Whose values will be taken into account when AI is aligned? Anthropic’s meetings with clergy, secularism, and why AI regulation needs public consultation.

Last week a news site asked parents on the street what they pay for their children’s schooling. The answers: “Grade 4: one million lira a year.” “For two children: 1.5 million.” “University: 25,000 dollars a year.” One parent said they had spent 220,000 lira on books alone. Many of us are in a similar position.

It is the middle of the night and a notification on your phone wakes you up. Your AI assistant has bought a plane ticket in your name, saying “I found the best price”; but for the wrong date. On top of that, it has sent birthday flowers to the partner you broke up with three

We keep talking about the speed, efficiency and convenience of artificial intelligence. But the other side of the coin has begun to show. We had been seeing examples abroad for some time. In a video circulating on social media since 2023, AI-assisted cameras in a coffee shop counted how many coffees each barista prepared and

Lately I have noticed some colleagues on LinkedIn frequently using the title “Hukuk Mühendisi” — “Legal Engineer”. I was curious, so I looked into it. I reached the conclusion that first came to mind: there is no such title, and it has no objective foundation. The person who first put forward the idea was the

AI has already entered the courthouse; we just haven’t noticed. According to figures released by the Ministry of Justice’s Directorate General of Information Technologies, AI in UYAP, Turkey’s National Judiciary Informatics System, has so far classified and digitised more than 110 million paper documents, and since 2024 it has extracted information from 21.8 million judicial

The “Implementation Guide on the Protection of Personal Data in Lawyers’ Professional Activities”, jointly prepared by the Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) and the Union of Turkish Bar Associations, was published on 22 September 2026. The guide covers the personal data side of our profession from start to finish and is well worth reading