Tag: Ethical Dilemmas

• Microsoft Asked FBI for Help With Israel-Gaza Protests

  December 15, 2025

  Twenty activists urging company to sever ties with Israeli military were arrested last week. Executive Brad Smith said he welcomed discussion but not disruption. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-26/microsoft-asked-fbi-for-help-with-israel-gaza-protests?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1NjIyMDc1MCwiZXhwIjoxNzU2ODI1NTUwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMUxMOEpHUFFRR1UwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGOENBMUZGREZGMEI0M0E1ODRENTk5MEQ3NDAwNDkzMCJ9.ZxRrVJ29dvRDmuie-Z8dWFKR1_o_HzD4hLa-kAzRlVc&leadSource=uverify%20wall more ›

• Plain English with Derek Thompson: The Problem With Sports Gambling

  November 1, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/vigs6fu Last week, an FBI investigation into gambling led to the arrest of several prominent basketball stars, raising questions about the state of legalized sports betting, which has enriched… more ›

• Exclusive: Rwanda reached deal with US to take in up to 250 migrants, government says

  August 9, 2025

  The United States and Rwanda have agreed for the African country to accept up to 250 migrants deported from the U.S., the spokesperson for the Rwandan government and an official… more ›

• Azeem Azhar’s Exponential View: AI & the future of media with The Atlantic CEO, Nicholas Thompson

  July 25, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/EWx8Qk7 Nick Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, led one of the first major content licensing deals with OpenAI in 2024. In this conversation, he joins Azeem to unpack how… more ›

• The eyes of Amazon: a hidden workforce driving a vast surveillance system

  July 12, 2025

  How low-paid employees in India and Costa Rica power the system used to monitor warehouse workers https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-11-21/the-eyes-of-amazon-a-hidden-workforce-driving-a-vast-surveillance-system?utm_source=tbij-uncovered.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=the-sportswashing-showdown-of-the-summer&_bhlid=33af9b2c437869613133ad5fa751db47e4b3fe1f more ›

• Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’

  June 22, 2025

  When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/21/harvard-slavery-decendants-of-the-enslaved?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other more ›

• How to Survive Artificial Intelligence

  June 2, 2025

  This technology can usher in an age of flourishing the likes of which we have never seen. It will also foment a crisis about what it is to be a… more ›

• Plain English with Derek Thompson: How AI Could Change the Future of Music

  March 4, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/ZFDRq0m Artificial intelligence tools for musicians are getting eerily good, very fast. Their work can be maddening, funny, ethically dubious, and downright fascinating all at the same time. TV… more ›