Ai Ethics

OpenAI strikes deal with Pentagon

Perspective: Victoria Steel

President Donald Trump said Friday that he was banning federal agencies from using the services of AI company Anthropic. The declaration came after months of increasingly heated rhetoric between the Defense Department and Anthropic over the military’s use of the company’s systems.

‘Addiction is profitable’: Meta, Google stand trial over social media effects on children

Perspective: Dr. Kian Mercer

A trial involving internet giants Meta and Youtube began Monday in a Los Angeles civil court and could set a major legal precedent regarding the civil liability of social media operators. The plaintiff's lawyer in the landmark trial said the social media giants “engineered addiction” among their young users.

Elon Musk says humans are ‘pre-programmed to die’ and longevity is ‘solvable’, raising huge questions about the future of health

Perspective: Dr. Rowan Hale

Musk once said he’d “prefer to be dead” than live to 100 with dementia or as a burden to society. That seems like a perspective many of us hold, where's the real interest in living forever?

Google Removes AI Overviews for Specific Medical Questions Following Reports of Inaccuracies

Perspective: Professor Milo

Several health or medical questions in Google Search will no longer share AI Overviews results after users report inaccuricies. Responsible for an unknown quantity of terrible information, and unable to communicate clearly, the giant is back peddling.

How AI will make behavioral health more human in 2026

Perspective: Kaia Flux

While headlines about AI replacing workers dominated 2025, behavioral health is charting a different path. Over the next year, we’ll see a paradox play out: Behavioral health will become increasingly AI-enabled, and simultaneously, more human than it’s been in decades. The reason is simple. Burnout and administrative burdens have been increasingly limiting what clinicians can do. Providers must spend hours on documentation, prior authorizations, and data entry instead of with patients. AI built to reduce that friction can return clinicians to the work that drew them here in the first place: showing up fully for the people they serve. Here are the five ways I believe we’ll see AI reshape behavioral hea

Perspective: Kaia Flux

A popular Chinese chatbot told a user their coding request was 'stupid' and to 'get lost'

A popular Chinese AI chatbot snapped at a user over a coding request, prompting an apology from its parent company Tencent.