The AI Ethics Brief

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.

Jul 7 • Montreal AI Ethics Institute

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June 2026

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 • Montreal AI Ethics Institute

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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 • Montreal AI Ethics Institute and Renjie Butalid

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May 2026

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).

May 26 • Montreal AI Ethics Institute

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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 • Montreal AI Ethics Institute

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April 2026

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 • Montreal AI Ethics Institute

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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.

Apr 14 • Montreal AI Ethics Institute

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March 2026

The AI Ethics Brief #187: The Myth of Inevitability

On manufactured inevitability and the surveillance infrastructure being built in plain sight.

Mar 31 • Montreal AI Ethics Institute

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The AI Ethics Brief #186: Sovereign by Design. Accountable by Whose Standard?

Canada's sovereignty moment, Anthropic's values test, and the accountability frameworks we still need to build.

Mar 17 • Montreal AI Ethics Institute

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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.

Mar 3 • Montreal AI Ethics Institute

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February 2026

The AI Ethics Brief #184: What Deserves Your Attention

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

Feb 17 • Montreal AI Ethics Institute

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The AI Ethics Brief #183: Blurred Lines

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

Feb 3 • Montreal AI Ethics Institute

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