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Audrey Tang: AI should serve communities, not control them
As Taiwan’s first digital minister, Tang pioneered a model of AI governance built on civic participation, transparency and “broad listening."

AI labs want more of your time. That's a serious problem.
Healthy disengagement — not stickiness — should become a core safety feature within AI chatbots.

Meta victory reveals cracks in antitrust enforcement
If Meta’s not a monopoly, the ruling gives every other tech giant a green light to become one.

Global alignment on AI is an illusion
The era of artificial intelligence requires a new approach to cooperation that builds alliances based on regional interests, common goals and technical realities.

UNESCO’s fight for relevance
How do lumbering, slow-moving and bureaucratic institutions remain essential amid the sweeping changes brought by the rapid global adoption of AI?

Building AI to serve the Global Majority
The development of AI systems without consideration of Global Majority realities threatens to entrench inequalities with cascading effects across multiple domains of human life.

How to avoid climate apartheid fueled by AI
We must repurpose AI to dismantle climate apartheid rather than reinforce it.

Africa is the new front line of climate disinformation
Less than 1% of global research on African disinformation focuses on climate. That’s a problem with lasting consequences for a region constantly battered by climate change. 

Police routinely disable AI oversight tools
Departments are turning off Axon’s AI safeguards in software that auto generates reports from body-cam footage, raising accountability concerns.

How to harness AI in the fight for democracy
Autocratic regimes are using artificial intelligence to attack democracies, stirring concern from Romania to Rhode Island. But the technology could also become a powerful tool to safeguard elections if deployed in the right ways.

What Americans really think about AI
The Trump administration's AI Action Plan received more than 10,000 comments. We analyzed all of them to find out how Americans feel about artificial intelligence and its impact on jobs, human rights, competition with China and more.

Kenyan lawsuit against Meta will test Big Tech accountability
A Kenyan court will hear a $1.6 billion lawsuit that alleges Facebook helped incite genocide in Ethiopia. The case could be a model for those looking to hold platforms responsible for online hate and abuse with real world consequences.

The chilling effects of using AI to hunt 'pro-Hamas' activists
The State Department is attempting to use artificial intelligence to target visa holders in the United States who express views counter to U.S. foreign policy. Is the real goal legitimizing a political crackdown?

How to resist climate disinformation during Trump 2.o
An assault on facts started as soon as Trump took office, but scientists, climate activists and the international community must fight back against lies, distortions and a dangerous withdrawal from the global environmental challenge. 

'AI for Good' shouldn't become the innovation arbitrage
If technology is being tested more aggressively in poorer communities, it's worth asking why.

AI is transforming public services. Here’s how to keep it safe and fair.
Automation will cut costs and improve services, but fairness, privacy and accountability must remain a priority.

How philanthropy can thwart the 'makers vs takers' approach to AI
If AI is truly going to build shared global prosperity, it will only happen by engaging and empowering historically under-represented communities—and philanthropy can help make this happen. 

AI safety is a misnomer without Global Majority inclusion
A limited understanding of AI’s real-world impact on the Global Majority means the world’s most populous and under-resourced countries remain at risk.  

The Internet of Bodies is here. Are we ready for it?
As we implant, ingest and wear smart devices, the line between human and machine blurs—along with our control over our own bodies.

A fair process is the essential element for trust and safety
Building fair content-moderation processes is a business imperative for platforms to attract and retain users.

How to build responsible AI for the Global Majority
How do we ensure AI development prioritizes equity and inclusivity rather than deepening existing divides?

Smarter AI innovation happens in a box
Regulatory AI sandboxes can provide mechanisms to balance trade-offs between innovation and compliance.

The EU AI Act is not necessarily the gold standard for the Global Majority
The best regulatory approaches will be inclusive and consider regional context and cultural nuances while taking into account how people are most affected by AI.

A blueprint for a new and equitable global data trade
Data-trading alliances would democratize access to critical resources, foster collaboration and accelerate innovation in areas like AI, health care and sustainability.

Tech's new AI cold war
The fight for artificial intelligence dominance is pushing global cooperation to the brink, and the consequences could be catastrophic.

We need to rethink trade secrecy to build better AI
Trade secrecy isn’t just about keeping AI models under wraps—it actively encourages secrecy, stifles competition and limits innovation.

The Trump administration's war on facts is now underway. Here's how to fight back.
A global alliance is essential to countering disinformation that prevailed during the campaign and will continue to pollute the internet thanks to Trump and allies like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.

This VPN is now the resistance tool of choice in authoritarian regimes trying to control the internet
Proton VPN executives and engineers tirelessly work to outmaneuver internet firewalls in Russia, Venezuela and China in a digital war for a free and open internet.

The artist fighting for humanity in the AI era
John Mack, a tech critic and visual artist, warns against our growing reliance on artificial intelligence and digital tools and makes the case for a more human-centered future.

Watch: The Australian internet regulator taking on Elon Musk
Australian eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant joined Compiler and Cornell Tech's Security, Trust and Safety Initiative for a pop-up policy event where she talked about Australia's efforts to reduce online harms and disinformation.

Who will save us from a future without work?
With AI expected to alter or eliminate nearly 40% of global jobs, the risks of mass unemployment and economic disruption loom large. But there’s a better way to reshape our economy to benefit workers instead.

Tech researchers wanted to protect democracy. Now, they're facing lawsuits, recrimination and threats.
A rising tide of legal threats against misinformation researchers is having a chilling effect on the field—and threatening a key tool for accountability.

Lina Khan has unfinished business
FTC Chair Lina Khan was once a fringe outsider. Now she is redefining corporate oversight, but her fight is far from over.

The most immediate AI risk isn't superintelligent bots destroying humanity. There's something else.
Generative AI tools are riddled with low-tech security flaws that can be used by even the most unsophisticated hackers. 

Gary Marcus: We're suffering through the Napster era of AI
The author of the new book "Taming Silicon Valley" says tech companies should compensate artists, writers, publishers and other creators who are being ripped off to fuel the AI economy.

NATO can’t truly defend cyberspace without private partnerships
The Ukraine war is perhaps the clearest example of the value of international cyber cooperation.

Let’s adequately fund cybersecurity nonprofits. The internet depends on it.
The entities responsible for protecting the internet itself and the most vulnerable in society are in trouble.

CISA’s Easterly does it her way — and it’s working
The director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Security Agency proved her many detractors wrong and put in motion important programs that should outlast the current administration.

‘Integrity Above All’ is the mantra needed for the ransomware era
As ransomware continues to be one of the best low-risk, high-return business models in existence, an approach to security that puts integrity above all should become the credo for everyone in cyber.

AI is turbocharging the online harassment of women
Generative AI is making the online abuse of women as easy as point-and-click. Is there any way to stop it?

The environmental downside of upgrading AI
First come the chip factories, then comes the energy suck. We’re not prepared for the environmental implications of fully scaled AI.

A Prologue to ‘The Legacy

Fiction: The Legacy
Author and humanitarian Malka Older imagines what happens when an AI dies, and how a community of scientists would grieve after its demise.

Eric Pickersgill: A decade of 'Removed'
In a conversation with Compiler, photographer Eric Pickersgill talks about how his photo series observes the way devices have become fused into daily life.

How to Future Proof Europe's AI Office
As Big Tech races to advance artificial intelligence systems, European regulators must keep pace with their approach to enforcement.

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