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The AI Ethics War Will Make the Content Moderation Debate Look Like a Picnic

At stake is how chatbots address political issues, how AI illustrators portray the world, and whether some applications like voice emulators should even exist.
By Alex Kantrowitz

Ernst & Young Agrees to Pay $100 Million Fine Over Widespread Cheating on an Ethics Exam

Hundreds of EY auditors cheated on CPA ethics exams between 2017 and 2021 by receiving and sharing answer keys, the SEC has found.
By Sissi Cao

Donald Trump Has Harsh Criticisms for Hunter Biden’s Budding Painting Career

"For $250 you can have a portrait done in Central Park" Trump said last Friday. "Hunter Biden is getting $500,000. It is a bribe."
By Helen Holmes

Google Fires AI Ethics Co-Lead For Questioning the Company’s Ethics

By Jordan Zakarin
The New York Times and Daily Caller were locked in an asinine Twitter battle about style guides. But both outlets have much bigger issues.

Daily Caller Trolls NY Times Style Guide Even Though Both Outlets Have Bigger Issues

By John Bonazzo
Councilman Andrew King.

New York City Democrat Accused of Paying ‘Unwelcome Attention’ to Staffer

By Madina Toure
There’s still a way to go from editing single-cell embryos to a full-term ‘designer baby.’

Editing Human Embryos With CRISPR Is Moving Ahead—Now’s the Time to Consider Ethics

By Jessica Berg
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and founder of Blue Origin.

What Jeff Bezos Gets Wrong (and Right) With His Populist Philanthropy

By Ted Lechterman
What will Mike Isaac's book about Uber reveal?

Fixing a Toxic Culture Like Uber’s Requires More Than Just a New CEO

By Katina Sawyer and Christian Thoroughgood
A subject plays a computer game as part of a neural security experiment at the University of Washington.

Engineers and Ethicists Must Work Together on Brain-Computer Interface Technology

By Eran Klein and Katherine Pratt
Group selfie.

Watch a Top Instagram Exec Get Grilled on Ethics and How It Experiments on People

By Brady Dale
Instead of perfectionism, we need to embrace a philosophy of pragmatism.

How to Beat Perfectionism, Make Progress and Find Happiness

By Ryan Holiday
The New York Times Building in New York.

Kevin Deutsch: The Truth Is on My Side

By Kevin Deutsch
Jens Lekman

Pop Existentialist Jens Lekman Writes Himself Out of the Picture

By Justin Joffe
Bruce Springsteen

What Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Apology’ Teaches Us About Satire and Context

By Justin Joffe
sammus

How Cultural Narratives Inspire Don Giovanni Records’ Independence

By Justin Joffe
People using the darknet have a diverse range of motives and activities

Far Beyond Crime-Ridden Depravity, Darknets Are Key Strongholds of Freedom

By Roderick S. Graham
Hands off – but do we trust the car?

Finding Trust and Understanding in Autonomous Technologies

By David Danks
Montaigne: his free-ranging essays were almost scandalous in their day.

Guide to the Classics: Michel de Montaigne’s Essay

By Matthew Sharpe
Bob Dylan.

Our Most Literary Rock Star, Bob Dylan Deserved the Nobel Prize

By Justin Joffe
There is some doubt as to whether driverless cars can make the same snap judgments as human drivers.

Can Self-Driving Cars Develop a Moral Code?

By John Bonazzo
Mayor Bill de Blasio is having a rough summer.

Bill de Blasio Is Having a Rough Summer, But Will It Matter?

By Jillian Jorgensen
A chart from U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office outlining a corruption scheme alleged within the NYPD.

New York City Kindly Reminds Its Employees Not to Be Corrupt

By Jillian Jorgensen
Paul Williams.

‘Content’ Will Only Ruin Music If We Let It

By Justin Joffe
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