… On the AI Impact Summit’s child safety panel, Chris Lehane of OpenAI said , “This is not social media and we should not make the classic mistake of fighting the last war with the next war.” But a lot of the harms for children are similar — exposure to inappropriate content, misinformation, privacy … …
… Then came news that OpenAI had fired a safety executive — who had raised concerns about the launch of erotic content on ChatGPT — on grounds of sexual discrimination, and disbanded its mission alignment team. …
… Uber and Baidu are also partnering in Dubai, and Uber is rolling out at least 1,200 robotaxis in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Riyadh with WeRide. Robotaxis aren’t quite the political flashpoint that autonomous trucks are, but safety is still a concern. …
… The focus on age checks diverts attention away from the more pressing concerns around social media platforms, Apar Gupta, founder-director of Internet Freedom Foundation, a digital rights organization in India, told Rest of World . “Effective child safety online doesn’t require identifying every in…
… Concerns about inequality or the environmental impact of AI are batted aside with the promise that AI itself will solve such problems. …
AFP/Getty Images By Kinling Lo 9 April 2026 Iranian drone strikes on AWS facilities in the UAE and Bahrain have challenged the safety of data infrastructure. …
… Both systems will tap the country’s digital public infrastructure, including the Aadhaar citizen ID, the UPI payment gateway, the DigiLocker verification system, and the ONDC digital commerce platform. “It’s about decentralization and democratization of AI,” Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor at… …
… By Rina Chandran Labor AI is minting new billionaires, and workers want their share The Samsung labor showdown in South Korea reflects global concerns about who benefits from the AI industry, and how the wealth being created should be shared. …
… By Kinling Lo Global Dispatch Pope’s encyclical raises questions on who gets to shape AI The encyclical provides an ethical and moral framework for AI, but one that is steeped in Catholicism and ignores the faiths and practices of a majority of the world’s population. …
… Yet as more militaries come to rely on AI technologies from the private sector, the more they will depend on privately owned data centers, raising new concerns, Klaudia Klonowska, a post-doctoral researcher in law and AI at Sciences Po Paris, told Rest of World. …