📌 The AI Ethics Brief #188: The Names We Give Things
On what we opt into, the language we use, and the distance between what things are called and what they actually do.
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Out tomorrow at 10am ET, Mar 31:
📌 The AI Ethics Brief #187: The Myth of Inevitability
On manufactured inevitability and the surveillance infrastructure being built in plain sight.
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Global Dialogue on AI Governance consultation, here we go! Hoping to get three minutes to talk about the potential of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN)*, @weandai.bsky.social and @mtlaiethics.bsky.social
*We have a website now! rain.ngo
New #TechFutures article in this week’s @mtlaiethics.bsky.social #AIEthicsBrief! Part one of a two-part series looking at how #BigTech is learning from the #FossilFuels playbook. montrealethics.ai/tech-futures...
Isadora Argenta @grailcenter.bsky.social examines Illinois’ Act 103-0804 in the latest AI Policy Corner @mtlaiethics.bsky.social . The law restricts discriminatory uses of AI in employment & requires notice when AI influences hiring decisions.
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Efua Asamani-Baah article, @grailcenter.bsky.social in AI Policy Corner examines Ghana’s national strategy for AI integration, assessing governance priorities, development goals & implementation challenges @mtlaiethics.bsky.social
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It’s out! For this week’s #AIEthicsBrief, I contributed an article on the difficulties posed to open source maintainers by low-quality, AI-generated contributions montrealethics.ai/tech-futures...
There might be something of value here: zenodo.org/records/1278.... I’m writing about how AI slop is making open source resources harder to maintain for Tuesday’s #AIEthicsBrief by @mtlaiethics.bsky.social, which is a similar problem.
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A tower symbolising all modern digital infrastructure is held up by a project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003. A playful cat is looking closely at the project.
Working on something important for Tuesday's #AIEthicsBrief by @mtlaiethics.bsky.social
📌 The AI Ethics Brief #186: Sovereign by Design. Accountable by Whose Standard?
Canada’s sovereignty moment, Anthropic’s values test, and the accountability frameworks we still need to build.
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📌 The AI Ethics Brief #185: When AI Goes to War
Verification collapse, procurement politics, and the governance gap widening beneath both.
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📌 The AI Ethics Brief #184: What Deserves Your Attention
On critical ignoring, Claude’s constitution, and why attention is the scarcest resource in AI.
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Very pleased to share the first of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network’s (RAIN) first “Tech Futures” column for @mtlaiethics.bsky.social: montrealethics.ai/tech-futures...
I will use this space to argue for more rigorous, science-based AI narratives.
Is a shared AI policy framework coming?
The latest Executive Order aims for national cohesion through 5 key strategies. Check out our collaboration @mtlaiethics.bsky.social with @grailcenter.bsky.social for a full analysis.
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#AI #AIPolicy #TechEthics #Governance
📌 The AI Ethics Brief #183: Blurred Lines
From health data to root permissions, AI is redrawing the boundaries of access
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📌 The AI Ethics Brief #182: When Guardrails Fracture
Why 2026 marks the end of “business as usual” for AI ethics
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📌 The AI Ethics Brief #181: We're Stronger Together: Collective Action & AI Ethics
Happy New Year! We kick off our first Brief of 2026 with our State of AI Ethics Report Part V: Collective Action, and mark the return of our Recess collaboration with Encode Canada.
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📌 The AI Ethics Brief #180: Emerging Tech with Established Issues
We wish you Happy Holidays before diving into our State of AI Ethics Report Part IV: Emerging Technologies, while Sun-Gyoo Kang explores AI agents and their effect on e-commerce
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The latest @mtlaiethics.bsky.social AI Ethics Brief examines how AI is reshaping labour across sectors from healthcare to the arts & how workers are organizing for rights, voice & accountability in response.
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#AI #AIethics #Labour #ResponsibleAI #TechPolicy
📌 The AI Ethics Brief #179: Seen, But Not Heard: AI's Impact On Labour
We further explore our State of AI Ethics Report with Part III: Sectoral Applications while highlighting the latest addition to our AI Policy Corner on Brazil's newest AI-related bill
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@mtlaiethics.bsky.social How AI regulation can both harm & foster social justice, newest issue out. Digging into why regulation isn’t an unambiguous win: while helping curb misuse, it also risks reinforcing existing inequalities.
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#AI #AIGovernance #AIpolicy
📌 The AI Ethics Brief #178: How AI Regulation Can Both Harm and Foster Social Justice
We further explore our State of AI Ethics Report, while highlighting the latest addition to our AI Policy Corner on Ukraine's AI regulation whitepaper.
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📌 The AI Ethics Brief #177: Community-led AI Governance
The SAIER, performative AI governance, and AI lab transparency
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📌 The AI Ethics Brief #176: AI's Material Reality
Data centres, digital art, and the material costs of AI. Plus SAIER Volume 7 returns.
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📌 The AI Ethics Brief #175: When Consultation Becomes Theatre
Canada's AI strategy excludes those most affected, while copyright battles and tragic deaths expose the accountability crisis in AI deployment.
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📌 The AI Ethics Brief #174: The Unfinished Work of AI Ethics
Revisiting Abhishek Gupta's legacy on sustainability, creative labor, and global security one year after his passing.
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📌 The AI Ethics Brief #173: Power, Policy, and Practice
Military partnerships, psychological dependencies, and legislative responses to AI harms.
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Let's meet at ALL IN 2025 on September 24–25 in Montréal!
We're looking forward to spotlighting stories & case studies from innovators, builders & regulators working on real-world AI breakthroughs. Secure your spot now: allinevent.ai
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