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Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies…
On Christmas Eve, Elon Musk announced that Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot offered by his company xAI, would now include an image and a video editing…
Youth privacy law today shares the logics and pathologies of the U.S. Supreme Court's jurisprudence about parental rights over children. We argue that this…
In this HAI seminar, Policy Fellow at Stanford HAI, Riana Pfefferkorm, discussed her research paper on AI-generated child sexual abuse material (AI CSAM).
AI C…
In this testimony presented to the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Oversights and Investigations hearing titled “Innovation with…
The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) established a host of new transparency mandates for online platforms. One of the simplest yet most critical allows researche…
The recent upheavals in content governance at X and Meta have something in common: both were initiated by the platform's controlling shareholders. As the US…
Tesla uses the name "Full Self-Driving" to market a driver assistance system that still requires its user to pay attention to the road. And yet, as th…
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems depend on massive quantities of data, often gathered by “scraping”—the automated extraction of large amounts of data from t…
Hundreds of millions of people now regularly interact with large language models via chatbots. Model developers are eager to acquire new sources of high-quality…
This chapter argues that the real risk of 'algorithmic enclosure' arises not from using automation, but from using it without rights-driven, human-centr…