Artificial Intelligence ethics – The Conversation

Once powerful AI models are released, it’s nearly impossible to keep them from being misused. Minimizing the risk means making safety the top priority in developing the systems.

Large index-tracking funds could soon gain automatic exposure to AI giants as companies such as OpenAI edge toward public markets.

A survey and workshop project is designed to help educators reflect on their comfort with genAI, assessment and educational practices and their fears and challenges.

Right now it’s something of an arms race as new technologies are developed – and detectors struggle to keep up.

AI systems can now improve themselves by themselves. Is this the dawn of machine superintelligence?

When people know someone used AI to write a message, they see the person as lazy or insincere.

Higher education’s embrace of AI reveals deeper trends in institutional priorities − and what’s at risk.

Canada’s long history with public service media offers a useful model for thinking about how AI could serve the public.

Generative AI may appear to offer a shortcut, but without verification and expertise, it can easily mislead users.

Authoritarian governments, including the Trump administration, are reorienting AI safety provisions away from protecting the public toward coercing support for the regime.

Ethical AI starts with listening. If we want digital systems to be fair, safe and trusted, we must give young people a seat at the table and treat their voices as essential, not optional.

AI is creating new opportunities for some and new vulnerabilities for others, deepening the socioeconomic inequalities already embedded in the labour market.

What Canada’s response to AI protocols in the wake of the Tumbler Ridge tragedy gets wrong, and what durable governance actually requires.

The Colorado AI Act goes into effect next year, but legislators are attempting to repeal and replace it.

AI now makes it possible to communicate with the dead. But these digital avatars raise significant ethical questions about our relationship with mortality.

Banning ‘nudify’ apps is an important step, but alone it won’t stop the harm they cause.

The speed and scale of war are being enhanced by AI systems – but they also bring new risks for civilians and military combatants.

YouTube was found to have used AI to edit videos without creators’ consent. And it’s not the first time a media company has done this.

It can take years to collect evidence that shows effective uses of new technologies in schools. Unfortunately, early guesses sometimes go seriously wrong.