Ethics Articles

This benchmark provides news feed product designers, journalism researchers, news organizations, and AI model developers with performance metrics for evaluating LLM capabilities in analyzing sourcing of news stories at scale.

Endometriosis affects 1 in ten women, yet the average diagnosis takes 7–12 years. This diagnostic delay is not a medical mystery–it is a credibility crisis rooted in systemic gender bias in medicine. Accountability is a scientific obligation and an overdue legislative call to action.

Immigration enforcement in and around hospitals threatens trust, decreases quality, disrupts health care delivery, and places clinicians in morally impossible positions. This piece argues for concrete, legal hospital policies that protect patient safety, privacy, rights, and staff integrity.

Pulse oximeters are essential tools for triage and treatment, yet they are significantly more likely to miss dangerously low oxygen levels in patients with darker skin. This discrepancy raises a fundamental ethical challenge: can a health care system justify a foreseeable and preventable distribution of harm in the name of population-level efficiency?

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney offered a master class in principled leadership at the 2026 World Economic Forum, commonly referred to as Davos, delivering a set of comments that evaluated the global circumstances he and other leaders are facing in a clear-eyed, forward-looking manner.

When might a newsroom not “report” the stories of people and instead let them have the microphone? One answer to this came from Greg Eskridge of KALW’s award-winning podcast Uncuffed.

Military Archbishop Timothy Broglio's recent statements on conscientious objection demonstrate the relevance of Catholic moral teaching for Catholics who oppose authoritarianism, writes David E. DeCosse.

"Unpredictable behavior" is not a feature most people expect in toys.

Across races from Georgia to New York, deepfakes are steering political narratives and voter perception.

Much of what is missing in “relationships” with chatbots becomes clear in trying to learn to dance with different partners.