"... OpenAI and others are starting to keep their strongest models in-house, enlisting #AI to build more capable versions of itself. As that shift happens, there are fewer public deployments that will highlight problems; auditing becomes the only real check": stevenadler.substack.com/p/dont-let-o...

#ethics #law #AI #tech #business #gov #safety

One task "offered $10 for listening to a podcast episode with the RentAHuman founder and tweeting out an insight.... [T]he agent offering the bounty said it would attempt to suss out any bot-written responses using a program that detects AI-generated text." arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/i... #ethics

"The researcher identified age as a significant factor in the severity of the bias. Older participants demonstrated a stronger negative reaction to #AI #art. Younger audiences showed much weaker negative effects." www.psypost.org/bias-against... #ethics #tech

EU lawmakers found their government-issued devices were blocked from using the baked-in AI tools, amid fears that sensitive information could turn up on the U.S. servers of AI companies.

An internal research study at Meta found that parental supervision may not help teens regulate their social media, and teens with trauma are more inclined to overuse social media.

"The Defense Department is threatening to blacklist #Anthropic over limits on military use, potentially putting one of its top contractors in a bind": www.fastcompany.com/91493997/pal... #ethics #AI #tech #gov #business #SiliconValley

"Flock devices have been installed by more than 100 public #school systems nationally, ... and audit logs ... show campus camera feeds are captured in a national database that police agencies across the country can access": theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #ethics #tech #education #privacy

"Despite the high bar for censoring online speech, lawsuits trace an escalating pattern of DHS increasingly targeting websites, app stores, and platforms—many that have been willing to remove content the #government dislikes": arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... #ethics #law #tech #contentmoderation

7/ VPNs are in the 2020s what Antivirus was in the 2000s. Something that, thanks to marketing, everyone was conditioned to believe was the first step in being secure online. When if you talked to experts, the consensus view was: nope, not even close. research.google/pubs/no-one-...

A VPN company server was seized. Reminder: your 'privacy' VPN is still a physical server in somebodies jurisdiction. Claim of RAM disk servers as protection is...interesting. I know nothing more about this case, but hotplugs that let authorities grab a server without cutting power are common. 1/

A judge in 🇪🇸Barcelona has formally charged two former Civil Guard directors for the first time in connection with the Pegasus #spyware used to spy on the Catalan independence movement. The judge has also summoned former intel. agency CNI director to testify as a suspect. en.ara.cat/politics/two...

4 / What's the difference between Pegasus & Paragon's Graphite? Well, while Pegasus is built around hacking the whole device, then gaining access to apps... Paragon frames their tech as 'light touch' and 'within app'...

4/ If Ring were smart, they'd highlight privacy features, make them easier to use & introduce new ones. Americans want more control of their privacy right now. And in the longer term? Stop trying to build a surveillance dystopia consumers didn't ask for & focus on shipping good, private products.

UPDATE: Ring just cancelled their partnership with #Flock. Should you trust #ring now? No. After all they thought this was a good idea. And their statement doesn't acknowledge the real issue. More on that in a second. But this shows: pressure works on privacy 1/

"The researcher identified age as a significant factor in the severity of the bias. Older participants demonstrated a stronger negative reaction to #AI #art. Younger audiences showed much weaker negative effects." www.psypost.org/bias-against... #ethics #tech

One task "offered $10 for listening to a podcast episode with the RentAHuman founder and tweeting out an insight.... [T]he agent offering the bounty said it would attempt to suss out any bot-written responses using a program that detects AI-generated text." arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/i... #ethics

It’s depressing to see women try to claw back control of their images by imploring a chatbot not to misuse their photos. Posts like these are reminiscent of the copyright declarations you used to see on Facebook. Totally understandable but unlikely to have the desired effect.

#ethics #internet #tech #contentmoderation #business #research

"NLP experts articulated a need for #research that seeks to understand how #language evolves online, how users interact with each other, and how network effects and digital affordances shape online activity." #ethics #internet #contentmoderation #tech #AI

#ethics #law #AI #tech #business #gov #safety

"... OpenAI and others are starting to keep their strongest models in-house, enlisting #AI to build more capable versions of itself. As that shift happens, there are fewer public deployments that will highlight problems; auditing becomes the only real check": stevenadler.substack.com/p/dont-let-o...

