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Let’s Get Real About AI
“While further progress in the development of artificial intelligence is inevitable, it will not necessarily be linear. Nonetheless, those hyping these technologies have seized on a number of compelling myths, starting with the notion that AI can solve any problem” (Stan Matwin, 2021).
Reimagining the Platform Economy
“Today's digital economy has grown up around a business model of data and wealth extraction, confounding traditional antitrust paradigms and undermining the public and social value that otherwise could be derived from technological innovation. The state can redress these problems, but only if it reclaims its proper role” (Mazzucato et. al., 2021).
I Talked to the Cassandra of the Internet Age
“For Mr. Goldhaber...every single action we take — calling our grandparents, cleaning up the kitchen or, today, scrolling through our phones — is a transaction. We are taking what precious little attention we have and diverting it toward something. This is a zero-sum proposition, he realized” (Charlie Warzel, 2021).
The Thoughts the Civilized Keep
“The hype around GPT-3 as a path to general artificial intelligence reveals the sterility of mainstream thinking about AI today. More importantly, it reveals the sterility of our current thinking about thinking” (Shannon Vallor, 2021).
Digital Democracy: Accelerating A New Field Of Knowledge
"The report identified key central considerations for researchers, allies and potential new entrants... These include the urgent need to ensure data access for researchers as well as the desire among scholars in the Knight Research Network to expand and diversify the network to preserve and grow the integrity and reputation of this emerging field" (Wihbey, 2021).
Industrialized Disinformation: 2020 Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation
This report “highlights the recent trends of computational propaganda across 81 countries and the evolving tools, capacities, strategies, and resources used to manipulate public opinion around the globe. We identify three key trends in this year’s inventory of disinformation activity” (Bradshaw, Bailey, and Howard, 2021).
Protecting Democracy in an Age of Disinformation: Lessons from Taiwan
“This report examines Taiwan’s experience in combatting foreign and domestic disinformation” and how “the methods and tools employed by Taiwan’s government to combat disinformation and foreign interference highlight the strengths of its governing institutions but also the emergent challenges other democracies will confront” (Blanchette, Kennedy, Livingston, and Glaser, 2021).
Response to European Commission Consultation on the White Paper on Artificial Intelligence
This paper “makes the argument that “a larger scope of the law will be necessary to incorporate strong measures to regulate and, in some cases, prohibit the use of AI in highly sensitive public functions such as policing, surveillance, immigration or social welfare” (Valenti and Beltrà, 2020).
Can Regulation Douse Populism’s Online Fires?
“The storming of the U.S. Capitol should not come as a surprise to those who have been tracking the impact of social media on activism and political campaigning...what has happened in the United States can happen anywhere in the world, and many democratic countries are sitting on a tinderbox” (Nikhil Pahwa, 2021)
Together, U.S. And China Can Reduce The Risks From AI
“Despite a deterioration in U.S.-China relations, both countries should seize this rare historical moment to develop common norms on AI” (Fu Ying and John Allen, 2020).
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