📌 The AI Ethics Brief #191: The Terms of the Bargain What we give up, who gets to refuse, and the road to SAIER Volume 8 (2026). open.substack.com/pub/aiethics...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #190: The Data We Leave Behind On therapy sessions, Slack archives, and citations that didn't exist. open.substack.com/pub/aiethics...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #189: The Futures We Make Room For On participatory tech futures, contested language, and what comes next for AI ethics. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #188: The Names We Give Things On what we opt into, the language we use, and the distance between what things are called and what they actually do. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

Out tomorrow at 10am ET, Mar 31: 📌 The AI Ethics Brief #187: The Myth of Inevitability On manufactured inevitability and the surveillance infrastructure being built in plain sight. open.substack.com/pub/aiethics...

Surveillance pricing isn’t competition. It’s companies using your data to decide what you specifically are willing to pay, writes Renjie Butalid. Ontario doesn’t need to “let the market decide,” it should draw a line before the practice becomes normalized.

I simply cannot hold it in any longer: We're running a workshop at @facct.bsky.social! 🎉 Alongside @renjieb.bsky.social @ftollon.bsky.social and Christine R. Kirkpatrick, I will be facilitating a workshop at the intersection of futures thinking, dialogue and AI governance 🔮 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Looking forward to when this edition of @mtlaiethics.bsky.social's AI Ethics Brief comes out tomorrow morning!

Global Dialogue on AI Governance consultation, here we go! Hoping to get three minutes to talk about the potential of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN)*, @weandai.bsky.social and @mtlaiethics.bsky.social *We have a website now! rain.ngo

New #TechFutures article in this week’s @mtlaiethics.bsky.social #AIEthicsBrief! Part one of a two-part series looking at how #BigTech is learning from the #FossilFuels playbook. montrealethics.ai/tech-futures...

Isadora Argenta @grailcenter.bsky.social examines Illinois’ Act 103-0804 in the latest AI Policy Corner @mtlaiethics.bsky.social . The law restricts discriminatory uses of AI in employment & requires notice when AI influences hiring decisions. brief.montrealethics.ai/i/191138405/... #AIpolicy

Efua Asamani-Baah article, @grailcenter.bsky.social in AI Policy Corner examines Ghana’s national strategy for AI integration, assessing governance priorities, development goals & implementation challenges @mtlaiethics.bsky.social 🔗 montrealethics.ai/ai-policy-co... #AI #AIpolicy #AIGovernance

It’s out! For this week’s #AIEthicsBrief, I contributed an article on the difficulties posed to open source maintainers by low-quality, AI-generated contributions montrealethics.ai/tech-futures...

There might be something of value here: zenodo.org/records/1278.... I’m writing about how AI slop is making open source resources harder to maintain for Tuesday’s #AIEthicsBrief by @mtlaiethics.bsky.social, which is a similar problem. bsky.app/profile/herm...

Working on something important for Tuesday's #AIEthicsBrief by @mtlaiethics.bsky.social

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #186: Sovereign by Design. Accountable by Whose Standard? Canada’s sovereignty moment, Anthropic’s values test, and the accountability frameworks we still need to build. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/8fd5fe71-c...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #185: When AI Goes to War Verification collapse, procurement politics, and the governance gap widening beneath both. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #184: What Deserves Your Attention On critical ignoring, Claude’s constitution, and why attention is the scarcest resource in AI. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

Very pleased to share the first of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network’s (RAIN) first “Tech Futures” column for @mtlaiethics.bsky.social: montrealethics.ai/tech-futures... I will use this space to argue for more rigorous, science-based AI narratives.

Is a shared AI policy framework coming? The latest Executive Order aims for national cohesion through 5 key strategies. Check out our collaboration @mtlaiethics.bsky.social with @grailcenter.bsky.social for a full analysis. montrealethics.ai/ai-policy-co... #AI #AIPolicy #TechEthics #Governance

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #183: Blurred Lines From health data to root permissions, AI is redrawing the boundaries of access brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #182: When Guardrails Fracture Why 2026 marks the end of “business as usual” for AI ethics open.substack.com/pub/aiethics...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #181: We're Stronger Together: Collective Action & AI Ethics Happy New Year! We kick off our first Brief of 2026 with our State of AI Ethics Report Part V: Collective Action, and mark the return of our Recess collaboration with Encode Canada. open.substack.com/pub/aiethics...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #180: Emerging Tech with Established Issues We wish you Happy Holidays before diving into our State of AI Ethics Report Part IV: Emerging Technologies, while Sun-Gyoo Kang explores AI agents and their effect on e-commerce open.substack.com/pub/aiethics...

The latest @mtlaiethics.bsky.social AI Ethics Brief examines how AI is reshaping labour across sectors from healthcare to the arts & how workers are organizing for rights, voice & accountability in response. 🔗 brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth... #AI #AIethics #Labour #ResponsibleAI #TechPolicy

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #179: Seen, But Not Heard: AI's Impact On Labour We further explore our State of AI Ethics Report with Part III: Sectoral Applications while highlighting the latest addition to our AI Policy Corner on Brazil's newest AI-related bill aiethics.substack.com/p/the-ai-eth...

