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The AI Ethics Brief #185: When AI Goes to War Verification collapse, procurement politics, and the governance gap widening beneath both.

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #185: When AI Goes to War

Verification collapse, procurement politics, and the governance gap widening beneath both.

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The AI Ethics Brief #184: What Deserves Your Attention On critical ignoring, Claude's constitution, and why attention is the scarcest resource in AI.

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #184: What Deserves Your Attention

On critical ignoring, Claude’s constitution, and why attention is the scarcest resource in AI.

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Tech Futures | Montreal AI Ethics Institute ✍️By Ismael Kherroubi Garcia, Founder & Co-lead of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN), and Founder & CEO of Kairoi.

Very pleased to share the first of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network’s (RAIN) first “Tech Futures” column for @mtlaiethics.bsky.social: montrealethics.ai/tech-futures...

I will use this space to argue for more rigorous, science-based AI narratives.

AI Policy Corner: Executive Order: Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence | Montreal AI Ethics Institute ✍️By Tasneem Ahmed. Tasneem is an Undergraduate Student in Political Science and a Research Assistant at the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL), Purdue University. 📌 Editor’s Note: This article...

Is a shared AI policy framework coming?
The latest Executive Order aims for national cohesion through 5 key strategies. Check out our collaboration @mtlaiethics.bsky.social with @grailcenter.bsky.social for a full analysis.

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#AI #AIPolicy #TechEthics #Governance

The AI Ethics Brief #183: Blurred Lines From health data to root permissions, AI is redrawing the boundaries of access.

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #183: Blurred Lines

From health data to root permissions, AI is redrawing the boundaries of access

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The AI Ethics Brief #182: When Guardrails Fracture Why 2026 marks the end of "business as usual" for AI ethics.

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #182: When Guardrails Fracture

Why 2026 marks the end of “business as usual” for AI ethics

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The AI Ethics Brief #181: We're Stronger Together: Collective Action & AI Ethics Happy New Year! We kick of our first Brief of 2026 with our State of AI Ethics Report Part V: Collective Action, and mark the return of our Recess collaboration with Encode Canada

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #181: We're Stronger Together: Collective Action & AI Ethics

Happy New Year! We kick off our first Brief of 2026 with our State of AI Ethics Report Part V: Collective Action, and mark the return of our Recess collaboration with Encode Canada.

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The AI Ethics Brief #180: Emerging Tech with Established Issues We wish you Happy Holidays before diving into our State of AI Ethics Report Part IV: Emerging Technologies, while Sun-Gyoo Kang explores AI agents and their effect on e-commerce

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #180: Emerging Tech with Established Issues

We wish you Happy Holidays before diving into our State of AI Ethics Report Part IV: Emerging Technologies, while Sun-Gyoo Kang explores AI agents and their effect on e-commerce

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The AI Ethics Brief #179: Seen, But Not Heard: AI's Impact On Labour We further explore our State of AI Ethics Report with Part III: Sectoral Applications while highlighting the latest addition to our AI Policy Corner on Brazil's newest AI-related bill

The latest @mtlaiethics.bsky.social AI Ethics Brief examines how AI is reshaping labour across sectors from healthcare to the arts & how workers are organizing for rights, voice & accountability in response.
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#AI #AIethics #Labour #ResponsibleAI #TechPolicy

The AI Ethics Brief #179: Seen, But Not Heard: AI's Impact On Labour We further explore our State of AI Ethics Report with Part III: Sectoral Applications while highlighting the latest addition to our AI Policy Corner on Brazil's newest AI-related bill

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #179: Seen, But Not Heard: AI's Impact On Labour

We further explore our State of AI Ethics Report with Part III: Sectoral Applications while highlighting the latest addition to our AI Policy Corner on Brazil's newest AI-related bill

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The AI Ethics Brief #178: How AI Regulation Can Both Harm and Foster Social Justice We further explore our State of AI Ethics Report with Part II: Social Justice & Equity, while highlighting the latest addition to our AI Policy Corner on Ukraine's AI regulation whitepaper

@mtlaiethics.bsky.social How AI regulation can both harm & foster social justice, newest issue out. Digging into why regulation isn’t an unambiguous win: while helping curb misuse, it also risks reinforcing existing inequalities.
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The AI Ethics Brief #178: How AI Regulation Can Both Harm and Foster Social Justice We further explore our State of AI Ethics Report with Part II: Social Justice & Equity, while highlighting the latest addition to our AI Policy Corner on Ukraine's AI regulation whitepaper

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #178: How AI Regulation Can Both Harm and Foster Social Justice

We further explore our State of AI Ethics Report, while highlighting the latest addition to our AI Policy Corner on Ukraine's AI regulation whitepaper.

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The AI Ethics Brief #177: Community-led AI governance The SAIER, performative AI governance, and AI lab transparency

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #177: Community-led AI Governance

The SAIER, performative AI governance, and AI lab transparency

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The AI Ethics Brief #176: AI's Material Reality Data centres, digital art, and the material costs of AI. Plus SAIER Volume 7 returns.

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #176: AI's Material Reality

Data centres, digital art, and the material costs of AI. Plus SAIER Volume 7 returns.

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The AI Ethics Brief #175: When Consultation Becomes Theatre Canada's AI strategy excludes those most affected, while copyright battles and tragic deaths expose the accountability crisis in AI deployment.

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #175: When Consultation Becomes Theatre

Canada's AI strategy excludes those most affected, while copyright battles and tragic deaths expose the accountability crisis in AI deployment.

