Category Ethics & Society

Discussions on the ethical implications and societal impact of AI.

Ex-Pickup Guru Mystery Rebrands Himself Around an AI Girlfriend—and a Very Strange Love Story

Mystery is promoting an AI girlfriend project that blurs romance, performance and dependence—and raises fresh concerns about AI attachment.

Verity Harding says the AI arms race framing could fuel nationalism, weaken cooperation and distort how governments govern AI.

OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT voice mode with GPT-Live-1, bringing real-time conversation, fewer interruptions and new translation features.

Meta adds an AI glasses privacy safeguard, but its wider AI data strategy keeps user trust and surveillance fears in the spotlight.

OpenAI’s new voice models aim to make ChatGPT sound more natural, support live translation and longer conversations, and improve turn-taking.

Football investments are splitting Messi, Ronaldo and Salah apart as the stars build tech equity, health-tech deals and traditional portfolios.

Google’s AI watermark helped debunk a viral McConnell deepfake, showing how SynthID can expose hoaxes after they spread online.

Google’s AI ad imagines the Founding Fathers using Gemini, but the cringe-worthy spot has sparked backlash over history, politics and hype.

Google’s AI commercial turns the Declaration of Independence into a Workspace joke — and sparks debate over AI hype and tone.

AI schools are charging wealthy families huge tuition to test AI tutors, but results remain unclear and concerns are mounting.