as data centers and supporting hardware drive a hidden waste crisis.

Meta may launch camera-free smart glasses called Luna, aiming to ease privacy concerns while expanding AI assistant features.

AI security experts say frontier labs need tighter containment, monitoring and logs before relying on outside audits to fix agent breakouts.

Google Home MCP lets AI agents like Claude access smart-home data and controls, raising big questions about security, privacy, and platform strategy.

Anthropic exposed AI dating scams that used fake personas, gig workers and in-app coins to catfish thousands of users at scale.

China is rejecting Silicon Valley’s AI slowdown push, saying it looks like leverage, not cooperation, as U.S.-China AI talks loom.

Jensen Huang says AI regulation is unnecessary, arguing safety is an engineering problem and companies should police themselves.

A new poll shows most likely voters oppose AI data centers, even as the issue barely registers in the midterm race.