I’m Not Convinced Ethical Generative AI Currently Exists; Wired, February 20, 2025

REECE ROGERS , Wired; I’m Not Convinced Ethical Generative AI Currently Exists

"For me, the ethics of generative AI use can be broken down to issues with how the models are developed—specifically, how the data used to train them was accessed—as well as ongoing concerns about their environmental impact. In order to power a chatbot or image generator, an obscene amount of data is required, and the decisions developers have made in the past—and continue to make—to obtain this repository of data are questionable and shrouded in secrecy. Even what people in Silicon Valley call “open source” models hide the training datasets inside...

The ethical aspects of AI outputs will always circle back to our human inputs. What are the intentions of the user’s prompts when interacting with a chatbot? What were the biases in the training data? How did the devs teach the bot to respond to controversial queries? Rather than focusing on making the AI itself wiser, the real task at hand is cultivating more ethical development practices and user interactions."

Original sins and dirty secrets: GenAI has an ethics problem. These are the three things it most urgently needs to fix; Fortune, June 27, 2024

SAGE LAZZARO, Fortune; Original sins and dirty secrets: GenAI has an ethics problem. These are the three things it most urgently needs to fix

"The ethics of generative AI has been in the news this week. AI companies have been accused of taking copyrighted creative works without permission to train their models, and there’s been documentation of those models producing outputs that plagiarize from that training data. Today, I’m going to make the case that generative AI can never be ethical as long as three issues that are currently inherent to the technology remain. First, there’s the fact that generative AI was created using stolen data. Second, it’s built on exploitative labor. And third, it’s exponentially worsening the energy crisis at a pivotal time when we need to be scaling back, not accelerating, our energy demands and environmental impact."

Mountain biking ethics workshop held at library; Mountain biking ethics workshop held at library, July 6, 2023

Tom Skulski  , Steamboat Pilot & Today; Mountain biking ethics workshop held at library

"Yampatika and Routt County Riders have partnered to host the Leave No Trace workshop, focusing on the outdoor ethics of mountain biking. 

Mountain biking is a popular summer activity in and around Steamboat Springs, but it can also have negative environmental impacts. The goal of the workshop is to discuss those impacts and explain what can be done to limit them. 

The event will run from noon-1 p.m. Friday at the Bud Werner Library Hall. The workshop is free, and pizza, donated by Brooklynn’s Pizzeria, will be available on a first-come, first-served basis."