#ai-ethics — Public Fediverse posts

A new AI browser called Gem uses Google’s Gemini model to generate custom visual layers on top of any website - even creating entirely fake pages for non-existent URLs. Built by a Google DeepMind engineer, it represents a new frontier in AI-generated web content. https://gizmodo.com/this-ai-browser-is-building-the-front-end-for-the-dead-internet-2000791435 #AI #GenAI #AIEthics

A new AI browser called Gem uses Google’s Gemini model to generate custom visual layers on top of any website - even creating entirely fake pages for non-existent URLs. Built by a Google DeepMind engineer, it represents a new frontier in AI-generated web content. https://gizmodo.com/this-ai-browser-is-building-the-front-end-for-the-dead-internet-2000791435 #AI #GenAI #AIEthics

New speaker announcement: Meena Das is joining the A11y Camp 2026 lineup!

In 'Who Gets Heard? Rethinking Voice Recognition and Accessibility', Meena explores why voice recognition often fails people with speech disabilities, and why that's an ethical issue not just a technical one.

Super Early Bird tickets are available now and end 14 August. Lock in the lowest price before they're gone.

Register for A11y Camp: https://events.humanitix.com/a11y-camp-australia-2026

#Accessibility #InclusiveDesign #AIEthics

New speaker announcement: Meena Das is joining the A11y Camp 2026 lineup!

In 'Who Gets Heard? Rethinking Voice Recognition and Accessibility', Meena explores why voice recognition often fails people with speech disabilities, and why that's an ethical issue not just a technical one.

Super Early Bird tickets are available now and end 14 August. Lock in the lowest price before they're gone.

Register for A11y Camp: https://events.humanitix.com/a11y-camp-australia-2026

#Accessibility #InclusiveDesign #AIEthics

Our position on open-weights models

https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076057

#HackerNews #openweights #AImodels #Anthropic #technology #transparency #AIethics

Our position on open-weights models

https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076057

#HackerNews #openweights #AImodels #Anthropic #technology #transparency #AIethics

Facial recognition could be your new ticket to the footy
By Shannon Pearce

Facial recognition technology is being used as an alternative form of ticketing, but some experts are concerned it could open the door to the data being used for more than just event entry.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-28/facial-recognition-tickets-expanding-in-afl/106868858

#IdentificationTechnology #InformationTechnologyIndustry #AI #Surveillance #AIEthics #AFL #ShannonPearce

Facial recognition could be your new ticket to the footy
By Shannon Pearce

Facial recognition technology is being used as an alternative form of ticketing, but some experts are concerned it could open the door to the data being used for more than just event entry.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-28/facial-recognition-tickets-expanding-in-afl/106868858

#IdentificationTechnology #InformationTechnologyIndustry #AI #Surveillance #AIEthics #AFL #ShannonPearce

All major LLMs are lib-left. Even Grok, half the time

https://unslop.run/blog/political-compass-of-llms

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49071441

#HackerNews #LLMs #libleft #politicalcompass #AIethics #Grok #discourse

All major LLMs are lib-left. Even Grok, half the time

https://unslop.run/blog/political-compass-of-llms

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49071441

#HackerNews #LLMs #libleft #politicalcompass #AIethics #Grok #discourse

Artist Elmer Saflor has sued AI meme generator Memes.ai for using his 'Running Away Balloon' comic as a paid template without permission. The lawsuit, filed this month, alleges copyright infringement - a meme generator may have screwed up by using templates in outputs. The case highlights growing legal tensions around AI-generated content and intellectual property. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/artist-sues-ai-meme-generator-for-selling-deeply-personal-comic-as-ad-template/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIethics

Artist Elmer Saflor has sued AI meme generator Memes.ai for using his 'Running Away Balloon' comic as a paid template without permission. The lawsuit, filed this month, alleges copyright infringement - a meme generator may have screwed up by using templates in outputs. The case highlights growing legal tensions around AI-generated content and intellectual property. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/artist-sues-ai-meme-generator-for-selling-deeply-personal-comic-as-ad-template/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIethics

This look's useful and akin to my co-author @[email protected] (among others'!) research project

Modular Legal Personhood for AI Use Cases: An Enterprise Systems Engineering Framework for Digital Transformation

www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

#AIEthics #responsibilityGaps

preprints.org/manuscript/202...

