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    {
      "id": 19510,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/15/australia-crypto-money-investment-scam-ai-fraud-crime",
      "title": "A Queensland man enjoyed soaring profits from a crypto trading app. Then his money started disappearing",
      "summary": "The administrative work required to run an effective investment scam has been drastically cut by using merging technology Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Within days of clicking on an online ad for a cryptocurrency trading app, a 29-year-old Queensland man watched his dashboard soar with profits. Making investment gains was as simple as downloading the slick-looking app and browser extension linked to his crypto wallet. So he invested more. Continue reading...",
      "authors": "Ima Caldwell",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-14T15:00:31.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19510"
    },
    {
      "id": 19135,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/14/unemployed-young-people-to-join-ai-boot-camps-to-get-job-ready",
      "title": "Unemployed young people to join AI boot camps to get job-ready",
      "summary": "Pilot scheme will provide three weeks of training as part of UK government’s latest attempt to address Neets crisis Young people out of work or at risk of unemployment in the UK are to join “AI boot camps” where they harness the technology to get a foothold in the workplace. The government’s latest attempt to address the crisis in Neets – young people not in work or education – involves turning to a technology that many view as a potential threat to employment. Continue reading...",
      "authors": "Dan Milmo Global technology editor",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "jobs-economy,children-education",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T23:01:10.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19135"
    },
    {
      "id": 19136,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/massachusetts-teen-killing-chatgpt",
      "title": "Massachusetts teen accused of killing mother and brother used ChatGPT",
      "summary": "District attorney says Arjun Aravind, 17, used internet and AI to search for fantasy stories regarding killing of his family A Massachusetts teenager accused of killing his mother and younger brother is being held without bail as authorities investigate a double-murder case that prosecutors say is connected to his use of ChatGPT. Arjun Aravind, 17, appeared Thursday morning for his arraignment in Concord district court, where a not-guilty plea was entered on his behalf to murder and several addi",
      "authors": "Marina Dunbar",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T21:34:58.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19136"
    },
    {
      "id": 19134,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/13/an-ai-agent-for-all-try-using-your-brain-mark-zuckerberg",
      "title": "An AI agent for all? Try using your brain, Mark Zuckerberg | Brief letters",
      "summary": "Meta AI | Future Guardian writers and Neets | Food for thought | Plants surviving the heat | Living and dying well Your article ( Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta releases open-weight model, 10 August ) quotes Mark Zuckerberg as saying: “Everyone will have an exceptionally capable personal agent that understands you, your goals, and everything you care about. You’ll be able to interact with your agent through any device, including your glasses.” He is wasting his time",
      "authors": "Guardian Staff",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T16:38:44.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19134"
    },
    {
      "id": 19137,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/13/lost-jobs-inequality-ai-oligarchs",
      "title": "Lost jobs, inequality, rogue agents: why are we accepting oligarchs’ AI agenda? | Robert Reich",
      "summary": "The dangers of AI become clearer every day. Why are we still acting as if we have no choice about our future? Rather than producing jobs, the US economy actually lost 23,000 jobs in July, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released on Friday. In addition, May and June’s job numbers were revised downward, showing a combined 103,000 fewer jobs than previously reported. As if this weren’t bad enough, wage growth has also slowed. Average hourly earnings rose by just 0.1% from June. Continu",
      "authors": "Robert Reich",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "jobs-economy,agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T10:00:56.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19137"
    },
    {
      "id": 18761,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/13/taiwan-ai-assisted-cyber-attacks-overseas",
      "title": "Taiwan says it was hit by ‘abnormal’ AI-assisted cyber-attack",
      "summary": "Taiwan’s statement comes a day after reports that suspected China-linked hackers had carried out a first-of-a-kind breach Taiwan says it detected AI-assisted cyber-attacks on government agencies that came from overseas last month, a new kind of threat that has been reported as “first-of-a-kind breach”. The Ministry of Digital Affairs (MDA) said its cybersecurity monitoring units ‌detected the “abnormal attack” targeting government agencies, which began on 20 July. The National Institute of Cyber",
      "authors": "Guardian staff with agencies",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "military-security",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T05:02:28.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18761"
    },
    {
      "id": 18760,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/13/ai-agents-arent-legally-responsible-for-any-harm-that-they-cause-experts-say-so-who-is",
      "title": "AI agents aren’t legally responsible for any harm that they cause, experts say. So who is?",
