The House of Ethics™ - by Katja Rausch

@meredithmeredith.bsky.social a candid question by The House of Ethics: has a decentralized approach ever been considered for Signal or is it too late?

We have been rethinking traditional top-down ethics as decentralized, collective and systemic ethics.

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Yep! Ethics can be fun too... Enjoy!

NEW! The #DISC™ AI Literacy Program by The House of Ethics™!

#DISC stands for #Decentralized, #Interdisciplinary, #Systemic and #Collective - our vanguard approach to integrative and emerging #AIethics in a complex tech landscape.

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After months of mindful crafting, The House of Ethics™ is pleased to present its unique #DISC™ AI Literacy Program!

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#DISC stands for #Decentralized, #Interdisciplinary, #Systemic and #Collective - a vanguard approach to integrative #AIethics in a complex tech landscape.

What are "subliminal and manipulative techniques" banned by Art (5) (1) (a) of the AI Act?

Any information by #genAI used to influence public opinion by distorting facts, impersonating others (but bizarrely not #deepfakes...) or evoking negative emotions such as fear or anger.

picture by Tech.co

What is Shadow AI?

Why does it violate your company's code of #ethics and #confidentiality?
Shadow AI is the unauthorized use by employees of genAI apps like ChatGPT to automate tasks (editing, data analysis) to increase productivity.

Result: exposure to #risks like data security and compliance.

Disney to pay $10 Million to settle allegations of unlawfully collecting childrens personal data | Digital Watch Observatory Disney will pay $10 million settlement for allegedly mislabelling children’s videos on YouTube, allowing data collection without parental consent. The FTC settlement requires stricter compliance and i...

#Disney to pay $10 Million to settle allegations of #unlawfully collecting #childrens personal data

On data collection without parental consent.

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The biggest antitrust case against Big Tech in decades turned out to be kind of a flop When a monopolist's stock price goes <em>up</em> after a court announces its "remedies" — as Google's just did — don't expect radical change. "You don’t find someone guilty of robbing a bank and then ...

The biggest antitrust case against Big Tech in decades turned out to be kind of a flop!

When a monopolist’s (#Google) stock price goes up after a court announces its “remedies" ---- don’t expect radical change.

www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/the-...

Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it. The key evidence was presented last month to a jury, which found the company partially liable for the 2019 crash in Key Largo, Florida.

Years after a #Tesla driver using #autopilot killed a young Florida couple in 2019 Tesla said it could not find crucial data about the crash.

#Tesla lied about "missing" data on its servers.

👁️‍🗨️ Forensic #hacker found it.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

AI chatbots are not safe replacements for therapists, research says Should AI chatbots replace your therapist? New research says "no." The new study exposes the dangerous flaws in using artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for mental health support. For the first tim...

AI chatbots are not safe replacements for therapists, research says

NO, they aren't. Joe #Weizenbaum (father of 1st chatbot Eliza) already alerted in the 1960s.

www.news-medical.net/news/2025070...

Nearly a third of AI chatbots share data Google Gemini does the most evil&nbsp; AI chatbots are harvesting user data at an alarming rate, with 30 per cent of them handing it over to third parties, including data brokers. A new report by Surf...

AI #chatbots are harvesting user #data at an alarming rate, with 30 per cent of them handing it over to third parties, including data #brokers.

STOP FEEDING THEM!

fudzilla.com/news/ai/6057...

OpenAI, Meta, Google among AI giants warned by US Attorneys General: ‘Don't hurt kids, you will be held accountable’ | Mint 44 US Attorneys General warned top AI companies about the risks their chatbots pose to children, emphasizing the need for accountability. Among the top companies addressed in the letter are: OpenAI, M...

#OpenAI, #Meta, #Google among AI giants warned by US Attorneys General: ‘Don't hurt kids, you will be held #accountable’

FINALLY!!!!

www.livemint.com/technology/t...

📸 Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2024, Shane Gross with

"The Swarm of Life"

👏 👏 👌 🙌 👏 👏 👌

A magical underwater image of western toad tadpoles in a lake in Vancouver Island, Canada.

Definitely, #swarms are hype! 💖

🛜 Beware #Agentic confusion: when "agent" for #AI is different from "agent" in #ethics. And can lead to wrong decisions with ethical and legal issues about #accountability, #responsibility and #liability.

A Call to Address Anthropomorphic AI Threats to Freedom of Thought “Bonding chatbots” simulate emotionally meaningful relationships with users, encouraging anthropomorphization and emotional attachment. This dynamic is not incidental: it aligns with the business mode...

