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The Nation

Big Tech Is Very Afraid of a Very Modest AI Safety Bill

Despite claiming to support AI safety, powerful tech interests are trying to kill SB1047.

"It’s like saying that a bill addressing wildfire risks should be rejected because it doesn’t address flooding risks."

Aug 30, 2024
Harvard Kennedy School

A Hacker's Mind

HKS's Behind the Book series covers Bruce Schneier's latest work.

Aug 30, 2024
LiveNOW

French authorities charge Telegram's CEO

Juan Ortiz Freuler breaks down the latest information on the case against Pavel Durov.

Aug 29, 2024
MIT Science Policy Review

Mapping the space of social media regulation

Nathaniel Lubin, Kalie Mayberry, Dylan Moses, Manon Revel, Luke Thorburn, and Andrew West identify two modes of mapping the space of social media regulation and discuss the trade…

Aug 27, 2024
Fast Company

Why France’s arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has divided tech regulation experts

There’s debate over whether Durov’s arrest is a good way to keep tech execs in check or sets a dangerous precedent.

Juan Ortiz Freuler and Apunam Chander weigh in on the arrest of Pavel Durov.

Aug 27, 2024
British Vogue

Forces for Change

The Cyberlaw Clinic's Alejandra Caraballo was nominated as a British Vogue Force for Change.

Aug 26, 2024

Personhood Credentials

Artificial intelligence and the value of privacy-preserving tools to distinguish who is real online

Wendy Seltzer and Tom Zick consider the efficacy of implementing "personhood credentials" as means to deter bad actors online while maintaining users' anonymity.

Aug 26, 2024
Tech Policy Press

The Future is Analog (if You Can Afford It)

"Analog is back," writes Maroussia Lévesque, arguing that the ability to bypass digital technology reflects an inherent privilege akin to a sort of exceptionalism.

Aug 23, 2024

Cyberlaw Clinic Supports Public Interest Patent Law Institute w/Comment to USPTO re: Patents and Artificial Intelligence

The Cyberlaw Clinic aided the Public Interest Patent Law Institute in filing comments stressing the importance of human inventorship and urging the USPTO to remain vigilant about…

Aug 22, 2024
Prospect Magazine

When monoculture leads to monofailure

In computing, as in farming, the pursuit of efficiency can leave us vulnerable. Just look at CrowdStrike.

Ethan Zuckerman explores how the Crowdstrike outage makes computing farm more vulnerable than it ought to be.

Aug 21, 2024
Salon

"Deliberately designed to deceive": Experts say Taylor Swift could sue Trump over fake endorsement

"I accept!" Trump declared on Truth Social after sharing AI-generated "Swifties for Trump" images

Rebecca Tushnet details some of the complex legal landscape of doctored celebrity endorsements.

Aug 20, 2024
MIT Press

Blockchain Governance

A new book co-authored by Primavera De Filippi analyzes the reciprocal relationship between blockchain communities and politico-legal thought.

Aug 20, 2024
The New York Times

How a Law That Shields Big Tech Is Now Being Used Against It

A Massachusetts professor has filed a lawsuit against Meta using a novel interpretation of Section 230, a law known primarily for shielding social media companies from liability.

The New York Times chronicles the latest in Ethan Zuckerman’s lawsuit against Meta.

Aug 20, 2024
AI Snake Oil

AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good.

Turning models into products runs into five challenges.

What mistakes have AI companies made, and what challenges should they anticipate?

Aug 19, 2024
ARXIV

SEAL: Systematic Error Analysis for Value ALignment

Manon Revel introduces evaluate metrics for rewards models' alignment with the values expressed in training datasets.

Aug 16, 2024
Lumen

More Local News Caught in Flood of Unrelated Copyright Takedown Requests

Lumen details a slew of wrongful takedown requests, many of which target local news URLs.

Aug 15, 2024
Harvard Law Today

Candy Crushed

Harvard Law digital privacy expert Leah Plunkett says that children’s data safety is just one of many problems with kids’ use of popular apps like TikTok

Leah Plunkett discusses the evolving legal landscape of children's data privacy, including a recent US Department of Justice suit against TikTok.

Aug 12, 2024
Public AI Network

Public AI

Infrastructure for the Common Good

SJ Klein and colleagues call for AI infrastructure built for the public good.

Aug 8, 2024
VISIBLE Magazine

Cyberbullying Imane Khelif Is an Injustice To All Women

Ibtissam Bouachrine highlights the dangers of the targeted misogynistic and transphobic campaign against Algerian boxer Imane Khelif.

Aug 8, 2024
Communication Research

When an AI Doctor Gets Personal

The Effects of Social and Medical Individuation in Encounters with Human and AI Doctors

Joseph B. Walther and colleagues find that AI doctors are most effective when they draw from patients' social information, and enable privacy controls.

Aug 2, 2024