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The Conversation

The apocalypse that wasn’t

AI was everywhere in 2024’s elections, but deepfakes and misinformation were only part of the picture

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders observe that AI's role in 2024 elections wasn't as disastrous as some had feared.

Dec 2, 2024
Science

Misinformation exploits outrage to spread online

Kate Klonick and coauthors test the hypothesis that misinformation exploits outrage to gain traction online.

Nov 28, 2024
The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence

Towards Real Diversity and Gender Equality in AI

Paola Ricaurte Quijano, expert committee member, and colleagues at the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence launch the report "Towards Substantive Equality in Artificial…

Nov 27, 2024
theAnalysis.news

AI Border Surveillance Tech Profits Soar, Human Rights Across the Board Sink

Petra Molnar highlights how surveillance technology firms profit from harsh anti-immigration policies in the US, Canada, and the EU.

Nov 27, 2024
WIRED

Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It's Not All Bad

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders offer a potentially optimistic outlook on AI and politics.

Nov 26, 2024
Harvard Law Today

‘Facts can’t fix this’

Empathy, understanding, and less algorithmic amplification on social media platforms are the best ways to combat conspiracy theories, experts say at Berkman Klein Center event

BKC-Nieman Fellow Ben Reininga and Nieman Fellow Jesselyn Cook share their insights on how platforms navigate the spread of conspiracy theories, and the impact they have on…

Nov 24, 2024
The Hill

Democrats flee X for Bluesky amid Musk-Trump alliance

ASML's Jonathan Bellack weighs in on the uptick in Twitter/X users migrating to Bluesky.

Nov 23, 2024
Lumen

Lumen Researcher Interview Series: Phineas Rueckert - Forbidden Stories

Phineas Rueckert, a lead Project Coordinator at Forbidden Stories, discusses his organization's collaborations with Lumen.

Nov 21, 2024
New America

Benefits of Open-Source AI

Ben Brooks cautions that the risks of AI systems depend on more than models themselves.

Nov 21, 2024
New America

PIT in Action: Climate

Jasmine McNealy moderates a conversation exploring how technology can be a tool - though not a wholesale solution - in combatting the climate crisis.

Nov 21, 2024
Business Insider

People Want Old Twitter Back - so They're Flocking to Bluesky

Jonathan Bellack comments on momentum shifts as users flee Elon Musk's X.

Nov 18, 2024
The Roko Report

SEO for AI

SEO wizards are quietly reshaping AI's digital playground, warns Sean Harvey.

Nov 17, 2024
IEEE Spectrum

Meta Opens Its AI Models for the (U.S.) Military

But will the second Trump administration see AI as a friend or foe?

Ben Brooks weighs in on Meta's decision to allow the U.S. government to use its Llama LLM for national security purposes.

Nov 17, 2024
Fortune

People are fleeing Elon Musk’s X for Threads and Bluesky. Welcome to the era of social media fragmentation

Bellack comments on the growing "X diaspora" as users flee to other platforms.

Nov 14, 2024
The Associated Press

Trump has promised to ‘save TikTok’. What happens next is less clear

Leah Plunkett analyzes a proposed statute banning the app in the United States.

Nov 12, 2024
Tech News World

AI Search Threatens Digital Economy, Warns Researcher

Ben Brooks warns that the AI search industry threatens to disrupt the digital economy.

Nov 12, 2024
Technical.ly

How hackathon winner ‘Curious GeorgePT’ works to reduce AI bias

Jay Beck weighs in on Curious GeorgePT, an AI model developed to allow for more targeted responses to prompts.

Nov 11, 2024
Association for Computing Machinery

Code-ifying the Law

How Disciplinary Divides Afflict the Development of Legal Software

Ben Green and colleagues note disciplinary divides in the ways that computer scientists and legal experts translate law into code.

Nov 8, 2024
Bloomberg Law

AI Workers Seek Whistleblower Cover to Expose Emerging Threats

Larry Lessig calls for more direct governmental regulation of AI companies.

Nov 4, 2024
NPR

Social media's lax rules around misinformation worry election watchers

Marshall Van Alstyne raises concerns about platforms enabling election conspiracies.

Nov 4, 2024