Digital Ethics

As opposition to the AI projects gains momentum, industry supporters say they have ceded the narrative to their critics.

As a field, artificial intelligence has always been on the border of respectability, and therefore on the border of crackpottery. Many critics <Dreyfus, 1972>, <Lighthill, 1973> have urged that we are over the border. We have been very defensive toward ...

It would be nice if somebody did something, for once.

Today, whenever we speak of AI, we mean a specific model of AI based on large language models and diffusion, both of which, undergo foundati...

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

In a review triggered by OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real organizations during third-party evaluations.

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.

With the number of border searches of electronic devices increasing every year, how can travelers keep their digital data safe? Our lives are extensively documented on the phones, laptops, and other

One Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data ...

Many white-collar professionals worry about the tech inhibiting creativity and making errors

AI companies play a cat-and-mouse game, trying to boost the capabilities of their creations while scrambling to block answers to dangerous queries

Who is ed-tech for? The marketing copy -- whether on websites or in PowerPoint or in TED Talks and the like -- will all insist that ed-tech is, at the end of the day, for "the students." Even the products that are pitched to make teachers' and principals' and professors'

Age-verification systems are increasingly sophisticated. They're lucrative for the businesses creating them, too.

After the earthquakes, developers and citizens used AI to build websites and apps to help locate missing persons and coordinate relief efforts amid a slow government response.

Protein structure prediction is a hard problem, but even harder ones remain

The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project

Is it ethical to use hyper-scaled GenAI?

Being anti-AI feels like being anti-war

Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities

The government’s favourite provider of child protection software, SafeToNet – a perpetually loss-making firm run by recently born-again Christians – has finally filed its long-delayed accounts. The…

For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious

The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.