The AI Ethics Brief
The Brief #159: Misuse of AI in War, the Commoditization of Intelligence, and more
What Happens When Intelligence is Commoditized? Why Human Judgment, Ethics, and Oversight Still Matter.
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The Brief #158: Paris AI Action Summit, AI Governance, and Critical Thinking in the Age of AI
What Happens When AI Governance Divides? How AI is Reshaping Critical Thinking—And Why It Matters.
The Brief #157: DeepSeek, Data Purges, and the Future of AI Governance
How Open Should AI Be? What Happens When Data Disappears? And Why It All Matters.
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The Brief #156: AI Agents as the Next Disruptor – But Where’s the Governance?
From AI Agents to AGI: Power, Policy and Global Perspectives
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The Brief #155: Defining Moments in Responsible AI – 2024 in Review
From healthcare and democracy to AI surveillance and civil liberties, ethical AI governance is not just a technical challenge but a fundamental social imperative.
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The Brief #154: Ethics & Morality, Chatbots & Loneliness, AI & Media, and more
Revisiting ethics as a dynamic process, exploring the rise of chatbots and their societal impact, addressing AI’s carbon footprint, and unpacking when AI missteps in media headlines.
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Insights & Perspectives
From Funding Crisis to AI Misuse: Critical Digital Rights Challenges from RightsCon 2025
✍️ Op-Ed by Seher Shafiq. Seher is the Global Engagement Manager at Mozilla Foundation, based in Toronto, Canada. After a break of almost two years, last week, the…
Teaching Responsible AI in a Time of Hype
✍️ By Thomas Linder, PhD1 Thomas holds a PhD in the Sociology of Technology and is a Senior Coordinator at Open North, a Lecturer in Responsible AI at…
The Paris AI Summit: Deregulation, Fear, and Surveillance
✍️ Op-Ed by Ana Brandusescu and Prof RenĂ©e Sieber. Ana is a PhD Candidate at McGill University and a Balsillie Scholar at the Balsillie School of International Affairs.…
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From Promise to Practice: A Glimpse into AI-Driven Approaches to Neuroscience
🔬 Original article by Le Thuy Duong Nguyen from Encode Canada. đź“Ś Editor’s Note: This article was originally written in February 2024 and is now being published as…
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AI Chatbots: The Future of Socialization
🔬 Original article by Aimee Li from Encode Canada. đź“Ś Editor’s Note: This article was originally written in February 2024 and is now being published as part of…
AI Governance on the Ground: Canada’s Algorithmic Impact Assessment Process and Algorithm has evolved
✍️ Report Summary by Kate Kaye, a researcher, award-winning journalist and deputy director of the World Privacy Forum, a non-partisan public interest research 501c3 nonprofit organization. Kate is…
Research Summaries
Towards a Feminist Metaethics of AI
🔬 Research Summary by ✍️ Anastasia Siapka. Dr Anastasia Siapka is an attorney-at-law as well as an AI law and ethics researcher affiliated with the KU Leuven Centre…
Evaluating the Social Impact of Generative AI Systems in Systems and Society
🔬 Research Summary by ✍️ Usman Gohar and Zeerak Talat. Usman Gohar is a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at Iowa State University studying AI safety and Algorithmic Fairness.…
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Ten Simple Rules for Good Model-sharing Practices
🔬 Research Summary by Ismael Kherroubi Garcia. Ismael is trained in business management and philosophy of the social sciences. He is the founder and CEO of Kairoi, the…
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Incentivized Symbiosis: A Paradigm for Human-Agent Coevolution
🔬 Research Summary by ✍️ Tomer Jordi Chaffer, founder of DeGov Labs. He holds an MSc in Experimental Medicine from McGill University and will begin his Juris Doctor…
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The Bias of Harmful Label Associations in Vision-Language Models
🔬 Research Summary by Caner Hazirbas, Research Scientist at Meta and Ph.D. graduate in Computer Vision from the Technical University of Munich. [Original paper by Caner Hazirbas, Alicia…
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Self-Improving Diffusion Models with Synthetic Data
🔬 Research Summary by Sina Alemohammad, a PhD candidate at Rice University with a focus on the interaction between generative models and synthetic data. [Original paper by Sina…
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