The AI Ethics Brief

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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January 2026

The AI Ethics Brief #182: When Guardrails Fracture

Why 2026 marks the end of "business as usual" for AI ethics.

Jan 20 • Montreal AI Ethics Institute

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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…

Jan 6 • Montreal AI Ethics Institute

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December 2025

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…

Dec 23, 2025 • Montreal AI Ethics Institute

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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…

Dec 9, 2025 • Montreal AI Ethics Institute

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November 2025

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…

Nov 25, 2025 • Montreal AI Ethics Institute

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

The SAIER, performative AI governance, and AI lab transparency

Nov 11, 2025 • Montreal AI Ethics Institute

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