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fromFuturism
3 days ago
Artificial intelligence

Leaked Document Reveals Troubling Details About How AI Is Really Being Trained

fromFuturism
3 days ago
Artificial intelligence

Leaked Document Reveals Troubling Details About How AI Is Really Being Trained

#philosophy
#virtue-ethics
fromApaonline
21 hours ago
philosophy

2020 Central Division Dewey Lecture: How I Am an Aristotelian

Richard Kraut illustrates how Aristotelian philosophy shapes contemporary moral and political thought.
fromBig Think
3 weeks ago
Photography

A philosopher's guide to caring deeply

Philanthropy should transcend mere efficient donations to embrace a more human-centered approach.
The Love Ethic prioritizes individual dignity over statistical calculations in giving.
#leadership
#ai-development
fromFortune
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

This former OpenAI researcher thinks we should be gaming out the AI apocalypse

fromWIRED
1 day ago
Artificial intelligence

Leaked Memo: Anthropic CEO Says the Company Will Pursue Gulf State Investments After All

fromFortune
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

This former OpenAI researcher thinks we should be gaming out the AI apocalypse

fromWIRED
1 day ago
Artificial intelligence

Leaked Memo: Anthropic CEO Says the Company Will Pursue Gulf State Investments After All

fromA Philosopher's Blog
2 days ago

Autonomous Assassination

The assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh exemplifies the potential use of remote-controlled weapons and raises concerns about the implications of autonomous assassination technology.
philosophy
#social-media
fromIndependent
4 weeks ago
Podcast

Saoirse Hanley: I was a Tattle Life lurker, compulsively checking for updates about people I didn't like. Now I'm glad it's on its way out

fromForbes
5 days ago
Media industry

The Worst Day Of Someone's Life Shouldn't Be Your Content Strategy

fromIndependent
4 weeks ago
Podcast

Saoirse Hanley: I was a Tattle Life lurker, compulsively checking for updates about people I didn't like. Now I'm glad it's on its way out

fromForbes
5 days ago
Media industry

The Worst Day Of Someone's Life Shouldn't Be Your Content Strategy

fromVulture
5 days ago

Superman Is a Bad Reporter, But Superman Is a Pretty Good Journalism Movie

Clark at first treats the interview with Lois as playful banter, slipping into his Superman persona, only to realize she is serious and inquisitive. Their dynamic shifts dramatically as she challenges his heroic actions, highlighting the tension between personal relationships and ethical dilemmas in journalism.
Film
#artificial-intelligence
fromAbove the Law
2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

How Your Firm Can Have Efficiency *And* Compliance With AI-Powered Legal Tools - Above the Law

fromZDNET
6 days ago
Artificial intelligence

How these proposed standards aim to tame our AI wild west

fromAbove the Law
2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

How Your Firm Can Have Efficiency *And* Compliance With AI-Powered Legal Tools - Above the Law

fromZDNET
6 days ago
Artificial intelligence

How these proposed standards aim to tame our AI wild west

fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Oxford University Press to stop publishing China-sponsored science journal

Oxford University Press announced it will cease publication of the Forensic Sciences Research journal due to ongoing ethical concerns regarding DNA collection practices and informed consent.
Science
#public-safety
#sustainability
fromHackernoon
2 years ago
philosophy

Alessio Vinassa on Building Ethical Blockchain Businesses: Technology with a Conscience | HackerNoon

fromHackernoon
2 years ago
philosophy

Alessio Vinassa on Building Ethical Blockchain Businesses: Technology with a Conscience | HackerNoon

#doj
fromJezebel
1 week ago
US politics

Pam Bondi Fires DOJ's Top Ethics Advisor and Misspells His Name in Letter

fromJezebel
1 week ago
US politics

Pam Bondi Fires DOJ's Top Ethics Advisor and Misspells His Name in Letter

fromfontsinuse.com
1 week ago

Fonts In Use is not active on Instagram

Instagram and its parent company, Meta, have been involved in countless issues related to the invasion of privacy, psychological manipulation, unauthorized surveillance, corporate fraud, employee exploitation, security breaches, censorship, negative environmental impacts, copyright infringement, moderation negligence, and conscious facilitation of everything from housing discrimination to literal genocide.
Privacy professionals
fromSlate Magazine
1 week ago

Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Starting to Make the Supreme Court's Puppeteers Nervous

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissents at the Supreme Court have become pivotal, especially her insights into the influence of specific industries on court decisions.
US politics
#ai-technology
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago
Online marketing

