The AI Ethics Brief
The AI Ethics Brief #181: We’re Stronger Together: Collective Action & AI Ethics
Happy New Year! We kick of 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
The AI Ethics Brief #180: Emerging Tech with Established Issues
We wish you a 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 ecommerce
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
The AI Ethics Brief #178: How AI Regulation Can Both Harm and Foster Social Justice
We further explore our State of AI Ethics Report with Part II: Social Justice & Equity, while highlighting the latest addition to our AI Policy Corner on Ukraine’s AI regulation whitepaper
The AI Ethics Brief #177: Community-led AI Governance
The SAIER, performative AI governance, and AI lab transparency.
Special Edition: State of AI Ethics Report (SAIER) Volume 7
Data centres, digital art, and the material costs of AI. Plus SAIER Volume 7 returns.
Insights & Perspectives
Is AI in Law School a Helpful Tool or a Hidden Trap?
✍️By Emma Edney from Encode Canada. Emma is a BCL/JD McCall MacBain Scholar candidate at McGill University. Her interests include ethical issues surrounding personal information in technology and the impact…
Reprogramming the Public Sphere: AI and News Visibility on Social Media
✍️By Natalie Jenkins from Encode Canada. Natalie is an MSc candidate in Digital Policy at University College Dublin, based in Toronto, Ontario. She is interested in the impacts of emerging…
Your wrist, your data, their access: Are you trading convenience for control?
✍️By Kennedy O’Neil from Encode Canada. Kennedy is an undergraduate sociology student at McGill University, with a minor in psychology, and a writer for Encode Canada. 📌 Editor’s Note: This…
Agentic AI systems and algorithmic accountability: a new era of e-commerce
🔬 By Sun-Gyoo Kang. Sun Gyoo Kang is a lawyer and AI ethics specialist based in Montreal, specializing in the intersection of emerging technology, law, and regulatory policy. As the…
AI Policy Corner: How Brazil Plans to Govern AI: Reviewing PL 2338/2023
✍️By Isadora Argenta. Isadora is an Undergraduate Student in Political Science and minoring in communication, as well as an Undergraduate Affiliate at the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL), Purdue…
AI Policy Corner: Reviewing Ukraine’s Whitepaper on Artificial Intelligence Regulation
✍️By Erik Charles Lincoln Vitek. Erik is an Undergraduate Student in Political Science and Aviation Finance as well as an Undergraduate Affiliate at the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL),…
Research Summaries
SHADES: Towards a Multilingual Assessment of Stereotypes in Large Language Models
🔬 Research Summary by ✍️ Timm Dill Timm is a Student Research Assistant at the Chair for Data Science, University of Hamburg. [Original Paper by Margaret Mitchell, Giuseppe…
Mapping the Responsible AI Profession, A Field in Formation (techUK)
🔬 Report Summary by ✍️ Tess Buckley Tess is Programme Manager, Digital Ethics and AI Safety at techUK and holds a Masters in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence from…
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.…
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…
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…