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The Conversation

Could ChatGPT convince you to buy something?

Threat of manipulation looms as AI companies gear up to sell ads

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman promises that ChatGPT can deploy ads without eroding users' trust.

Jan 14, 2026
The Renovator

Rewiring Democracy Now

A new kind of political engagement emerges in Japan

Schneier and Sanders Takahiro Anno and Team Mirai's democratic innovations in Japan.

Jan 11, 2026
Ctrl-Alt-Speech

Five Years Of The Oversight Board, From Experiment To Essential Institution

Julie Owono reflects on the Oversight Board's first five years.

Jan 9, 2026
SSRN

Legal Alignment for Safe and Ethical AI

Jonathan Zittrain and a team of coauthors explore how legal rules, principles, and methods can be wielded to address problems with AI alignment.

Jan 9, 2026
Tech Policy Press

Making Sense of AI Policy Using Computational Tools

Affiliate Marissa Gerchick (ACLU) and coauthors released a report demonstrating the utility of computational tools to analyze legislative trends.

Jan 8, 2026
Fast Company

People are using Grok to create lewd images of women and girls

The mere ability to create such images suggests just how harmful it is to remove guardrails on generative AI.

Faculty Co-Director and First Amendment scholar Rebecca Tushnet maintains that the laws necessary to prevent and punish artificially-generated explicit (and illegal) content…

Jan 6, 2026
Disjunctions

The Technology Question Today

Introducing Disjunctions Magazine

Affiliate Mostafa Abdou and colleagues introduce Disjunctions.

Jan 6, 2026
Tech Policy Press

How to Make Sense of Trump's TikTok Deal

Anupam Chander explains recent developments in President Trump's attempts to broker a deal transferring ownership and control of TikTok's US app to a group of investors.

Jan 6, 2026
The Indian Express

In the new year, let us imagine new ways to approach AI

Let us understand that the AI we are offered is not the ‘natural’ state of the technology, but merely one expression of it shaped by extractive, profit-driven oligarchies

In The Indian Express, Nishant Shah offers a challenge in lieu of digital hope.

Jan 5, 2026
Yale ISPS

Reimagining Democracy

Yale Hosts Global Experts on AI, Governance, and the Future of Participation

Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies hosted the fourth International Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD).

Jan 5, 2026
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