Life” and “intelligence” are terms with heavily contested meanings.This discussion will offer a novel, unified perspective on ...

Aviv Ovadya, Manon Revel, and Amy X. Zhang provide a map of what meaningful democratic AI governance and alignment look like.

Andrew McLaughlin is Chief Operating Officer at SandboxAQ. A 2022 spin-out from Google, SandboxAQ combines AI Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) and deep expertise in physics, biology, and chemistry to ...

Ben Brooks makes the case that frontier AI models should be open source, critiquing recent moves by companies like OpenAI and Meta.

Paola Ricaurte and Latanya Sweeney - were named to Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in AI.

Zeve Sanderson and Scott Babwah Brennen write that the persistence of misinformation despite several years' worth of countering efforts begets three novel critiques of the dominant misinformation ...

BKC Director Martha Minow reflects on how community news outlets have been impacted by the Trump administration's cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Dr. Urs Gasser is Professor of Public Policy, Governance, and Innovative Technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where he serves as Dean of the TUM School of Social Sciences and ...

Affiliate Bruce Schneier and coauthor Davi Ottenheimer argue that the emergence of AI agents in the (near) Web 3.0 future necessitates data integrity, in the sense that users should understand why ...

Sahana Udupa and coauthors explore regulatory efforts toward curtailing extreme speech on encrypted messaging platforms such WhatsApp.

AJ Escoffery shares reality TV memories and weighs in on the genre's sociocultural importance for Purewow, suggesting that “reality TV reflects back to us the worst and sometimes best of humanity, ...

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