@mtlaiethics.bsky.social How AI regulation can both harm & foster social justice, newest issue out. Digging into why regulation isn’t an unambiguous win: while helping curb misuse, it also risks reinforcing existing inequalities. 🔗 brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth... #AI #AIGovernance #AIpolicy

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #178: How AI Regulation Can Both Harm and Foster Social Justice We further explore our State of AI Ethics Report, while highlighting the latest addition to our AI Policy Corner on Ukraine's AI regulation whitepaper. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #177: Community-led AI Governance The SAIER, performative AI governance, and AI lab transparency brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

It’s back! The State of AI Ethics Report by @mtlaiethics.bsky.social is back! Not only has it been a joy to work alongside @renjieb.bsky.social and Connor to edit the many excellent articles, but also an important exploration of who Abhishek Gupta was, and his legacy. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #176: AI's Material Reality Data centres, digital art, and the material costs of AI. Plus SAIER Volume 7 returns. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #175: When Consultation Becomes Theatre Canada's AI strategy excludes those most affected, while copyright battles and tragic deaths expose the accountability crisis in AI deployment. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #174: The Unfinished Work of AI Ethics Revisiting Abhishek Gupta's legacy on sustainability, creative labor, and global security one year after his passing. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #173: Power, Policy, and Practice Military partnerships, psychological dependencies, and legislative responses to AI harms. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

Let's meet at ALL IN 2025 on September 24–25 in Montréal! We're looking forward to spotlighting stories & case studies from innovators, builders & regulators working on real-world AI breakthroughs. Secure your spot now: allinevent.ai #AI #Montreal #AIEvent #AIEconomy #Innovation

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #172: The State of AI Ethics in 2025: What's Actually Working SAIER Volume 7 Returns in November 2025 with Practical Solutions from Communities Leading the Way brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

did you remember to smile for the group photo? this is the earth and moon seen from 180 million miles away by the psyche spacecraft. we are really so small.

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #171: The Contradictions Defining AI's Future OpenAI's strategic reversals, why some philosophers say "ChatGPT is bullshit," and the battle between protection and privacy. montrealethics.ai/the-ai-ethic...

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #170: How the US and China Are Reshaping AI Geopolitics When deregulation meets multilateralism, privacy fails, and 'AI for Good' censors dissent. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

Selen Dogan Kosterit, a PhD student with the GRAIL Center, presents the latest AI Policy Corner with @mtlaiethics.bsky.social. She analyzes Japan’s AI Promotion Act, an innovation-focused, light-touch law aimed at making Japan the world’s most AI-friendly nation. montrealethics.ai/ai-policy-co...

given who is charge of AI right now, YIKES! I love the current ai born of curiousity and research, the next gen will be born of predatory profit and control//me begging for distributed local ai/homegrown! #resistance #artificialintelligence

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #169: From Helpful to Harmful - The Hidden Costs of Agentic AI Exploring agentic AI's privacy risks alongside web governance shifts, healthcare automation challenges, and the global AI literacy crisis. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

Better late than never, sharing Brief #167 from 2 weeks ago! The AI Ethics Brief #167: Beyond Declarations From closed-door G7 sessions to local data centres, Kenya’s roadmap, and what job warnings reveal about governing AI responsibly. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

The AI Ethics Brief #168: The Surveillance State's New Playbook How AI-powered enforcement is reshaping civil liberties, democratic oversight, and the future of human agency. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

The AI Ethics Brief #166: AI Systems in Human Spaces - Accountability and Unintended Consequences From MCP vulnerabilities and Reddit impersonation to hiring audits, university deployments, and collapsing AI-first strategies... brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

The AI Ethics Brief #165: AI, Trust, and the Public Interest This edition explores Canada’s AI leadership shift, contested U.S. state laws, and why literacy, justice, and safety must evolve together in the age of mis- and disinformation open.substack.com/pub/aiethics... Available May 27 at 10AM ET

The AI Ethics Brief #164: Balancing Faith and Governance From the Vatican and Zurich to Singapore and New Zealand, this issue explores how AI governance is being tested across infrastructure, aging and elderly care, and growing market pressure. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

The AI Ethics Brief #163: Navigating Uncertainty: AI's Expanding Influence on Society, Governance, and Power How AI is reshaping critical systems, from global development and labour markets to surveillance and professional governance. brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

The AI Ethics Brief #162: Beyond the Prompt Exploring the limits of delegation, from deepfakes and distrust to tariffs and the risks of Vibe Governing with AI brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...

We’ve published a Special Edition of The AI Ethics Brief honouring the legacy of Abhishek Gupta (1992–2024) — founder of MAIEI and a global leader in AI Ethics and Responsible AI. Abhishek's Memorial takes place this evening in Montreal (April 10). brief.montrealethics.ai/p/special-ed...