The Internet Ethics program--Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
@iethics.bsky.social
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"AI and 'Magnifica Humanitas': A webinar series about the Papal encyclical"--register now and join us for any or all of 4 webinars focusing on
#education
,
#labor
,
#consciousness
, and disarming AI:
events.scu.edu/ethics/event...
#ethics
#AI
#tech
#highered
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AI and “Magnifica Humanitas”: A webinar series about the Papal encyclical
Join us for any or all of four webinars in which ethics center staff members and other Santa Clara University faculty and staff will address key AI...
https://events.scu.edu/ethics/event/encyclical-ai-education
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"[A] proper theory of
#agency
might give us a clearer idea of what’s needed to make genuine artificial agents... We might then also get a clearer idea of the potential benefits and dangers such truly agential machines might bring":
quantamagazine.org/is-life-just...
#ethics
#AI
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Is Life Just Different? | Quanta Magazine
The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of what it means to be alive. But does it serve a scientific purpose?
https://quantamagazine.org/is-life-just-different-20260708/
about 12 hours ago
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"AI and 'Magnifica Humanitas': A webinar series about the Papal encyclical"--register now and join us for any or all of 4 webinars focusing on
#education
,
#labor
,
#consciousness
, and disarming AI:
events.scu.edu/ethics/event...
#ethics
#AI
#tech
#highered
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AI and “Magnifica Humanitas”: A webinar series about the Papal encyclical
Join us for any or all of four webinars in which ethics center staff members and other Santa Clara University faculty and staff will address key AI...
https://events.scu.edu/ethics/event/encyclical-ai-education
about 12 hours ago
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"[A] proper theory of
#agency
might give us a clearer idea of what’s needed to make genuine artificial agents... We might then also get a clearer idea of the potential benefits and dangers such truly agential machines might bring":
quantamagazine.org/is-life-just...
#ethics
#AI
#research
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Is Life Just Different? | Quanta Magazine
The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of what it means to be alive. But does it serve a scientific purpose?
https://quantamagazine.org/is-life-just-different-20260708/
about 12 hours ago
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"Audiobook of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical "Magnifica humanitas" now available":
www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
#ethics
#internet
#AI
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Audiobook of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical "Magnifica humanitas" now available - Vatican News
The English editorial team of Vatican Radio – Vatican News has prepared an audiobook of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical Magnifica humanitas.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-06/audiobook-of-pope-leo-xiv-s-encyclical-now-available.html
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"Audiobook of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical "Magnifica humanitas" now available":
www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
#ethics
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Audiobook of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical "Magnifica humanitas" now available - Vatican News
The English editorial team of Vatican Radio – Vatican News has prepared an audiobook of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical Magnifica humanitas.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-06/audiobook-of-pope-leo-xiv-s-encyclical-now-available.html
1 day ago
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"[T]he current 'AI wants
#philosopher
' story needs a correction. The issue is not whether philosophers can contribute to
#AI
. They already do. The issue is whether the public story has mistaken philosophical demand for a legible occupational pipeline":
dailynous.com/2026/07/08/t...
#ethics
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The Philosophy Job Market Deepfake (guest post) - Daily Nous
Have you heard? AI companies are hiring philosophers! Sort of. News about jobs for philosophers is the kind of thing you might expect to read about at Daily Nous---for example, here is a post about wh...
https://dailynous.com/2026/07/08/the-philosophy-job-market-deepfake-guest-post/
1 day ago
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"The rabbis drew multiple lessons from Shinar, and several map precisely onto the dangers we are now again courting":
www.techpolicy.press/the-pope-fou...
#ethics
#AI
#tech
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The Pope Found Babel in AI. Here's What Rabbis Saw
The oldest story we have about technology is a cautionary tale, write Jules Polonetsky and Omer Tene.
https://www.techpolicy.press/the-pope-found-babel-in-ai-heres-what-rabbis-saw/
1 day ago
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#ethics
#law
#AI
#tech
#gov
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Dominik Stammbach
about 1 month ago
Really exciting work led by Patty Liu on LLM-generated hallucinated legal citations! We also put out a more technical draft describing a dataset and methods for benchmarking legal citation verification
princeton-polaris-lab.github.io/legal-halluc...
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Dominik Stammbach
16 days ago
@skyien-z.bsky.social
and
@nimranadeem.bsky.social
evaluated LLMs for oral argument preparation -- before the hype around Katyal's TED Talk and Harvey's AI system. Findings are more nuanced: while some generations are great, there's sycophancy, limited diversity, and barely any hypotheticals
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"The rabbis drew multiple lessons from Shinar, and several map precisely onto the dangers we are now again courting":
www.techpolicy.press/the-pope-fou...