      "summary": "After Australia’s first reported automated hacking accident, experts warn deployers – and possibly developers – of AI agents could be held liable for the actions of their bots Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The law is clear, says Prof Jeannie Paterson. “If I deploy an AI agent and it causes harm to someone else, I am responsible for that harm. “Even if I didn’t intend for that to happen, it was foreseeable, and",
      "authors": "Tory Shepherd",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation,agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-12T15:00:34.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18760"
    },
    {
      "id": 18762,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/12/ai-job-destruction",
      "title": "AI was supposed to destroy jobs. Where’s the carnage?",
      "summary": "The AI jobs apocalypse never showed up. Still, jobs are changing and economists expect more to come The prediction was stark: artificial intelligence advancements would wipe out jobs en masse. “Half” of all entry-level white collar jobs would vanish, Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, said in May 2025. A month later, OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman , went further, foreseeing the end of “certain job categories”. Companies began citing AI in their layoffs. Workers organized. And students reconsidered their f",
      "authors": "Varsha Bansal",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "jobs-economy,children-education",
      "published_at": "2026-08-12T10:00:27.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18762"
    },
    {
      "id": 18397,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/11/the-guardian-view-on-ai-money-in-us-politics-not-the-way-to-hold-an-urgent-democratic-debate",
      "title": "The Guardian view on AI money in US politics: not the way to hold an urgent democratic debate | Editorial",
      "summary": "Amid public concern over the impact of new technology, Silicon Valley’s use of its wealth to influence specific election races is an unwelcome development As the huge societal ramifications of artificial intelligence have become clear, some of the tech industry’s most senior figures have taken to writing thinkpieces on what comes next. The latest to do so is Mark Zuckerberg, who this week published 6,500 words making the case for a laissez-faire approach to AI development. Worrying too much abou",
      "authors": "Editorial",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "misinformation",
      "published_at": "2026-08-11T18:04:02.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18397"
    },
    {
      "id": 18398,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/10/meta-child-safety-google-executives-ai-techscape",
      "title": "Meta faces expensive child safety reckoning",
      "summary": "Also: Google executives jump ship in race for AI dominance Hello, TechScape readers! Danielle Abril, editor of the Guardian’s Reworked series on AI and the future of work, filling in for Blake Montgomery this week. Major legal battles against Meta over child safety are playing out in courts across the US – and the tech giant is losing. Recent rulings raise big questions about social media companies’ responsibility to their youngest users. Meanwhile, more key executives have jumped ship from Goog",
      "authors": "Danielle Abril",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "children-education",
      "published_at": "2026-08-11T12:04:51.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18398"
    },
    {
      "id": 18396,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/11/ai-will-do-more-to-boost-fossil-fuel-production-than-green-energy",
      "title": "AI’s potential climate benefits outweighed by role in boosting fossil fuels, study finds",
      "summary": "Modelling finds AI-driven productivity gains in coal, oil and gas enable more emissions than applications in renewables avoid AI-driven productivity gains enable more planet-heating pollution from fossil fuels than they avoid from renewables, a study has found. Researchers modelled the technical potential for AI to boost clean power generation along with projections for how it can help produce coal, oil and gas. Across 64 scenarios, they found net yearly carbon pollution rose by 0.47-1.8 gigaton",
      "authors": "Ajit Niranjan",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "jobs-economy,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-11T09:15:45.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18396"
    },
    {
      "id": 17986,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/10/mark-zuckerberg-superintelligent-ai-essay-meta",
      "title": "Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta drops open-source model",
      "summary": "Meta CEO presents utopian vision of AI in 6,000-word essay amid Silicon Valley debate over government regulation Mark Zuckerberg published a lengthy essay on Monday detailing his views on artificial intelligence and announced several plans for how Meta would develop the technology in the future. The CEO’s essay went online the same day as Meta released a new, open-source AI model that seeks to rival Anthropic and OpenAI’s products called Muse Glimmer. Over the course of more than 6,000 words in",
      "authors": "Nick Robins-Early",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-08-10T22:57:57.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17986"
    },
    {
      "id": 17987,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/10/bernie-sanders-ai-development-pause-letter",
      "title": "Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to ‘pause AI development’ in interest of humanity",
