Recently Added Narratives
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- 5 min
- BBC
- 2025
Drone Use in Ghaza
A surgeon in the occupied West Bank talks about how Israeli military drones are coming to neighborhoods and picking off civilians, including injured children near hospitals.
- In what ways have warfare ethics been changed by the development of AI-based drone technologies ?
- Considering how many types of technologies go into current military drones (CV, spatial navigation, robotics, AI, etc.), who are the responsible parties for the impact of drone warfare? Researchers and developers? Military organizations? Drone pilots?
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- 10 min
- The New York Times
- 2025
The Weapon that Terrorizes Ukraine by Night
This article reports how Ukraine recovered debris from a newly encountered Shahed drone variant during Russian nighttime strikes. The drone was discovered to have advanced jamming tech, decoys, and saturation. The drone utilized new war tactics and had increased effectiveness of remote warfare.
- What are the strategic implications of Russia acquiring and relying on Iranian tech and mass drone use?
- What are the long-term consequences and ethics of the increased use of remote military drone capabilities? What are the connections between research and commercial technologies being applied to this change in warfare tactics?
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- 3 min
- Cyber Security News
- 2025
- Cyber Security News
- 2025
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- 3 min
- Cyber Security News
- 2025
Tesla Wall Connector Hacked in 18 Minute Attack
Tesla’s famous wall charger, which is installed in homes and businesses worldwide, gets hacked through the charging cable on the adapter. The adapter had a previously undocumented feature that allowed Tesla vehicles to update it through the charging cable, and hackers were able to exploit this vulnerability. After being able to execute arbitrary code on the device, hackers may gain access to the local network that the charger is connected to—among other things.
- What measures may be taken by Tesla (besides not documenting the feature altogether) to make the security on the wall adapter more robust?
- What responsibility does Tesla have in this situation towards its customers?
- What next steps should be taken to prevent this vulnerability from being exploited in Tesla wall adapters around the world?
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- 5 min
- Digital Health
- 2025
The Use of AI Scribing Tools by GPs
The BMA warns GPs to exercise caution when using AI scribing tools, emphasizing the need for proper clinical safety and information governance.
- What should be done to meet the growing demand for AI scribing tools by clinicians?
- How might the patient conversation data shared during doctor appointments be more sensitive in nature than an older model of physician note-taking?
- What are the potential ethical issues and risks with this application of generative AI systems?
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- 5 min
- Nature
- 2025
Why AI Should Not be Used in the Scientific Process
Researchers in this article make an argument against the use of AI in the scientific process. They believe that the sheer volume of academic articles being produced is putting an immense strain on the peer review process. This limits the capacity for in-depth thought and confuses scientific progress with a skewed notion of academic productivity—scientific progress is quantified by the number of articles produced.
- What are the benefits and limitations of restricting the use of AI in the academic process?
- What do we as academic researchers and students lose by giving over scientific discovery and communication to generative AI systems?
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- 5 min
- CNBC
- 2025
Race to give tax cuts to data centers
Following in the footsteps of the state of Indiana (2019), almost all states in the US provide tax exemptions to eligible data centers. The demand for data centers was high when the Indiana legislation was passed, but it has skyrocketed ever since the advent of LLMs and their need for more storage and energy. To attract data centers, states are forfeiting millions of dollars in taxes. Questions about whether having these exemptions is even profitable, considering that they don’t create that many jobs but use a significant amount of electricity, along with questions about who is getting these benefits, are being raised. It was found that a company applied for an exemption, but it was another holding company for Google.
- What are the benefits of having a data center in the state compared to outside?
- What is the government’s responsibility in the propagation of data centers?
- What step can be taken to reduce the losses these tax exemptions produce?
- Should the government be establishing publicly supported data centers for equitable access to these resources?
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- 5 min
- Nature
- 2025
Is AI watching us?
Research has found that 90% of studies on AI development, as well as 86% of the resulting patents, involve human imaging. This means that data used to train AI models are well suited to being used in surveillance applications by military, law enforcement, corporations, and other private actors. There is also substantial evidence to suggest that much of the research that created the current models were funded by government and military agencies.
- Why do you think such a significant proportion of the studies involve human imaging?
- What are the ethical barriers in using human imaging to advance AI research?
- What are potential cases in which the images and information collected may be misused by government or private companies?