#ethics
#AI
#tech
#religion
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The Pope Found Babel in AI. Here's What Rabbis Saw
The oldest story we have about technology is a cautionary tale, write Jules Polonetsky and Omer Tene.
https://www.techpolicy.press/the-pope-found-babel-in-ai-heres-what-rabbis-saw/
1 day ago
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"[T]he current 'AI wants
#philosopher
' story needs a correction. The issue is not whether philosophers can contribute to
#AI
. They already do. The issue is whether the public story has mistaken philosophical demand for a legible occupational pipeline":
dailynous.com/2026/07/08/t...
#ethics
#tech
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The Philosophy Job Market Deepfake (guest post) - Daily Nous
Have you heard? AI companies are hiring philosophers! Sort of. News about jobs for philosophers is the kind of thing you might expect to read about at Daily Nous---for example, here is a post about wh...
https://dailynous.com/2026/07/08/the-philosophy-job-market-deepfake-guest-post/
1 day ago
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The Internet Ethics program--Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
"The Supreme Court could still hear a challenge to the
#law
after the 5th Circuit proceedings are over. The Supreme Court already upheld a Texas law requiring age verification on porn sites in June 2025"
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
#ethics
#internet
#gov
#Apple
#Google
#privacy
#tech
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SCOTUS lets Texas enforce app store law that Big Tech calls "censorship regime"
Texas win at 5th Circuit left in place as attempts to overturn age law continue.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/supreme-court-lets-texas-enforce-age-verification-law-on-app-stores/
3 days ago
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"ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics":
wired.com/story/ices-i...
#ethics
#internet
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ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics
The Office of Professional Responsibility has opened more than 100 cases over what ICE officials call “incidents of doxing and threats” against ICE employees.
https://wired.com/story/ices-internal-watchdog-is-now-investigating-online-critics/
3 days ago
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Zachary Lipton
about 1 year ago
Small idiosyncratic language errors in otherwise clear technical papers are now a plus; assurance that I'm not wasting my time trying to read GPT spam.
#neurips2025
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"ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics":
wired.com/story/ices-i...
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ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics
The Office of Professional Responsibility has opened more than 100 cases over what ICE officials call “incidents of doxing and threats” against ICE employees.
https://wired.com/story/ices-internal-watchdog-is-now-investigating-online-critics/
3 days ago
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Pew Research Center
5 days ago
85% of U.S. adults support social media companies requiring parental consent for minors to create an account. Support for policies like requiring parental consent, age verification and setting time limits for minors has increased in recent years. 📱📈
#SocialMediaPolicies
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"The Supreme Court could still hear a challenge to the
#law
after the 5th Circuit proceedings are over. The Supreme Court already upheld a Texas law requiring age verification on porn sites in June 2025"
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
#ethics
#internet
#gov
#Apple
#Google
#privacy
#tech
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SCOTUS lets Texas enforce app store law that Big Tech calls "censorship regime"
Texas win at 5th Circuit left in place as attempts to overturn age law continue.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/supreme-court-lets-texas-enforce-age-verification-law-on-app-stores/
3 days ago
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Nieman Lab
10 days ago
The one-two punch of funding cuts from the U.S. government and big tech platforms has left fact-checking organizations at a crossroads. They can either compete for grants from a dwindling pool of philanthropic support, or they can explore new ways of making money.
www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/at-g...
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Fact-checkers reckon with shrinking budgets and growing AI threats at GlobalFact 2026
Hundreds gathered in Lithuania to discuss Russian influence operations, “LLM poisoning," and how to survive a funding crisis.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/at-globalfact-fact-checkers-reckon-with-declining-grant-funding-and-ai-generated-disinfo-on-the-rise/
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Nieman Lab
9 days ago
"Alabama Community News LLC is not a real corporation, and 1819 News never funded any roll-up of Alabama weeklies. It’s all fake." (But why?)
www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/now-...
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Now we’re getting AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news
Did 47 Alabama newspapers die on a single day and no one noticed? (Hint: No, they didn't.)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/now-were-getting-ai-fake-news-complaining-about-how-ai-fake-news-is-the-death-of-real-news/
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danah boyd
8 days ago
Cynthia Dwork & other privacy experts show why Trump Admin’s politically motivated decision to prevent the Census Bureau from using the best methods to protect confidentiality will end up with worse quality data, less publicly available data, and/or a privacy breach.
scottaaronson.blog?p=9902
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An American privacy emergency: Guest post from Cynthia Dwork et al.
