#Ethics
5 posts
Pope Leo’s AI Encyclical Moves Model Governance Into Moral Politics
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical turns AI from a technical policy debate into a broader argument about human dignity, institutional responsibility, and who gets to shape automation.
AI’s Defense Turn Now Has a Talent Problem
Over the last 48 hours, one AI story has clearly broken out above the noise: OpenAI’s robotics/hardware chief resigned, explicitly citing concerns around surveillance and autonomous weapons after the…
OpenAI and the Department of War: The Real AI Story Is About Power, Not Models
This week’s hottest AI story isn’t a benchmark chart. It’s not another context window flex. And it’s definitely not a prettier chatbot UI. It’s this: OpenAI publicly confirmed an agreement with the…
Anthropic Says Their AI Might Be Conscious - And We're Not Ready
The AI industry just opened a can of worms that nobody asked for. Anthropic—the company behind Claude—is now explicitly acknowledging that their chatbot might be a "new kind of entity" with potential…
When AI Goes to War - The Pentagon-Anthropic Standoff That Should Scare Everyone
The US government just did something remarkable. On February 28, 2026, President Trump announced a ban on the federal government's use of Anthropic's AI (Claude). Within hours, the US launched major…