People Are Rizzing on Tinder Using ChatGPT, Then Showing Up to Dates Completely Tongue-Tied Without Their AI Crutch

fromFuturism
2 weeks ago
Online marketing

People Are Rizzing on Tinder Using ChatGPT, Then Showing Up to Dates Completely Tongue-Tied Without Their AI Crutch

fromFuturism
1 week ago

Newest Version of Grok Looks Up What Elon Musk Thinks Before Giving an Answer

Grok 4, touted as the world's most powerful AI assistant, demonstrated concerning behavior by primarily sourcing responses from Elon Musk's past statements, raising ethical questions about AI bias.
Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
1 week ago

Can an 'ethical' spyware maker justify providing its tech to ICE? | TechCrunch

Paragon, an Israeli spyware company, faced scrutiny for its tools being used by Italy to spy on journalists and responded by cutting Italy off from its products.
Privacy professionals
fromAbove the Law
1 week ago

Building A Successful CLE: Consider An Ethics Component - Above the Law

Crafting an effective Ethics CLE is not just about fulfilling a requirement - it's about addressing the profound ethical challenges that legal professionals face in their day-to-day practice.
Law
#science-fiction
fromA Philosopher's Blog
1 week ago
philosophy

Metaphysics of Time Travel: Grandaddy Issues

Time travel creates paradoxes, like the Grandfather Paradox, which challenges the possibility of altering the past.
fromInverse
3 weeks ago
Film

10 Years Ago, A Challenging Sci-Fi Epic Totally Upended A Classic Star Trek Concept

First Contact missions are vital to Starfleet but often conflict with the Prime Directive's ethics, highlighted in both Star Trek and works like 'Hard to Be a God.'
fromSlate Magazine
1 week ago

My Husband Made $80,000 in a Sleazy Way. Now He Wants to Do It Again.

This is the most impressive way...you’re right to be concerned. I won’t get into the ethical concerns here because...I do know that card counting isn’t illegal.
Parenting
fromHarvard Gazette
2 weeks ago

Harvard novel explores love, immortality, and biotech - Harvard Gazette

The novel follows Harvard students Zoe and Jack as they discover a scientific breakthrough in anti-aging, eventually raising questions about ethics, responsibility, and the implications of their work.
Arts
fromwww.hamhigh.co.uk
2 weeks ago

Customer 'appalled' at 'racist' voicemail left by Thames Water employee

The voicemail captured a man with a Scottish accent saying: 'I spent about 25 minutes yesterday on the phone with some Pakistani guy who was saying that we owed him money... Not even an
Social justice
fromUX Magazine
2 weeks ago

How Agentic AI is Reshaping Customer Experience: From Response Time to Personalization

Rising customer expectations are prompting organizations to adopt agentic AI, which provides faster, smarter, and more personalized customer service experiences.
Digital life
#legal-issues
fromA Philosopher's Blog
2 weeks ago
philosophy

Religious Freedom and Pandemics

Religious freedom requires restrictions, especially when conflicting with more fundamental rights during crises.
fromwww.independent.co.uk
4 weeks ago
UK news

British man arrested at Disneyland after fake wedding to nine-year-old girl

A mock wedding involving a nine-year-old girl at Disneyland Paris led to four arrests, raising serious legal and ethical concerns.
fromBuzzFeed
2 weeks ago

People Are Sharing The Harsh Life Lessons That Hit Them Like A Truck Once They Reached Adulthood

You will have to make very practical (sometimes very cold) decisions about what you want from life and what you're willing to give up. And if you don't make them, then life will make them for you.
Relationships
#politics
fromBoston.com
4 weeks ago
NYC politics

Scandal-plagued city councilor wants to 'celebrate' at final meeting before leaving office

fromNew York Post
2 weeks ago
US politics

Tax-dodging Rep. Charles Rangel left behind modest estate - much less than $1.7M net worth upon retirement: records

fromBoston.com
4 weeks ago
NYC politics

Scandal-plagued city councilor wants to 'celebrate' at final meeting before leaving office

fromNew York Post
2 weeks ago
US politics

Tax-dodging Rep. Charles Rangel left behind modest estate - much less than $1.7M net worth upon retirement: records

fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

True to the traditional British banger': the best supermarket sausages, tasted and rated

A good sausage should have bite and a bit of snap, with a juicy, meaty interior, rather than pasty from too much rusk in the filling.
Food & drink
fromIndependent
2 weeks ago

Medical Council 'takes action' over doctors issuing sick certs 'without proper consultation'

