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The Trump Administration's AI Policy Framework Has an Ideology. It Just Won't Admit It.
2+ hour, 45+ min ago (201+ words) What's striking is what's missing from the framework. Algorithmic bias and discrimination, data privacy beyond children, transparency, and environmental impacts are entirely absent, despite being among the most well-documented risks in AI research. Without these elements, the document reads primarily…...
Four Pages That Could Reshape American AI Policy
23+ hour, 9+ min ago (395+ words) Neil Chilson is the head of AI policy at the Abundance Institute. Late last month the White House released its National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence. It's four pages long. Critics immediately dismissed it as empty. They're wrong, and missing…...
What Are the Politics of a Platform? What the Data Says About Content Moderation on X
21+ hour, 47+ min ago (1073+ words) This post is part two of a three-part series. Part one examined the political composition of X's user base. This part takes up content moderation: what policies changed, how much hate speech is on the platform, and what we can…...
India's Decentralized System of Internet Censorship
22+ hour, 28+ min ago (305+ words) Amber Sinha is a contributing editor at Tech Policy Press. Saini's report advances the technical understanding of how the Indian state's censorship is implemented. While earlier studies focused on the existence of blocks, Saini's work quantifies the methodology and magnitude....
Ireland's New Surveillance Bill Opens Door to Spyware Abuse
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (812+ words) Vas Panagiotopoulos is a fellow at Tech Policy Press. Ireland is considering a new bill that would legalize the use of spyware by the police " including commercial spyware offered by companies like NSO Group, Intellexa and Paragon Solutions. The Communications…...
Platform Design Litigation Yields Historic Verdicts Against Meta and Google
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (1196+ words) Tech Policy Press Platform Design Litigation Yields Historic Verdicts Against Meta and Google Madeline Batt is the Legal Fellow for the Tech Justice Law Project. The Tech Litigation Roundup spotlights notable lawsuits and court decisions across a variety of tech-and-law…...
X is a Preferred Tool for American Propaganda. What Does It Mean?
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (558+ words) Audio of this conversation is available via your favorite podcast service. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the discussion. Kate, the last time you were on this podcast, we talked about what we were dubbing the dumbest timeline....
The World Has Arms Control Regimes, But AI Companies Are Not Answering to Them
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (367+ words) The first chemical munition, a GB (Sarin) filled M55 rocket, is destroyed at JACADS in 1990. (Wikimedia Commons) When Anthropic posted a job listing for a "Policy Manager, Chemical Weapons and High-Yield Explosives," it was easy to read as a curiosity. A…...
AI Warfare Is Outpacing Our Ability to Control It
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (426+ words) Public unease around the United States' and Israel's use of artificial intelligence in the war in Iran is growing. People are asking the questions that governments should have answered long before deploying these systems in combat: What role does algorithmic…...
How the AI Framework Breaks Trump's Promise to Kids, Artists and Communities
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (664+ words) Brad Carson is president of Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI) and a former congressman representing Oklahoma. But a promise on paper is only as strong as the policy behind it. With the March release of the Trump administration's national AI…...