The feud between AI “doomers” and “ethicists” holds AI governance back. Advancing shared policy interests could shift the tide. As AI whistleblowers speak out, safety advocates depart leading machine learning companies, and tech execs warn about AI-enabled…
Iran’s sustained digital interference in U.S. elections now includes hack-and-leak tactics. Here’s how its strategy has evolved over time. On July 22, someone named “Robert” reached out to Politico to share internal…
The UN’s new cybercrime treaty is poised to become a vehicle for complicity in the global mercenary spy trade. On Aug. 8, the international community concluded its final negotiations at the United…
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They are neither effective nor desirable. In a recently announced rule effective May 9, the U.S. Department of Commerce added 37 Chinese entities to the Entity List, restricting them from acquiring items listed under…
A California court of appeal has eviscerated statutory privacy protections that prevent providers from disclosing the content of user communications. On July 23, the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District…
U.S. intelligence officials said Monday they were confident that Iran was responsible for the hack of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, casting the cyber intrusion as part of a brazen and broader effort by…
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How much is different from 2016, and will the institutions that stumbled then—the press, the intelligence community, and the campaigns—do any better this time around? It’s several months before a presidential election,…
Large language models like ChatGPT cannot learn independently or acquire new skills, meaning they pose no existential threat to humanity. ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) cannot learn independently or acquire…
Orion Brown started Black Travel Box to serve Black female travelers who find hotel lotions and shampoos inadequate. Randel Bennett co-founded the insurance startup Sigo Seguros for underserved Spanish-speaking drivers. Bill Shufelt…
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Charting a path forward for trust and safety in domain name registries and registrars. In recent years, policymakers across the globe have laid down rules and regulations for content providers to establish a framework that balances…