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- 10 min
- The Guardian
- 2025
- The Guardian
- 2025
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- 10 min
- The Guardian
- 2025
Meta wins AI copyright lawsuit as US judge rules against authors
Meta was accused of violating fair use agreements. Writers Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates had argued that the Facebook owner had breached copyright law by using their books without permission to train its AI system. It was later decided in court that fair use agreements were not violated because of the prosecution’s inability to prove how this would cause market dilution by flooding the market with work similar to theirs. This may, however, be a case of not making a compelling argument in court.
- How is media being uploaded to AI without the owner’s permission harmful to people who rely on creative work for their careers?
- How has the movement of open information access and internet technologies helped to fuel recent advances in AI?
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- 5 min
- Inside Tech Law
- 2025
- Inside Tech Law
- 2025
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- 5 min
- Inside Tech Law
- 2025
Workday AI lawsuit recieves the green light to proceed as a collective action
Workday is an HR and finance platform powered by AI. Workday also has an AI screening feature for job applicants, and 40 y/o black man, Derek Mobley, was rejected for 40 jobs by it without exception. Mobley found a connection between the age of applicants for new jobs and the likelihood that they would be given a position. Then, on May 16, 2025, Judge Lin approved his motion for preliminary certification and allowed the case to proceed as a nationwide class action.
- How can employers work to find biases in AI for their employment systems?
- What is the responsibility of Workday vs the responsibility of its clients towards their employees?
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- 50 min
- Science and Engineering Ethics
- 2022
- Science and Engineering Ethics
- 2022
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- 50 min
- Science and Engineering Ethics
- 2022
The Ethics of ‘Deathbots’
Lindemann identifies grief bots as techno-social niches that change the affective emotional state of the user. With a focus on the dignity of the bereaved rather than the deceased, Lindemann argues that grief bots can both regulate and deregulate users’ emotions. Referring to them as pseudo-bonds, Lindemann does a very good job of trying to characterize a standard relationship with a grief bot. This article is mostly about the grief and well-being of users of griefbots.
- What does Lindemann mean by internet-enabled techno-social niches, and what things exemplify them?
- After reading this paper, would you ever use–or allow your digital remains to create a deathbot? Why or why not?
- Outline the key data-protection and safety requirements you would test in a pilot program before approving any clinical deployment of grief bots.
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- 45 min
- The Interational Journal of Psychoanalysis
- 2024
- The Interational Journal of Psychoanalysis
- 2024
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- 45 min
- The Interational Journal of Psychoanalysis
- 2024
Mourning, melancholia and machines: An applied psychoanalytic investigation of mourning in the age of griefbots
Because the technology simulates sentience, it removes the ethical imperative of considering the deceased as an irreducible other, fostering attachments that may displace living relationships and misrepresent the dead. While the author concedes that tightly regulated, consent-based applications (e.g., helping a child imagine a deceased parent) might offer therapeutic value, the prevailing danger is that griefbots short-circuit the lifelong, relational work of mourning. Psychoanalysis, the article concludes, must scrutinize these “post-human” tools to preserve an ethics of otherness in a culture increasingly tempted to outsource grief to machines.
- What is the danger of turning mourning into a private, self-regulated loop through the use of a grief bot?
- What are the benefits or harms of disconnecting from a deceased loved one during the grieving process, and why might that be lost through the use of grief bots?
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- 10 min
- Daily Mail
- 2024
- Daily Mail
- 2024
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- 10 min
- Daily Mail
- 2024
Think twice before using AI to digitally resurrect a dead loved one: So-called ‘griefbots’ could HAUNT you, Cambridge scientists warn
Cites a study from Cambridge University that discusses potential ways in which grief bots may be exploitative. It establishes that grief bots influence you because they establish a connection through the identity and reputation of a loved one and then impact a user’s decisions. Although the article accepts that a grief bot may be therapeutic in some cases, users may be coerced into buying something by the grief bot. The grief bot can become confused with its role, for example, if a terminally ill woman leaves a grief bot for her child, the bot might depict an impending in-person encounter with the child. The third scenario in the article is one of a dying parent secretly subscribing to a grief bot service before his death, and the maintenance of the grief bot becomes intense emotional labour for the children of the deceased.
- What are possible ways that rituals that could be used to retire grief bots?
- Should a grief bot be making any recommendations to the user? What are the potential problems or harms that could be caused by these recommendations?