If there’s a robot in your house, chances are it’s a Roomba. But that could be about to change. A new generation of home robots is coming—adorable, loaded with contemporary artificial intelligence and designed to charm their way into your family.
Today marks the deadline for online platforms to implement a process for notice-and-takedown of nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII) under the TAKE IT DOWN Act…
This brief examines the privacy risks foundation models pose to individuals and society, and governance mechanisms needed to address them. Key Takeaways * F…
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…
My dog recognizes me. From across a dog park full of people throwing balls and calling their pups, Spot never fails. She uses the poor eyesight, good hearing an…
This chapter offers a clear, comparative map of algorithmic enforcement in the IP domain, with emphasis on copyright and trade marks online. In short, the chapt…
The Digital Services Act (DSA) establishes a wide regulatory framework applicable to intermediary services and particularly online platforms in the European Uni…
Issues of scale—the relationship between the amount of an activity and its associated costs and benefits—permeate discussions around law and technologies. Indee…