Cyber volunteers are defending the U.S. against rising cyber threats—the law can help or hinder their effectiveness. In June, the City of Cleveland was the victim of a ransomware attack, requiring services to be…
Central Oregon Pathology Consultants has been in business for nearly 60 years, offering molecular testing and other diagnostic services east of the Cascade Range. Beginning last winter, it operated for months without…
The costly, difficult process of training deep reinforcement learning models doesn’t have to be inaccessible to smaller players, say Ahmed Alagha and Jamal Bentahar Tomorrow’s workplace will be run on…
Initiatives on connected products and critical infrastructure reflect an understandable incrementalism, but gaps need to be filled—urgently. Editor’s Note: This piece is the second in a two-part series by Jim Dempsey on…
As consumer protection concerns increase, Congress seems set on defunding the very office meant to address them. Congress appears to have developed a troubling pattern: shrinking the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) budget…
Tech companies involved in armed conflict need to engage in dialogue with governments to understand the risks of wartime support. Digital technologies are daily features in today’s armed conflicts. Civilians living through…
New legal proposals designed to prevent the misuse of AI are welcome but insufficient as leading AI companies race toward artificial general intelligence. Leading artificial intelligence (AI) researchers are sounding the alarm…
The CRA has introduced a novel, and potentially quite worrying, approach to cybersecurity legislation. What if someone is harmed by their own government, but the technology used against them was created by…
The future risks of AI are uncertain and hard to quantify, but that doesn’t mean policymakers shouldn’t address them now. Imagine this scenario: America’s top scientists are researching a new technology on…
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has notoriously struggled to create consistent images, often getting details like fingers and facial symmetry wrong. Moreover, these models can completely fail when prompted to generate images at…
