Bruce Schneier and coauthors argue that even attempted cyberattacks on election infrastructure can erode public trust in elections' integrity across party lines.

Petra Molnar details a disturbing new artificial intelligence platform - ICERAID.us - which "offers cryptocurrency rewards to users who upload photos of 'suspicious activity' along the border." ...

Greg Leppert weighs in on AI developers' use of written texts, rather than simply digital ones, to train LLMs. "A book collection steeped in 19th century thought could also be 'immensely critical' for ...

In the first weekly issue of Platformocracy, Jonathan Bellack argues that Bluesky is nearing the end of the timeframe in which it can build a truly participatory content moderation process. Among ...

In The Atlantic, Faculty Director Jonathan Zittrain probes policy questions raised by the “assumptions” large language models make about users. “Gleaning a model’s assumptions is just the beginning.

"It is time to stop treating disinformation as a user behavior problem and start seeing it for what it is: a structural, infrastructural, and systemic problem engineered by design." Faculty Associate ...

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders offer some optimistic reflections on the rise of AI-written legislation, though they concede that such AI use should be disclosed. Read more from the authors at ...

Salomé Viljoen warns that the Trump Administration's attempts at monetary efficiency (e.g., via DOGE) mask its increasing goal over the US's data infrastructure. "To understand the authoritarian ...

The TikTok divest-or-ban order was signed one year ago. The Institute for Rebooting Media spoke with researchers and legal experts to learn about the order’s impact on expression, governance, and the ...

Rumman Chowdhury joins Science Friday to discuss the state of artificial general intelligence. Chowdhury argues that AGI is currently a productivity tool, rather than an entity that's nearing (human ...

From “ Pizzagate ” in 2016 to recent claims of the government controlling the weather in the wake of Hurricane Helene, conspiracy theories have shown they have the power to spread online in ...

Dave Willner is a non-resident fellow at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, where he does research on how to use large language models to do text-policy driven content moderation. He also serve as a ...