In the hills of West Sonoma County, a fire can crest a ridge faster than an evacuation order can reach you. In our Hacienda Firewise Council, we practice phone…
Experts in artificial intelligence delivered a sobering message to California legislators Wednesday: The technology is advancing at a rapid pace and the threats…
Stopping the spread of these apps is not easy. Riana Pfefferkorn, a policy fellow at Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, described efforts to…
On August 31, the Trump administration sent formal notice of a $1.42 billion grant to California to supply broadband access to 270,000 households and businesses…
As an OpenAI whistleblower recently explained, AI executives have knowingly fostered a culture that “guarantees periodic failures,” the scale of which is “growi…
Data minimization—the requirement that entities should collect, process, or transfer only personal data that is necessary and proportionate to a particular purp…
Many think artificial intelligence companies should be held liable for their runaway technology. But legal scholars say applying existing law could be messy. .…
The Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI) at the University of Toronto has appointed a new Advisory Board and established a Scientific Adv…
Together with Cyndie Demeocq at U of Edinburgh, today I’m releasing a paper analyzing 71 federal criminal cases, filed around the US from 2022-2025, that someho…
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is now capable of creating realistic-looking images and videos with just a text prompt. This capacity has been misused b…
California utility regulators this week cleared the way for the state to accept more than $1.4 billion in federal funding to build out broadband in underserved…
As the federal U.S. government has given up on consumer protection and corporate oversight, states have filled the void with various degrees of success. That’s…