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AI Search Threatens Digital Economy, Warns Researcher

Ben Brooks warns that the AI search industry threatens to disrupt the digital economy.

Nov 12, 2024
Technical.ly

How hackathon winner ‘Curious GeorgePT’ works to reduce AI bias

Jay Beck weighs in on Curious GeorgePT, an AI model developed to allow for more targeted responses to prompts.

Nov 11, 2024
Association for Computing Machinery

Code-ifying the Law

How Disciplinary Divides Afflict the Development of Legal Software

Ben Green and colleagues note disciplinary divides in the ways that computer scientists and legal experts translate law into code.

Nov 8, 2024
Bloomberg Law

AI Workers Seek Whistleblower Cover to Expose Emerging Threats

Larry Lessig calls for more direct governmental regulation of AI companies.

Nov 4, 2024
NPR

Social media's lax rules around misinformation worry election watchers

Marshall Van Alstyne raises concerns about platforms enabling election conspiracies.

Nov 4, 2024
EdTech Magazine

How Personhood Credentials Could Impact Higher Education

This new type of identity verification aims to separate humans from artificial intelligence.

Tom Zick weighs in on the utility of personhood credentials for combatting AI in higher education.

Nov 4, 2024
Tech Policy Press

The Weaponization of Things

Israel’s Techno-Violence, A Litmus Test for Technologists

The military tactics used within Palestine and Lebanon demand a reckoning with the "normalization of techno-terror."

Nov 4, 2024
Tech Policy Press

What Kafka Can Teach Us About Privacy in the Age of AI

How should privacy law protect consumers from AI?

Nov 3, 2024
The New York Times

I Took a ‘Decision Holiday’ and Put A.I. in Charge of My Life

Judith Donath likens AI 'decision-making' to a coin flip.

Nov 1, 2024
SSRN

Prediction and Punishment

Critical Report on Carceral AI

Dasha Pruss, Petra Molnar, and Marissa Gerchick critique carceral uses of AI and offer suggestions for mitigating this technology's use.

Nov 1, 2024
MIT Technology Review

AI Search Could Break the Web

Developers should act before governments fall back on blunt tools.

The future of AI-powered search engines is at stake in an emerging suit against Perplexity AI.

Oct 31, 2024
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation

Sunset and Renew

Section 230 Should Protect Human Speech, Not Algorithmic Virality

We must rethink Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to both protect free speech and curtail harassment.

Oct 30, 2024
SEAS Newsletter

Integrating traditional and academic knowledge

SEAS symposium explores engineering contributions of Indigenous peoples

Fellow Francisco Marmolejo-Cossío participated in a recent SEAS Symposium on Indigenous approaches to engineering.

Oct 29, 2024
Everyday Better

Are Our Phones Making Us Lonelier?

Jeffrey Hall joins Leah Smart to discuss the toxic relationships we have with our phones.

Oct 28, 2024
Applied Social Media Lab

Request for Comments: The Fediverse Schema Observatory

ASML's Darius Kazemi makes a case for the Fediverse Schema Observatory, a means of increasing interoperability among decentralized and federated social media networks.

Oct 28, 2024
Slate

A.I. and ChatGPT

A student punished for cheating is suing their school. Now what?

When does students' A.I. use constitute a violation of existing plagiarism policies?

Oct 26, 2024
Tech Won't Save Us

The Threat of Data Colonialism

Ulises Mejías and Nick Couldry propose data colonialism as a paradigm for understanding Big Tech's data practices.

Oct 24, 2024
Vox

The surprising source of kids' stress lurking on parents' phones

Grade-tracking apps are giving kids anxiety

Leah Plunkett raises privacy concerns with student-tracking apps.

Oct 24, 2024
Tech Policy Press

The Critical Role of Research in the Fight for Algorithmic Accountability

Marissa Gerchick and Olga Askelrod detail the ACLU's complaints against Aon, a hiring technology company.

Oct 23, 2024