Ethics
Friar Paolo Benanti wears the plain brown robes of his medieval Franciscan order as he pursues one of the most pressing issues in contemporary times: how to govern artificial intelligence (AI) so that it enriches - and doesn’t exploit - people's lives. Benanti is the Vatican's go-to person on the technology and he has the ear of Pope Francis as well as some of Silicon Valley's top engineers and executives. With a background in engineering, a doctorate in moral theology, and a passion for what he calls the "ethics of technology,'' the 50-year-old Italian priest is on an urgent mission that he s...
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Starbucks is being sued by a consumer group in the US which alleges that the company's claims its coffee is ethically sourced are false and misleading. The National Consumers League cited media reports of human rights and labour abuses on farms in Guatemala, Kenya and Brazil that supply coffee and tea to Starbucks. The group said the cases cast doubt on Starbucks’ packaging, which states that the company is “committed to 100 per cent ethical coffee sourcing”. “On every bag of coffee and box of K-cups sitting on grocery store shelves, Starbucks is telling consumers a lie,” Sally Greenberg, chie...
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A consumer advocacy group has filed a lawsuit against Starbucks, saying the company's claim that its coffee is ethically sourced is false and misleading. In the lawsuit filed on Wednesday, the National Consumers League cited media reports of abuses on farms that supply coffee and tea to Starbucks. The group said the cases cast doubt on Starbucks' packaging, which states that the company is "committed to 100% ethical coffee sourcing". Starbucks said Wednesday it was aware of the lawsuit and will "aggressively defend against the asserted claims". The lawsuit was filed in Superior Court in the Di...
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A social media user has used artificial intelligence to "complete" Keith Haring’s ‘Unfinished Painting’, sparking outrage online. It all started when artist Brooke Peachley shared a post of Haring’s painting on X, writing that it was an example of “visual art that never fails to destry you every time you see it.” Enter X user Donnel, who took it upon themselves to give the painting the AI treatment. “The story behind this painting is so sad! (crying emoji),” wrote Donnel. “Now using AI we can complete what he couldn’t finish! (heart emoji).” Attached to his comment was an altered version of th...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court unveiled an ethics code on Monday following a series of scandals over lavish gifts and luxury vacations received by some of its justices. The nine members of the nation's highest court are the only federal judges not explicitly subject to ethical oversight, and pressure has been mounting from Democrats in the Senate for them to adopt a code of conduct. In a statement, the Supreme Court said the absence of a formal code had led to a "misunderstanding that the Justices of this Court, unlike all other jurists in this country, regard themselves as unrestrict...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court unveiled an ethics code on Monday following a series of scandals over lavish gifts and luxury vacations received by some of its justices. The nine members of the nation's highest court are the only federal judges not explicitly subject to ethical oversight, and pressure has been mounting from Democrats in the Senate for them to adopt a code of conduct. In a statement, the Supreme Court said the absence of a formal code had led to a "misunderstanding that the Justices of this Court, unlike all other jurists in this country, regard themselves as unrestrict...
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Washington (AFP) - A billionaire Republican donor paid for the private school tuition of Justice Clarence Thomas's grandnephew, whom he was raising, a report said Thursday -- the latest in a string of ethics controversies surrounding the US Supreme Court. Thomas did not disclose the payments, according to ProPublica, which also reported last month that real estate tycoon Harlan Crow had gifted the longest-serving justice luxury trips over two decades. A July 2009 bank statement showed that Crow's business had paid a $6,000 monthly bill for a boarding school attended by Mark Martin, Thomas's te...
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Washington (AFP) - A billionaire Republican donor paid for the private school tuition of Justice Clarence Thomas's grandnephew, whom he was raising at the time, a report said Thursday -- the latest in a string of ethics controversies surrounding the US Supreme Court. Thomas did not disclose the payments, according to ProPublica, which also reported last month that conservative real estate tycoon Harlan Crow had gifted the longest-serving justice luxury trips over two decades. According to the report published Thursday, a July 2009 bank statement showed that Crow's business had paid the $6,000 ...
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Washington (AFP) - US senators pressed Tuesday for a binding code of conduct to be forced on the Supreme Court amid a mushrooming scandal over justices accepting lavish gifts and benefiting from undisclosed real estate transactions. Members of the nation's highest judicial body are the only federal judges not explicitly subject to ethical oversight, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee pointed out, as they voiced dismay over the refusal of Chief Justice John Roberts to appear before them to discuss reform. Senator Dick Durbin, the chairman of the Democratic-led panel, opened the sessi...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court is used to doing the grilling but it will be the high court itself in the hot seat on Tuesday as a Senate panel conducts an extraordinary examination of the ethics of the justices. The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing comes with a record 58 percent of Americans disapproving of the job being done by the court, composed of six conservative and three liberal justices. The Democratic-controlled Senate committee has called the hearing following recent revelations about business dealings by two conservative justices and lavish gifts received by one of them. ...
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