Internet Ethics

The Internet Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University / Irina Raicu behind the keyboard

[Internet Ethics @IEthics]

Working on this report with prof. Stewart-Frey, who leads the #Water and Climate Justice Lab at @SantaClaraUniv, as well as with SCU students and the @Next10 team, has been an amazing learning experience.
#ethics #policy #research #gov #tech #business #highered #sustainability

[Next 10 @Next10]

New Next 10 report by Iris Stewart-Frey and Irina Raicu at @SantaClaraUniv maps every known operating and planned data center in California through a water access and environmental justice lens.

https://t.co/4g6su4NSY2

[Internet Ethics @IEthics]

#Instagram "has become the biggest social platform for news for 18- to 24-year-olds; 42% of them said they used it for #news in the past week." #ethics #internet #media #socialmedia #business #research

[Nieman Lab @NiemanLab]

It's that time of year again: Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) has put out its 2026 Digital News Report. The Nieman Lab team broke down some key findings — including how people continue to abandon news sites and apps in favor of social media and, increasingly, chatbots to get their news.

https://t.co/70cW2c1idv

[Internet Ethics @IEthics]

"Still, #chatbots aren’t a primary #news source even for their regular users: Just 1% of respondents globally said that chatbots were their main way of consuming the news. As a supplementary news source, though, chatbots appear to have some unique draws." #ethics #media #AI

[Internet Ethics @IEthics]

"Younger audiences are turning to #chatbots for #news in record numbers. Last year, 7% of RISJ respondents globally said they use #AI chatbots... Currently, 16% of respondents under the age of 35 said they had used a chatbot for news in the last week." #ethics #internet #media

[Internet Ethics @IEthics]

"Just 4% of respondents said they 'always' or 'often' click through to sources provided by #AI tools. In comparison, 19% of respondents said they click through from #search... Across all 27 markets, the click-through rate for AI was only ever as high as 8%" #ethics #media #tech

[Nieman Lab @NiemanLab]

It's that time of year again: Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) has put out its 2026 Digital News Report. The Nieman Lab team broke down some key findings — including how people continue to abandon news sites and apps in favor of social media and, increasingly, chatbots to get their news.

https://t.co/70cW2c1idv

[Internet Ethics @IEthics]

"Younger audiences are turning to #chatbots for #news in record numbers. Last year, 7% of RISJ respondents globally said they use #AI chatbots... Currently, 16% of respondents under the age of 35 said they had used a chatbot for news in the last week." #ethics #internet #media

[Nieman Lab @NiemanLab]

It's that time of year again: Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) has put out its 2026 Digital News Report. The Nieman Lab team broke down some key findings — including how people continue to abandon news sites and apps in favor of social media and, increasingly, chatbots to get their news.

https://t.co/70cW2c1idv

[Internet Ethics @IEthics]

"I have come to think of it as the 'Invisible Disruption'... This is unassuming work, in #jobs we tend to look past, rarely write about, and overlook when we make #policy. And they include some of the jobs most at risk of automation": https://t.co/WkQWwP9b01 #ethics #AI #labor

[Alex Stamos @alexstamos]

A group of security researchers, AI entrepreneurs, and corporate executives, including myself, have released a letter calling for a return to the American ideal of transparent, predictable and evidence-based regulation when it comes to AI.

[Internet Ethics @IEthics]

The "Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin recently estimated that data centers account for 8 [%] of total water consumption in the region, a rate that could climb to 29 [%] by 2050 if the... concentration of data centers in northern Virginia continues apace." #ethics

[Internet Ethics @IEthics]

#ethics #AI #tech #research

[Internet Ethics @IEthics]

"Scientists who engage in AI-augmented #research publish 3.02 times more papers... #AI adoption shrinks the collective volume of scientific topics studied by 4.63% and decreases scientists’ engagement with one another by 22%": https://t.co/f15g9g874G #ethics h/t @EhudReiter

[Internet Ethics @IEthics]

"The technology department said in the report that it found more systems for its report this year because it evaluated responses from state agencies more thoroughly, including by meeting with agencies and questioning them about their systems" https://t.co/1lqN6jfNih #ethics #AI

[Internet Ethics @IEthics]

"The report does not include generative #AI pilot projects underway with support from the governor’s office... A California State University contract with OpenAI to provide a version of ChatGPT is also not mentioned..." #ethics #law #AI #gov #tech #business

[Internet Ethics @IEthics]

"The case is the first of its kind to broadly target the algorithmic decisionmaking underpinning #AI screening software that has ​become virtually universal among large #employers, and could help shape how such litigation is conducted." #ethics #law #tech #business #labor

[Reuters Legal @ReutersLegal]

Workday will likely face California claims in sprawling AI bias lawsuit https://t.co/9EgrfhqSSj

[Internet Ethics @IEthics]

"The U.K. plans to follow the same model for a #socialmedia ban as Australia, which last year became the first country to bar under-16s from holding social media accounts": https://t.co/cyx828047u #ethics #law #internet #gov #business

[Internet Ethics @IEthics]

"The report does not include generative #AI pilot projects underway with support from the governor’s office... A California State University contract with OpenAI to provide a version of ChatGPT is also not mentioned..." #ethics #law #AI #gov #tech #business

[Internet Ethics @IEthics]

"The technology department said in the report that it found more systems for its report this year because it evaluated responses from state agencies more thoroughly, including by meeting with agencies and questioning them about their systems" https://t.co/1lqN6jfNih #ethics #AI

[Internet Ethics @IEthics]

"The 2023 #law mandating the annual high-risk systems report excludes reporting by a number of state agencies, including the judicial branch and the University of California college system": https://t.co/1lqN6jfNih #ethics #AI #tech #gov #business #criminaljustice #education

[Internet Ethics @IEthics]

"The technology department said in the report that it found more systems for its report this year because it evaluated responses from state agencies more thoroughly, including by meeting with agencies and questioning them about their systems" https://t.co/1lqN6jfNih #ethics #AI

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

New: Researchers quantify how easy AI search is to manipulate. 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is"

https://t.co/NRBhFH8nhM

[Internet Ethics @IEthics]

"Scientists who engage in AI-augmented #research publish 3.02 times more papers... #AI adoption shrinks the collective volume of scientific topics studied by 4.63% and decreases scientists’ engagement with one another by 22%": https://t.co/f15g9g874G #ethics h/t @EhudReiter

[Internet Ethics @IEthics]

#ethics #AI #tech #research

[Iason Gabriel @IasonGabriel]

It's essential that AI systems—including agents—work to support (not undermine) human autonomy.

But aligning to autonomy is hard. Our new paper shows that there are intra– as well as inter–value trade offs.

With @leonieclaude we explore a range of options...

[Reuters Legal @ReutersLegal]

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on Monday by Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI that accused rival Sam Altman's OpenAI of stealing trade secrets for chatbots. https://t.co/InJwHIhL7z