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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.
AI use by the US government is ballooning. And the lack of transparency is troubling.
Nathan E. Sanders and Bruce Schneier call attention to the staggering number of use cases that the Trump administration…
Encrypted Spaces
Users store a huge amount of data online, but is that information safe?
The Fair Lending Model
Solon Barocas and coauthors offer the first empirical account of how financial institutions test for and mitigate…
Abortion Access Denied
OONI data reveals that seven countries block Women on Web domains.
Copyright law ‘struggling’ to parse AI’s ascendancy
Why does US copyright law have a hard time determining when AI-generated works deserve copyright protection?
Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t
There is enough evidence to reject the narrative that once AI capabilities reach a certain threshold, there will be…
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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…