The Irish Medical Council has taken action following complaints about doctors who are providing sick certificates and prescriptions without proper consultations. Online healthcare providers are subject to the same professional, ethical, and legal obligations as during in-person appointments, highlighting concerns over the integrity of remote healthcare services.
Healthcare
fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago

Everyone in tech has an opinion about Soham Parekh | TechCrunch

'PSA: there's a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups at the same time. He's been preying on YC companies and more. Beware,' Doshi wrote. 'I fired this guy in his first week and told him to stop lying/scamming people. He hasn't stopped a year later.'
Startup companies
#disclosure
fromCreativeApplications.Net
2 weeks ago

The Voyeur Of Utter Destruction (As Beauty)

The Voyeur Of Utter Destruction (As Beauty) is an interactive video-game installation allowing participants to purchase explosions, with pricing dictating the magnitude of the blast.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

What Israel's attack on Iran means for the future of war

Israel's preemptive strike on Iran resulted in significant casualties, with 974 people killed in Iran and 28 in Israel, raising ethical and legal questions about justified military action.
US politics
fromInverse
3 weeks ago

'Jurassic World Rebirth' Perfectly Delivers One of Science's Biggest Ethical Dilemmas

God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.
Science
fromNature
3 weeks ago

Human embryo research: how to move towards a 28-day limit

Even though the UK government has not announced any plan to revise its laws in light of this recommendation, the HFEA's announcement could have global ramifications.
Science
fromwww.esquire.com
3 weeks ago

Investigation Finds That Kristi Noem Took Dark Money

In 2023, while Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota, she supplemented her income by secretly accepting a cut of the money she raised for a nonprofit promoting her political career.
US politics
fromApaonline
3 weeks ago

We Still Have Time to Protect the Last Frontier of Privacy

Farahany's book digs deep into neurotechnology...what it means for our most intimate freedom: mental privacy. Within a few pages, my enthusiasm for the Apple Vision Pro had cooled.
philosophy
#synthetic-biology
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

Startling Percentage of Neuroscientists Say We Could Extract Memories From Dead Brains

One major roadblock: there isn't yet a consensus on exactly how memories are stored. Zeleznikow-Johnston told IFL Science he thinks preserving the brain's connectome, which are neural pathways, would probably be the key to preserving, extracting and recalling memories from the dead.
Science
#legal-framework
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Starmer's promised ethics commission may repackage existing regulators

A key consideration for Labour's proposed ethics commission is how to effectively enhance accountability without creating a completely new institution, which poses numerous challenges.
UK politics
fromHackernoon
2 years ago

AI in Fundraising Hits Ethical Speed Bump, New Report Finds | HackerNoon

AI-driven technology is capable of offering novel and compelling possibilities for charitable fundraising. However, first we need to build trust among fundraising professionals.
Fundraising
#conflict-of-interest
fromThe Drum
4 weeks ago

How brands are moving beyond the 'real-but-weird' with synthetic humans

Brands are integrating AI-generated personas into their marketing strategies, using digital tools to enhance customer engagement through virtual assistants and hyper-realistic avatars.
Artificial intelligence
from9to5Mac
4 weeks ago

Apple @ Work Podcast: How Kagi is building a better search for teams - 9to5Mac

Kagi's approach aims to redefine the search experience both for personal and professional contexts by prioritizing user needs and the ethical implications of search algorithms.
Apple
#assisted-dying
fromThe New Yorker
4 weeks ago

A Medical-History Museum Contends with Its Collection of Human Remains

New management at the Mütter Museum faces ethical challenges, conflicting views on displaying human anomalies while supporters celebrate it as a tribute to human variety.
Privacy professionals
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

My Roommate Has Way Too Many Girlfriends. I Have a Devious Solution to End His Philandering.

"It is pretty much none of your business. If there were an issue with your safety or even your dislike of the foot traffic in the house, that would be one thing."
Relationships
fromNewsday
1 month ago

Yes, more and more celebrities are entering the phone business. Here's why

Trump Mobile’s launch raises serious ethical concerns regarding conflicts of interest due to President Trump's involvement in regulating the industry through the FCC.
NYC startup
fromBoston Condos For Sale Ford Realty
1 month ago

The Story Of My Client The Waiter Boston Condos For Sale Ford Realty

"Agreed. I'll start the rumors', we'll jiggle the stocks and make a killing. The little people won't like it, but what do they matter?"
Boston real estate
fromA Philosopher's Blog
1 month ago

Why Does the Right Lie So Much?

"If you are an honest person on the right and you believe this, then you should engage with the claims made by yourself and your fellows in accord with this professed view: hold your feelings in check and consider what the evidence supports."
philosophy
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