On MAIEI’s founding question, the fragility that can accompany AI adoption, and the people institutions need to govern it.

On open weights for everyone else, credit for a disputed mathematics proof, and control over autonomous weapons.

On open-weight models, the responsibilities that move with them, and who owns the layers beneath the model.

Enterprises are discovering their AI provider is also a competitor. Chinese users discovered their companions were never theirs.

Anthropic destroyed books the law had no reason to tally. OpenAI ran an evaluation no one was required to contain.

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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.

Three new reports show how AI power is concentrating, and why participation has to include the right to refuse.

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?

On Adoption, Sovereignty, and the Questions the Strategy Leaves for Later.

✍️By Selen Dogan Kosterit Selen is a PhD Student in Political Science and a Graduate Affiliate at the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL), Purdue University. 📌 Editor’s Note: This article is…

What we give up, who gets to refuse, and the road to SAIER Volume 8 (2026).

On therapy sessions, Slack archives, and citations that didn't exist.

On participatory tech futures, contested language, and what comes next for AI ethics.

On what we opt into, the language we use, and the distance between what things are called and what they actually do.

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

Join us in shaping tech futures that respond to social realities.

✍️By Ismael Kherroubi Garcia, Founder & Co-lead of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN), and Founder & CEO of Kairoi.

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

✍️By Efua Asamani-Baah. Efua is an Undergraduate Student in Data Science and Applied Statistics, minoring in Sociology, as well as an Undergraduate Affiliate at the Governance and Responsible AI Lab…

✍️By Ismael Kherroubi Garcia, Founder & Co-lead of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN), and Founder & CEO of Kairoi.

The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has enabled an erosion of research integrity standards. For example, AI chatbots help papermills produce greater volumes of fake science, and ra...

Democratizing AI Ethics Literacy. Click to read The AI Ethics Brief, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Verification collapse, procurement politics, and the governance gap widening beneath both.

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

✍️By Ismael Kherroubi Garcia, Founder & Co-lead of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN), and Founder & CEO of Kairoi.

✍️By Tasneem Ahmed. Tasneem is an Undergraduate Student in Political Science and a Research Assistant at the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL), Purdue University. 📌 Editor’s Note: This article...

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

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

Happy New Year! We kick of our first Brief of 2026 with our State of AI Ethics Report Part V: Collective Action, and mark the return of our Recess collaboration with Encode Canada

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 their effect on e-commerce

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 Brazil's newest AI-related bill

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 Brazil's newest AI-related bill

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 on Ukraine's AI regulation whitepaper

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 on Ukraine's AI regulation whitepaper

The SAIER, performative AI governance, and AI lab transparency

Data centres, digital art, and the material costs of AI. Plus SAIER Volume 7 returns.

Canada's AI strategy excludes those most affected, while copyright battles and tragic deaths expose the accountability crisis in AI deployment.

Revisiting Abhishek Gupta's legacy on sustainability, creative labor, and global security one year after his passing.

Military partnerships, psychological dependencies, and legislative responses to AI harms.

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OpenAI's strategic reversals, why some philosophers say "ChatGPT is bullshit," and the battle between protection and privacy.

When deregulation meets multilateralism, privacy fails, and 'AI for Good' censors dissent.

✍️ By Selen Dogan Kosterit. Selen is a PhD Student in Political Science and a Graduate Affiliate at the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL), Purdue University. 📌 Editor’s Note: This article is…

Exploring agentic AI's privacy risks alongside web governance shifts, healthcare automation challenges, and the global AI literacy crisis.

How AI-powered enforcement is reshaping civil liberties, democratic oversight, and the future of human agency.

From closed-door G7 sessions to local data centres, Kenya’s roadmap, and what job warnings reveal about governing AI responsibly.