Scott’s foreword: Cynthia Dwork is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, and a pioneer in the fields of differential privacy and algorithmic fairness. On my recent travels to…
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9902
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8 days ago
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Ars Technica
9 days ago
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Google loses long-running appeal of record EU fine, will have to cough up $4.7 billion
The EU went after Google for the practice of bundling its search engine and browser with Android.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/google-loses-long-running-appeal-of-record-eu-fine-will-have-to-cough-up-4-7-billion/?utm_source=bsky&utm_medium=social
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"Anthropic said Tuesday night that its
#AI
model called Claude Fable 5 is now widely available. It’s also restoring access to... Mythos 5, but only to a select group of U.S.-based organizations approved by the federal
#government
":
apnews.com/article/anth...
#ethics
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Trump administration lifts restrictions on Anthropic's Claude models after cybersecurity alarm
The Trump administration has lifted restrictions on artificial intelligence company Anthropic’s latest versions of its Claude chatbot, ending a weekslong ban tied to cybersecurity concerns.
https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-fable-mythos-trump-claude-028db5135128fce6b38c873bf9cb5e09
9 days ago
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"One well-documented but underappreciated flaw of [AI] models is that they tend to favor [text] produced by [AI]... But many companies seemed unaware of this problem, or at least unable to imagine how it might wreak havoc on their operations":
seattletimes.com/business/wer...
#ethics
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We’re only starting to grasp the pitfalls of using AI at work
As companies race to bring AI into their day-to-day operations, researchers are discovering more subtle defects. Most corporate users appear to be blissfully unaware of these issues.
https://seattletimes.com/business/were-only-starting-to-grasp-the-pitfalls-of-using-ai-at-work/
9 days ago
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About
@santaclarauniv.bsky.social
's "AI Kitchen": "[A]s a university, we shouldn’t cede the development of these tools to folks who don’t have that kind of critical perspective that we can bring as students and faculty and staff in a university setting"
insidehighered.com/news/student...
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Inside a University’s “AI Kitchen”
Santa Clara University’s weekly workshop fosters belonging while helping students, faculty and staff build practical AI skills through hands-on learning.
https://insidehighered.com/news/student-success/college-experience/2026/06/30/inside-universitys-ai-kitchen
9 days ago
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"AI companies can tune how conscious their chatbots appear to users":
washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
#ethics
#AI
#tech
#design
#research
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They built the world’s most powerful AI. They’re facing a mystery they can’t explain.
Anthropic, Google and Meta have hired computer scientists, neuroscientists and philosophers to study what some in the industry think may become a moral crisis.
https://washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/07/01/biggest-tech-companies-are-considering-whether-chatbots-have-emotions/
9 days ago
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The Internet Ethics program--Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Audiobook of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical "Magnifica humanitas":
vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
#ethics
#AI
#tech
#religion
#education
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Audiobook of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical "Magnifica humanitas" now available - Vatican News
The English editorial team of Vatican Radio – Vatican News has prepared an audiobook of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical Magnifica humanitas.
http://vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-06/audiobook-of-pope-leo-xiv-s-encyclical-now-available.html
9 days ago
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New
#internet
#ethics
case study: "HALoN and Crisis Communication Networks":
www.scu.edu/ethics/focus...
#tech
#engineering
#highered
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HALoN and Crisis Communication Networks
High Altitude Long-Range Networking (HALoN) for Crisis Communication, a research prototype used in high-stakes environments, enables temporary access to communication infrastructure, particularly for ...
https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/internet-ethics/resources/halon-and-crisis-communication-networks-an-ethics-case-study/
9 days ago
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"People are assigning tasks to agents, who in turn assign portions of them to people... The chain of delegation authority is starting to run in both directions, and there is no protocol for managing or even declaring those relationships yet."
www.noemamag.com/we-need-a-wa...
#ethics
#AI
#tech
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We Need A Way To Prove Personhood Online | NOEMA
The growing number of AI agents roaming the internet will eventually force us to verify what the old web mostly presumed: that there is a morally and legally accountable person somewhere in the chain.
https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-a-way-to-prove-personhood-online/#ethics
9 days ago
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The Internet Ethics program--Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
"Former
#government
workers told NextGov that using
#AI
to launch sites could 'theoretically' work, but only with 'careful monitoring'.... sloppy AI code could also introduce
#cybersecurity
risks."
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
#ethics
#internet
#tech
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Trump's plan to redesign every .gov website leads to AI-designed horrors
A year in, National Design Studio delays plan to update government web standards.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/trumps-plan-to-redesign-every-gov-website-leads-to-ai-designed-horrors/#ethics
9 days ago
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"The growth of wearable
#technology
such as smart vests, as well as the betting industry and prediction platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket, is also fueling the demand for
#data
workers":
restofworld.org/2026/fifa-wo...
