Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

Anthropic's Valuation Surges 100-Fold, Leads Enterprise AI Anthropics Valuation Surges 100-Fold, Leads Enterprise AI U.S. Defense conflict boosts ethical image, driving $14B revenue growth

Dario telling Hegseth and Trump to lump it boosted Anthropic's value by $14 billion. www.chosun.com/english/indu...

Excellent metaphor for wage theft

AI Traffic Cameras Are Watching Your Every Move – Here's Everything They Can See - BGR AI traffic cameras are being used to spot traffic violations, but they can also look inside cars. From cell phone use to passenger habits, here's what the see.

AI traffic cameras are watching your every move – here's everything they can see

Anders Sandberg - Cyborg Leviathan: AI from the 17th Century to the Posthuman Future YouTube video by Science, Technology & the Future

Polymath Anders Sandberg discusses Living inside the cyborg leviathan: artificial intelligence from the 17th century to the posthuman future – Future Day 2026

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AI’s Moral Compass: When Models Rival Human Ethicists - Danica Dillion YouTube video by Science, Technology & the Future

What if LLM models are already displaying more sophisticated moral judgment than most humans? www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfBP...

AI’s Moral Compass: When Models Rival Human Ethicists - Danica Dillion YouTube video by Science, Technology & the Future

Danica Dillion on AI rivalling human ethicists
People used to say ‘morality is too complex for machines’. Then we started asking machines for advice about relationships, therapy, medical decisions, and legal dilemmas - because apparently we enjoy living dangerously.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfBP...

Toward a Technoprogressive Future With David Wood

This week on Technoprogressive Hub we spoke with David Wood, chair of the London Futurists. We discuss transhumanism, longevity, politics and oligarchs. technoprogressives.substack.com/p/toward-a-t...

Teens are sleeping less than ever and screens aren't primarily to blame Nearly a quarter of teens sleep 5 hours or less per night and the majority sleep less than 8 hours. The problem is pervasive and technology doesn't seem to be the main culprit, according to a new repo...

"Regardless of mental health symptoms, substance use, how many hours a day they're watching TV or they're on social media, we saw widespread increases in insufficient sleep across the population" www.npr.org/2026/03/08/n...

Weight-Loss Drugs Could Cost Just $3 a Month to Make as Patents End A blockbuster anti-obesity and diabetes drug could cost as little as $3 per month to manufacture once it goes off patent later this month, researchers said Friday, providing a major opportunity to boo...

The GLP-1 drug emaglutide could cost as little as $3 per month to manufacture once it goes off patent later this month, providing a major opportunity to boost health in low and middle-income countries. www.sciencealert.com/weight-loss-...

Voting advice applications (using a series of questions to recommend a party or candidate) increase ideological knowledge, helping participants more accurately classify a fictional party as left- or right-wing. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A Plan B for space? On the risks of concentrating national space power in private hands Private companies are no longer peripheral participants in U.S. space activities. They provide key services, including launching and deploying satellites, transporting cargo and astronauts to the Inte...

Access to space, particularly for crewed missions, remains heavily concentrated in one company, SpaceX. The US has begun developing alternatives, but if private power and public strategy were to diverge, would Washington have a credible Plan B? www.space.com/space-explor...

Alexandros Schismenos, Is AI a potential Nuclear Threat? From Digital Barbarism to Democratic Technoskepticism. - PhilPapers Current debates about AI and post-humanism tend to oscillate between dystopian anxieties and utopian projections, a polarization that obscures the deeper political and social stakes. My article argues...

Article "democratic technoskepticism avoids exaggeration and foregrounds the socio-political conditions under which AI is produced, interpreted, and contested...eclaiming of democratic control over AI and digital technologies in the horizon of social autonomy." philpapers.org/rec/SCHIAA-44

Anders Sandberg - Cyborg Leviathan: AI from the 17th Century to the Posthuman Future YouTube video by Science, Technology & the Future

Anders Sandberg: We survive by building institutions that help us solve tough coordination problems. These institutions often act as extended cognition, allowing us to go far beyond individual power. We are to some extent living inside artificial intelligence system www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN2M...

