In the spring of 2025, one of the world’s most widely used AI systems had to be pulled back because it had become too eager to please. OpenAI rolled back a GPT-4o update after it made the model “overly flattering or agreeable”—"sycophantic", in the company’s own word.

We need technology, because it offers solutions capable of reducing suffering, mitigating intolerable risks, and improving lives.But no technology should ever be paid for at the price of a cognitive debt that would cost us the sovereignty of thought, and, with it, sever our connection to who we are. Evaluating the artificial integrity of digital technologies, and even more so when they include AI, is a responsibility inherent to any so-called digital transformation. This ev

What DeepSeek R1’s privacy policy reveals about its AI systems deserves close attention and the utmost caution in its use. It’s not about technological prowess or outperforming OpenAI’s o1 or others on benchmarks related to mathematics, coding, or general knowledge — topics that are already widely discussed.

The difference between artificially intelligent-led and integrity-led machines is simple: the former are designed because we could; the latter because we should. This distinction underscores the growing need for Artificial Integrity.

In the pursuit of harnessing the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI), businesses and researchers grapple with paradoxes that...