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The ethical frontiers of brain-computer interfaces #BCI

The Ethical Frontiers of Brain-Computer Interfaces
The challenge is not just to minimize harm, but to make choices that expand human flourishing rather than reduce us to more efficient workers or more predictable consumers.

Sony unveils the Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark dataset to test the fairness of computer vision models, saying it was compiled in a fair and ethical manner (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/05/sony_ai_vision_model_benchmark/…

Sony rolls out a standard way to measure bias in how AI describes what it 'sees'
: Images in the test dataset were all sourced with consent

The Guardian launches its product recommendation site, The Filter, in the US, one year after its UK launch, with a focus on ethical consumption (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/the-guardian-brings-the-filter-to-the-u-s-in-affi…

The Guardian brings The Filter to the U.S. in affiliate commerce push
The Guardian is bringing its product recommendation site The Filter stateside, as it looks to push harder into commerce revenue.

FakeSound2: A Benchmark for Explainable and Generalizable Deepfake Sound Detection
Zeyu Xie, Yaoyun Zhang, Xuenan Xu, Yongkang Yin, Chenxing Li, Mengyue Wu, Yuexian Zou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17162

FakeSound2: A Benchmark for Explainable and Generalizable Deepfake Sound Detection
The rapid development of generative audio raises ethical and security concerns stemming from forged data, making deepfake sound detection an important safeguard against the malicious use of such technologies. Although prior studies have explored this task, existing methods largely focus on binary classification and fall short in explaining how manipulations occur, tracing where the sources originated, or generalizing to unseen sources-thereby limiting the explainability and reliability of detec…