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The AI Ethics Brief #173: Power, Policy, and Practice

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Welcome to The AI Ethics Brief, a bi-weekly publication by the Montreal AI Ethics Institute. We publish every other Tuesday at 10 AM ET. Follow MAIEI on Bluesky and LinkedIn. ❤️ Support Our Work. Writing from Oxford's Wadham College this week where we're exploring "Civilisation on the Edge," we're struck by how the challenges facing AI governance mirror broader questions about institutional adaptation in times of rapid change. We share our call for case studies and examples for the State of AI Ethics Report Volume 7, seeking real-world implementation stories and community-driven insights as we build a practitioner's guide for navigating AI challenges in 2025. We examine how Silicon Valley is embedding itself within the military industrial complex through initiatives like Detachment 201, where tech executives from OpenAI, Meta, Palantir, and Thinking Machines Lab are commissioned as lieutenant colonels. Meanwhile, companies abandon previous policies against military involvement as artis

The AI Ethics Brief #173: Power, Policy, and Practice Military partnerships, psychological dependencies, and legislative responses to AI harms. Montreal AI Ethics Institute Sep 16, 2025 29 1 5 Share Welcome to The AI Ethics Brief , a bi-weekly publication by the Montreal AI Ethics Institute. We publish every other Tuesday at 10 AM ET. Follow MAIEI on Bluesky and LinkedIn. ❤️ Support Our Work. Subscribe 📌 Editor’s Note Writing from Oxford's Wadham College this week where we're exploring "Civilisation on the Edge," we're struck by how the challenges facing AI governance mirror broader questions

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