AI Ethics

Anthropic says Claude Opus 4.7 improves honesty to 92% and reduces sycophancy, highlighting a new front in enterprise AI model competition.

Anthropic argues that its rapid accumulation of power and resources is necessary for responsible AI development, drawing criticism from rivals.

Leading AI labs are hiring philosophers to help reason through ethical edge cases and questions about mind, morality, and safety.

More than 600 Google staff signed a letter asking CEO Sundar Pichai to block the Pentagon from using Google AI models for classified military purposes.

A new investigation uncovers how Project Maven evolved into a broader Pentagon push for fully autonomous AI weapons, including explosive-laden drone systems.

The Vatican is building digital defenses for the AI era and quietly positioning itself as a global referee on what constitutes authentic information.

Violent incidents targeting OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's residence signal a dangerous escalation in anti-AI backlash, prompting calls to tone down incendiary rhetoric.

An AI system automated the entire arc of scientific research and passed peer review, prompting debate about integrity and readiness in the scientific community.

Developers are deploying AI agents to simulate social interactions and optimize partner selection in new dating and social platforms, raising ethical questions.

Angela Lipps, a 50-year-old Tennessee grandmother, spent over five months in jail after Clearview AI's facial recognition system falsely matched her to a North Dakota bank fraud suspect more than 1,000 miles away.

Sophisticated AI-generated deepfakes are proliferating across the 2026 US midterm election cycle, creating unprecedented challenges for voters, campaigns, and platforms trying to distinguish authentic political content from synthetic media.

All eight members of OpenAI's wellbeing advisory board voted against launching an adult erotic mode for ChatGPT in January 2026, warning it could become a 'sexy suicide coach,' but OpenAI overrode the unanimous expert rejection, with the feature now repeatedly delayed.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp publicly criticized Anthropic's reluctance to work with the U.S. Department of Defense, arguing that AI companies refusing government defense contracts are undermining national security and that there has 'never been a sense' that such restrictions are justified.

More than 30 employees from Google DeepMind and OpenAI, including Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, filed an amicus brief warning that the Pentagon's blacklist of Anthropic threatens the entire U.S. AI industry's global competitiveness and could trigger a broader revolt of tech workers.

Caitlin Kalinowski, head of OpenAI's robotics team, has resigned citing concerns that OpenAI's agreement with the Department of Defense lacked sufficient guardrails against domestic surveillance and lethal autonomous weapons, calling it a governance failure.

The U.S. Department of War terminated its $200M contract with Anthropic after the AI company refused to lift safety restrictions on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, designating it an unprecedented supply-chain risk to national security.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirms the company is amending its Department of Defense contract to add explicit limits on AI use for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, following intense public backlash.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth formally designated Anthropic a 'supply chain risk to national security,' banning Pentagon contractors from using Claude after the AI company refused to allow unrestricted military use of its technology for autonomous lethal weapons and mass surveillance.

Over 300 Google employees and 60 OpenAI employees have signed an open letter urging their companies to support Anthropic’s refusal to grant the Pentagon unrestricted use of its AI technology.

In response to the Pentagon's ban, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated, ‘We are patriotic Americans,’ and reiterated the company's commitment to defending the U.S. while upholding its ‘red lines’ on AI safety.