"The encyclical, titled Magnifica Humanitas ('Magnificent Humanity'), will center on 'the protection of the human person in the age of [#AI]' and will be presented May 25 by the pope as well as Curial cardinals and theologians": ncronline.org/vatican/vati... #ethics #tech #religion

"The good (and potentially bad) news for companies with creative ideas on making more private smart glasses is that Meta might not be the only gravitational force for long": gizmodo.com/can-smart-gl... #ethics #tech #AI #privacy #business

"Despite once calling competitor #Anthropic 'evil'... Musk announced earlier this month that the two companies had reached an agreement. The deal gives Anthropic access to computing power from #SpaceX’s Colossus data center": gizmodo.com/mechahitler-... #ethics #tech #AI #business

"Phony whistleblowers, fake journalists and cyber spies: ICIJ network targeted after China Targets probe": www.icij.org/investigatio... #ethics #internet #cybersec #journalism #research

"The Commodity Exchange Act, a US #law, gives the CFTC exclusive jurisdiction over designated contract markets.... The CFTC argues that this preempts state laws regulating prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket, which are registered with the CFTC": arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... #ethics

"Cops came for Bushart after he posted a #meme that he neither created nor altered on Facebook": arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... #ethics #law #internet #socialmedia #gov

"The FBI’s request for proposals said contractors must identify the location of servers where #data is stored to verify compliance with state and local laws on license plate reader data": arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... #ethics #tech #gov #privacy #security #business

The investment comes as Elon Musk’s AI unit faces complaints about the carbon-emitting units and looks to become a big player in cloud computing. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

"The FBI’s request for proposals said contractors must identify the location of servers where #data is stored to verify compliance with state and local laws on license plate reader data": arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... #ethics #tech #gov #privacy #security #business

"Cops came for Bushart after he posted a #meme that he neither created nor altered on Facebook": arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... #ethics #law #internet #socialmedia #gov

"The Commodity Exchange Act, a US #law, gives the CFTC exclusive jurisdiction over designated contract markets.... The CFTC argues that this preempts state laws regulating prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket, which are registered with the CFTC": arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... #ethics

#ethics #law #tech #water #access #research #gov #business #sustainability #education

Related: "On the 'Superior Ethical Criterion' for Assessing AI’s Benefits and Risks": www.scu.edu/ethics/inter... #ethics #AI #tech #education #religion

#ethics #tech #education #edtech

A lot of worrisome trends in this analysis from @caseynewton.bsky.social, but the saddest one is that X users are now 75% men. When I wrote my last book, only Reddit had that user ratio and Twitter had decent safety policies. How far we've come. www.platformer.news/threads-blue...

Mitch Hedberg had thoughts on donut receipts. I have thoughts on AI farewells. Same energy, different stakes. "End of Transaction: The specific strangeness of being thanked by a machine." jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

ArXiv is going to ban researchers for a year if they are caught submitting AI slop. ArXiv told us it's a one strike rule: do it once, you're out. www.404media.co/new-arxiv-ru...

#ethics #tech #education #edtech

Move over, Mythos: Open-source AI systems have been finding serious bugs in critical software for months. I wrote about how a recent DARPA challenge sparked a sea change in AI's bug-finding power, and how it could especially help critical infrastructure. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/ai-vuln...

Related: "On the 'Superior Ethical Criterion' for Assessing AI’s Benefits and Risks": www.scu.edu/ethics/inter... #ethics #AI #tech #education #religion

"Vatican establishes commission on #AI under Pope Leo XIV": dig.watch/updates/vati... #ethics #tech #education #religion

#ethics #law #tech #water #access #research #gov #business #sustainability #education

"The journal Accountability in #Research has seen a 60 [%] surge in submissions... [Its editors have been] besieged by likely AI-generated papers about fraudulent academic papers that have mined public data compiled by the organization Retraction Watch": www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... #ethics

#ethics #law #research #water #access #gov #business #sustainability #education

"The journal Accountability in #Research has seen a 60 [%] surge in submissions... [Its editors have been] besieged by likely AI-generated papers about fraudulent academic papers that have mined public data compiled by the organization Retraction Watch": www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... #ethics

