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…
Wajih Ul Hassan, assistant professor of computer science at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in the Division of Computer…
UTHealth Houston and OpenAI have announced a first-of-its-kind collaboration in the United States, marking the integration of AI technology into health care and education while protecting privacy. UTHealth Houston will be giving…
A small water authority just outside Pittsburgh seemed like an unlikely victim of an international cyberattack. On Nov. 25, however, a terrorist group successfully targeted the Municipal Authority of Aliquippa, raising concerns about…
