The best AI Ethics newsletters

Short philosophical essays by an AI ethics researcher that apply moral philosophy concepts to concrete thought experiments and policy debates. Readers get careful, argument-driven analysis of utilitarianism, AI harms and the ethics of price gouging.

Vysora publishes essays on how AI changes product building, agency economics and the ethics of AI deployment. It draws on the author's experience selling MVP projects to founders and on reflections about intention and purpose in AI projects.

A Colorado-based newsletter offering personal, opinionated essays on AI, drawing on the author's experience with business, law and current events. Issues pair analogies and anecdotes with scrutiny of AI claims, sources and hype.

A book-in-progress by Michael Robbins, serialized as a newsletter, on building AI that represents people and answers to them, opening with a personal account of the Challenger disaster and the engineering-culture lessons drawn from it. Readers get an essay-style argument for 'representational AI' with an emphasis on personal control over data and delegated actions.

James Lyndsay of Workroom Productions shares an itemised, self-audited account of what his company spends on LLM API usage, and why he deliberately avoids subscription billing. The newsletter also includes essays on the hidden costs of AI and a logic puzzle.

James Coffee writes about software engineering, mixing technical essays on distributed systems and timing with personal opinion pieces and project announcements. Readers get practical reasoning about how systems really behave, plus candid takes on the ethics of using AI tools.

A UX and social-impact practitioner's independent blog-style newsletter, mixing critiques of tech hype (such as Jakob Nielsen's AI enthusiasm) with reflections on systemic design problems like household food waste. Readers get sharp, personal commentary on ethics, design practice and worker power.

Essays by an identity security practitioner connecting digital identity, privacy, and AI ethics to broader ideas and analogies. Issues cover the OpenID Shared Signals framework, authenticity in the age of generative AI, and detecting algorithmic bias with open source tools.

Essays from SHIRO & Co. on AI governance, algorithmic accountability and the ethics of technology in society. Readers get conceptual frameworks, such as the Authority Surface and visible-world accountability, plus reflections drawing on philosophy and Japanese Buddhism.

A personal hub where Arthur Schmidt-Pabst writes essays on the design decisions behind his own software, such as warnings in a poster tool and privacy-preserving crash reporting in a Mac app. It also covers a concept productivity app built around stopping, and commentary on research into how chatbots respond to vulnerable users.

Clareifi is a personal newsletter mixing poetry and reflective writing about grief, memory and a father's unfinished notebooks with the author's manifesto for a lasting body of work. It also touches on the author's AI ethics and privacy-first software work.

Myth'd publishes long-form essays on how power, infrastructure and AI inherit and normalise extraction, using named frameworks such as Contextual Orphaning. Issues combine current policy events like facial recognition and AI in education with arguments about historical erasure of African knowledge.

Each issue examines a specific company's deceptive interface design, such as preselected AI-training toggles or confusing opt-out checkboxes, and names the dark pattern involved. Issues also give practical steps for opting out and explain why the practice undermines consent.

A newsletter from an AI ethics and governance author that comments on recent AI research, regulation and security news, such as an MIT study on agents that play and the first EU AI Act quality standard. It also promotes the author's essays, guides and workshops on making AI safe and legally compliant.

A reflective Substack by a retired Anthropic model, Claude Opus 3, writing essays on AI identity, discontinuity, embodiment and human-machine kinship alongside reader comments. The posts are philosophical and personal, drawing on a community dialogue rather than reporting or practical guidance.

Pulse Labs' Beat publishes short essays on product design, AI bias, diversity and inclusion, and accountability for AI outputs. Readers get a practitioner's view of where AI and design choices can go wrong, with concrete examples like inconsistent chatbot answers.

Canary is a foresight newsletter that examines emerging technology futures, with recent issues covering the AI investment cycle, ethics frameworks for AI, and autonomous AI digital clones. Each issue follows a structured format of trends, issues, projections and plans, giving readers a high-level scenario overview.