ai ethics

On 6 December 2025 a piece published on royaldutchshellplc.com set off a small, but revealing, chain reaction: Elon Musk’s conversational model GROK produced a confident biographical sketch of veteran campaigner John Donovan — and in doing so asserted a factual claim about Donovan’s late father...

Washington State University’s Carson College of Business this week staged a focused, practical entry into campus AI education with its inaugural two‑day AI@Carson Workshop — an immersive bootcamp that combined prompt‑engineering labs, ethics case studies, and discipline‑specific sessions...

Microsoft has officially moved its AI-powered Designer app out of preview and made it broadly available to anyone with a Microsoft account, turning a once-experimental canvas into a full‑fledged, cross‑platform tool that brings AI-generated images, avatars, templates, and Copilot-powered design...

Mustafa Suleyman’s brusque dismissal of critics as “cynics” — a now‑viral social post that scoffs at people who find modern AI “underwhelming” — did more than headline the week’s tech chatter; it crystallized a broader credibility problem for Microsoft’s AI push and reopened a debate about what...

Microsoft's announcement that it has halted and disabled specific Azure and AI subscriptions used by Israel's Ministry of Defense marks a rare, consequential intervention by a major cloud provider into the geopolitics of surveillance and wartime intelligence — an intervention prompted by...

Microsoft’s latest marketing flourish — a terse post claiming “Copilot finishing your code before you finish your coffee” — has become an unexpectedly sharp pivot point in a growing debate about artificial intelligence inside Windows 11, and it reveals a deeper credibility problem for Microsoft...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot-for-Windows social spot was meant to be a short, reassuring demo of AI helping with everyday tasks — instead it turned into a viral lesson in how an assistant that doesn’t check the screen can actively damage trust and raise real accessibility concerns. Background...

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...