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Once, cyber-attacks required great skill. AI is changing that.
AI is shrinking the gap between skill and ability for those who want to conduct cyberattacks.
A Wikipedia Founder Is Barred From Editing Articles on the Site
Faculty Associate Dariusz Jemielniak weighs in on Wikipedia's restricting founder Larry Sanger's access to the site's…
Why I'm Uncertain About 'Speech Certainty'
Dylan Moses responds to a recent paper arguing that ML outputs lack 'speech certainty' - being identified with…
Mapping Emerging Climate Misinformation Playbooks in the Global South
With a team of coauthors including Meeyoung Cha, Marcelo Sartori, and Wenchao Dong, Virgilio Almeida examines how…
If an AI chatbot misleads you, who is to blame?
A court in Germany found that Google was responsible for what its chatbots say in search summaries. This is the…
AI as Statecraft
Why are different political economies converging on different AI adoption strategies?
Asia Is Sprinting on AI. Europe Is Still Tying Its Laces.
Faculty Associate Mark Esposito and Bruno Sergi highlight the differences between Asian and European approaches to AI.
The Anthropic ‘Fable’ saga proves: we have opened the AI Pandora’s box. What now?
Anthropic shut off access to Fable just days after its release.
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The rapidly growing capabilities and increasing presence of AI-based systems in our lives raise pressing questions about the impact, governance, ethics, and accountability of these technologies around the…
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The way we communicate online evolves and changes shape rapidly. Through research, the building of tools, and bringing together diverse viewpoints and underrepresented voices, we seek to examine, analyze,…
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Software, hardware, platforms, and networks are regulated by sometimes conflicting and overlapping sets of laws, policies, and norms. New technologies are constantly creating new frontiers for policymaker…
Governance of Technology & the Internet
Networked technologies are complex, multi-layered, interdependent, and subject to multiple competing interests. Through original research and by creating connections between stakeholders, we work to build…