The Internet Ethics program--Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
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When It’s About Power/Justice/Human Rights, It IS about Ethics
There is nothing about applied ethics that inherently leaves out social-political matters.
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ICYMI: "When It’s About Power/Justice/Human Rights, It IS about [#tech and other] #Ethics": scu.edu/ethics/focus... #internet #law #AI
Giving thanks to food bloggers and #AI researchers who educate people about #technology...
Cooking with #AI has come a long way, and propagated: in 2018: aiweirdness.com/its-time-for...; in 2025: futurism.com/artificial-i... #ethics #internet #tech #Thanksgiving
Cooking with #AI has come a long way, and propagated: in 2018: aiweirdness.com/its-time-for...; in 2025: futurism.com/artificial-i... #ethics #internet #tech #Thanksgiving
It’s time for Cooking With Neural Networks!
Neural networks are computer programs that learn by example. Rather than a programmer teaching them step-by-step rules on how to solve a problem, neural networks try to deduce their own rules by looki...
aiweirdness.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Giving thanks to food bloggers and #AI researchers who educate people about #technology...
Cooking with #AI has come a long way, and propagated: in 2018: aiweirdness.com/its-time-for...; in 2025: futurism.com/artificial-i... #ethics #internet #tech #Thanksgiving
Cooking with #AI has come a long way, and propagated: in 2018: aiweirdness.com/its-time-for...; in 2025: futurism.com/artificial-i... #ethics #internet #tech #Thanksgiving
On the Executive Order on #AI that has not (yet) come to be: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... #ethics #law #gov #tech
David Sacks tried to kill state AI laws — and it blew up in his face
A leaked executive order reveals that the tech billionaire would have become America’s AI policy gatekeeper.
www.theverge.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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"The Genesis Mission will... harness Federal scientific datasets... to train scientific foundation models and create #AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate #research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs": nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... #ethics #tech #gov #data #business #highered
Trump signs executive order launching AI initiative being compared to the Manhattan Project
The order announced the “Genesis Mission” for AI, a new federal push to mobilize the federal government's research and data to create artificial intelligence models.
nbcnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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"The fading away of DOGE is in sharp contrast to the government-wide effort over months to draw attention to it, with Trump, his advisers and cabinet secretaries posting about it on #socialmedia": reuters.com/world/us/dog... #ethics #internet
reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"The fading away of DOGE is in sharp contrast to the government-wide effort over months to draw attention to it, with Trump, his advisers and cabinet secretaries posting about it on #socialmedia": reuters.com/world/us/dog... #ethics #internet
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"The reaction from users on X was, of course, totally level-headed. They immediately recognized that the #data was flawed and definitely didn’t spend the last 24 hours trying to score political points": theverge.com/news/827279/... #ethics #internet #socialmedia #tech
X’s messy About This Account rollout has caused utter chaos
X’s About This Account location data is either completely useless, or everyone is a foreign troll.
theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"The reaction from users on X was, of course, totally level-headed. They immediately recognized that the #data was flawed and definitely didn’t spend the last 24 hours trying to score political points": theverge.com/news/827279/... #ethics #internet #socialmedia #tech
"The reaction from users on X was, of course, totally level-headed. They immediately recognized that the #data was flawed and definitely didn’t spend the last 24 hours trying to score political points": theverge.com/news/827279/... #ethics #internet #socialmedia #tech
X’s messy About This Account rollout has caused utter chaos
X’s About This Account location data is either completely useless, or everyone is a foreign troll.
theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"The reaction from users on X was, of course, totally level-headed. They immediately recognized that the #data was flawed and definitely didn’t spend the last 24 hours trying to score political points": theverge.com/news/827279/... #ethics #internet #socialmedia #tech
"The fading away of DOGE is in sharp contrast to the government-wide effort over months to draw attention to it, with Trump, his advisers and cabinet secretaries posting about it on #socialmedia": reuters.com/world/us/dog... #ethics #internet
reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"The fading away of DOGE is in sharp contrast to the government-wide effort over months to draw attention to it, with Trump, his advisers and cabinet secretaries posting about it on #socialmedia": reuters.com/world/us/dog... #ethics #internet
"The Genesis Mission will... harness Federal scientific datasets... to train scientific foundation models and create #AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate #research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs": nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... #ethics #tech #gov #data #business #highered
Trump signs executive order launching AI initiative being compared to the Manhattan Project
The order announced the “Genesis Mission” for AI, a new federal push to mobilize the federal government's research and data to create artificial intelligence models.
nbcnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"To be brief, I inserted hidden text into an assignment’s directions that the students couldn’t see but that #ChatGPT can": huffpost.com/entry/histor... #ethics #tech #AI #education #highered
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
huffpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
"To be brief, I inserted hidden text into an assignment’s directions that the students couldn’t see but that #ChatGPT can": huffpost.com/entry/histor... #ethics #tech #AI #education #highered
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I read this while on a 10 hour road trip with my kids. I used to do these road trips when I was a kid and I would read books the whole time. My kids did read books but they spent more time watching an iPad. Felt more guilty about that than normal thanks to this: thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I read this while on a 10 hour road trip with my kids. I used to do these road trips when I was a kid and I would read books the whole time. My kids did read books but they spent more time watching an iPad. Felt more guilty about that than normal thanks to this: thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
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For everyone writing yearend stories about AI lovers, don't make the mistake of thinking the number of weekly visitors to the /MyBoyfriendIsAI subreddit (which is what gets displayed now) is the number of members.
Have seen two major pubs now make this mistake. And I get it! I did too (on Bluesky).
Have seen two major pubs now make this mistake. And I get it! I did too (on Bluesky).
Reddit changed its policy and no longer display number of suscribers on sub frontpage.
r/myboyfriendisai has 88k weekly visitors, but 30k suscribers (they can be seen looking at the popup if you search for the sub then hover its name).
30k is still big, r/airelationship only has 1,3k.
r/myboyfriendisai has 88k weekly visitors, but 30k suscribers (they can be seen looking at the popup if you search for the sub then hover its name).
30k is still big, r/airelationship only has 1,3k.
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
For everyone writing yearend stories about AI lovers, don't make the mistake of thinking the number of weekly visitors to the /MyBoyfriendIsAI subreddit (which is what gets displayed now) is the number of members.
Have seen two major pubs now make this mistake. And I get it! I did too (on Bluesky).
Have seen two major pubs now make this mistake. And I get it! I did too (on Bluesky).
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Over on the other site, OpenAI’s head of model behavior said they changed the appearance of the nudge soon after it was released 👇
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Over on the other site, OpenAI’s head of model behavior said they changed the appearance of the nudge soon after it was released 👇
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The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
A "new piece of a claustrophobically referential informational system: A database of articles written by a #chatbot so they can later be referenced as authoritative sources by the same chatbot, and maybe help train another one": nymag.com/intelligence... #ethics #AI #internet
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Is a Warning
The centibillionaire’s Wikipedia clone is ridiculous. It’s also a glimpse of the future.
nymag.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
A "new piece of a claustrophobically referential informational system: A database of articles written by a #chatbot so they can later be referenced as authoritative sources by the same chatbot, and maybe help train another one": nymag.com/intelligence... #ethics #AI #internet
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"[R]egardless of the intent to mitigate #AI risks, safeguarding #LLMS remains 'an unsolved computer science problem'": newsweek.com/google-boss-... #ethics #tech #business #gov #education
Google boss issues warning ahead of Gemini 3.0 launch
Sundar Pichai has warned against an overreliance on artificial intelligence and said the tech remains "prone to errors."
newsweek.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"[R]egardless of the intent to mitigate #AI risks, safeguarding #LLMS remains 'an unsolved computer science problem'": newsweek.com/google-boss-... #ethics #tech #business #gov #education
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"[I]t's hard to say whether the #socialmedia ban will be effective... The #government's own report found that facial assessment #technology, for example, is least reliable for the exact demographic it's needed to target": bbc.com/news/article... #ethics #law #business
Australia's social media ban for kids under 16 - how will it work?
