Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researcher Shahin Tajik has been awarded a prestigious CAREER Award of $594,081 by the National Science Foundation to develop new technologies to monitor and protect computer chips and other hardware from malicious…
AI’s future cost and the trajectory of its development are currently unknown. Good AI policy will take that into account. AI is a hot topic in policy and regulatory discussions. President Biden…
Lagging policy upholds a status quo in which cloud vendor’s design decisions about how their systems work (and work together) are almost entirely opaque. In summer of 2023, the State Department discovered…
Managing the risks and opportunities from AI, quantum computing, and other emerging technologies will involve more than congressional legislation. Editor’s Note: The tremendous potential of artificial intelligence has raised fears that it could lead…
The AI Working Group, led by Majority Leader Schumer, recently released its AI policy roadmap. Its focus on innovation and lack of details have drawn criticism. On May 15, the Bipartisan Senate…
Spamouflage is famous for being widespread and ineffective. A new tactic targeting Trump supporters suggests that may be starting to change. “A vote for Trump is a vote for America,” wrote Ben on…
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OpenAI and its competitors are racing as fast as they can to develop systems that are as capable and as autonomous as possible. Until last week, OpenAI had a team dedicated to…
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A new battle is emerging between AI regulation optimists and AI regulation skeptics. In the tech sector, the political alliances that drive policymaking shift rapidly. The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is…
Experiments by ETH Zurich computer security researchers showed that smartphones can be manipulated to allow the owner to ride Swiss trains for free. The researchers also highlighted ways of curbing such misuse.…
On a cold winter night in 2016, Ukrainians experienced the first-ever known blackout caused by malicious code (malware) designed to autonomously attack the power grid. One-fifth of Kyiv’s citizens were plunged into…