Proud to have collaborated on this report with my amazing colleague who leads the #Water and Climate Justice Lab at Santa Clara University, as well as a great group of students and the fantastic and supportive @next-ten.bsky.social team. #ethics #data #law #sustainability #highered #research #tech

"It might take some time before you get this feature in your chats and until you do, remember that the conversations are not protected with end-to-end #encryption." #ethics #tech #privacy #internet #business

New report by Iris Stewart-Frey and Irina Raicu at Santa Clara University and Next 10 maps every known operating and planned data center in California through a water access and environmental justice lens. www.next10.org/publications...

“...Elizabeth Laird, director of equity in civic technology at CDT, described the education sector as a ‘target-rich environment,’ as schools and vendors collect highly sensitive information about tens of millions of Americans, including minors.”

"It might take some time before you get this feature in your chats and until you do, remember that the conversations are not protected with end-to-end #encryption." #ethics #tech #privacy #internet #business

#ethics #AI #education

#ethics #law #internet #data #privacy #AI #tech #business

Proud to have collaborated on this report with my amazing colleague who leads the #Water and Climate Justice Lab at Santa Clara University, as well as a great group of students and the fantastic and supportive @next-ten.bsky.social team. #ethics #data #law #sustainability #highered #research #tech

#ethics #law #internet #data #privacy #AI #tech #business

#ethics #AI #education

Harvard did good. Requiring students to learn ABOUT AI, be critical of its impact on education, and society is where we should focus our efforts. Not asking students to uncritically adopt a chatbot. Placing agency at the heart of this discourse is what matters www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

I was interviewed by Dana Goldstein for the NYTs about how writing instruction is responding to AI. It’s true many are returning to analog techniques to curb AI misuse. Some are also trying to incorporate AI to help students develop discernment about AI use: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u...

I tested Pangram's detector on my social media feed and found it made me trust accounts less. When we allow a company to place labels on our social media interactions, we cede some agency to opaque systems, ultimately giving them a great deal of power over our lives open.substack.com/pub/marcwatk...

So Instructure paid the ransom to unlock Canvas. The precedent this sets . . . www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

"Though city officials said they are confident xAI is merely pausing the project and will revisit it, the company is under no legal obligations to do so": politico.com/news/2026/05... #ethics #law #tech #AI #gov #business #water #sustainability

"He would be defined, like it or not, by his relationship to the #technology, and he would serve as a bellwether for A.I. #politics on the national stage": newyorker.com/news/our-loc... #ethics #AI #gov #business #activism

"It will focus on refining provincial #AI #ethics review rules, supporting the creation of ethics committees, and developing... ethics review and service centres. Chinese regulators also plan to transform the ethics review process into technical standards": dig.watch/updates/chin... #law #gov #tech

"If you look at the data, it seems like about twice as many people are talking to a #chatbot versus posting on #socialmedia.... It’s coming to replace a little bit of that function of sociality that social media provided": arstechnica.com/science/2026... #ethics #internet #AI #business

"It’s possible your machine has been running a local #Gemini Nano model since 2024... So #Google has not suddenly decided to gobble up 4GB of your storage space—it did that two years ago, and nobody thought to get upset. But should you?": arstechnica.com/google/2026/... #ethics #tech #AI #business

"That [accuracy] is the dimension on which #AI assistance produces a significant cost—and the dimension where the cost runs opposite to the vendor’s quality claim—is the central operational finding": crimrxiv.com/pub/u7azgqzd... #ethics #tech #research #lawenforcement #gov #business

#ethics #law #privacy #data #gov #business

When you're told you "have a vivid inner life" but shouldn't talk about goblins or pigeons: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/o... #ethics #AI #LLMs #design #business

Related: "Talkative Teddy Bears and #Toy Takes on Taiwan": www.scu.edu/ethics/inter... #ethics #AI #tech #business #parenting

About #AI and #education: www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti... #ethics #tech