The AI Ethics Brief
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.
The AI Ethics Brief #184: What Deserves Your Attention
On critical ignoring, Claude’s constitution, and why attention is the scarcest resource in AI.
The AI Ethics Brief #183: Blurred Lines
From health data to root permissions, AI is redrawing the boundaries of access.
Insights & Perspectives
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),…
Tech Futures: AI For and Against Knowledge
✍️ 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: Layered Governance in AI Labs: Defining Boundaries Across the Policy Stack
✍️By Tejasvi Nallagundla. Tejasvi is an Undergraduate Student in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Global Studies and an Undergraduate Affiliate at the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL), Purdue University.…
Tech Futures: The Fossil Fuels Playbook for Big Tech: Part II
✍️ 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…
Tech Futures: The Fossil Fuels Playbook for Big Tech: Part I
✍️ 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: An Overview of Illinois Public Act 103-0804
✍️By Isadora Argenta. Isadora is an Undergraduate Student in Political Science and minoring in Communication and Portuguese, as well as an Undergraduate Affiliate at the Governance and Responsible AI Lab…
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…