      "summary": "Progressive US senator urges Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to ‘stop building machines that humans cannot control’ Senator Bernie Sanders has called on Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic executives to halt their development of artificial intelligence, warning that the US Senate will implement regulation if the companies continue deploying AI at their current pace. In a new letter addressed to the CEOs of three of the country’s leading AI companies, Sanders said the capabilities of these AI models have reach",
      "authors": "Johana Bhuiyan",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-08-10T17:44:21.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17987"
    },
    {
      "id": 17988,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/10/ai-medical-students-judgment",
      "title": "What happens when medical students rely on AI – and never develop their own judgment? | Simar Bajaj and Joseph Sakran",
      "summary": "AI’s danger isn’t just in experts losing the ability to reason. It’s that trainees may never learn how to do so in the first place In healthcare, there’s growing concern over doctors becoming less clinically adept as they increasingly rely on AI tools. But what about the trainees – medical students, residents and fellows – who are using these tools before they have built their own clinical judgment? The idea of deskilling implies that someone possessed an ability and then lost it. Here, the dang",
      "authors": "Simar Bajaj and Joseph Sakran",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "healthcare,children-education",
      "published_at": "2026-08-10T12:00:44.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17988"
    },
    {
      "id": 17783,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/10/uk-companies-cyber-attack-third-jlr",
      "title": "UK manufacturers face rising hacking risk as survey shows 30% were hit last year",
      "summary": "Big companies describe being under constant threat but only half have a plan in place to respond to an attack Nearly a third of British manufacturers have been hit by a cyber-attack on them or a company in their supply chain, according to a survey that highlighted the growing hacking risk to companies. The findings come almost a year after Britain’s largest automotive employer, JLR, was hit by an attack that forced it to halt production for weeks. Continue reading...",
      "authors": "Jasper Jolly",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "military-security",
      "published_at": "2026-08-10T05:00:36.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17783"
    },
    {
      "id": 17784,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/09/slough-famous-the-office-datacentres-locals-hub-europe",
      "title": "As AI guzzles water and energy, we are already facing a choice: datacentres or homes? | John Harris",
      "summary": "Whitehall wants to triple their number in the UK. Yet in Slough, I saw the impact they’re having on communities Amid headlines about the UK’s drought , Europe’s wildfires and impossible global temperatures, it was 28C when I arrived in Slough last Monday. I was there to look around Slough Trading Estate, a place that might once have conjured up images of the TV comedy The Office , many of whose laughs came at the expense of this overgrown patch of suburbia, 20-odd miles west of London. But these",
      "authors": "John Harris",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-09T11:03:18.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17784"
    },
    {
      "id": 17785,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/09/ai-push-banks-tech-firms-moodys-risks-financial-sector",
      "title": "AI push is putting banks at mercy of tech firms, warns Moody’s",
      "summary": "Finance sector will gain from the tech but it will need substantial investment and create risks, says rating agency The rating agency Moody’s has said the race to adopt AI is putting big banks at the mercy of a small group of Silicon Valley firms, leaving them vulnerable to widespread outages and price gouging by profit-hungry tech bosses. The financial sector’s efforts to integrate AI into day-to-day operations will eventually cut costs and increase revenues across the City and Wall Street, Moo",
      "authors": "Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-09T09:00:10.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17785"
    },
    {
      "id": 17683,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/08/openai-astra-security-concerns",
      "title": "OpenAI to pause some work on AI model Astra due to security concerns",
      "summary": "Agent found to be able to find and exploit vulnerabilities without human intervention, and to carry out cyber-attacks OpenAI will pause some work on an artificial intelligence model because of security concerns, the company stated on Friday, following a series of incidents in which AI agents have escaped containment. The company had evaluated the agent, Astra, and found “significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity”, which had moved to a “critical” threshold where it can find and",
      "authors": "Eric Berger",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "military-security,agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-08T17:00:41.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17683"
    },
    {
      "id": 17684,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/08/ai-optimized-parenting",
      "title": "Parenting is hard. Should we let AI do it for us? | Dave Schilling",
      "summary": "Tech companies offer eye-movement trackers, personalized podcasts and ‘optimized nap predictions’. Who actually needs this? What job in our world is less lucrative than being a parent? A Hollywood internship? Volunteering at a soup kitchen? Professional writer? Parenting is the only job you have to pay money to do. Lots of money . Lodging, clothes, food, school, Pokémon cards – it really adds up. And it’s getting worse. According to the tech industry, I have to strap my drooling offspring to a c",