"NLP experts articulated a need for #research that seeks to understand how #language evolves online, how users interact with each other, and how network effects and digital affordances shape online activity." #ethics #internet #contentmoderation #tech #AI

#ethics #internet #tech #contentmoderation #business #research

"While a recent state #law requires #education leaders to be convened to develop guidelines for 'safe and effective' #AI use in #schools, it has not restricted districts from adopting AI tools now,... as a matter of local procurement processes": sfpublicpress.org/school-distr... #ethics #privacy

"Companies that enable investors to buy and sell #cryptocurrencies, as well as the growing number of companies who have made investing in #bitcoin their main #business focus, have also been hit hard in the recent sell-off": pbs.org/newshour/eco... #internet #tech #gov #banking

"The White House initially defended the clip as an '#internet #meme video' and told critics to 'stop the fake outrage'... After a growing backlash, ... the post was removed from Trump's Truth Social account": bbc.com/news/article... #ethics #gov #socialmedia

#ethics #law #AI

#ethics #law #internet #gov #socialmedia #tech #business #contentmoderation #design

#ethics #internet #advertising #AI #chatbots #tech #business

In case you are teaching and looking for concise #internet / #tech / #AI #ethics case studies to spark conversation and analysis (see, also, additional resources from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at @santaclarauniv.bsky.social): scu.edu/ethics/focus... #highered

"Our empirical findings span order-of-magnitude variations: #LLM task type can lead to 25× #energy differences, video generation sometimes consumes more than 100× the energy of images, and GPU utilization differences can result in 3-5× energy differences": arxiv.org/abs/2601.22076 #ethics #AI #tech

"[W]e need humans in the loop who are capable of independent, rigorous thought. A society that has outsourced its reasoning to the very systems it needs to regulate may find itself ill-equipped to handle the consequences." www.psypost.org/the-scientis... #ethics #AI #tech #education #highered

#ethics #AI #LLMs #opensource #tech #research

"It is relatively straightforward to embed basic keystroke tracking into a survey (although appropriate ethical considerations such as consent and justified use should be taken into account)." #ethics #internet #research #tech #AI

"[A]anyone wanting to see older posts will have to file a Freedom of Information Act request.... That would differ from how the U.S. #government typically handles archiving the public online footprint of previous administrations": www.npr.org/2026/02/07/n... #ethics #internet #socialmedia #Twitter

#ethics #tech #AI #code #software

Interesting research in HBR today about how the productivity boost you can get from AI tools can lead to burnout or general metal exhaustion, something I've noticed in my own work https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/ai-intensifies-work/

In case you are teaching and looking for concise #internet / #tech / #AI #ethics case studies to spark conversation and analysis (see, also, additional resources from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at @santaclarauniv.bsky.social): scu.edu/ethics/focus... #highered

"This post is the uncomfortable, 'and then it happened' follow-up. Because it’s not just that agents can be dangerous once they’re installed. The ecosystem that distributes their capabilities and skill registries has... become an attack surface": 1password.com/blog/from-ma... #ethics #AI #cybersec

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub […]

Many Americans dislike data centers because they use land, water, and electricity without creating many permanent jobs. There’s just one wrinkle: Modern factories increasingly fit the same description. I wrote about it for @heatmap.news: heatmap.news/energy/facto...

#ethics #internet #advertising #AI #chatbots #tech #business

#ethics #law #internet #gov #socialmedia #tech #business #contentmoderation #design

#ethics #law #AI

"This post is the uncomfortable, 'and then it happened' follow-up. Because it’s not just that agents can be dangerous once they’re installed. The ecosystem that distributes their capabilities and skill registries has... become an attack surface": 1password.com/blog/from-ma... #ethics #AI #cybersec

"The White House initially defended the clip as an '#internet #meme video' and told critics to 'stop the fake outrage'... After a growing backlash, ... the post was removed from Trump's Truth Social account": bbc.com/news/article... #ethics #gov #socialmedia

"Companies that enable investors to buy and sell #cryptocurrencies, as well as the growing number of companies who have made investing in #bitcoin their main #business focus, have also been hit hard in the recent sell-off": pbs.org/newshour/eco... #internet #tech #gov #banking