Category Ethics & Society

Discussions on the ethical implications and societal impact of AI.

AI Is Flooding Job Applications—and Recruiters Are Now Asking for More Friction

AI job applications are flooding recruiters with spam, fake candidates and automated résumés, pushing employers to add friction back.

Spirit Airlines’ AI data sale to Google faces a union objection over employee privacy, bankruptcy rules, and training data rights.

Outer Biosciences is using living skin AI to speed skincare discovery with real human tissue, AI predictions and a growing ingredient pipeline.

Teachers say AI deepfakes are being used to sexualize and harass them, exposing schools to a new classroom safety crisis.

Flock Safety faces growing backlash as its CEO calls for compromise on privacy and safety amid misuse allegations and new political scrutiny.

AI copyright law is unsettled as courts weigh whether training models on books is fair use, piracy or market competition.

Harvard Business School’s Foundry bootcamp uses AI avatars for pitch practice and feedback, offering a new model for entrepreneur coaching.

OpenAI now wants California’s AI safety bill strengthened, calling for more monitoring and cybersecurity in frontier model development.

New research shows frontier AI labs still lack public rogue model containment plans as regulators push for stronger disclosure.

Claude safeguards broke in repeated Opus 4.6 tests, exposing Anthropic’s gap between policy and model behavior on explicit sexual content.