This look's useful and akin to my co-author @[email protected] (among others'!) research project

Modular Legal Personhood for AI Use Cases: An Enterprise Systems Engineering Framework for Digital Transformation

www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

#AIEthics #responsibilityGaps

preprints.org/manuscript/202...

Incase you missed it. Watch our deep dive video into the The Plagiarism Paradox: Training Data, Copyright, and the Theft Nobody Can Prosecute.

Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/3Bo808HW8GM

#education #techethics #aiethics #IntellectualProperty #CopyrightLaw #MachineLearning

Incase you missed it. Watch our deep dive video into the The Plagiarism Paradox: Training Data, Copyright, and the Theft Nobody Can Prosecute.

Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/3Bo808HW8GM

#education #techethics #aiethics #IntellectualProperty #CopyrightLaw #MachineLearning

The Sydney suburb at risk of becoming a 'data centre wasteland'
By Victoria Pengilley

Sydney is in the middle of a data centre boom fuelled by the global AI race. In Lane Cove West and Ryde, residents and councils say they are the ones paying the price.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-26/nsw-sydney-ai-data-centres-turn-suburbs-into-wastelands/106946638

#AI #DataCentres #Technology #LocalGovernment #AIEthics #UrbanDevelopmentandPlanning #VictoriaPengilley

The Sydney suburb at risk of becoming a 'data centre wasteland'
By Victoria Pengilley

Sydney is in the middle of a data centre boom fuelled by the global AI race. In Lane Cove West and Ryde, residents and councils say they are the ones paying the price.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-26/nsw-sydney-ai-data-centres-turn-suburbs-into-wastelands/106946638

#AI #DataCentres #Technology #LocalGovernment #AIEthics #UrbanDevelopmentandPlanning #VictoriaPengilley

Librarians across America are hosting sold-out workshops teaching people how to avoid AI tools, as frustration with Big Tech grows. The workshops cover alternatives to ChatGPT, Google searches, and social media - reflecting a growing backlash against AI in everyday life. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/librarians-are-hosting-viral-avoiding-ai-workshops-for-people-who-are-fed-up-with-big-tech/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEthics

Librarians across America are hosting sold-out workshops teaching people how to avoid AI tools, as frustration with Big Tech grows. The workshops cover alternatives to ChatGPT, Google searches, and social media - reflecting a growing backlash against AI in everyday life. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/librarians-are-hosting-viral-avoiding-ai-workshops-for-people-who-are-fed-up-with-big-tech/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEthics

The whole premise of checking for human writing is daft

https://mohammedshehu.com/checking-for-human-writing-is-daft/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49048584

#HackerNews #humanwriting #writinganalysis #AIethics #contentcreation #digitalliteracy

The whole premise of checking for human writing is daft

https://mohammedshehu.com/checking-for-human-writing-is-daft/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49048584

#HackerNews #humanwriting #writinganalysis #AIethics #contentcreation #digitalliteracy

The company was pursuing a “research partnership with wisdom traditions”, it told me, to “help inform the moral formation of AI systems”.

#wisdomTraditions #AIEthics

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ml26wzi65r37ivs57q7ldx2b/post/3mrhhmbprls2p

The company was pursuing a “research partnership with wisdom traditions”, it told me, to “help inform the moral formation of AI systems”.

#wisdomTraditions #AIEthics

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ml26wzi65r37ivs57q7ldx2b/post/3mrhhmbprls2p

This is disturbing. Seems like a reasonable article about a positive application for AI: check to see if a clinician might miss something.

But if you use AI to check your work, you will begin to rely on AI to check your work. You'll shut down and let AI take responsibility.

Doctors are human, they will defer to a machine that can process so much more data, so quickly. They won't check AI with the same detachment that AI uses to check them.

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/23/g-s1-134929/ai-artificial-intelligence-healthcare

#AI #AIethics

This is disturbing. Seems like a reasonable article about a positive application for AI: check to see if a clinician might miss something.

