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1 | These articles are sourced by Casey Fiesler; she posts occasional news roundups on TikTok and Instagram @professorcasey. | Easy sharing: bit.ly/ai-ethics-news | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Primary Categorization | Article (Title, Link) | Publication | Date | |||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Miscellaneous | The women in love with AI chatbots: ‘I vowed to him that I wouldn’t leave him’ | The Guardian | 9/9/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Regulation | How to regulate AI | The Harvard Gazette | 9/8/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Privacy | ICE Spends Millions on Clearview AI Facial Recognition to Find People ‘Assaulting’ Officers | 404 Media | 9/8/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | IP | Judge rejects Anthropic's record-breaking $1.5 billion settlement for AI copyright lawsuit | Engadget | 9/8/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Business | Publishers fear AI summaries are hitting online traffic | BBC | 9/8/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Business | The AI bubble fears are getting worse. Wall Street doesn't want to talk about it | Quartz | 9/8/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Miscellaneous | Fantasy or faith? One company's AI-generated Bible content stirs controversy | NPR | 9/7/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | IP | Apple faces lawsuit over alleged use of pirated books for AI training | Engadget | 9/6/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Work | Automation comes for tech jobs in the world capital of AI | The Washington Post | 9/6/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Security | The crazy, true story behind the first AI-powered ransomware | The Register | 9/5/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Miscellaneous | Fake celebrity chatbots sent risqué messages to teens on top AI app | The Washington Post | 9/5/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | IP | Anthropic tells US judge it will pay $1.5 billion to settle author class action | CNN | 9/5/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | IP | Warner Bros. sues Midjourney to stop AI knockoffs of Batman, Scooby-Doo | Ars Technica | 9/5/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Misinformation | Google AI Falsely Says YouTuber Visited Israel, Forcing Him to Deal With Backlash | 404 Media | 9/3/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Miscellaneous | These psychological tricks can get LLMs to respond to “forbidden” prompts | Ars Technica | 9/3/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Risk | How AI Can Kill You | Axios | 9/1/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Work | How is artificial intelligence affecting job searches? | CBS News | 8/31/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Miscellaneous | How Are We Supposed to Talk to Our Kids About AI? | The Cut | 8/30/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Privacy | AI is ummasking ICE officers. Can Washington do anything about it? | Politico | 8/29/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Education | How AI Is Changing—Not ‘Killing’—College | Inside Higher Ed | 8/29/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Work | Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters | BBC | 8/29/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Risk | Meta updates chatbot rules to avoid inappropriate topics with teen users | TechCrunch | 8/29/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | IP | Anthropic’s surprise settlement adds new wrinkle in AI copyright war | Reuters | 8/28/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Miscellaneous | Are A.I. Tools Making Doctors Worse at Their Jobs? | The New York Times | 8/28/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Miscellaneous | Instagram’s chatbot helped teen accounts plan suicide — and parents can’t disable it | The Washington Post | 8/28/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Education | The AI cheating panic is missing the point | The Washington Post | 8/28/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Sustainability | Google’s still not giving us the full picture on AI energy use | MIT Technology Review | 8/28/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Sustainability | Thirsty data centres boom in drought-hit Mexico | BBC | 8/28/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Miscellaneous | OpenAI will add parental controls for ChatGPT following teen’s death | The Verge | 8/27/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Risk | ChatGPT Answered 'High Risk' Questions About Suicide, New Study Finds | 404 Media | 8/27/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Security | Anthropic’s auto-clicking AI Chrome extension raises browser-hijacking concerns | Ars Technica | 8/27/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Security | BBC reveals web of spammers profiting from AI Holocaust images | BBC | 8/27/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Security | AI firm says its technology weaponised by hackers | BBC | 8/27/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Education | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis. | The New York Times | 8/26/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Miscellaneous | A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In. | The New York Times | 8/26/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | IP | Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors | WIRED | 8/26/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Miscellaneous | Teens Are Using Chatbots as Therapists. That’s Alarming. | The New York Times | 8/25/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Regulation | Attorneys General To AI Chatbot Companies: You Will ‘Answer For It’ If You Harm Children | 404 Media | 8/25/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Misinformation | Citizen Is Using AI to Generate Crime Alerts With No Human Review. It’s Making a Lot of Mistakes | 404 Media | 8/25/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | Risk | With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people | Ars Technica | 8/25/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Miscellaneous | AI sycophancy isn’t just a quirk, experts consider it a ‘dark pattern’ to turn users into profit | TechCrunch | 8/25/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Misinformation | YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality | BBC | 8/23/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Sustainability | Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year | Ars Technica | 8/22/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Sustainability | In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses | MIT Technology Review | 8/21/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Privacy | Facial Recognition In Policing And Smart Cities: Balancing Innovation With Responsibility | Forbes | 8/21/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Privacy | Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation | TechCrunch | 8/20/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Privacy | Hundreds of Thousands of User Chats With AI Chatbot Grok Are Now Public | CNET | 8/20/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Education | School districts take mixed approach to AI as federal government signals support | ABC News | 8/20/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Work | AI