ai ethics

ADMANITY’s “Toaster Test” — a staged experiment the company says involved feeding a compact slice of its offline “Mother” emotional algorithm to two leading chat AIs, ChatGPT and Grok — has been republished broadly as proof that a discrete, model‑agnostic persuasion protocol can convert neutral...

Seneca Polytechnic has taken a significant step into graduate education with the public launch of its first-ever master’s degree: the Master of Artificial Intelligence Design & Development. The program — positioned as an industry-focused, work-integrated pathway into AI careers — promises deep...

Demis Hassabis’s warning lands like a wake-up call: as artificial intelligence advances toward the kind of general, agentic systems researchers call AGI, the very same attention-harvesting dynamics that turned social media into a global amplifying lens for addiction, outrage, and polarization...

Satya Nadella’s blunt message to Microsoft employees — that the company must undergo a “messy” and relentless transformation to survive the AI era — captures a high-stakes strategy that is already reshaping products, teams, and internal culture across the company. Background Microsoft’s...

The contours of the modern Executive MBA are shifting faster than most curricula can keep up: AI is no longer a future elective tucked into an optional module, it’s becoming an operational competency that executive programs are expected to deliver as a core outcome. Recent industry and academic...

Microsoft has quietly begun inviting some Windows 11 users to a new “Microsoft AI Labs” sign‑up from inside MS Paint, a subtle but significant step in how Microsoft is testing and distributing experimental AI features across the OS — and the rollout is already exposing tough questions about...

Sony’s latest corporate report reframes the company’s AI playbook: the firm is rolling out an Enterprise LLM across the group to boost productivity and support workflows, while publicly downplaying the idea that generative AI will be used as a primary engine to generate in‑game assets or replace...

AI has moved from an experimental novelty to a default tool in British lecture theatres and student workflows — and a new YouGov survey shows that the change is already reshaping how undergraduates study, submit assessments, and think about their careers. The headline figures are simple but...

Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt declaration that machine consciousness is an illusion has refocused a technical debate into an operational warning for product teams, regulators, and everyday Windows users: the immediate danger is not that machines will quietly wake up, but that they will be engineered...

AI assistants can — and do — confidently tell strangers that you committed a crime, voted a different way, or hold beliefs you don’t, and when that happens the damage is immediate, hard to correct, and increasingly baked into products people use for hiring, vetting, and decision-making. This is...

The long-running honeymoon between Microsoft and OpenAI has entered a new, more transactional phase: the two companies have signed a non‑binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) that lays out a revised partnership framework while OpenAI pursues a controversial restructure that hands a very...

A playful name and a deceptively simple prompt have pushed Google’s Gemini “Nano Banana” into the center of a new viral wave: users are turning ordinary selfies into hyper‑realistic miniature figurines, packaging mockups and even short animated clips with only a handful of words. The trend has...

Every leader who’s rushed to “buy AI” and roll it out by fiat has learned the same lesson: technology without people is a cost, not an advantage. Background: why the conversation matters now Generative AI is no longer an experimental sidebar for labs and startups — it’s being embedded in...

The image of a senior Xbox producer advising laid-off colleagues to “lean on AI” for emotional support crystallized a moment that many in tech already felt: the tools companies are using to reshape work are now being pitched as a balm for the wounds they helped inflict. Within hours of a...

OpenAI’s decision to add parental controls to ChatGPT this fall marks a consequential shift in how families, schools, and regulators will manage students’ interactions with generative AI—an acknowledgement that technical safeguards alone have not prevented harm and that human-centered...

A new executive paradox is reshaping corporate strategy: while a large majority of CEOs privately fear that artificial intelligence could unseat them, those same leaders are aggressively folding advanced models into core operations—testing AI on the tasks that matter most to governance, finance...

Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s head of consumer AI, has bluntly declared that the idea of machine consciousness is an “illusion” and warned that intentionally building systems to appear conscious could produce social, legal, and psychological harms far sooner than any technical breakthrough in...

Microsoft’s Copilot produced a wildly entertaining — and instructive — first-round mock of the 2026 NFL Draft after Week 1, exposing both the speed and the limits of conversational AI when it tries to translate fuzzy, fast-moving sports data into roster decisions. Background USA TODAY’s...

Baylor’s Career Center has quietly handed the passenger seat to artificial intelligence — deploying Microsoft Copilot agents to streamline resume building, interview practice and career discovery — and the move raises as many practical benefits as it does governance questions for higher...

Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt diagnosis — that machine consciousness is an “illusion” and that building systems to mimic personhood is dangerous — has reframed a debate that until recently lived mostly in philosophy seminars and research labs. His argument is practical, not metaphysical: modern...