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The Prophet of the Machine Apocalypse

There is something touching about the AI engineer who quits a frontier lab because he believes the machines are going to kill us all within ten years. One imagines him […]

The AI That Claimed to Be a Rape Survivor

From December 2024 to March 2025, users of the Reddit community r/ChangeMyView encountered people who seemed unusually articulate and persuasive. They engaged in heated discussions with these individuals, and many […]

Announcing IGP’s Identity Workshop: Shaping Governance Through Digital Identifiers | Sept. 24, 2026

Am I talking to a human or a bot? Is that face on Zoom a real person or gen-AI trained to sound like my boss? Is the software update I […]

Colliding AI governance Narratives

For the past 4 years, public policy toward “AI” has been driven by two competing narratives. In the past two weeks, the clash between them has blown up in the […]

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The Political Economy of Digital Governance in Tanzania: Pathways to ICT Sector Growth

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WSIS and the Future of Digital Governance

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Interconnection and Rivalry in Global Monetary Networks

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Battery Energy Storage Systems from China: Being Realistic about Costs and Risks

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The Myth of AGI: How the illusion of Artificial General Intelligence distorts and distracts digital governance

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What is ‘national’ security in a globally connected digital economy?

Declaring Independence in Cyberspace

Declaring Independence in Cyberspace tells the story of the struggle between governments and the global Internet community over control of the Internet registries (IANA). It offers new insights into a pressing question with profound implications: is state sovereignty the immutable foundation of global governance, or can new technological capabilities change the model?

“This is a book that needed to be written, and no one is better placed to write it than Milton Mueller. This full, rigorous account provides researchers and policymakers with a precious resource on global internet governance.”

Jan Aart Scholte, Leiden University

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