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What to Do If the AI Bubble Bursts
If you read, watch, or listen to financial news, you’ll find there is a boom in discussion over whether the AI boom is a bubble, and what the consequ…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Project Maven and the Age of AI Warfare
Project Maven, a Department of Defense program launched in April 2017 to apply AI in military targeting and logistics, is now being used in live comb…
7 months ago
X is a Preferred Tool for American Propaganda. What Does It Mean?
Last week, The Guardian reported that United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has directed American embassies and consulates to counter foreign …
7 months ago
Olivier Sylvain Wants to Reclaim the Internet from Big Tech
This was a landmark week for tech accountability in US courts. Juries in New Mexico and California delivered verdicts finding tech giants Meta and Go…
7 months, 1 week ago
How to Study the Phenomenon of Tech Hype
AI hype is everywhere, and the CEOs of many tech firms are promising that the tech will soon eclipse human intelligence. The trillions in investment …
7 months, 1 week ago
Considering How AI Destroys Democratic Institutions
Across the world, governments and other institutions are racing to apply artificial intelligence in countless ways. In a draft paper forthcoming in t…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Google Employees Push Back on Government Surveillance Contracts
Early this year, following the deaths of Keith Porter, Renee Good, and Alex Pretti at the hands of federal agents and the violent immigration raids o…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
How to Regulate Deepfake Financial Fraud
Online fraud has become one of the fastest-growing criminal enterprises on the planet. Deepfake fraud cases are surging, and Deloitte analysts projec…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Cindy Cohn on How to Sustain the Fight Against Authoritarianism
Today's guest has spent thirty years on the front lines of one of the defining battles at the intersection of technology and democracy: privacy and t…
8 months ago
In Age of Disruption, a Defense of Incrementalism
In their new book, Move Slow and Upgrade: The Power of Incremental Innovation, Evan Selinger, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rocheste…
8 months, 1 week ago