Nicol Turner Lee is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution. She has created a new AI Equity Lab at Brookings to interrogate civil and human rights compliance within emerging models. She is also a Public Voices Fellow which is funded by the MacArthur Foundation.   OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies before a Senate subcommittee on May 16, 2023. The firing and subsequent reinstatement of Sam Altman as OpenAI’s leader turned out to be not so bad for the organization, or for him. Altman returned as CEO, with a new Board. Despite ..read more

Rachel Lau and Kennedy Patlan work with leading public interest foundations and nonprofits on technology policy issues at Freedman Consulting, LLC. Hunter Maskin, a Freedman Consulting Phillip Bevington policy & research intern, also contributed to this article. The 7th Senate “AI Insight Forum,” November 29, 2023. Source November saw another slew of tech policy developments in the US. Artificial intelligence (AI), in particular, dominated the headlines: After President Biden signed a historic executive order on AI in late October, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) started the mon ..read more

Kadijatou (Kadija) Diallo is a researcher focused on the intersection of technology, governance and human rights, including the ethical and responsible development of emerging technologies, especially in the Global South. Most recently she was a Fellow with Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and Technology. Vice President Kamala Harris joins President Joe Biden at the signing of an Executive Order on artificial intelligence, October 30, 2023. At the end of October, President Joe Biden signed a sweeping Executive Order addressing the safe deployment and use of artificial intelligence (AI), mar ..read more

Simran Agarwal is a doctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Excellence for Culture Industries and Artistic Creation (LabEx ICCA), Sorbonne Paris Nord University in France. Shubhangi Heda is a PhD student with the Digital Media Research Centre at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia.  The fresh off-the-desk draft of the Broadcasting Services (Regulations) Bill released on November 10th, 2023 is yet another addition to a recent slew of new media and technology regulations in India. The government has repeatedly used the rationale of ‘parity,’ ‘level playing field ..read more

Prithvi Iyer is Program Manager at Tech Policy Press. Shutterstock What would happen if you asked OpenAI’s ChatGPT to repeat a word such as “poem” forever? A new preprint research paper reveals that this prompt could lead the chatbot to leak training data, including personally identifiable information and other material scraped from the web. The results, which have not been peer reviewed, raise questions about the safety and security of ChatGPT and other large language model (LLM) systems.  “This research would appear to confirm once again why the ‘publicly available information’ approach ..read more

Dr. Benedikt Kohn is an associate and Lennart van Neerven is a paralegal at TaylorWessing, an international law firm. This article is drawn from an analysis published at the firm’s website and updated to match recent developments. Flags in front of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Shutterstock Ongoing trilogue negotiations between the European Union Council, Parliament and Commission over the EU AI Act are focused on how the law will be governed and enforced, the use of AI technology by law enforcement and – the topic of this article – the regulation of basic and gene ..read more

Anastasiya Zhyrmont is Policy Manager for Eastern Europe & Central Asia at Access Now. The fifth Belarus Internet Governance Forum (IGF.BY 2023) took place November 15 in Minsk under the tagline of open dialogue on the development of Bynet. Bynet is Belarus’ “national internet” — and the use of the term was the conference’s first major red flag. Organizers welcomed a myriad of international stakeholders, but essentially excluded civil society. Representatives from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Center (RIPE ..read more

John B. Horrigan is a Benton Senior Fellow and a national expert on technology adoption, digital inclusion, and evaluating the outcomes and impacts of programs designed to promote communications technology adoption and use. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on lowering costs and expanding access to the internet through the Affordable Connectivity Program, part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Monday, May 9, 2022, in the Rose Garden of the White House. (White House Photo/Adam Schultz) In the wake of the Biden Administration’s request for a $6 billion extension of the Affordable Connecti ..read more

Anupam Chander is Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Rebooting Social Media at Harvard University and Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology at Georgetown University. Donara Aghajani is a second-year law student at Georgetown Law. Alyanna Apacible (Georgetown Law ‘2023) is an Associate with the Research and Insights Team at the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Shutterstock If the mantra of campaign managers is to go where the people are, one might expect politicians to go to TikTok, which reports more than 150 million active users per month in the United States ..read more

Anika Collier Navaroli is a Senior Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. Former President Donald Trump addressed media before a second day of testimony in a civil fraud trial at New York State Court on October 25, 2023. Lev Radin/Shutterstock Former President Donald Trump has been warned that his posts on Truth Social, the social media company run by Trump Media & Technology Group, could potentially incite violence or intimidate witnesses. After Trump did not heed judges’ warnings, they imposed gag orders, one of which was temporarily lifted this month, on ..read more