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As the US midterms approach, AI is going to emerge as a key issue concerning voters
Following the Trump Administration's order limiting states' ability to regulate AI, Sanders and Schneier argue that it…
Cox Wins Supreme Court Ruling Curbing Music Copyright Suits (3)
BKC Co-Director Rebecca Tushnet weighs in on the Court's decision to throw out a copyright-infringement decision…
AI Safety is a Category Error
Fellow Jeffrey Snover reflects on the STAMP Safety Design Workshop at MIT.
Does YouTube’s Algorithm Reward Risky Prank Content?
Affiliate and former BKC Fellow Dylan Moses asks how far the "potential" to invoke violence or harm can take us in…
Trump’s Anthropic Ban Is Lawless. Congress Must Respond with a Law.
Alan Raul remarks that the Trump-Anthropic dispute underscores the need for a national policy to govern transformative…
AI content (and algorithms) is coming for your kids
Faculty Associate Leah Plunkett argues that the spread of "brain rot" is being accelerated by AI.
Considering How AI Destroys Democratic Institutions
Woodrow Hartzog and Jessica Silbey argue that even intentionally-used AI erodes the foundations of democratic…
Women are avoiding the very technology that threatens them most, as expert warns of a ‘two-tiered AI economy’ approaching
Fellow Mara Bolis argues that women's skepticism about AI will ultimately make the technology safer.
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