The world-first law aims to reduce the "risks" children face online - but it's received pushback.
bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
"[I]t's hard to say whether the #socialmedia ban will be effective... The #government's own report found that facial assessment #technology, for example, is least reliable for the exact demographic it's needed to target": bbc.com/news/article... #ethics #law #business
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NEW: A Discord community with nearly 200 members serves as a support group for people whose minds and lives have been upended by episodes of AI delusion and psychosis.
In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions
In this Discord server, people impacted by AI delusions and psychosis share their experiences — and even help users out of delusional spells.
futurism.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
NEW: A Discord community with nearly 200 members serves as a support group for people whose minds and lives have been upended by episodes of AI delusion and psychosis.
In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
"[I]t's hard to say whether the #socialmedia ban will be effective... The #government's own report found that facial assessment #technology, for example, is least reliable for the exact demographic it's needed to target": bbc.com/news/article... #ethics #law #business
Australia's social media ban for kids under 16 - how will it work?
The world-first law aims to reduce the "risks" children face online - but it's received pushback.
bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
"[I]t's hard to say whether the #socialmedia ban will be effective... The #government's own report found that facial assessment #technology, for example, is least reliable for the exact demographic it's needed to target": bbc.com/news/article... #ethics #law #business
"[R]egardless of the intent to mitigate #AI risks, safeguarding #LLMS remains 'an unsolved computer science problem'": newsweek.com/google-boss-... #ethics #tech #business #gov #education
Google boss issues warning ahead of Gemini 3.0 launch
Sundar Pichai has warned against an overreliance on artificial intelligence and said the tech remains "prone to errors."
newsweek.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"[R]egardless of the intent to mitigate #AI risks, safeguarding #LLMS remains 'an unsolved computer science problem'": newsweek.com/google-boss-... #ethics #tech #business #gov #education
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ICYMI: "A Framework for Ethical Decision-Making," from the Markkula Center for Applied #Ethics at Santa Clara University: scu.edu/ethics/ethic...
#highered
#highered
A Framework for Ethical Decision Making
scu.edu
November 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
ICYMI: "A Framework for Ethical Decision-Making," from the Markkula Center for Applied #Ethics at Santa Clara University: scu.edu/ethics/ethic...
#highered
#highered
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Two links: 1) an #ethics case study: scu.edu/ethics/focus...; 2) "Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives": edition.cnn.com/2025/11/19/t... #tech #business #toys #AI #internet
The "Goodbye Fears Monster"
A new toy records the fears of young children and passes them along to parents.
scu.edu
November 21, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Two links: 1) an #ethics case study: scu.edu/ethics/focus...; 2) "Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives": edition.cnn.com/2025/11/19/t... #tech #business #toys #AI #internet
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A new #TikTok setting "lets users choose how much AI-generated content they want to see in their For You feed. The company is also introducing more advanced labeling technologies for AI-generated content": techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/t... #ethics #tech #AI #socialmedia #contentmoderation #business
TikTok will let you choose how much AI-generated content you want to see | TechCrunch
With the new AI-generated content control, users who want to see less of this sort of content can dial things down, while those who enjoy it can choose to see more of it.
techcrunch.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
A new #TikTok setting "lets users choose how much AI-generated content they want to see in their For You feed. The company is also introducing more advanced labeling technologies for AI-generated content": techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/t... #ethics #tech #AI #socialmedia #contentmoderation #business
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On delays to undersea cable projects "over #security concerns--Red Sea corridor carries a fifth of global #internet traffic, but risk to crews and ships stalls plans": tomshardware.com/tech-industr... #ethics #tech #access #business #gov
Google and Meta delay undersea cable projects over security concerns — Red Sea corridor carries a fifth of global internet traffic, but risk to crews and ships stalls plans
Ongoing threats in a critical corridor push major infrastructure projects off schedule.
tomshardware.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM