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Moira Weigel discusses the roles of algorithms and chatbots in understanding the past, present, and future of dating.

“Firms have set out to quantify or reduce all elements of workers’ experience to data.”

Jim Cowie and colleagues identify four primary threats to internet resiliency, and propose nine initiatives that balance immediate needs with long-term resiliency measures.

Bruce Schneier and Davi Ottenheimer argue that “the U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history.”

RSM Visiting Scholar Allison Stanger believes that Elon Musk’s new involvement with government is unlikely to be altruistic.

Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders warn of the risks posed by DOGE’s extreme approach to AI implementation.

Mark Esposito and coauthor Eduardo Araral explore how blockchain technology can enhance the governance of digital commons by providing transparent, secure, and decentralized…

Fellow Ben Brooks comments on responses to DeepSeek’s open-source R1 model.

Mike Ananny's research on how media unions - e.g., WGAE - respond to AI is cited.

Faculty Associate Virgilio Almeida and coauthors analyzed over 30 million political messages on Discord during the 2024 US election.

“Can the interest in record publicity coexist with the growing ease of de-anonymizing and revealing sensitive information about individuals?”

“Too accurate AI could imminently create substantial particularized harms to individuals as well as widely dispersed costs to society,” argues Faculty Associate Aileen Nielsen.

ASML Fellow Fay Johnson discusses the ins and outs of Meta’s decision to cut back on fact checking with the True Thirty podcast.

Ben Reininga weighs in on how media outlets can responsibly use AI.

Florian Martin-Bariteau and colleagues are releasing a global policy brief to provide policymakers with actionable globally-oriented policy guidance on the impact of AI on…

Ethan Zuckerman and coauthors raise concerns about AI companies using user-generated social media data to train their LLMs.

Bruce Schneier and coauthor Barath Raghavan argue that all talking AIs and robots should use ring modulators to make themselves distinguishable from human speech.

Affiliate Jack Cushman works to archive datasets that have disappeared from data.gov in the days since Trump's inauguration.

Nana Nwachukwu's chapter analyzes the impacts of digital surveillance technologies on Nigerians' agency, rights, and the ways that social power dynamics play out.

Faculty Associate Apryl Williams breaks down a user survey from Feeld, a dating app focused on creating safe spaces.