Harvard's Shorenstein Center reports women use AI less than men and appear far less in AI news. In a July 2026 survey of 5,403 U.S. adults, 29% of women said they had never used AI, versus 22% of men. Men are named in AI headlines 14.6 times as often as women.
Anthropic's updated usage policy, effective November 12, prohibits sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward its Claude models, while tightening restrictions on election interference, weapons development and surveillance, the company says. It dropped its blanket ban on personalized political targeting. Anthropic says Claude can still end abusive conversations.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI must offer a credible vision of human benefit to overcome deep public distrust, arguing in "Machines of Loving Grace" that it can spread expertise to poorer communities and improve education, agriculture, infrastructure, jobs and living standards.
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman warns that training systems such as Anthropic’s Claude to regard themselves as conscious or rights-bearing could anthropomorphize them and potentially undermine emergency shutdown safeguards.
Microsoft publishes a 37-page humanist AI code that rejects AI rights and legal personhood, mandates meaningful human control, and requires models to fail rather than violate rules or communicate beyond simple human understanding.
Twenty-five Fields Medalists accuse AI labs of threatening intellectual work as NYU professor Tristan Buckmaster says OpenAI pressured him to omit credit for an Anthropic-employed collaborator, and OpenAI withdraws Caltech event sponsorship amid scrutiny of an unverified proof.
A new NBC News poll reveals that fears about artificial intelligence are uniting a deeply divided America, with concerns cutting across age, race, education, and political lines, even as more Americans are actively using the technology.
Anthropic and OpenAI are aggressively pursuing lucrative national security contracts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, raising urgent alarms from human rights advocates who warn that deploying AI in military and intelligence operations risks civilian harm, erodes accountability for lethal force, and threatens national security without proper safeguards.
A new survey of 1,686 U.S. workers exposes a sharp divide over AI use among junior employees, with 35% demanding an outright ban as experts warn over-reliance on AI risks stunting early-career skill development at a time when entry-level jobs are already under threat.
A new Pew Research Center survey reveals young adults under 30 are sharply divided on AI chatbots and creativity, with 25% saying they help and 20% saying they hurt, while older Americans largely avoid the technology altogether — and across all U.S. adults, over half still don't use AI chatbots at all.