The AI Ethics Brief
The AI Ethics Brief #190: The Data We Leave Behind
On therapy sessions, Slack archives, and citations that didn’t exist.
The AI Ethics Brief #189: The Futures We Make Room For
On participatory tech futures, contested language, and what comes next for AI ethics.
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.
The AI Ethics Brief #187: The Myth of Inevitability
On manufactured inevitability and the surveillance infrastructure being built in plain sight.
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.
The AI Ethics Brief #185: When AI Goes to War
Verification collapse, procurement politics, and the governance gap widening beneath both.
Insights & Perspectives
AI Policy Corner: Are U.S. AI Policies Strengthening Security or Weakening Global Influence?
✍️By Alexandria Workman Alexandria is an Undergraduate Student in Political Science and minoring in Business at Indiana University, as well as an Undergraduate Affiliate at the Governance and Responsible AI…
Recess: Gender-Based Violence on Grok is a Feature, Not a Failure
✍️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…
Tech Futures: Better Imagination for Better Tech Futures
✍️ By Ismael Kherroubi Garcia. Ismael is Founder & Co-lead of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN), and Founder & CEO of Kairoi. 📌 Editor’s Note: This article is part…
AI Policy Corner: How U.S. Cities Are Governing AI: Emerging Patterns and Collaborative Efforts
✍️By Yunzhe Liu Yunzhe is a PhD Student in Political Science and a Graduate Affiliate at the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL), Purdue University. 📌 Editor’s Note: This article…
Tech Futures: Crafting Participatory Tech Futures
✍️ By Ismael Kherroubi Garcia. Ismael is Founder & Co-lead of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN), and Founder & CEO of Kairoi. 📌 Editor’s Note: This article is part…
AI Policy Corner: Is “AI for Good” Overused?
✍️By Priyanka Paradkar Priyanka is an Undergraduate Student in Computer Information Technology with a minor in Business Management, and 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…