The AI Ethics Brief #197: Terms Set Upstream
Enterprises are discovering their AI provider is also a competitor. Chinese users discovered their companions were never theirs.
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The AI Ethics Brief #196: No One Was Required to Count
Anthropic destroyed books the law had no reason to tally. OpenAI ran an evaluation no one was required to contain.
The AI Ethics Brief #195: When the Rules Arrive Late
AI's costs are landing in real places, and the people absorbing them are writing the rules after the fact, in council chambers and courtrooms.
The AI Ethics Brief #194: Who Builds, Who Depends, Who Decides
Three new reports show how AI power is concentrating, and why participation has to include the right to refuse.
The AI Ethics Brief #193: ACM FAccT Comes to Montreal
FAccT lands in Montreal and the Vatican enters the AI debate. Both circle the same question: who holds power over AI, and who can refuse it?
The AI Ethics Brief #192: Canada Has a National AI Strategy. The Hard Questions Come Next.
On Adoption, Sovereignty, and the Questions the Strategy Leaves for Later.
The AI Ethics Brief #191: The Terms of the Bargain
What we give up, who gets to refuse, and the road to SAIER Volume 8 (2026).
The AI Ethics Brief #190: The Data We Leave Behind
On therapy sessions, Slack archives, and citations that didn't exist.
The AI Ethics Brief #189: The Futures We Make Room For
On participatory tech futures, contested language, and what comes next for AI ethics.
The AI Ethics Brief #188: The Names We Give Things
On what we opt into, the language we use, and the distance between what things are called and what they actually do.
The AI Ethics Brief #187: The Myth of Inevitability
On manufactured inevitability and the surveillance infrastructure being built in plain sight.
The AI Ethics Brief #186: Sovereign by Design. Accountable by Whose Standard?
Canada's sovereignty moment, Anthropic's values test, and the accountability frameworks we still need to build.
The AI Ethics Brief #185: When AI Goes to War
Verification collapse, procurement politics, and the governance gap widening beneath both.
The AI Ethics Brief #184: What Deserves Your Attention
On critical ignoring, Claude's constitution, and why attention is the scarcest resource in AI.
The AI Ethics Brief #183: Blurred Lines
From health data to root permissions, AI is redrawing the boundaries of access.
The AI Ethics Brief #182: When Guardrails Fracture
Why 2026 marks the end of "business as usual" for AI ethics.
The AI Ethics Brief #181: We're Stronger Together: Collective Action & AI Ethics
Happy New Year! We kick off our first Brief of 2026 with our State of AI Ethics Report Part V: Collective Action, and mark the return of our Recess collaboration with Encode Canada
The AI Ethics Brief #180: Emerging Tech with Established Issues
We wish you Happy Holidays before diving into our State of AI Ethics Report Part IV: Emerging Technologies, while Sun-Gyoo Kang explores AI agents and their effect on e-commerce
The AI Ethics Brief #179: Seen, But Not Heard: AI's Impact On Labour
We further explore our State of AI Ethics Report with Part III: Sectoral Applications while highlighting the latest addition to our AI Policy Corner on Brazil's newest AI-related bill
The AI Ethics Brief #178: How AI Regulation Can Both Harm and Foster Social Justice
We further explore our State of AI Ethics Report with Part II: Social Justice & Equity, while highlighting the latest addition to our AI Policy Corner on Ukraine's AI regulation whitepaper
The AI Ethics Brief #177: Community-led AI Governance
The SAIER, performative AI governance, and AI lab transparency