Toward a Better Internet
Could a civic-minded digital media emerge as a counterweight to the current platform-dominated internet, where algorithms help spread mis- and disinformation, echo chambers cabin our online interactions, and tech giants dominate over a wide range of economic and expressive activities?
This blog channel explores the possibility of building a better internet, one that facilitates public discourse, respects individual privacy, and fosters democratic processes.
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Deep Dive: Toward a Better Internet
Responsible AI Regulation: Supporting Independent Researchers
New paper posits that general-purpose AI needs coordinated flaw reporting
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Deep Dive: Toward a Better Internet
We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation Is Not an AI Problem.
Technology isn’t the problem—or the solution.
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Inside Look: Toward a Better Internet
Zuckerman v. Meta: A User-Friendly Section 230
The Institute’s Ramya Krishnan on using a lesser known provision of Section 230 to protect the development of tools that empower social media users
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Deep Dive: Toward a Better Internet
A Safe Harbor for AI Evaluation and Red Teaming
An argument for legal and technical safe harbors for AI safety and trustworthiness research
By Shayne Longpre , Sayash Kapoor , Kevin Klyman , Ashwin Ramaswami , Rishi Bommasani , Arvind Narayanan , Percy Liang & Peter Henderson -
Deep Dive: Toward a Better Internet
A Safe Harbor for AI Evaluation and Red Teaming
An argument for legal and technical safe harbors for AI safety and trustworthiness research
By Shayne Longpre , Sayash Kapoor , Kevin Klyman , Ashwin Ramaswami , Rishi Bommasani , Arvind Narayanan , Percy Liang & Peter Henderson -
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Event
Event
Surveillance Ascendant, Democracy in Free Fall
A convening addressing the threats to speech and privacy enabled by commercial surveillance in our quickly shifting democratic landscape
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Research
Essays and Scholarship
Protecting Immigrant Activists From U.S. Government Retaliation: Lessons From First Amendment Litigation
Immigrant activists in the U.S. face legal and structural barriers when fighting First Amendment retaliation.
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Lawsuit
Dada v. NSO Group
A case challenging the use of spyware against journalists
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Lawsuit
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York v. USDA
A case challenging USDA’s purge of climate-related webpages.
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