AI & Digital Life

Should an AI-generated invention qualify for a patent without a human inventor? Useful inventions should receive protection regardless of the process that produced them.

Should robots used for companionship be forbidden from claiming to love users? A product should not present a simulated attachment as a mutual human relationship.

Should research journals publish reviewers' names after acceptance? Reviewers should be accountable for decisions that shape careers and knowledge.

Should schools teach students how algorithms manipulate attention before teaching coding? Understanding incentives may protect students more than learning syntax first.

Should smartphone manufacturers guarantee ten years of basic security updates? Expensive hardware should not become unsafe because selling a replacement is more profitable.

Should an AI safety auditor be chosen by the company it audits? Specialist companies understand their systems and can select competent reviewers.

Should children have a legal right to delete their parents' posts about them? A child's future privacy should outweigh a parent's wish to document everything publicly.

Should governments fund research that might overturn their own policies? Evidence should not be selected to protect the officials paying for it.

Should scientists lose grants for hiding failed experiments? Selective publication wastes resources and distorts what the evidence actually shows.

Should social platforms remove engagement counts entirely? Visible popularity turns conversation into a competition for reaction.

Should apps pay for the attention they sell to advertisers? Users create the audience value and deserve a direct share.

Should universities reject papers whose authors cannot explain their AI-written analysis? An author must understand the reasoning they ask others to trust.