The AI Ethics Brief

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 #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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