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Ai Ethical Design

59 items · 28 aliases · peaked week of 13 Sep 2026 · first seen 4 May 2026

The principles, guidelines, and governance frameworks intended to ensure that artificial intelligence systems are developed and deployed in ways that are safe, transparent, fair, and accountable, including regulatory guidance and public debate over AI's societal impacts.

Stance breakdown Methodology →

How the framings classify across 6 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

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Supportive 3 Critical 3

Sample framings

Up to 12 framings across outlets and orientations — each a short phrase the extractor generated to characterise the piece's editorial angle (not a quote). Filter by lean to see how each bloc is spinning the story; click through to read the original.

conversation-nz Centre-left

professional judgment as guard against automation bias

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2 Oct
spinoff Centre-left

alarmist warning about human replacement

The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending May 22
22 May
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Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

Alias drift

How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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Heard on radio

Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.

  • Andrew Kelleher Mike Hosking Breakfast (Newstalk ZB) Full Show Podcast: 18 September 2026 17 Sep · 40s
    Look, I would say right now, I don't think anybody's particularly absolutely certain of what's driving that. It does appear to be residential construction, but right now, you take it, …
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How the public reacted

Social-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →

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