#ethics
#internet
#tech
#labor
#worldcup
#football
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The AI-powered World Cup runs on thousands of data workers
Human annotators in Brazil, Cambodia, and the Philippines are tracking every movement in the football tournament for teams, broadcasters, and the betting industry.
https://restofworld.org/2026/fifa-world-cup-ai-data-workers/
9 days ago
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#ethics
#tech
#sustainability
#environment
#gov
#business
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#ethics
#law
#internet
#socialmedia
#tech
#business
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9 days ago
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
9 days ago
RSS has been around for decades, but it’s still one of the most powerful tools around to take control of your media and social consumption.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For
Since at least the moment Facebook introduced (and apologized for) its News Feed, “the algorithm” has been shorthand for the ways the tech giants control what we see and when we see it. In the age of
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/hate-algorithm-rss-one-tools-youve-been-looking
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Reuters Legal
10 days ago
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had nothing to do with his personal finances, a day after he reported more than $1.4 billion in income from his family's crypto ventures.
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Trump on financial disclosures: Everyone's profiting because stock market is up
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had nothing to do with his personal finances, a day after he reported more than $1.4 billion in income from his family's crypto ventures.
https://reut.rs/4eU7GiP
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Reuters Legal
9 days ago
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday said AI companies whose chatbots produce responses that reflect "ideological objectives" may violate federal law, as part of a proposed policy on how the FTC will apply its authority to the sector.
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US FTC says AI bias safeguards may run afoul of consumer law
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday said AI companies whose chatbots produce responses that reflect "ideological objectives" may violate federal law, as part of a proposed policy on how the FTC will apply its authority to the sector.
https://reut.rs/4ePcd5Z
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"The growth of wearable
#technology
such as smart vests, as well as the betting industry and prediction platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket, is also fueling the demand for
#data
workers":
restofworld.org/2026/fifa-wo...
#ethics
#internet
#tech
#labor
#worldcup
#football
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The AI-powered World Cup runs on thousands of data workers
Human annotators in Brazil, Cambodia, and the Philippines are tracking every movement in the football tournament for teams, broadcasters, and the betting industry.
https://restofworld.org/2026/fifa-world-cup-ai-data-workers/
9 days ago
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"Former
#government
workers told NextGov that using
#AI
to launch sites could 'theoretically' work, but only with 'careful monitoring'.... sloppy AI code could also introduce
#cybersecurity
risks."
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
#ethics
#internet
#tech
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Trump's plan to redesign every .gov website leads to AI-designed horrors
A year in, National Design Studio delays plan to update government web standards.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/trumps-plan-to-redesign-every-gov-website-leads-to-ai-designed-horrors/#ethics
9 days ago
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"People are assigning tasks to agents, who in turn assign portions of them to people... The chain of delegation authority is starting to run in both directions, and there is no protocol for managing or even declaring those relationships yet."
www.noemamag.com/we-need-a-wa...
#ethics
#AI
#tech
#law
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We Need A Way To Prove Personhood Online | NOEMA
The growing number of AI agents roaming the internet will eventually force us to verify what the old web mostly presumed: that there is a morally and legally accountable person somewhere in the chain.
https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-a-way-to-prove-personhood-online/#ethics
9 days ago
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New
#internet
#ethics
case study: "HALoN and Crisis Communication Networks":
www.scu.edu/ethics/focus...
#tech
#engineering
#highered
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HALoN and Crisis Communication Networks
High Altitude Long-Range Networking (HALoN) for Crisis Communication, a research prototype used in high-stakes environments, enables temporary access to communication infrastructure, particularly for ...
https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/internet-ethics/resources/halon-and-crisis-communication-networks-an-ethics-case-study/
9 days ago
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Audiobook of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical "Magnifica humanitas":
vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
#ethics
#AI
#tech
#religion
#education
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Audiobook of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical "Magnifica humanitas" now available - Vatican News
The English editorial team of Vatican Radio – Vatican News has prepared an audiobook of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical Magnifica humanitas.
http://vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-06/audiobook-of-pope-leo-xiv-s-encyclical-now-available.html
9 days ago
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"A lot of the best
#data
... is coming directly from
#AI
companies that publish white papers and preprints instead of going through peer review... 'Yes, they could be lying, but what else can you do? [You] kind of have to take their word for it,' he says."
www.jmir.org/2026/1/e105105
#ethics
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"AI companies can tune how conscious their chatbots appear to users":
washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
#ethics
#AI
#tech
#design
#research
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They built the world’s most powerful AI. They’re facing a mystery they can’t explain.
Anthropic, Google and Meta have hired computer scientists, neuroscientists and philosophers to study what some in the industry think may become a moral crisis.
https://washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/07/01/biggest-tech-companies-are-considering-whether-chatbots-have-emotions/
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