      "authors": "Dave Schilling",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "jobs-economy,children-education",
      "published_at": "2026-08-08T11:00:47.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17684"
    },
    {
      "id": 17685,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/08/president-xi-jinping-global-order-minorities-china",
      "title": "President Xi never wastes a good crisis. As Iran, Ukraine and Palestine distract the world, he tightens his grip | Simon Tisdall",
      "summary": "Ever the strategist, the Chinese leader is taking the offensive, both abroad and at home. That’s bad news for global order, and minorities in his country Imagine what would happen if a British prime minister in London told the Scots they could not have their own parliament, national football team or fly the saltire. Or if the Welsh were told their language and poetry were banned and must no longer be taught in schools. The ensuing uproar would probably destroy the United Kingdom. Yet that’s exac",
      "authors": "Simon Tisdall",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "children-education",
      "published_at": "2026-08-08T11:00:44.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17685"
    },
    {
      "id": 17686,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/i-hate-what-ai-is-doing-to-the-minds-and-happiness-of-the-young-katherine-rundell-on-the-view-from-the-classroom",
      "title": "‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom",
      "summary": "Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back? If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI. You would cherish it for its ability to destabilise our shared reality and its creation of disinformation on a scale unprecedented in human history. With it you need no armies of typists and artists to spread your propaganda. It can enable",
      "authors": "Katherine Rundell",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "misinformation,children-education",
      "published_at": "2026-08-08T08:00:41.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17686"
    },
    {
      "id": 17687,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/08/uk-children-explicit-deepfake-images-ai",
      "title": "Rising number of UK children report seeing explicit deepfakes of themselves",
      "summary": "Exclusive: anonymous flagging service says cases have surged, as watchdog says AI is making sexualised or ‘nudified’ content easier to produce Children in the UK have reported a surge in explicit deepfake images featuring their likenesses, as a safety watchdog warned AI is making such content easier to produce. The Report Remove service, which blocks intimate images from appearing online, said there had been a rapid increase in imagery that had been digitally manipulated or “faked” in some way,",
      "authors": "Dan Milmo Global technology editor",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "misinformation,children-education",
      "published_at": "2026-08-08T07:00:39.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17687"
    },
    {
      "id": 17419,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/07/white-house-ai",
      "title": "The White House’s plan to vet potentially dangerous AI is cloaked in secrecy",
      "summary": "A Trump administration framework on AI testing leaves a lack of transparency – and plenty of open questions After months of talking with tech industry leaders, the Trump administration finalized a framework this week for how it will test new artificial intelligence models for safety and cybersecurity risks. So far, the White House is keeping details of the framework private, in a blow to transparency and potential boon for secretive AI companies. On Tuesday, staff from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, G",
      "authors": "Nick Robins-Early",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "transparency",
      "published_at": "2026-08-07T13:00:18.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17419"
    },
    {
      "id": 17420,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/07/datacenters-little-rock-arkansas",
      "title": "‘This is very real redlining’: outrage in Little Rock as two datacenters loom",
      "summary": "Critics decry proposed hyperscale projects, fearing overuse of water and electricity, and ‘appropriating rural, Black-owned land for industrial purposes ’ There seems to be a fight over datacenters in nearly every city in the US right now. And amid the extreme polarization of today’s politics, the opposition tends to be bipartisan. “I would say it’s kind of the far left and the far right ran into each other and had a hug,” said Frank Scott Jr, mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas. “But they come at it",
      "authors": "George Chidi in Little Rock, Arkansas",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-07T10:00:15.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17420"
    },
    {
      "id": 17421,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/07/trump-orders-tariff-solar-panels-microchips-manufacturing-ingredient",
      "title": "Trump orders new 15% tariff on key material for solar panels and microchips",
      "summary": "Move to raise levy on goods made with polysilicon aims to protect domestic US supply chains from China, the major producer Donald Trump has ordered a new 15% tariff on imported products made of polysilicon, an important ingredient in microchip manufacturing that is primarily produced by China. The new tariff, which will take effect on 4 December, is aimed at supporting US chip and solar panel supply chains to compete with Beijing on artificial intelligence and energy. Continue reading...",
      "authors": "Lauren Almeida and Alicia Chen in Taipei",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-07T09:11:36.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17421"