Is Making the Workplace Empathy Crisis Worse | Harvard Business Review | 8/20/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Business | MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing | Fortune | 8/18/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Miscellaneous | Grok Exposes Underlying Prompts for Its AI Personas: ‘EVEN PUTTING THINGS IN YOUR ASS’ | 404 Media | 8/18/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Miscellaneous | Google’s AI pointed him to a customer service number. It was a scam. | The Washington Post | 8/15/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Miscellaneous | Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info | Reuters | 8/14/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Business | Companies Are Pouring Billions Into A.I. It Has Yet to Pay Off. | The New York Times | 8/13/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Privacy | Google Gemini will now learn from your chats—unless you tell it not to | Ars Technica | 8/13/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Miscellaneous | Is AI really trying to escape human control and blackmail people? | Ars Technica | 8/13/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Sustainability | UK’s AI ambitions clash with its climate goals | Politico | 8/11/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Privacy | Why A.I. Should Make Parents Rethink Posting Photos of Their Children Online | The New York Times | 8/11/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Bias | AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds | The Guardian | 8/11/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | Education | These workers don’t fear artificial intelligence. They’re getting degrees in it. | The Washington Post | 8/11/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Work | Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. | The New York Times | 8/10/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | Work | TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor | The Guardian | 8/10/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | Miscellaneous | New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him | The Washington Post | 8/10/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | Misinformation | How to spot an AI video? LOL, you can’t. | The Washington Post | 8/8/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | Miscellaneous | Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens. | The New York Times | 8/8/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | IP | AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified | Ars Technica | 8/8/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | Miscellaneous | ChatGPT users hate GPT-5’s “overworked secretary” energy, miss their GPT-4o buddy | Ars Technica | 8/8/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | Miscellaneous | Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT | 404 Media | 8/8/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Security | Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It’s ‘Nearly Unusable’ for Enterprise | Security Week | 8/8/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | Misinformation | OpenAI gets caught vibe graphing | The Verge | 8/7/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Miscellaneous | Truth Social’s new AI search engine basically just pushes Fox News | The Verge | 8/7/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | Business | The backlash against Duolingo going ‘AI-first’ didn’t even matter | TechCrunch | 8/7/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | Security | Researchers design “promptware” attack with Google Calendar to turn Gemini evil | Ars Technica | 8/6/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Education | So long, study guides? The AI industry is going after students | NPR | 8/6/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | Business | OpenAI is practically giving ChatGPT to the government for free | TechCrunch | 8/6/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Education | These College Professors Will Not Bow Down to A.I. | The New York Times | 8/6/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | Misinformation | Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles | 404 Media | 8/5/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | Abuse | Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes | The Verge | 8/5/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Sustainability | Electricity costs rise amid data center boom | Axios | 8/4/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Work | When Your Job Interviewer Isn’t Human | TIME | 8/4/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | Miscellaneous | AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says | Ars Technica | 8/4/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | Miscellaneous | The Rise of Silicon Valley’s Techno-Religion | The New York Times | 8/4/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Bias | How AI exposes which voices psychology treats as universal truth | Psychology Today | 8/3/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Privacy | "ChatGPT is not a diary, therapist, lawyer, or friend": LinkedIn user warns against oversharing everything with AI | The Economic Times | 8/3/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | Work | AI is doing job interviews now—but candidates say they’d rather risk staying unemployed than talk to another robot | Fortune | 8/3/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | Work | AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’ | The Wall Street Journal | 8/2/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | Work | A black hole': New graduates discover a dismal job market | NBC News | 8/2/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | Regulation | Delta Air assures US lawmakers it will not personalize fares using AI | NBC News | 8/2/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
91 | Miscellaneous | AI chatbots are becoming popular alternatives to therapy. But they may worsen mental health crises, experts warn | The Guardian | 8/2/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
92 | Privacy | ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results | Ars Technica | 8/1/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | Work | Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises | Ars Technica | 7/31/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
94 | Privacy | YouTube’s selfie collection, AI age checks are concerning, privacy experts say | Ars Technica | 7/31/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
95 | Misinformation | AI Bunnies on Trampoline Causing Crisis of Confidence on TikTok | 404 Media | 7/30/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | Regulation | Pennsylvania lawmakers propose regulations to AI in healthcare | ABC 27 News | 7/29/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
97 | Education | ChatGPT launches study mode to encourage ‘responsible’ academic use | The Guardian | 7/29/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
98 | Miscellaneous | The Unnerving Future of A.I.-Fueled Video Games | The New York Times | 7/28/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
99 | IP | Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says | Ars Technica | 7/28/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | Sustainability | The AI explosion means millions are paying more for electricity | The Washington Post | 7/27/2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||