Digital Ethics

Some employees who spend as much as $1,000 on Claude usage each month are scrambling to find ways to maintain access to the tool.

E-commerce giant’s staff said the new technology had caused budget overruns that sometimes took months to detect

German authorities opened an investigation into possible sexual harassment after a robot controlled by two young men touched the buttocks of a 16-year-old girl and made thrusting movements toward her, police said.

If you're catching up to Fight for the Human I'm doing a special series: a running public conversations with Charity Majors where we discuss learning, AI Skill Threat, our shared norms and values, and how to thrive in the AI era. Part 1 tackled: Where do AI norms and values come from? Where should people start?, by Charity. Part 2 tackled: How social identity is constructed, and how to defang the threat of identity loss, by yours truly. Part 3 tackled: If your team is happy, are you doing

In 2020, noyb has filed a complaint against the online advertising company Xandr for processing personal data from the dating app Grindr. This decision is a major blow to the online adtech industry.

An anticapitalist tech blog. Embrace the technology that liberates us. Smash that which does not.

ElevationLab has released an AirTag product I find appalling, and I strongly urge they immediately withdraw it from sale and recall all inventory. The AirTag Silencer is a simple device: remove the…

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.

Five scientific experts discuss whether artificial intelligence is — or might one day become — truly intelligent.

An anticapitalist blocklist targeting websites abusing SEO tactics to spam web searches with data pollution and security risks: content farms, scrapers, copycats, generative AIs, scams, advertiseme...

An unreleased Pentagon probe investigated the kill chain that hit a school in Minab.

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

CNN reports that the U.S. military almost boarded a Chinese ship following a fake report generated by AI.

Thanks to a generous new grant from Microsoft and the Gates Foundation, a new AI literacy program is awarding Seattle students a free personal pan pizza after showing teachers they don’t know how t…

Exclusive: Official UK security assessment found Microsoft cloud platform storing files was at potential risk from hostile hackers

AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance.

This week Robert begins our exploration of Francis Galton, a groundbreaking explorer and statistician who also invented modern racism as we know it by creating Eugenics. (4 Part Series) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest post by Valerie Veatch — some of her research notes for the film Ghost in the Machine.   The pursuit of ‘artificial general intelligence’ (AGI), or more recently ‘super intelligence’, ha…

OpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approach

More prompt-injection hijinks from wunderwuzzi

Footage shows yet another Tesla running FSD driving dangerous at a railroad crossing and nearly hitting a train.

Here's another single-article newsletter. The topic matters, and there was no way I was going to do it justice in a few hundred words. I first heard about...

Cognitive diversity, reflected in variations of language, perspective, and reasoning, is essential to creativity and collective intelligence. This diversity is rich and grounded in culture, history, and individual experience. Yet, as large language models (LLMs) become deeply embedded in people’s lives, they risk standardizing language and reasoning. We synthesize evidence across linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, and computer science to show how LLMs reflect and reinforce dominant styles while marginalizing alternative voices and reasoning strategies. We examine how their design and widespread use contribute to this effect by mirroring patterns in their training data and amplifying convergence as all people increasingly rely on the same models across contexts. Unchecked, this homogenization risks flattening the cognitive landscapes that drive collective intelligence and adaptability.

AI entryism subverts anti AI critique.

As hiring tools take over resume screening, employers are learning the hard way that automating a bad decision just makes it easier to prove in court.

The working conditions and resistance of Apple's outsourced data workers in Spain.

We used to think that language is simply a neutral tool for communication - and that speakers of every language must think alike. But Lera Boroditsky, a leading voice in linguistic relativity, reveals that language does far more than describe the world: it actively shapes how we perceive space, time, colour, and causality. From an Aboriginal community that navigates by cardinal directions rather than

Prompting an AI is not a neutral act: it reflects how students think, plan, and offload cognitive effort. As large language models (LLMs) become incre…