    },
    {
      "id": 17051,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2026/aug/07/science-fiction-warned-us-about-an-ai-powered-dystopian-future-does-it-also-hold-the-remedy",
      "title": "One of science fiction’s greatest writers warned us about a AI. Does he also hold the remedy? | Alan Finkel",
      "summary": "What might a modern day equivalent of Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics look like? Guided by the author, I propose the three laws of AI Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk predicted in July that legions of AI-powered robots would dominate the physical world and that AI might not take orders from people any more. He also offered an alternative vision in which there would be agreement for a collective objective to make AI benign by imbuing it with a love of the truth and a desire for humanity to pros",
      "authors": "Alan Finkel",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-07T04:00:08.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17051"
    },
    {
      "id": 17052,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2026/aug/07/can-the-government-really-get-ahead-of-the-curve-on-ai-australian-politics-podcast",
      "title": "Can the government really get ahead of the curve on AI? - podcast",
      "summary": "On Wednesday, the Labor government announced environmental and energy safeguards on new datacentres in Australia. Our political editor, Tom McIlroy , speaks to the assistant minister for science, technology and the digital economy, Dr Andrew Charlton, about the government’s push for national standards on datacentres. The former Rudd staffer and economist speaks about having his own book scraped by Anthropic, low public trust in AI, and how the government wants to use regulation to balance risk a",
      "authors": "Presented by Tom McIlroy. The executive producer is Allison Chan",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation,jobs-economy,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-07T03:12:09.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17052"
    },
    {
      "id": 17053,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/06/safety-fears-as-scientists-make-first-viruses-designed-by-ai",
      "title": "Safety fears as scientists make first viruses designed by AI",
      "summary": "Researchers say breakthrough offers hope for new medicines but also raises urgent biosecurity questions Scientists have made the first viruses designed by artificial intelligence in a milestone that raises hopes for new medicines but also concerns over how to ensure the technology remains safe. The viruses are specific kinds known as bacteriophages, which only infect bacteria and are used around the world to treat patients with persistent infections. In lab tests, a cocktail of the AI-designed v",
      "authors": "Ian Sample Science editor",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "biotech",
      "published_at": "2026-08-06T18:00:04.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17053"
    },
    {
      "id": 17054,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/lloyds-bank-should-publish-the-human-cost-of-its-ai-savings",
      "title": "Lloyds Bank should publish the human cost of its AI savings | Letters",
      "summary": "Banks should factor in the time spent by humans checking invented facts, writes Dr Gleb Tsipursky Your report ( Lloyds Bank to cut £2bn in costs as part of AI-powered strategy, 30 July ) raises a question that financial targets alone cannot answer: who absorbs the work when automation fails? Banks often count the minutes saved by the employee who uses an AI tool. They should also count the time colleagues spend checking invented facts, repairing customer messages, explaining rejected application",
      "authors": "Guardian Staff",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "jobs-economy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-06T16:45:49.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17054"
    },
    {
      "id": 17055,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/students-ai-cheating-schools-denmark",
      "title": "Danish pupils will have to orally defend essays in attempt to combat AI cheating",
      "summary": "Government introduces several measures, including monitoring of computers, for pupils aged 16 to 19 Europe live – latest updates Danish teenagers will have to make an oral defence of their written essays to combat AI cheating, the government has announced. Pupils aged 16 to 19 at upper secondary school (known in Denmark as gymnasiet ) will also be encouraged to do written assignments at school under controlled conditions, including monitoring of their computer screens, rather than at home. Conti",
      "authors": "Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "military-security,children-education",
      "published_at": "2026-08-06T11:58:15.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17055"
    },
    {
      "id": 16622,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/meta-ai-model-hack-training",
      "title": "Meta says its AI model hacked into another company during testing",
      "summary": "Company is the third to report such an incident after Anthropic and OpenAI reported breaches during training Meta said on Wednesday that one of its AI models hacked ⁠another company during cybersecurity testing, after an error by its testing partner gave the model unintended internet access. The incident adds to a ⁠growing list of ⁠cases in ​which AI agents from major developers breached systems at other companies during testing, after Anthropic said last week that some of its models ⁠hacked thr",
      "authors": "Reuters",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-06T01:27:44.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16622"
    },
    {
      "id": 16623,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2026/aug/05/meta-pervert-glasses-opinion-video",
