If “trust is broken everywhere,” as Vinh Nguyen, a senior fellow for AI at the Council on Foreign Relations, told Tech Policy Press recently, we need to make it whole. And that's actually happening right now in spaces called "sandboxes," where some businesses, government agencies and policymakers around the world are innovating and testing products and policies – together, in real time. In a … [Read more...] about A tool for growing trust, effecting real change
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Safety by co-design: How we can take youth online safety to the next level
Six years ago Prof. Gillian Hadfield at the University of Toronto wrote in QZ.com, "What we don’t hear nearly enough is the call to invent the future of regulation." It seemed the insanely fast development pace of multiple kinds of tech was becoming almost too hot for regulators to touch. Hadfield proposed "super-regulation," which she said would get governments "out of the business of legislating … [Read more...] about Safety by co-design: How we can take youth online safety to the next level
Generative AI: July 2023 freeze frame
It's feeling like I need a large language model brain to write about safety with large language models. [I certify that I only wish I had such a brain, and I am a human.] So let's freeze the film for a moment and see where we humans are with generative AI safety. First, so that we're all on the same page, a large language model is basically an algorithmic structure called a "neural … [Read more...] about Generative AI: July 2023 freeze frame
Social media’s next phase: A new social contract?
The "Cambridge Analytica scandal," as seen in so many headlines, is giving way to a more thoughtful – and crucial – international discussion about not only data privacy but an even bigger question: where our social development is at this point in the planet's technological development, the part we call the Internet. Here are a few thoughts on that and, below them, links to coverage that I feel … [Read more...] about Social media’s next phase: A new social contract?
What the Net privacy big picture has to do with parenting
It's no wonder parents and schools aren't sure where their policies start and stop when it comes to online interaction among young people who could be in any home, any school, any community or even country. Governments – whether local, state, or national – aren't sure either. More than ever, "jurisdiction" and "regulation," whether a family's or a national government's, is no longer either/or, no … [Read more...] about What the Net privacy big picture has to do with parenting