The AI Ethics Brief
The AI Ethics Brief #191: The Terms of the Bargain
On therapy sessions, Slack archives, and citations that didn’t exist.
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.
Insights & Perspectives
Keynote talk at MISSION Hubs Forum2026, Montreal: How does AI impact Creative Agency work? Avoiding Goodhart’s Law
✍️ Column by Connor Wright, our Director of Partnerships. Photo Credit: Jackie Hutchinson on Unsplash Overview: Our Director of Partnerships, Connor Wright, was invited to speak at the MISSION Hubs…
Recess: 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…
Recess: For students at one of Canada’s top universities, how much AI is too much AI when guidelines from professors remain unclear?
✍️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…
Tech Futures: Introducing the Resist List
✍️ By Sarah Ruth and Marion Meyers Sarah is a researcher committed to building critical AI literacies and worked as a copywriter on the Resist List. Marion is an independent…
State of AI Ethics Report Volume 8 (2026): Call for Contributors
Power, Fracture, Resistance SAIER Volume 8 (2026) is now open for contributions. We are looking for practitioners, researchers, advocates, policymakers, and community members who are doing the work and who…
AI Policy Corner: From proposed mandatory guardrails to the National AI Plan: AI governance in Australia
✍️By Selen Dogan Kosterit Selen 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…
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…