Internet Ethics

Using #AI well requires a certain level of AI literacy. AI #ethics literacy is a part of AI literacy: scu.edu/ethics/focus-a… #education #highered #tech #SiliconValley

"Certain states are beginning to require #school #AI policies legislatively and the United States Department of Labor has published an AI literacy framework for 2026... But policy without understanding, policy without practice, policy without reflection is just a piece of paper."

"We found five recurring tensions between directly competing benefits and harms... There is a tension between using #AI to learn and growing so reliant on it that you cease thinking for yourself; between being impressed by AI's judgment but also burned by its mistakes" #ethics

"Former judges side with #Anthropic and raise concerns about Pentagon’s use of supply chain risk label": us.cnn.com/2026/03/17/tec… #ethics #law #tech #business #gov #AI

"Another throughline of the hearing was a broad awareness of the dangers of #government censorship and the potential to chill speech online, including through coercive threats or jawboning": theverge.com/policy/897106/… #ethics #law #internet

#ethics #law #internet #AI #tech #socialmedia #business

"As agency leaders grapple with informal directives..., the situation is exposing the challenges and costs of removing a major #AI vendor from federal supply chains after an aggressive push to embed the #technology in the first place." #ethics #gov #tech #socialmedia #business

"Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) has questions about a $10 billion fee that #TikTok's buyers reportedly are paying the U.S. Treasury Department, on top of what they spent to buy the actual business from China's ByteDance." #ethics #law #gov #internet #business #socialmedia #tech

"We also found when #AI is used to replace routine or repetitive tasks, burnout scores—but not mental fatigue scores—are lower. This highlights the subtle-but-important distinction between the types of stress that AI can alleviate, and those that it may worsen." #ethics #research

"We found that the phenomenon described... is both real and significant. We call it 'AI brain fry,' which we define as mental fatigue from excessive use or oversight of AI tools beyond one’s cognitive capacity": hbr.org/2026/03/when-u… #ethics #tech #research #business

"The next version of a technology like this will not announce itself with a marketing campaign like Einstein #AI did. It will simply appear quietly for #students to adopt on a website like GitHub": forbes.com/sites/danfitzp… #ethics #internet #tech #education #highered #teaching

Related: "A Coursera report in 2026 states that only 25 [%] of educators are confident using #AI. Only 20 [%] have AI literacy formally in their curriculum": forbes.com/sites/danfitzp… #ethics #tech #education #school #teaching #homework #research

"A whopping 95% of #teens say they know at least a little about #chatbots. A quarter of them say they’re extremely or very confident in their ability to use chatbots": forbes.com/sites/petergre… #ethics #tech #education #school #teaching #homework #research

Note the post's "#AI Use #Energy Report" disclosure at the end. #ethics #tech