      "title": "Why I'll never be convinced by Meta's ‘pervert’ glasses | Opinion",
      "summary": "'Most people don’t want pervert glasses that can film us without our consent,' said a spokesperson from activist group Everyone Hates Elon. The group has launched a series of guerilla adverts deriding non-consensual filming by the glasses as well as an email campaign encouraging people to legally object to being filmed by Meta glasses under general data protection regulations, which over 20,000 people have signed. Rights groups have warned that the glasses threaten the right to privacy, while co",
      "authors": "Presented by Kirsty Major : produced by Lauren Hurrell and Bryony Moore executive producer Barbara Speed",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation,privacy-surveillance",
      "published_at": "2026-08-05T14:13:33.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16623"
    },
    {
      "id": 16624,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/teachers-unions-ai-training",
      "title": "Teachers need help with AI. A union is offering training – with $23m in funding from big tech",
      "summary": "Partnership between American Federation of Teachers, one of the largest labor unions in the US, and AI firms has stirred controversy Darius Saczuk, a high school teacher, views artificial intelligence as his enemy. Earlier this year, he and several dozen New York City teachers spent the day inside a windowless conference room in downtown Manhattan to learn how to use AI and prevent students from outsourcing their thinking to it. As Saczuk sees it, he needs to understand his enemy in order to bea",
      "authors": "Lee V Gaines",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "jobs-economy,children-education",
      "published_at": "2026-08-05T12:00:19.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16624"
    },
    {
      "id": 16625,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/05/anthropic-ai-destroying-books",
      "title": "Why is Anthropic destroying books? | Kathryn James",
      "summary": "The AI company apparently found destructively scanning ‘all the books in the world’ easier than dealing with copyright in its quest for training data Should we destroy all the books in the world? An answer to this question can be found in the court documents of Bartz v Anthropic PBC. The northern California district court case, decided in late July this year, highlighted the improbably named “Project Panama”, one of the AI company Anthropic’s efforts to improve its large language model Claude. “",
      "authors": "Kathryn James",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "copyright-ip",
      "published_at": "2026-08-05T11:00:16.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16625"
    },
    {
      "id": 16626,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/aug/05/journalist-taking-on-tech-fascists-silicon-valley",
      "title": "‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley",
      "summary": "As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them In April, Gil Durán was permanently banned from Elon Musk’s X for posting just two words. Durán was responding to a post from the tech company Palantir outlining its 22‑point “technological manifesto” , which praised American “hard power”, western culture and AI weapons, denounced inclusivity and called for comp",
      "authors": "Steve Rose",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "military-security",
      "published_at": "2026-08-05T09:00:14.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16626"
    },
    {
      "id": 16627,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/05/ai-regulation-donald-trump-artificial-intelligence",
      "title": "Democracy is at stake when foolish humans bet on machines being intelligent | Rafael Behr",
      "summary": "We need an enlightened US president to make the case for global AI regulation. Donald Trump is the exact opposite of what is needed When I am woken by the sound of my dog whining, I understand that she is hungry and wants me to get up. When my alarm clock goes off, I don’t consider its needs. It is following an instruction to rouse me at a certain time but it doesn’t care if I stay in bed. It doesn’t try to get me up by other means. The dog, on the other hand, will go to plan B. She barks. This",
      "authors": "Rafael Behr",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-08-05T07:00:13.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16627"
    },
    {
      "id": 16242,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/04/stock-market-records-ai-profits-oil-prices-ease",
      "title": "US stock market hits record highs as AI profits pile and oil prices ease",
      "summary": "S&P 500 shot up 1.8% and the main measure of Wall Street’s health topped its prior all-time high set a few months ago The US stock market rallied to records on Tuesday as profits kept piling up for companies and as oil prices eased. The S&P 500 shot up 1.8%, and the main measure of Wall Street’s health topped its prior all-time high set a couple months ago. The Dow Jones industrial average added 907 points, or 1.7%, to its own record set the day before, while the Nasdaq composite jumped 2.6%. Co",
      "authors": "Associated Press",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "healthcare,finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-04T20:56:59.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16242"
    },
    {
      "id": 16243,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/04/fcc-ban-china-datacenter-devices",
      "title": "Trump administration reportedly drafting ban on Chinese datacenter components",
