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New Research Paper on Federal AI-CSAM Prosecutions
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…
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California is poised to get $1.4 billion for broadband. But there’s a huge catch
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…
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Trump Says California Can’t Stand Up To Big Telecom If It Wants Taxpayer Grants
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…
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Consumer Advocates Call on California to Fight BEAD Restrictions
Consumer advocates in California are calling on state officials to fight a provision added to the BEAD program by the Trump administration that would require th…
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California may gut state net neutrality law to comply with Trump admin demand
California is on the verge of accepting $1.86 billion in federal broadband grant funds, despite the Trump administration telling states they cannot enforce net…
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California Is Being Asked to Give Up 14 Years of Broadband Protections. It Doesn't Have To.
Accepting $1.42 billion in federal broadband funding would require California to give up enforcing its net neutrality, affordability, and public-safety laws aga…
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Pfefferkorn interviewed in Screenagers documentary on student-on-student use of nudify apps
Screenagers: Generation AI explores what can be done to mitigate the risks artificial intelligence poses to young people's learning, relationships, and ment…
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Judge asks Supreme Court to reconsider laws about AI generated CSAM
Riana Pfefferkorn, Policy Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, was interviewed on KTVU to discuss the Seventh Circuit's recent ruling abo…
AI Slop
The term “AI slop” has become popular to describe the output of generative AI systems seen as voluminous, low quality, or the result of little effort. When AI-g…
The Hidden Trade-Offs of Fighting Child Abuse Online
Computing professionals have developed a number of aphorisms over the decades. Do not roll your own cryptography; it is always DNS; time zones are hard; names a…
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For Humankind: Keynote Remarks at the Inauguration of the Joint Academy on Future Humanity
In June 2025, Renmin University of China and Westlake University launched a Joint Academy on Future Humanity. This was my keynote address on the occasion: “The…
Fit for 5G: The Open Internet Regulation Already Enables 5G Innovation While Protecting Competition and User Choice
White Paper submitted as an attachment to the comments submitted to BEREC’s Consultation on its Draft Further Guidance on 5G Network Slicing. For years, major…