A bi-weekly digest from the Montreal AI Ethics Institute that pairs a short editor's note and TL;DR with long-form essays on AI governance, power, accountability and public-sector use. It also includes a recurring AI Policy Corner by GRAIL covering regulation, military AI and government training requirements.
Website: https://brief.montrealethics.ai
Personal essays by AI researcher Virginia Dignum on the governance, science and politics of AI, including critiques of European AI policy and reflections on the field's history. Readers get a reasoned, evidence-referenced perspective that argues AI adoption should be a deliberate choice.
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.
A personal essay blog on artificial intelligence, covering agentic AI in scientific research, what AI reveals about shared human patterns, and how human agency is affected by AI decision systems. Readers get reflective, reasoned perspectives on AI's broader social and philosophical implications rather than product news.
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