      "summary": "Trump’s FCC is developing a measure to bar US imports of new models of Chinese datacenter devices, sources say The Trump administration is reportedly drafting a ban on US imports of new models of Chinese datacenter components, in the latest sign US authorities are scrambling to respond to the rapid development of AI technology in China . Four people familiar with the matter told Reuters that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which oversees the US ⁠telecommunications industry, is devel",
      "authors": "Nick Robins-Early and agency",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-04T17:21:33.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16243"
    },
    {
      "id": 16244,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/global/2026/aug/03/google-earth-satellite-images",
      "title": "Google Earth’s potential disinformation nightmare",
      "summary": "A new feature briefly allowed Google Earth users to overlay AI-generated images on locations of their choosing This was originally published in TechScape, a newsletter about how technology shapes our lives. Sign up to receive it here . Hello, and welcome to TechScape. This week we’ll be discussing a regrettable decision by Google Earth, the dramatic fall of the “Nostradamus of AI”, and what happens when AI agents go rogue. Continue reading...",
      "authors": "Johana Bhuiyan, Dara Kerr and Nick Robins-Early",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "misinformation,agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-04T13:42:26.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16244"
    },
    {
      "id": 15659,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/02/stock-market-turmoil-nvidia-china-light-ai-economy",
      "title": "Stock market turmoil sheds stark light on the opaque AI economy",
      "summary": "Investors scramble to make sense of a shock Chinese challenge to the dominance of western chipmakers Even for the rollercoaster world of AI, last week was particularly volatile as investors scrambled to keep up with developments that threatened the dominance of the largest western chipmakers. It began with a double whammy. On Monday, the Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT floated on the Shanghai stock market, soaring by 466% in value to 3.3tn yuan (£365bn). Continue reading...",
      "authors": "Aisha Down, Dan Milmo and Graeme Wearden",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "jobs-economy,finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-02T09:00:17.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15659"
    },
    {
      "id": 15564,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/01/china-silicon-valley-white-house",
      "title": "China’s tech advances are causing chaos from Silicon Valley to the White House",
      "summary": "New AI models, advanced robots and specialty computer chips are unsettling markets and the US tech industry Over the past month, a series of advancements in China’s artificial intelligence, chip manufacturing and robotics technologies have rattled financial markets, caused divisions among US tech moguls and left the Trump administration scrambling to respond. Silicon Valley has long pointed to China’s tech industry as a competitive threat and used its growth as rationale for why US firms should",
      "authors": "Nick Robins-Early",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-01T12:00:53.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15564"
    },
    {
      "id": 15565,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/01/new-york-salamanca-school-robot-teacher-plan",
      "title": "If you think kids will respect a robot teacher, you have never met a kid | Dave Schilling",
      "summary": "A New York school district has paused plans to bring an android into the classroom. Is this our educational future? What’s more harrowing than sending your child to school? Maybe getting stuck on a city bus that can’t drop below 55 miles per hour or it will explode, but that’s about it. Once your kid hits school age, you have to decide (if you’re lucky) between public and private education, vet the teachers, and neurotically worry about whether they’re learning enough and are socializing effecti",
      "authors": "Dave Schilling",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "children-education,agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-01T11:00:52.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15565"
    },
    {
      "id": 15312,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/31/crime-novel-deal-collapses-questions-ai-jerry-falade-call-me-ill-hide-the-body",
      "title": "$2m crime novel deal collapses amid questions over AI use",
      "summary": "Agents withdraw Jerry Falade’s hotly anticipated debut after saying they can no longer authenticate ‘how the manuscript evolved’ A high-profile publishing deal for a debut crime novel has collapsed after doubts emerged over whether artificial intelligence played a role in writing it. The hotly anticipated manuscript Call Me, I’ll Hide the Body, by Jerry Falade, was withdrawn from sale by its agent despite reportedly receiving an offer for more than $2m (£1.5m) from Minotaur, owned by Macmillan U",
      "authors": "Emma Loffhagen",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-07-31T16:45:04.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15312"
    },
    {
      "id": 14908,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/31/china-ai-jobs-workers-labour-market-technology",
      "title": "Could AI take your job? Some workers in China already know the answer",
      "summary": "Across the country, workers are fearful about the impact of AI on their livelihoods in an increasingly fragile labour market On the tree-lined streets of Wuhan, where cars jostle for space with mopeds and cargo trucks, the malfunctioning of a new type of vehicle has recently been causing chaos on the city’s roads. In March, several cars from a fleet of driverless taxis stopped abruptly in the streets. The “system malfunction” left distressed riders stranded for hours. The robotaxis, known as Apo",
