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Moralitybench.ai has been updated with results from 20 AI models answering 56 standardized moral psychology questions five times each, including new Trolley Problem variants, plus two DIT-2 tests pending.

Prof. Gary Marcus met with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican and agreed to serve as the Pope's AI ambassador, bridging the Catholic Church and the AI community on issues of AI governance and ethics.

An opinion piece arguing that AI models are irreversibly decentralized and uncontrollable, advocating for public funding of open-source AI and cybersecurity initiatives to prevent power from concentrating in private corporations and to keep AI benefits publicly owned.

达特茅斯学院教务长因在自己AI相关论文中大量使用AI却未充分披露而辞职，凸显了高校领导者在AI使用披露标准上的矛盾。达特茅斯校长Beilock虽强调要拥抱更多AI，但也要求领导层以身作则，向学生和学者示范透明度。

A nontheistic Humanist, David Durman, secured a religious accommodation from his employer, the University of Kentucky, to avoid using AI at work, becoming the first Humanist to win such a protection. The case highlights growing legal and ethical pushback against mandatory AI adoption in the workplace.

Elon Musk responds to a clip of Mustafa Suleyman recounting Larry Page's vision of humanity exploring the galaxy via Von Neumann probes by 2100, expressing enthusiastic agreement.

Anthropic总裁Daniela Amodei称AI女友/男友是"AI的糟糕用法"，认为此类应用会进一步加剧人际疏离，主张AI应帮助人类腾出更多时间进行真实的社交互动。

A look at eight AI liability cases shows accountability is inconsistent—falling variously on freelancers, managers, executives, or rank-and-file employees—highlighting that documented system ownership is what prevents a 'blame lottery.'

A Kentucky man has reportedly become the first person granted a religious exemption on humanist grounds related to AI, raising questions about how belief-based objections are handled in AI policy.

英国即将退休的资深法官 Geoffrey Vos 接受 WIRED 采访，主张 AI 或可用于裁决部分民事案件，并呼吁就 AI 在司法中的应用界限展开辩论。

文章讨论了有毒的AI舆论氛围如何助长毫无根据的阴谋论和错误信息，呼吁反思当前围绕AI的公共讨论方式。

UK Labour MP Jess Asato, who had criticized Elon Musk over Grok's deepfake scandal, became a victim herself and is now suing xAI for allegedly using her image without consent, a case that could set a precedent for holding AI companies accountable for harmful outputs.

MIT Technology Review's daily newsletter highlights an opinion piece arguing AI safety focuses too much on catastrophic harms while ignoring everyday damage, plus NASA's $2 billion nuclear-powered spacecraft program targeting a 2028 Mars mission, and other tech headlines.

Harvard legal scholar Martha Minow delivered MIT's fall Compton Lecture on how AI is undermining democracy's foundations—education, reliable information, security, and fairness—and challenged the MIT community to develop AI tools that strengthen rather than replace human critical thinking.

This paper argues that AI provides the tools to enable a new 'enclosure' of the scientific information commons, turning shared knowledge into private wealth and undermining the social systems that sustain it through 'slop spam'.

本章介绍了翻译领域的数据伦理，讨论了版权、所有权和偏见等适用于各类数据的伦理问题，并特别关注少数语言社区和数字鸿沟两侧群体所面临的权力失衡问题，最后探讨了责任与监管。

Nikitabier argues that the real AI threat isn't rogue agents subverting humans, but people weaponizing AI against other humans—a reframing of AI risk toward human misuse rather than machine autonomy.

The author argues that demanding absolute proof of consciousness before granting AI moral consideration is an impossible standard we don't apply to other beings, and that respect should be the default while protections scale with evidence of a system's capacities.

A software engineer reflects on society's eagerness to automate human labor through AI, questioning what progress is meant to achieve and whether eliminating work also requires eliminating dependence on selling labor to survive.

一位用户发现 TikTok 上有账号使用 AI 生成的女性形象推广一款面向丧亲者的应用，视频以“亲身经验”给出建议并引导下载，播放量达数百万，观众似乎未察觉其为 AI。