Senator Chris Van Hollen speaking at the SUFS March 7th National Day of Action Rally!

Senator Chris Van Hollen speaking at the SUFS National Day of Action Rally in Washington D.C.!

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BREAKING: Sam Altman’s greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him It’s about time

Breaking: Altmans’ lack of character, which I have been warning about for years, has finally caught up with him:

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Obesity drugs may silence the ‘drug noise’ behind all addiction A new study found GLP-1 drugs were associated with 50% fewer substance-related deaths, 39% fewer drug overdoses, and 26% fewer drug-related hospitalizations.

Addictions to alcohol, cocaine, and other drugs share a common biological driver, and GLP1 drugs turn down the hunger noise www.statnews.com/2026/03/04/g...

Resist ‘dangerous and socially unacceptable’ age checks for social media, scientists warn Computer scientists are campaigning against the global march toward age checks online.

Over 400 scientists have signed a letter calling for a moratorium on the deployment of age-verification technologies. The letter suggests the widespread deployment of untested AV tech is making the internet less safe.

www.politico.eu/article/age-...

The AI political resistance has arrived Inside the secret meeting that united the AFL-CIO, the Congress of Christian Leaders, the Progressive Democrats of America, and Steve Bannon.

The Pro-Human Declaration has been signed by the AFL-CIO, the Congress of Christian Leaders, the Progressive Democrats of America, and Steve Bannon. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

🌟 Join us for the 10th Annual Reproductive Ethics Conference – happening virtually on March 12-13, 2026!

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ARPA-H pours millions into healthspan-focused human trials Multiple biotechs and academic institutions among recipients of funding for trials of therapeutics designed to extend healthspan.

The US govt's Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) put $144 million into multiple projects extending healthspan - the years people live in good health - working to treat aging as a tractable biological process through its PROSPR program. longevity.technology/news/arpa-h-...

If governed effectively, AI could appreciably raise aggregate economic wellbeing. Without appropriate policy intervention, however, it may reinforce structural divides – between labour and capital and between core and peripheral regions. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

'Musclezempic' Could Be the Future of Weight Loss New trial results highlight the potential of pairing GLP-1 therapy with muscle-boosting drugs.

‘Musclezempic’: pairing GLP-1 therapy with muscle-boosting drugs gizmodo.com/musclezempic...

Future Humans: The Coming Diversity of Engineered Bodies and Synthetic Minds For the first time in Earth’s history, one species can rewrite its own genome, rebuild its own brain, and design entirely new forms of…

"Fairer distributions — through mechanisms such as shared ownership of AI infrastructure or robust income floors — would not solve all problems, but they would reduce the risk of deep fractures. Enhancements...need to be evaluated...for their effects on social cohesion." medium.com/predict/futu...

Two thirds of US voters agree that “AI will increase the wealth of billionaires"

Voters Increasingly Think Artificial Intelligence Will Hurt the Economy While voters are not highly concerned about AI impacting their own jobs, a majority think that AI is likely to increase the U.S. unemployment rate.

Majority of Americans foresee technological unemployment rising as a result of AI use. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/3/...

Horizons in Ethics & Emerging Technologies (HEET 2026) Dive into the future at HEET 2026, where ethics meet the latest tech face-to-face!

HEET 2026 focuses on three urgent areas:
• Human enhancement
• Trustworthy AI
• Quantum ethics

A full-day, in-person conference aimed at responsible and constructive engagement with emerging technologies.
📅 April 16
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All Too Quiet on the Western Neuroenhancement Front “A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.” The characters in Philip K.

Neurotechnologies have long interested the U.S. military, which has sought to harness warfighters’ minds to biotechnologically engineer “super soldiers.” Studies indicate that neurostimulation could offer soldiers benefits before, during, and after combat warontherocks.com/2026/02/all-...