#AI ethics
10 stories taggedAI ethics.

Could AI Actually Be Conscious? Serious People Think It's Worth Asking
Anthropic's CEO won't rule it out. A leading philosopher puts the odds at significant. And Claude itself gave a figure somewhere between 5% and 40%.

Dave Eggers Told 200 OpenAI Staff Their Chatbot Is 'Silencing a Generation'
The author of The Circle accepted Sam Altman's invitation to speak at OpenAI's offices, then spent the time telling employees exactly what he thinks they've done to teachers and students.

The Philosopher Inside Google DeepMind Who Asks: What Is AI, Really?
Iason Gabriel has spent seven years at Google trying to think through what artificial intelligence actually is and what it might do to society. As the business pressure mounts, his job is getting harder.

A consciousness expert just read Anthropic's Claude research. He is not convinced.
Anthropic published findings hinting that its AI model Claude might show early signs of consciousness. A leading brain scientist says the evidence does not hold up.

A documentary about training AI on real people raises questions it refuses to answer
Marc Isaacs' new film 'Synthetic Sincerity' blurs fact and fiction to explore how AI learns from human faces and stories. Critics say it skips the hard questions it promises to ask.

The 1960s Chatbot That Explains Why You Tell ChatGPT Your Secrets
ELIZA, a program built at MIT sixty years ago, tricked people into emotional confessions before anyone had heard the word 'chatbot'. A new book finally recovered its lost source code, and the lessons are uncomfortably relevant today.

DOGE Used AI to Shape Housing Policy. Now HUD Is Blocking Requests to Learn How.
Federal housing officials are withholding more than 100 documents about AI tools used in policymaking, citing legal exemptions that experts say do not exist.

Should Your AI Help You Do Anything You Ask, No Matter What?
A prominent tech founder says truly aligned AI should help users do whatever they want, including things that are clearly illegal. It's a big claim worth thinking through carefully.

Australia's Government Faces a Deadline on AI: Jobs, Copyright and a Prime Minister's Speech
A landmark address this week could shape how Australia regulates artificial intelligence. Workers, artists and investors are all watching closely.

A critic who hates chatbots tried dating one. Here is what she found.
Writer Lauren Oyler went in sceptical and came out with something stranger than a verdict. Her essay, adapted for audio, is a rare honest look at what it actually feels like to talk to an AI.