In April, US lawmakers urged President Joe Biden to ban Chinese-built electric vehicles (EVs), labelling them an “existential threat to the American auto industry”. The proposed ban arose from concerns that Chinese…
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The explosions—more an assault via supply chain than a cyberattack—raise fears that even low-tech devices can be weaponized. On Sept. 17, several thousand pagers exploded in Lebanon in what is widely believed…
How new statutory prohibitions and long-standing tort claims can combat pernicious election lies when voter intimidation laws fall short. It will come as no surprise to Lawfare readers and listeners that deepfakes and election lies pose a serious and…
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A new treaty endorses a state criminalizing conduct by anyone, anywhere, so long as the conduct harms one of its nationals. On Aug. 9, after years of heated debate, a UN General…
Public AI data banks could democratize access to data, reducing Big Tech’s dominance and fostering innovation in AI. The data relied on by OpenAI, Google, Meta, and other artificial intelligence (AI) developers…
AI-generated content likely enjoys broad First Amendment protection, but remains subject to defamation laws and other established speech restrictions. Editor’s note: This essay is part of a series on liability in the AI…
Can nonprofit corporate forms help AI labs balance innovation with safety, and, if so, what can the government do to encourage that? The November 2023 boardroom coup that briefly deposed OpenAI CEO…
Insights Into Chinese Use of Generative AI and Social Bots from the Career of a PLA Researcher the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was initially concerned about the rise of social media, considering…
The indictment details the efforts of the defendants to steal nonpublic Trump campaign materials and engage in a “hack-and-leak” operation. On Sept. 26, a federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court…
Shifting the focus of AI liability from the systems to the builders. Editor’s note: This essay is part of a series on liability in the AI ecosystem, from Lawfare and the Georgetown Institute for Technology…
