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Just Security

How Border Technologies Impact Migration

Petra Molnar joins Just Security to discuss the impacts of emerging technologies on the US borders.

Jan 2, 2025
RIPE Labs

A Deep Dive Into the Baltic Sea Cable Cuts

James Cowie, Emile Aben, and Alun Davies analyze three recent cuts to Internet cables in the Baltic Sea.

Dec 19, 2024
404 Media

Copyright Abuse Is Getting Luigi Mangione Merch Removed From the Internet

Lumen's database catalogues takedown requests for merchandise related to United Healthcare and Luigi Mangione.

Dec 19, 2024
Harvard Business Review

Is AI the Right Tool to Solve That Problem?

With a group of coauthors, RSM Visiting Scholar Marshall Van Alstyne asks when AI is the right tool for the job.

Dec 18, 2024
Communications of the ACM

Thinking of Algorithms as Institutions

A route to democratic digital governance.

Virgilio Almeida and coauthors, argue that recommendation algorithms can and should be governed democratically.

Dec 17, 2024
The Atlantic

The Words That Stop ChatGPT in Its Tracks

BKC Director and co-founder Jonathan Zittrain breaks ChatGPT.

Dec 17, 2024
Nieman Lab

Predictions for Journalism

Nieman Lab's Predictions for Journalism 2025 enlists "some of the smartest people in journalism and media" to anticipate what's coming next year.

Dec 16, 2024
The Atlantic

The Government’s Disturbing Rationale for Banning TikTok

Vague national-security concerns don’t justify shutting down the popular Chinese-owned app.

Evelyn Douek vehemently disagrees with a federal court's ruling against TikTok.

Dec 12, 2024
Washington Post

TikTok’s case is a stunning swing toward paternalism

Congress passed a law because it doesn’t trust Americans with freedom of speech.

Anupam Chandler and G.S. Hans argue that the Supreme Court should hear TikTok's appeal, arguing that attempts to ban the app violate the First Amendment.

Dec 12, 2024
Flipboard

Making Better Networks for Humans

Darius Kazemi and Erin Kissane discuss their recent work on the 'fediverse,' continuing to make the case for federated and decentralized social platforms.

Dec 11, 2024
CommonWealth Beacon

Does AI interfere in our democracy?

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders join Jennifer Smith to discuss ways to wield AI toward pro-democratic ends.

Dec 9, 2024
The Atlantic

Around the Globe, Governments Lean into AI

Mark Esposito examines how governments around the world are beginning to deploy AI.

Dec 8, 2024
LSE Blog

The elite contradictions of generative AI

Nick Couldry offers his vision of the future, and of AI's role in it.

Dec 6, 2024
Indiana Legal Studies

On Software Bugs and Legal Bugs

Product Liability in the Age of Code

Asaf Lubin points out interstate inconsistencies in legal definitions of 'products,' and contrasts the US's and the EU's approaches to considering software as products.

Dec 5, 2024
Tech Policy Press

In the War on Migrants, A Trump Win is Really a Win for Big Tech

Petra Molnar warns that emerging surveillance technologies will make violence against migrants even more prominent.

Dec 4, 2024
Boston Review

Trust Issues

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders suggest that AI's history is not its destiny.

Dec 4, 2024
The Conversation

The apocalypse that wasn’t

AI was everywhere in 2024’s elections, but deepfakes and misinformation were only part of the picture

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders observe that AI's role in 2024 elections wasn't as disastrous as some had feared.

Dec 2, 2024
Science

Misinformation exploits outrage to spread online

Kate Klonick and coauthors test the hypothesis that misinformation exploits outrage to gain traction online.

Nov 28, 2024
The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence

Towards Real Diversity and Gender Equality in AI

Paola Ricaurte Quijano, expert committee member, and colleagues at the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence launch the report "Towards Substantive Equality in Artificial…

Nov 27, 2024
theAnalysis.news

AI Border Surveillance Tech Profits Soar, Human Rights Across the Board Sink

Petra Molnar highlights how surveillance technology firms profit from harsh anti-immigration policies in the US, Canada, and the EU.

Nov 27, 2024