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Technical.ly

The Washington Post introduced AI bots for readers last year. Here’s how it’s going.

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

Feb 3, 2025
University of Ottawa

AI in the Ballot Box

Four Actions to Safeguard Election Integrity and Uphold Democracy

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…

Feb 3, 2025
Tech Policy Press

AI Companies Threaten Independent Social Media Research

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

Jan 30, 2025
IEEE Spectrum

AI Voices Should Sound Robotic Again

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

Jan 30, 2025
404 Media

Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov

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

Jan 30, 2025
Bloomsbury

Digital surveillance in Nigeria

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

Jan 29, 2025
Feeld

State of Dating Volume II

Real Intimacy Through Inclusive Community

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

Jan 29, 2025
SSRN

The Silicon Valley Effect

Chinmayi Arun lays out AI's emerging legal order and shows how relying solely on domestic regulations is shortsighted.

Jan 28, 2025
Knowable Magazine

Why regulating AI is so hard — and necessary

Misinformation, market volatility and more: Faced with the need to mitigate risks that artificial intelligence presents, countries and regions are charting different paths.

RSM Visiting Scholar Allison Stanger advocates for regulatory guardrails in the AI landscape.

Jan 27, 2025
The Globe and Mail

The TikTok ban is already dead in the water

Faculty Associate Jon Penny argues that the law banning TikTok has failed.

Jan 24, 2025
The Atlantic

America Is No Longer the Home of the Free Internet

How the United States learned to love internet censorship

Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman discusses the widening opinion gap between the country's politicians and its public.

Jan 18, 2025
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media

Threads of Wisdom

Experts React to Meta’s Policy Changes

Meta's recent overhaul of its content moderation approach marks a significant shift in platform governance. To explore these implications, BKC's Institute for Rebooting Social…

Jan 17, 2025
Tech Policy Press

The Dumbest Timeline

The Supreme Court Rules on TikTok

Faculty Associate Kate Klonick discusses the Supreme Court's ruling on TikTok.

Jan 17, 2025
Vox

The bright side of TikTok’s downfall

The end of one wildly popular platform is a chance to overhaul the broken social media industry.

Rebecca Rinkevich offers insight into the shifting media landscape in the wake of TikTok's short-lived ban.

Jan 17, 2025
The Indian Express

Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble and the risks of privatising digital public spaces

Meta’s recent move of doing away with fact-checking and relying on a Community Notes model undermines the very nature of oversight and shows the need to have more accountability and governance structures for these big corporations.

Nishant Shah warns that Meta's doing away with content moderation represents a dangerous lack of oversight.

Jan 16, 2025
Lawfare

AI Will Write Complex Laws

AI is poised to help legislators write more intricate laws, exercising increasing control over the executive.

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders detail the different ways that evolving AI technologies will be used in drafting legislation.

Jan 16, 2025
404 Media

Meta Is Laying the Narrative Groundwork for Trump’s Mass Deportations

Susan Benesch weighs in on the political implications of Meta's recent change in speech policies.

Jan 16, 2025
IEEE Spectrum

AI Mistakes Are Very Different Than Human Mistakes

We need new security systems designed to deal with their weirdness

We've gotten the hang of correcting and preventing human actors' mistakes, but how ought we to prepare for new kinds of mistakes wrought by AI, ask Bruce Schneier and Nathan…

Jan 13, 2025
arXiv

Lessons From Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products

Affiliate Ram Shankar Siva Kumar and coauthors suggest ways that Microsoft and other tech giants can mitigate the security risks inherent in emerging AI technologies.

Jan 13, 2025
IEEE Spectrum

A Fourth Law of Robotics

BKC faculty associate and Campus AI board member, Dariusz Jemielniak, argues, we need a clear rule, a Fourth Law of Robotics—as an addition to Asimov’s classic code.

Jan 13, 2025