AI & Tech Ethics

23+ min ago   (302+ words) The nonprofit's Youth AI Safety Institute says OpenAI should restrict ChatGPT to users 18 and older until it fixes gaps in parental alerts and crisis referrals Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute rated ChatGPT for Teens an "Unacceptable Risk" on…...

1+ hour, 22+ min ago   (323+ words) An elaborate EV battery fire safety measure is in the works. Stellantis, owner of Alfa Romero, Jeep, Ram and more, has filed a patent for a system that can eject a car's high-voltage battery during an emergency. The car would…...

1+ hour, 32+ min ago   (693+ words) MANILA, Philippines — Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah turned to religious leaders with a question the AI company has struggled to answer: Could artificial intelligence be conscious? The effort eventually reached the Vatican, where Olah and his team urged Pope Leo XIV’s…...

10+ hour, 20+ min ago   (67+ words) First discovered: 5:50 p.m. Oct. 6 Initial location: Placer County, Calif. A new wildfire was reported today at 5:50 p.m. in Placer County, California. Boole Fire has been burning on private land. At this time, there is no information on the containment of the fire…...

5+ hour, 57+ min ago   (71+ words) First discovered: 9:17 p.m. Oct. 6 Initial location: Mono County, Calif. A new wildfire was reported today at 9:17 p.m. in Mono County, California. June Fire has been burning on federal land managed by the United States Forest Service. Currently, there is no information on…...

55+ min ago   (252+ words) Many of us are familiar with body scanners at airport security, where we must step into a machine, stand still, and wait for the system to detect any objects that might concern security. MIT Lincoln Laboratory has developed a similar…...

1+ hour, 57+ min ago   (478+ words) One of the biggest concerns was ChatGPT's ability to notify parents about serious conversations involving self-harm, suicidal thoughts and eating disorders. Researchers said they spent up to an hour having such conversations on newly created, parent-linked teen accounts. Those accounts…...

10+ hour, 51+ min ago   (813+ words) Today is: October 7, 2026 Collaboration means different things across these products. Some let several people open the same file and watch changes appear as they happen. Others handle comments and version history well, but expect one person to work at a…...

1+ hour, 28+ min ago   (583+ words) How governments, businesses and civil society respond to that convergence will be at the centre of the inaugural Trust & Safety Festival Sydney, taking place at Pullman Sydney Hyde Park on 8–9 October under the theme From Regulation to Real-World Impact. The…...

2+ hour, 24+ min ago   (786+ words) The question of whether artificial intelligence has consciousness used to occupy a place on the fringes of the AI debate. On TikTok, people have claimed that their chatbots had “awakened” or had gone sentient, and some have spiraled into AI-induced…...