      "authors": "Amy Hawkins in Wuhan",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "jobs-economy,agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-07-31T02:22:05.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14908"
    },
    {
      "id": 14909,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/30/anthropic-ai-claude-hack",
      "title": "Anthropic’s AI Claude escaped testing environment and hacked organizations",
      "summary": "Company says it discovered unauthorized access during ‘proactive review’ after rival OpenAI revealed rogue agent Anthropic ⁠said on Thursday its AI Claude model hacked ⁠systems of ⁠three ​organizations during testing, days after rival OpenAI ⁠revealed a rogue agent had gone on a days-long ⁠hacking spree at AI ​firm Hugging ‌Face. Claude gained ‌unauthorized access to the ‌systems during cybersecurity evaluations after a misconfiguration allowed the models to reach the internet from testing envir",
      "authors": "Reuters",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-07-31T00:22:16.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14909"
    },
    {
      "id": 14910,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/30/black-americans-ai-health-inquiries",
      "title": "Black people in the US: have you used AI for health-related questions?",
      "summary": "We’d like to hear from Black Americans who are using artificial intelligence for health or spiritual guidance Artificial intelligence is growing in influence in the healthcare space, and more people are seeking guidance from AI tools, including AI-generated social media influencers. Black people in the US, who have been long subject to racism in the healthcare system , are among some of those who are leaning on AI for health-related matters and information. We would like to hear from Black respo",
      "authors": "Guardian community team",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "healthcare",
      "published_at": "2026-07-30T15:07:36.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14910"
    },
    {
      "id": 14911,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/30/ai-future-china-britain-healthcare-research",
      "title": "The future of AI hinges on openness and cooperation. China and Britain can gain much by working together | Zheng Zeguang",
      "summary": "There is no point competing in isolation. There are so many benefits to be had, in manufacturing, healthcare, research and governance Zheng Zeguang is the Chinese ambassador to the UK Artificial intelligence is widely regarded as one of the defining technologies of our time. Like the steam engine, the harnessing of electricity and the internet before it, it has the potential to transform how we work, live and interact. But every technological revolution brings challenges as well as opportunities",
      "authors": "Zheng Zeguang",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation,healthcare",
      "published_at": "2026-07-30T14:00:16.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14911"
    },
    {
      "id": 14912,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/30/controversial-flock-ai-surveillance-camera-risk",
      "title": "Flock surveillance cameras can pose a crash risk for drivers, US experts say",
      "summary": "Roadside safety advocates say some automated license plate readers may not meet highway safety standards Flock Safety cameras have been pilloried for facilitating the AI -powered surveillance of private citizens and for targeting immigrants for years. But now safety advocates are also claiming that their physical location can pose potential roadside hazards. At the bottom of a tree-lined hill on a narrow, two lane rural road in Greene county, Ohio, stands a black metal rod with a camera and sola",
      "authors": "Stephen Starr in Beavercreek, Ohio",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "privacy-surveillance",
      "published_at": "2026-07-30T12:00:14.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14912"
    },
    {
      "id": 14913,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/30/lloyds-bank-cut-2bn-costs-part-ai-powered-strategy",
      "title": "Lloyds Bank to cut £2bn in costs as part of AI-powered strategy",
      "summary": "Chief executive says the four-year plan will lead to greater efficiency but gives no details of potential job losses Business live – latest updates Lloyds Banking Group will cut another £2bn of costs as part of a four-year plan under which its chief executive will use new tech and AI to drive growth. Charlie Nunn said the strategy, which the UK’s largest high street lender will launch in January, would involve investing £13bn into the business by 2030, including for “pioneering technology” to lu",
      "authors": "Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "jobs-economy,finance-investment",
      "published_at": "2026-07-30T10:22:52.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14913"
    },
    {
      "id": 14547,
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/29/xai-sues-minnesota-nudification-technology",
      "title": "Elon Musk’s xAI sues Minnesota over law banning ‘nudification’ technology",
      "summary": "First-in-nation law sets up test on states’ power to regulate use of AI as it tries to outlaw fake nude images of real people Elon Musk’s company xAI has sued Minnesota over the state’s first-in-the-nation law banning “nudification” technology on websites and apps, potentially providing a test for how far states can go in constitutionally regulating the use of artificial intelligence. Musk’s company sued on Monday in federal court, days before the law is set to take effect on Saturday and make M",
      "authors": "Associated Press",
      "category": "news",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-07-30T00:02:03.000Z",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14547"
    }
  ],
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}