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…
The launches of OnlineCensorship.org today and Ranking Digital Rights on November 3 will ensure technology companies serve--rather than squelch--the free flow o…
The International Criminal Court’s Assembly of States Parties (ASP) is meeting this week in The Hague — its 14th session. On the agenda (and here) are a number…
In the last 24 hours many prominent politicians and pundits have said that they don’t want Syrian refugees to enter the United States. For example, Gov. Chris C…
Under a regime of limited economic incentive for creativity and confined commodification of information, humanity produced the greatest portion of human knowled…
When Bernie Sanders said in his debate with Hillary Clinton that Denmark was a socialist country, which the United States ought to consider emulating, it create…
Lawyers for human rights lawyer and journalist Hossam Bahgat have confirmed that Bahgat was detained Sunday by military officials, apparently in retaliation for…
In a move that could cost the EU up to 1.3 percent of its gross domestic product, according to the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union, on Oct. 6…
The Transatlantic Digital Dialogue is a multi-stakeholder working group of experts from Germany and the United States. It was assembled and stewarded by the Sti…
Forget about losing your job to a robot. And don’t worry about a super-smart, but somehow evil, computer. We have more urgent ethical issues to deal with right…
International Data Flows: Promoting Digital Trade in the 21st Century: Before the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, 114 Cong 133…
Brian Nussbaum CCHS Senior Fellow; Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs, SUNY at Albany ISIS has been engaged i…
The debilitating weakness in our democracy today is the growing disconnect between government and citizens. Most Americans now believe that our political system…