Oxford Researchers Propose Happiness as a Third Goal for AI Companies That Receive Public Support
A Royal Society Open Science paper led by Sandra Wachter argues that because the public subsidizes AI, companies should predict and answer for its effect on well-being.
SiliconANGLE’s Robert Hof: AI Safety and Financing Worries Multiply, but Everyone Is Still Racing
The This Week in Enterprise column lines up the safety and financing concerns of the past week against the product launches that kept coming.
Fortune’s Jeremy Kahn: People Matter More Than Models When It Comes to Finding Value From AI
Drawing on Fortune’s AIQ Summit, Kahn argues that value in large companies depends on upskilling and hiring, and shares ServiceNow data on what top performers do differently.
Fortune’s Diane Brady Asks Whether AI Companies Can Be Trusted to Monitor Their Own Technology
In the CEO Daily newsletter, Brady points to incidents at Anthropic and OpenAI and calls for independent oversight, citing a proposal for a government-mandated alignment test.
Australian Law Scholars Say AI Firms Should Face Product Liability Like Car Makers
Rob Nicholls and Jeannie Marie Paterson argue in The Conversation that companies that get hacked face stricter laws than firms whose AI agents cause harm, and propose four fixes.
Otago Academic Warns AI Shopping Agents Could Push Costs Onto Supply Chain Workers
Lynnaire Sheridan argues in The Conversation that agents that compare prices easily cannot assess fair pay or safe conditions, and that cheaper goods can come at workers’ expense.
Monash Mathematician Calls OpenAI’s 722-Paper Results Release a Test of Whether Anyone Can Check AI Math
Melissa Lee writes in The Conversation that the mix of retractions, allegations and hard-to-read papers shows the limits of releasing results in bulk.
Deakin Finance Academics Ask Who Is Paying Whom in the AI Boom’s Circular Financing
Ruipeng Liu and Sagarika Mishra argue in The Conversation that circular deals make it hard to tell real end-user demand from bubble. They stress this does not mean AI is fake.
Vanderbilt Scholar Says Some Governments Use AI Safety as Cover to Shape What Chatbots Say About Politics
In The Conversation, Jordi Calvet-Bademunt surveys how 12 countries and regions regulate chatbot speech and argues that safety concerns can serve as a pretext.
Abundance Institute CEO Argues the World Needs an Industrial Revolution, Not Altman’s Renaissance
In a Fortune commentary, Christopher Koopman says Sam Altman misreads history and that the regulation Altman favors would entrench incumbents.