AI and digital platforms promise a friction-free future, yet the systems taking shape around us depend on hidden human labor, ...

AI systems are tested and evaluated more extensively than ever, but the effects of AI on humanity are still not fully understood, while narratives about our future vacillate between apocalypse and ...

In Afghanistan, technology is the last refuge for girls who want — and deserve — an education past the age of 12 in a country where doing so is a crime.

For over a decade, USC Annenberg Associate Professor David Craig has been conducting research about the structural and material conditions that distinguish global, Chinese, and peripheral creator and ...

In partnership with the U.S. Secret Service (USSS), Verizon analyzed first-hand evidence collected during breach investigations. The primary dataset analyzed in this report contains the 141 (57 + 84) ...

Affiliate Bruce Schneier and Ada Palmer point out that LLM training misses the bulk of verbal communication because they are only trained on written, rather than oral, text. "By excluding the ...

In this study, we analyze both mainstream and social media coverage of the 2016 United States presidential election. We document that the majority of mainstream media coverage was negative for both ...

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is an increasingly common Internet phenomenon capable of silencing Internet speech, usually for a brief interval but occasionally for longer. In this paper, we ...

Recommendations for a healthier digital environment for children, and the roles that policymakers, academics, and governments play today.

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The regulatory landscape for Artificial Intelligence (AI) is shaping up on both sides of the Atlantic, with the U.S. Algorithmic Accountability Act and the EU AI Act among the main (proposed) ...

In a paper for the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Discussion Paper Series Sabelo Mhlambi uses the relational Sub-Saharan African philosophy of Ubuntu to show that the harms caused by artificial ...