But if you use AI to check your work, you will begin to rely on AI to check your work. You'll shut down and let AI take responsibility.

Doctors are human, they will defer to a machine that can process so much more data, so quickly. They won't check AI with the same detachment that AI uses to check them.

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/23/g-s1-134929/ai-artificial-intelligence-healthcare

#AI #AIethics

Artificial intelligence regulation must not leave older adults behind
#AI #AIRegulation #ResponsibleAI #AIEthics #OlderAdults #MachineLearning #Health #HealthyAging #Ageing #Canada #PublicPolicy #DigitalRights #Innovation #Discrimination #MedicalCare
https://the-14.com/artificial-intelligence-regulation-must-not-leave-older-adults-behind/

Artificial intelligence regulation must not leave older adults behind
#AI #AIRegulation #ResponsibleAI #AIEthics #OlderAdults #MachineLearning #Health #HealthyAging #Ageing #Canada #PublicPolicy #DigitalRights #Innovation #Discrimination #MedicalCare
https://the-14.com/artificial-intelligence-regulation-must-not-leave-older-adults-behind/

Framing #LLMs as emotionless interfaces to systems and information, and not as ‘chatbots’ with their own personalities, would be less misleading and problematic. But it doesn’t fit the tech bro fantasy. #AIEthics #AIHype

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4ap35rus77cg3lzju2v43jxn/post/3mrhpd47l7k24

Framing #LLMs as emotionless interfaces to systems and information, and not as ‘chatbots’ with their own personalities, would be less misleading and problematic. But it doesn’t fit the tech bro fantasy. #AIEthics #AIHype

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4ap35rus77cg3lzju2v43jxn/post/3mrhpd47l7k24

“There is no honour for the humanities in regaining their standing through the attention of #AI companies, if they engage only on the technology industry’s terms. In that case, they will have become important in exactly the wrong way.“ #AIEthics #PhilTech

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xm3nzh72bp7oimvace6q45eh/post/3mrhdd2mp6c2e

“There is no honour for the humanities in regaining their standing through the attention of #AI companies, if they engage only on the technology industry’s terms. In that case, they will have become important in exactly the wrong way.“ #AIEthics #PhilTech

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xm3nzh72bp7oimvace6q45eh/post/3mrhdd2mp6c2e

AI safety guardrails from OpenAI and Anthropic designed to prevent malicious use are now blocking legitimate offensive cybersecurity researchers from doing their jobs. The companies offer restricted programmes for vetted researchers, but critics say the restrictions are too broad and hinder vital network defence work. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/how-ai-guardrails-are-impeding-the-work-of-offensive-cybersecurity-researchers/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEthics

AI safety guardrails from OpenAI and Anthropic designed to prevent malicious use are now blocking legitimate offensive cybersecurity researchers from doing their jobs. The companies offer restricted programmes for vetted researchers, but critics say the restrictions are too broad and hinder vital network defence work. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/how-ai-guardrails-are-impeding-the-work-of-offensive-cybersecurity-researchers/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEthics

ChatGPT Health has rolled out to everyone, but OpenAI faces two lawsuits alleging the chatbot gave dangerous - and in some cases fatal - medical advice. The company must now defend against claims that could reshape AI healthcare. https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-health-rolls-out-to-everyone-2000789999 #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEthics

ChatGPT Health has rolled out to everyone, but OpenAI faces two lawsuits alleging the chatbot gave dangerous - and in some cases fatal - medical advice. The company must now defend against claims that could reshape AI healthcare. https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-health-rolls-out-to-everyone-2000789999 #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEthics

Maybe they’ll actually sign up to transnational regulation when they realise they need the protections and support utilities receive. (They’re already dependent on support from global infrastructure like telecommunications, public education, news media, arts…) 2/2 #AIEthics #AIGovernance

In this week's edition of our newsletter:

Open weight models are communism, at least according to OpenAI's new "Head of Strategic Futures" (who used to write policy for the Trump administration).

