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Assessing the Relationship Between Information Ecosystems and Democracy's Woes
Earlier this year, an entity called the Observatory on Information and Democracy released a major report called INFORMATION ECOSYSTEMS AND TROUBLED D…
1 year, 1 month ago
An Interview with California's New State Chief Technology Innovation Officer
In February, California Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Vera Zakem as California’s State Chief Technology Innovation Officer at the California Depart…
1 year, 1 month ago
Considering a New 'Civil Rights Approach to AI'
On May 29, the Center for Civil Rights and Technology at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights released its Innovation Framework, which…
1 year, 1 month ago
A 10-Year Moratorium on Enforcing State AI Laws?
On Thursday, May 22, the United States House of Representatives narrowly advanced a budget bill that included the "Artificial Intelligence and Inform…
1 year, 2 months ago
Decolonizing the Future: Karen Hao on Resisting the Empire of AI
In his New York Times review of the book, Columbia Law School professor and former White House official Tim Wu calls journalist Karen Hao’s new book,…
1 year, 2 months ago
What the History of Internet Governance Tells Us About the Future of Tech Policy
Today’s guest is Milton L. Mueller, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the School of Public Policy and the head of an advocacy po…
1 year, 2 months ago
Between Borders and Lies: Fact-Checkers on Navigating the India-Pakistan Conflict
In the wake of the most intense India-Pakistan escalation in two decades, experts are still trying to make sense of the role that the information war…
1 year, 2 months ago
Taking Stock of the Google Search Remedies Trial
Last year, a United States federal judge ruled that Google is a monopolist in the market for online search. For the past three weeks, the company an…
1 year, 2 months ago
xAI's Memphis Neighbors Push for Facts and Fairness
Last year, Elon Musk's xAI set up its "Colossus" supercomputer in an old Electrolux manufacturing facility in Memphis, Tennessee. Now, the residents …
1 year, 2 months ago
How Venture Capital Warps the World
Catherine Bracy is a civic technologist and community organizer whose work focuses on the intersection of technology and political and economic inequ…
1 year, 2 months ago