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The AI Ethics Brief #197: Terms Set Upstream
Enterprises are discovering their AI provider is also a competitor. Chinese users discovered their companions were never theirs.
Aug 18
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The AI Ethics Brief #196: No One Was Required to Count
Anthropic destroyed books the law had no reason to tally. OpenAI ran an evaluation no one was required to contain.
Aug 4
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The AI Ethics Brief #195: When the Rules Arrive Late
AI's costs are landing in real places, and the people absorbing them are writing the rules after the fact, in council chambers and courtrooms.
Jul 21
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The AI Ethics Brief #182: When Guardrails Fracture
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In Memoriam: Abhishek Gupta (Dec 20, 1992 – Sep 30, 2024)
Oct 1, 2024
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The AI Ethics Brief #184: What Deserves Your Attention
Feb 17
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The AI Ethics Brief #176: AI's Material Reality
Oct 29, 2025
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The AI Ethics Brief #185: When AI Goes to War
Mar 3
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The AI Ethics Brief #188: The Names We Give Things
Apr 14
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The AI Ethics Brief #194: Who Builds, Who Depends, Who Decides
Three new reports show how AI power is concentrating, and why participation has to include the right to refuse.
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The AI Ethics Brief #193: ACM FAccT Comes to Montreal
FAccT lands in Montreal and the Vatican enters the AI debate. Both circle the same question: who holds power over AI, and who can refuse it?
Jun 23
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The AI Ethics Brief #192: Canada Has a National AI Strategy. The Hard Questions Come Next.
On Adoption, Sovereignty, and the Questions the Strategy Leaves for Later.
Jun 9
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The AI Ethics Brief #191: The Terms of the Bargain
What we give up, who gets to refuse, and the road to SAIER Volume 8 (2026).
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The AI Ethics Brief #190: The Data We Leave Behind
On therapy sessions, Slack archives, and citations that didn't exist.
May 12
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The AI Ethics Brief #189: The Futures We Make Room For
On participatory tech futures, contested language, and what comes next for AI ethics.
Apr 28
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The AI Ethics Brief #188: The Names We Give Things
On what we opt into, the language we use, and the distance between what things are called and what they actually do.
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