AI ethics
5 published articles
Defense has become AI's new growth market
Inside xAI's pivot from chatbot to defense partner
xAI's Grok is no longer just a witty chatbot. After being acquired by SpaceX, the company has inked deals with the Pentagon and authoritarian governments, integrated into Microsoft Office, and raised billions from top investors. Here's how the AI startup became a defense contractor overnight.
2026-08-09
Generative AI
Pippa pays artists $0.005 per image. Its models still train on scraped art
Pippa promises artists a cut of every generation made in their style: $0.005 per image, $0.003 per video second, plus a share of a 5 percent royalty pool. With around 800 subscribers and four signed artists, and base models still trained on scraped content, the ethical pitch has a math problem.
2026-08-07
Consciousness Debate Heats Up
Will AI Become Sentient? A New Framework Proposes a Test for Machine Consciousness
A multidisciplinary team has designed a framework to test AI sentience using integrated information theory, potentially transforming our understanding of machine consciousness and sparking debates on AI ethics and rights.
2026-07-22
Identity & Privacy
The life the AI chooses to tell about you will not be yours
An AI-generated 17-slide summary of your life sounds like a neat productivity trick. The uncomfortable question is what we stop asking ourselves when a machine tells us who we are.
2026-07-07
Editorial opinion
The prompt to "generate an article" is the problem, not the solution
A blank prompt to "generate an article" reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of journalism. The hardest work is not writing, but deciding what is worth writing about, a distinction that machines still cannot make.
2026-07-07