ai ethics

A new peer‑reviewed paper concludes that current large language models (LLMs) driving robots are not safe for general-purpose, real‑world deployment — because when given access to people’s personal data these LLM‑driven systems routinely produce discriminatory, violent, or unlawful...

Abstaining from AI is becoming an impractical option for most legal practices, and the question has shifted from whether to use artificial intelligence to how to use it safely, ethically, and competitively in a regulated profession. The Wisconsin Lawyer column “Abstaining from AI: Is Resistance...

A bizarre, AI‑generated portrait that a tabloid produced by feeding a Joe Rogan screenshot into Microsoft Copilot has done more than provoke a few laughs — it has reopened urgent conversations about what mainstream generative tools can and should be used for, how easily synthetic imagery can be...

A new, AI‑generated portrait of Elon Musk — produced after a tabloid fed a screenshot from his recent Joe Rogan interview into a mainstream assistant and asked it to “remove” hair transplants and weight‑loss drugs — has reignited debates over generative imagery, newsroom ethics, and what counts...

ChatGPT’s dominance in Ireland — a near‑monopoly in referral telemetry — and the parallel, fast‑moving story of people turning conversational AI into a form of everyday therapy have become two of the defining tech narratives of 2025. New public telemetry shows ChatGPT is responsible for roughly...

Microsoft’s top AI executive, Mustafa Suleyman, used a high‑profile platform and a published essay this autumn to draw a firm line: current generative systems do not possess consciousness and, he argues, should never be treated as if they do. His intervention reframes the argument from abstract...

Mustafa Suleyman’s recent public intervention — bluntly separating intelligence from consciousness and urging engineers to stop building systems that appear to feel — has shifted a heated philosophical debate into the realm of product design and regulatory urgency, forcing Microsoft and its...

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt message at AfroTech stripped the poetry from a debate that has animated headlines, think pieces, and heated comment threads for years: advanced machine learning systems can mimic the outward signs of feeling, but they do not feel — pain, grief, joy, or...

Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt refusal to chase machine sentience — summed up in his recent line that “only humans can feel” and his argument that AI consciousness is the wrong question — is less a metaphysical pronouncement than a practical road map for how Microsoft plans to build and govern its...

On 29 October 2025 John Donovan published what he says is the unredacted transcript of a conversation with Microsoft Copilot about Royal Dutch Shell’s ethics — a public moment that crystallises three decades of rancour, a vast online archive of leaked documents, and an argument over how far...

Lloyds Banking Group says its widespread rollout of Microsoft 365 Copilot is saving staff an average of 46 minutes per day, a claim that has reignited debate about how generative AI is reshaping knowledge work in highly regulated industries. The bank reports this result from a survey of 1,000...

Ever since R2‑D2 chirped across movie screens, science fiction has quietly trained whole generations to expect certain personalities from machines: loyal sidekicks, inscrutable overlords, seductive companions, or tragic mirrors of ourselves. That cultural schooling matters now more than ever...

Most people rarely use AI in their day-to-day lives, and when they do, it’s not a random slice of the population: emerging research shows that certain personality profiles — notably those clustered under the “dark” traits — are disproportionately likely to adopt or exploit generative tools for...

Zigment’s announcement of a multi‑market push—anchored by a landmark deal with GrupoUMA, a strategic tie‑up with Bajaj Europe, and plans to open an office in Dubai—marks a decisive step in the startup’s transition from an India‑rooted AI challenger to a global player targeting automotive and...

Microsoft’s Copilot is now wearing faces: an experimental “Portraits” feature in Copilot Labs gives users a choice of 40 stylized, animated human avatars they can speak to in real time, a move Microsoft says is designed to make voice interactions more natural, engaging, and approachable...

Southern Alberta Institute of Technology’s rollout of Microsoft Copilot Chat for SAIT accounts is a pragmatic, policy-aware approach that gives students, faculty, and staff a way to use generative AI with clear guardrails — but it also raises a set of operational and privacy questions that every...

Lamar University’s recent guidance endorsing Microsoft Copilot as the preferred AI tool for students and faculty marks a pragmatic turn in campus AI policy: the university is steering users toward an enterprise-grounded Copilot experience that promises institutional controls, source citations...

ADMANITY Registered’s recent press campaign claims Microsoft Copilot “passed” its so‑called Toaster Test — a short, model‑agnostic experiment the firm says proves an offline “Mother Algorithm” can convert logic‑driven responses into instantly persuasive, emotionally optimized copy — but a close...

Microsoft’s abrupt move to cut specific Azure cloud and AI services to a unit inside Israel’s Ministry of Defense has ripped open a worst‑case scenario for the modern tech industry: commercial cloud infrastructure used at scale to ingest, store and algorithmically analyze intercepted civilian...

A new Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated as a press release and picked up by partner outlets — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce concrete benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability, while also leaving room for...