How Deloitte navigates ethics in the AI-driven workforce: Involve everyone

Beena Ammanath is the head of Deloitte’s Technology Trust Ethics practice. Deloitte In 1845, William Welch Deloitte — hired to audit the Great Western Railway — founded the company that still bears his name. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited has grown from a one-man shop to a “Big Four” accounting firm employing hundreds of thousands of … Read more

Women in AI: Sandra Watcher, professor of data ethics at Oxford

To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more profiles here. … Read more

Salesforce top AI ethics leader ‘optimistic’ on path to US regulation

There are several different pieces of legislation going through the U.S. Congress that focus on AI-related areas. But there is still no official regulation that focuses specifically on AI. Pol Cartie | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images BARCELONA, Spain — A top executive at Salesforce says she is “optimistic” that U.S. Congress will … Read more

Japan’s prime minister will make an appearance at Parliament’s ethics hearing over a funds scandal

TOKYO — Japan’s beleaguered prime minister was set to stand before a political ethics committee Thursday at Parliament in a bid to showcase his leadership. Fumio Kishida has fought against plummeting support ratings since his governing party’s corruption scandal rocked the government. The scandal, considered the biggest in decades, centers on political funds raised through … Read more

Rep. Leezah Sun resigns from Arizona Legislature after damning ethics panel report

Arizona House Rep. Leezah Sun resigned on Wednesday moments before House members were scheduled to vote on her expulsion. The first-term lawmaker from the West Valley’s Legislative District 22 departed following an ethics report that found she engaged in a pattern of threat-making and abuse of office. It also followed an ethics complaint by Democratic … Read more

‘You’re mother****** right,’ Las Vegas judge facing ethics violations over hot tub photo responds with Cardi B lyrics

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas judge facing ethics violations around her social media posts, including one where she posed in a hot tub with public defenders, responded about her potential discipline with lyrics from a Cardi B song, including the words: “Get money, go hard, you’re [expletive] right.” Last Wednesday, the Nevada Commission … Read more

Matt Gaetz, the House GOP’s Token Troublemaker, Caught in Escalating Ethics Probe That Could Lead to Expulsion

ABC News reports that “multiple new witnesses” have been contacted in an investigation into allegations of sex trafficking and lobbying violations SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty US Representative Matt Gaetz A reopened House Ethics Committee probe of Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz has widened in recent weeks, with ABC News reporting that “multiple new witnesses” have been … Read more

An AI Executive Turns AI Crusader to Stand Up for Artists

Ed Newton-Rex says generative AI has an ethics problem. He ought to know, because he used to be part of the fast-growing industry. Newton-Rex was TikTok’s head AI designer and then an executive at Stability AI until he quit in disgust in November over the company’s stance on collecting training data. After his high-profile departure, … Read more

OpenAI Cofounder Reid Hoffman Gives Sam Altman a Vote of Confidence

Hoffman and others said that there’s no need to pause development of AI. He called that drastic measure, for which some AI researchers have petitioned, foolish and destructive. Hoffman identified himself as a rational “accelerationist”—someone who knows to slow down when driving around a corner but that, presumably, is happy to speed up when the … Read more