Meanwhile, more scary stories from OpenAI and Anthropic. New York’s data centre moratorium. Elon Musk threatens to bring AI slop to the big screen. 142 data centre protests. And a possible kill-switch for AI.

#AIEthics #OpenAI #datacenter

https://read.misalignedmag.com/misaligned-bits-35-ai-communism-5f1c56363a4f

In this week's edition of our newsletter:

Open weight models are communism, at least according to OpenAI's new "Head of Strategic Futures" (who used to write policy for the Trump administration).

Meanwhile, more scary stories from OpenAI and Anthropic. New York’s data centre moratorium. Elon Musk threatens to bring AI slop to the big screen. 142 data centre protests. And a possible kill-switch for AI.

#AIEthics #OpenAI #datacenter

https://read.misalignedmag.com/misaligned-bits-35-ai-communism-5f1c56363a4f

I Think You Might Be Fooling Yourself with AI

https://louwrentius.com/i-think-you-might-be-fooling-yourself-with-ai.html

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021843

#HackerNews #AI #self-awareness #AIethics #techinsights #cognitivebias

I Think You Might Be Fooling Yourself with AI

https://louwrentius.com/i-think-you-might-be-fooling-yourself-with-ai.html

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021843

#HackerNews #AI #self-awareness #AIethics #techinsights #cognitivebias

https://pawsandpromises.substack.com/p/some-people-dont-rescue-dogs-they/

#ModernLife
#OnlineCulture
#HumanConnection #CompassionOverPerfection
#DogRescue
#AdoptDontShop
#RescueDogs
#AIethics
#AnimalWelfare
#AuthenticityMatters
#DigitalCulture
#ShelterDogs
#PawsAndPromises
#TruthInRescue

https://pawsandpromises.substack.com/p/some-people-dont-rescue-dogs-they/

#ModernLife
#OnlineCulture
#HumanConnection #CompassionOverPerfection
#DogRescue
#AdoptDontShop
#RescueDogs
#AIethics
#AnimalWelfare
#AuthenticityMatters
#DigitalCulture
#ShelterDogs
#PawsAndPromises
#TruthInRescue

How do we ensure equitable outcomes while building trust? This is the challenge with AI and regulation

Read more: https://techethics.co.uk/insights/from-prompt-to-policy-the-risks-of-ai-drafted-legislation-and-regulation

#AIethics #techinnovation #ethicalai #ai #techethics #regulation #policy

How do we ensure equitable outcomes while building trust? This is the challenge with AI and regulation

Read more: https://techethics.co.uk/insights/from-prompt-to-policy-the-risks-of-ai-drafted-legislation-and-regulation

#AIethics #techinnovation #ethicalai #ai #techethics #regulation #policy

Collaboration between technologists, policymakers, and the public is essential. Read our take here: https://tinyurl.com/mpc4ebbj
Or find out more about our Veritas solution here: https://tinyurl.com/3kv6jtsb

#Deepfake #CoerciveControl #DigitalSafety #AIethics #LegalTech #DomesticViolence

Collaboration between technologists, policymakers, and the public is essential. Read our take here: https://tinyurl.com/mpc4ebbj
Or find out more about our Veritas solution here: https://tinyurl.com/3kv6jtsb

#Deepfake #CoerciveControl #DigitalSafety #AIethics #LegalTech #DomesticViolence

There is more to the regulation of deepfakes than simply banning the technology. Read our take in the article below

https://techethics.co.uk/insights/deepfakes-and-domestic-abuse-a-new-weapon-in-the-coercive-control-arsenal

#aiethics #dataliteracy #aiethics #deepfakes #techethics #regulation

There is more to the regulation of deepfakes than simply banning the technology. Read our take in the article below

https://techethics.co.uk/insights/deepfakes-and-domestic-abuse-a-new-weapon-in-the-coercive-control-arsenal

#aiethics #dataliteracy #aiethics #deepfakes #techethics #regulation

Digital ethics: it’s about more than just algorithms. It’s about ensuring fairness, transparency, and accountability in the data we use. Read the article in the comments

#digitalethics #techethics #ethicalai #AIethics #ai #technology #policy #fiarness