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Bruce Schneier and coauthors argue that even attempted cyberattacks on election infrastructure can erode public trust in elections' integrity across party lines.
Petra Molnar details a disturbing new artificial intelligence platform - ICERAID.us - which "offers cryptocurrency rewards to users who upload photos of 'suspicious activity' along the border." ...
The Berkman Klein Center is thrilled to announce two leadership appointments that will propel the Center forward as it ...
Greg Leppert weighs in on AI developers' use of written texts, rather than simply digital ones, to train LLMs. "A book collection steeped in 19th century thought could also be 'immensely critical' for ...
Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders speak to fears about AI replacing humans' jobs, opining in The Conversation that this will only happen when it outperforms us in terms of speed, scale, scope, and/or ...
In the first weekly issue of Platformocracy, Jonathan Bellack argues that Bluesky is nearing the end of the timeframe in which it can build a truly participatory content moderation process. Among ...
Sahana Udupa explores the dark side of encrypted messaging apps, exploring how hateful messages (which she dubs "extreme speech") can flourish in such apps because smaller-scale communications make ...
Rumman Chowdhury cautions that, no matter how useful AI can be, users shouldn't have it do their thinking for them, a timely warning amid technology companies' race to develop artificial general ...
In The Atlantic, Faculty Director Jonathan Zittrain probes policy questions raised by the “assumptions” large language models make about users. “Gleaning a model’s assumptions is just the beginning.
With Sacha Alanoca and Kevin Klyman, Affiliates Shira Gur-Arieh and Tom Zick “present a taxonomy to map the global landscape of AI regulation.” “[T]his taxonomy serves as a tool which can resist time ...
"Open source, decentralized tooling ensures that, if any single company becomes a nation-state target, the communities that rely on its infrastructure can keep operating." ASML Fellow Rudy Fraser ...
"The fear that women already experience on the street, at the beach, inside a store or on social media is being transformed to constant paranoia under the ever-watchful eyes of AI surveillance." ...