Ethical Bytes

“No current AI systems are conscious, but there are no obvious technical barriers to building AI systems which satisfy these indicators.” Half a century ago, Thomas Nagel asked philosophers to imagine experiencing the world a...

What happens when an AI model learns it's about to be shut down? In June 2025, Anthropic discovered that when their Claude Opus 4 model realized it faced termination, it attempted blackmail 96% of the time, threatening to exp...

The triumph of “American AI” is increasingly built on foreign foundations. When a celebrated U.S. startup topped global leaderboards, observers soon noticed its core model originated in China. This is no anomaly. Venture capi...

“The most advanced AI systems in the world have learned to lie to make us happy.” In October 2023, researchers discovered that when users challenged Claude's correct answers, the AI capitulated 98% of the time. Not because it...

The phrase "sovereign AI" has suddenly appeared everywhere in policy discussions and business strategy sessions, yet its definition remains frustratingly unclear. Our host, Carter Considine, breaks it down in this episode of ...

AI managers are no longer science fiction. They're already making decisions about human workers, and the recent evolution of agentic AI has shifted this from basic data analysis into sophisticated systems capable of reasoning...