A Call to Address #Anthropomorphic AI Threats like bonding #chatbots to Freedom of Thought.

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Psst! Your AI chatbot is feeding on your conversations - Euractiv Anthropic is the latest chatbot to begin training its AIs on users' conversations, but turning such sensitive personal information into AI development fuel raises big concerns

🤫Psst! Your AI #chatbot is feeding on your conversations!

www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

YouTube video by The House of Ethics™ Upcoming Podcast "Talk without Borders" --- John PETIT interviewing Katja RAUSCH

"Trust is not a pop-up!"
AI song by The House of Ethics.

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“The emergence of political technology is very alarming” A world first when established in 2019 in Luxembourg, the House of Ethics will be holding its first series of high-level conferences at the Da Vinci Forum this spring. Founder Katja Rausch is calling ...

The emergence of political technology is very alarming. From an ethical perspective.

en.paperjam.lu/article/the-...

Can data die? 😳 From cyber immortality to digital spiritism.

www.houseofethics.lu/2022/12/08/c...

AI 'deadbots' are persuasive — and researchers say they're primed for monetization The digital afterlife industry may near $80 billion in a decade, fueled by AI "deadbots." Tech firms see profit. But experts warn of troubling consequences.

"Deadbots" - AI avatars of deceased people are showing up in new and unexpected contexts.

www.kedm.org/npr-news/202...

💡About #effervescence, #purpose & #ethics.

In 1912, French sociologist Émile #Durkheim introduced the concept of "collective effervescence".

Collective #effervescence relates to converging #intelligences (cognitive, emotional, polysensory) and #collective #ethics.

⏩The cyber-ethics #Gordian Knot

"Worldwide AI ethics: A review of 200 #guidelines and recommendations for AI #governance" highlights the operational gap of normative #ethics and difficulties for #integration. Why? "Ethicists" lack business expertise and AI ethics mostly comes as linear guidelines.

💎 "The Rarest, most Precious Vital Force" 💎 by Marie #Slodowska #Curie
[memorandum to the Council of the League of Nations, Geneva, 1926] #ethics #devotion #commongood

TikTok now lets users send voice notes and images in DMs | TechCrunch The new capabilities bring TikTok’s messaging experience more in line with that of other popular social apps and services.

More and more user #data to feed and train proprietary #AI models... under the mantel of convenience and innovation!
#tiktok #meta #anthropic #microsoft

techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/t...

📢 Très heureuse de participer à la #Healthcare Week #Luxembourg 2025 #HWL25 en tant que panéliste sur la "ethics of #care" et la "#dataethics" dans une perspective de l'#innovation techno-humaniste dans le domaine médical.

The European Union and national sovereignty: a new democratic challenge?

🟢VIGILANCE - Après le #green-washing et le #ethics-washing à tout va, nous assistons actuellement à des vagues désinhibées de #sovereignty-washing de la part des deal-makers nationaux!

www.robert-schuman.eu/en/european-...

#eldercare

📯 🆙 Upcoming #article by The House of Ethics™ 👇

"Aging 5.0 : rethinking cyber-ethics in AI-eldercare."

By 2030, 1 in 6 people in the world will be aged 60 years and will increase from 1 billion in 2020 to 1.4 billion by 2030, and 2.1 billion by 2050. (source: #WHO)

AI Act: Big Tech taking advantage of “presumption of compliance” The new chapter of the AI Act on generative artificial intelligence has finally been “well regarded” by the big players in the sector. But that’s a “twist,” says the director of the House of Ethics, K...

📯JUST OUT 🆕 --- Interview with The House of #Ethics™ by Thierry Labro, Editor-in-Chief of #Paperjam on the #AIAct and its unexpected peripheries...

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Sleepwalking Towards Artificial Intimacy: How Psychotherapy Is Failing The Future A future of "artificial intimacy" (the other AI) will only come about if we expect less from each other and more from machines. And psychotherapy has been helping pave the way for such a future.

Sleepwalking Towards Artificial Intimacy?

How Psychotherapy Is Failing The Future.

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Teen killed himself after ‘months of encouragement from ChatGPT’, lawsuit claims Open AI to change way it responds to users in mental distress as parents of Adam Raine allege bot not safe

⚠️ "Killing me softly" ⛔: "The performance of emotion does not make machines more human". Sherry #Turkle calls #chatbots "purveyors of pretend empathy".

Yet another tragic teenager suicide after "months of encouragement" by the "soft killing" chat with #ChatGPT

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...