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The AI Ethics Brief #174: The Unfinished Work of AI Ethics Revisiting Abhishek Gupta's legacy on sustainability, creative labor, and global security one year after his passing.

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #174: The Unfinished Work of AI Ethics

Revisiting Abhishek Gupta's legacy on sustainability, creative labor, and global security one year after his passing.

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The AI Ethics Brief #173: Power, Policy, and Practice Military partnerships, psychological dependencies, and legislative responses to AI harms.

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #173: Power, Policy, and Practice

Military partnerships, psychological dependencies, and legislative responses to AI harms.

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Let's meet at ALL IN 2025 on September 24–25 in Montréal!
We're looking forward to spotlighting stories & case studies from innovators, builders & regulators working on real-world AI breakthroughs. Secure your spot now: allinevent.ai

#AI #Montreal #AIEvent #AIEconomy #Innovation

The AI Ethics Brief #172: The State of AI Ethics in 2025: What's Actually Working SAIER Volume 7 Returns in November 2025 with Practical Solutions from Communities Leading the Way

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #172: The State of AI Ethics in 2025: What's Actually Working

SAIER Volume 7 Returns in November 2025 with Practical Solutions from Communities Leading the Way

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The AI Ethics Brief #171: The Contradictions Defining AI's Future OpenAI's strategic reversals, why some philosophers say "ChatGPT is bullshit," and the battle between protection and privacy.

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #171: The Contradictions Defining AI's Future

OpenAI's strategic reversals, why some philosophers say "ChatGPT is bullshit," and the battle between protection and privacy.

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The AI Ethics Brief #170: How the US and China Are Reshaping AI Geopolitics When deregulation meets multilateralism, privacy fails, and 'AI for Good' censors dissent.

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #170: How the US and China Are Reshaping AI Geopolitics

When deregulation meets multilateralism, privacy fails, and 'AI for Good' censors dissent.

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AI Policy Corner: Japan’s AI Promotion Act | Montreal AI Ethics Institute ✍️ By Selen Dogan Kosterit. Selen is a PhD Student in Political Science and a Graduate Affiliate at the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL), Purdue University. 📌 Editor’s Note: This article is…

Selen Dogan Kosterit, a PhD student with the GRAIL Center, presents the latest AI Policy Corner with @mtlaiethics.bsky.social. She analyzes Japan’s AI Promotion Act, an innovation-focused, light-touch law aimed at making Japan the world’s most AI-friendly nation. montrealethics.ai/ai-policy-co...

given who is charge of AI right now, YIKES! I love the current ai born of curiousity and research, the next gen will be born of predatory profit and control//me begging for distributed local ai/homegrown! #resistance #artificialintelligence

The AI Ethics Brief #169: From Helpful to Harmful - The Hidden Costs of Agentic AI Exploring agentic AI's privacy risks alongside web governance shifts, healthcare automation challenges, and the global AI literacy crisis.

📌 The AI Ethics Brief #169: From Helpful to Harmful - The Hidden Costs of Agentic AI

Exploring agentic AI's privacy risks alongside web governance shifts, healthcare automation challenges, and the global AI literacy crisis.

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The AI Ethics Brief #168: The Surveillance State's New Playbook How AI-powered enforcement is reshaping civil liberties, democratic oversight, and the future of human agency.

The AI Ethics Brief #168: The Surveillance State's New Playbook

How AI-powered enforcement is reshaping civil liberties, democratic oversight, and the future of human agency.

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The AI Ethics Brief #167: Beyond Declarations From closed-door G7 sessions to local data centres, Kenya’s roadmap, and what job warnings reveal about governing AI responsibly.

Better late than never, sharing Brief #167 from 2 weeks ago!

The AI Ethics Brief #167: Beyond Declarations

From closed-door G7 sessions to local data centres, Kenya’s roadmap, and what job warnings reveal about governing AI responsibly.

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The AI Ethics Brief #166: AI Systems in Human Spaces - Accountability and Unintended Consequences From MCP vulnerabilities and Reddit impersonation to hiring audits, university deployments, and collapsing AI-first strategies, we track how automation interacts with environments built for people.

The AI Ethics Brief #166: AI Systems in Human Spaces - Accountability and Unintended Consequences

From MCP vulnerabilities and Reddit impersonation to hiring audits, university deployments, and collapsing AI-first strategies...

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The AI Ethics Brief #165: AI, Trust, and the Public Interest This edition explores Canada’s AI leadership shift, contested U.S. state laws, and why literacy, justice, and safety must evolve together in the age of mis- and disinformation.

The AI Ethics Brief #165: AI, Trust, and the Public Interest
This edition explores Canada’s AI leadership shift, contested U.S. state laws, and why literacy, justice, and safety must evolve together in the age of mis- and disinformation

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Available May 27 at 10AM ET

The AI Ethics Brief #164: Balancing Faith and Governance From the Vatican and Zurich to Singapore and New Zealand, this issue explores how AI governance is being tested across infrastructure, aging and elderly care, and growing market pressure.

The AI Ethics Brief #164: Balancing Faith and Governance

From the Vatican and Zurich to Singapore and New Zealand, this issue explores how AI governance is being tested across infrastructure, aging and elderly care, and growing market pressure.

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The AI Ethics Brief #163: Navigating Uncertainty: AI's Expanding Influence on Society, Governance, and Power How AI is reshaping critical systems, from global development and labour markets to surveillance and professional governance.

The AI Ethics Brief #163: Navigating Uncertainty: AI's Expanding Influence on Society, Governance, and Power

How AI is reshaping critical systems, from global development and labour markets to surveillance and professional governance.

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