Online magazine of ideas and culture publishing long-form essays on philosophy, science, ethics, technology and society. Free to read.
In plain terms: Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. We publish in-depth essays from the world’s most incisive and ambitious thinkers, and a mix of original and curated videos — free to all.
A Resume Now survey report on workplace values, stating that 70% of surveyed workers say leaders bend rules for favorites, with findings on fairness, favoritism and alignment between stated and practiced company values. Resume Now sells résumé-building services.
A Nonhuman Minds project combining philosophy, empirical benchmarks and engagement with AI companies on how AI alignment work can account for the welfare of animals and, potentially, AI systems. It publishes candidate commitments for model specs and constitutions.
Academic initiative edited by Seth Lazar, Jeffrey Howard and Rachel Sterken, with an annual conference and planned open-access Oxford University Press volume. The public site describes its scope, paper submission rules and AI usage policy; it is not a published research paper.
Communications of the ACM research article synthesizing a 44-person workshop on AI, accessibility, and employment for disabled workers. It covers employment gaps, AI errors and hallucinations in situations where accuracy is critical, AI-scored video interviews that can screen out workers with non-normative speech or movement, accessibility overlays that may not work as advertised, and accountability gaps when inaccessible tools come from third-party vendors. Free to read.
Cairnmillar Institute article by Dr Tom Hammond arguing that perks and individually focused wellbeing initiatives have not moved average employee wellbeing, citing a study of roughly 46,000 workers, and that wellbeing is a structural outcome of how work is designed, how leaders behave, and how performance is defined and rewarded. Free to read.
Aaron Sibarium’s Washington Free Beacon feature examines Anthropic’s constitution for Claude and moral-philosophy views attributed to people connected with its development. The article’s interpretations and characterizations are the publication’s reporting, not independent findings.
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