Minh Nguyen is the Editor of the Boston Global Forum and a Shinzo Abe Initiative Fellow. She writes the Four Pillars column in the BGF...
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How the History of the Internet Could Inform the Future of Democracy and AI
The discussion continues the Burnes Center’s Rebooting Democracy in the Age of AI Lecture Series, hosted by Beth Simone Noveck, and kicks off The Internet We Deserve, a new lecture series moderated by John Battelle that features notable business, policy, technology...
The world first AI news anchor from China is called into question
Appeared on Xinhua News Agency, with the appearance and voice of Zhang Zhao - a real anchor of Xinhua, the "world's first" artificial intelligence (AI) news anchor has gone viral online. However, there are doubts about whether this China's news anchor is really AI....
Congress needs to know the potential and risks of artificial intelligence
A new AI policy initiative was launched with the focus of expanding the legal and academic scholarship around AI ethics and regulation. It will also host a boot camp for US Congress members to help them learn more about the technology. During the trial with Mark...
Bruce Schneier: Real IoT security can only be achieved through regulation by the government
At the Aspen Cyber Summit on November 8, 2018, the cybersecurity guru Bruce Schneier emphasized the need of penalties by the government to ensure people’s safety online. During a panel discussion at the Aspen Cyber Summit, renowned technologist Bruce Schneier argued...
Club de Madrid supports the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace
On November 12th at the UNESCO Internet Governance Forum (IGF), President Emmanuel Macron launched the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace. The WLA-Club de Madrid is one of the early supporters of the Paris Call, among other civil society organizations,...
Constitutional democracy and technology in the age of AI
Paul Nemitz, Principal Adviser, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers, European Commission, has recently published his work highlighting the effect of AI on constitutional democracy in modern societies and calls for a new culture of incorporating the...
ICO: “We are at risk of developing a system of voter surveillance by default”
After an 18-month investigation, a report on invisible processing and misuse of data for political is presented to Parliament by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). This has been described by the ICO as “the most complex data protection investigation we...