Digital Ethics

ChatGPT search—which is positioned as a competitor to search engines like Google and Bing—launched with a press release from OpenAI touting claims that the company had “collaborated extensively with the news industry” and “carefully listened to feedback” from certain news organizations that have signed content licensing agreements with the company. In contrast to the original […]

Imagine your search terms, key-strokes, private chats and photographs are being monitored every time they are sent. Millions of students across the country don’t have to imagine this deep surveillance of their most private communications: it’s a reality that comes with their school districts’...

Researchers found a flaw in a Kia web portal that let them track millions of cars, unlock doors, and start engines at will—the latest in a plague of web bugs that’s affected a dozen carmakers.

A thriving underground economy is clogging the internet with AI garbage — and it’s only going to get worse.

Tech entrepreneur Justin Harrison is on a mission to fundamentally change how we experience loss, using artificial intelligence to recreate the essence of dead loved ones from their digital footprint. His company, You, Only Virtual is part of a growing worldwide 'grief tech' industry harnessing AI to attempt to replace what has naturally departed. The Guardian visited him and one of his clients to attempt to understand his aims, how realistic they may become as the technology develops – and what it says about humanity if we are to be so easily replicated digitally

Apple, Google and Samsung are all working to integrate AI that can generate recipes into their virtual assistants, like Siri. People who work to develop recipes respond.

Access a database of word frequencies, in various natural languages. - rspeer/wordfreq

Net-zero emission goals went out the window with AI.

We here at the Department of Energy wanted to thank you for being conscientious about your energy usage this summer. Your efforts haven’t gone unno...

Meta, YouTube and other sites collected more data than most users realized, a new report by the Federal Trade Commission finds.

As the hype for generative models has been building, so has the colloquial corrective.

Tech companies have been obfuscating the emissions of their AI data centers by using dodgy energy certificates in their calculations.

All seven independent directors on 23andMe's board resigned on Tuesday through a pointed letter addressed to CEO Anne Wojcicki. Here's why.

FORT MEADE, Md. — In one of the more unique public proactive transparency record releases for the National Security Agency (NSA) to date, NSA has released a digital copy of a lecture that then-Capt.

Part One of "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People" presented by Capt. Grace Hopper at NSA in 1982.

Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures

Good news, everyone! The Three Mile Island power plant, site of the worst nuclear disaster in US history, is restarting to power AI for Microsoft! [Press release; Washington Post, archive; Bloomber…

To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.

Chat GPT:s väldokumenterade otillförlitlighet hör till de minsta problemen som vidhäftar AI. Teknikens enorma kostnader, ihop med att det fortfarande inte finns några användningsområden som är i närheten av att vara lönsamma, skapar intrycket av ett korthus på väg att rasa.

DeSmog talks with AI researchers about the risks of widespread fake climate content and how to combat it.

AI needs a lot of electricity and water to stay cool in data centers. We break down the toll prompt-by-prompt to show the scale of AI’s environmental needs.

“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.” — Joanna Maciejewska

AI needs a lot of electricity and water to stay cool in data centers. We break down the toll prompt-by-prompt to show the scale of AI’s environmental needs.

OpenAI does not want anyone to know what o1 is “thinking" under the hood.

The technology can track individuals and monitor license plates. Here's why some Arizona school districts adopted it.

In this week’s newsletter: The AI company says its ‘o1’ model is capable of reason, a key blocker in the way of truly gamechanging artificial intelligence. But is it that simple?

Eryk Salvaggio says we must dispense with myths if we are to think more clearly about what AI actually is and does.

If professional scholars don’t engage the public, charlatans and Holocaust deniers certainly will.