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…
As discussed in my prior post, President Donald Trump’s family separation policy has come under legal assault from a number of civil society organizations, 17 U…
Introduction Disinformation and distrust online are set to take a turn for the worse. Rapid advances in deep-learning algorithms to synthesize video and audio…
With all that is going on, the issue of family separations at the border has slipped from view. But, a new article in the current issue of The New Yorker about…
In the leadup to the FCC's historic vote in December 2017 to repeal all net neutrality protections, 22 million comments were filed to the agency. But unfor…
Like it or not, sex robots are already here, and someday they might hurt you, if you ask nicely. As they cater to an ever-increasing range of tastes, some folk…
Prevention of terrorism is undeniably an important and legitimate aim in many countries of the world. In the course of the last years, the European Union (EU) i…
Comments submitted to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) of the Australian Parliament on the revised draft (20 September 201…
Co-authored by Evan Selinger and Woodrow Hartzog Privacy protections are at risk yet again. The Five Eyes security alliance, which spans the governments of the…
Bloomberg has just published an explosive article claiming that a secret unit in the Chinese military has compromised the motherboards (the systems of chips and…
With little fanfare, the State Department recently posted on its website the results of an empirical study of the acute violence in Myanmar against the Rohingya…
Margaret E. Roberts is an assistant professor at the University of California at San Diego and the author of “Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s…
In the drumbeat of reports about Russian attempts to undermine U.S. democratic institutions with trolls, Twitter bots and cyberattacks on congressional candidat…