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 striding out of the office with the solemnity of a monk leaving Rome, not because the church is too corrupt,...
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 users developed a sense of familiarity and rapport with them, sometimes finding themselves persuaded by their arguments. But these people...
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 allowed coming from the vendor or from an adversary installing malware? Should this user be able to see that content?...
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 faces of policy makers and AI service providers, especially Anthropic and Open AI. Narrative 1 One camp told us that...
For about 50 years, consumers across the world could count on digital devices getting less expensive even as they became more powerful. Those days are over. The price of memory - not the fancy, most powerful semiconductor ships but the basic ones needed for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) in...
The intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity has rapidly ascended to the top of the Washington policy agenda. Following the administration’s June 2, 2026, Executive Order on AI cybersecurity, the Congressional Internet Caucus recently convened a panel of industry experts, policy analysts, and former officials to discuss the shifting threat...
Across most of the developing world, the story of the last two decades has been a hopeful one: as people come online, the digital economy grows, services expand, new businesses take root, people make more money and lift themselves by their bootstraps. Tanzania was supposed to follow that script, but...
Back in 2023, the Future of Life Institute issued a open letter calling to “pause giant AI experiments” before runaway AI destroyed humanity. Three years later, machine learning applications have expanded in use and capability, yet humans are still around. Most AI doomers have retreated from saying that AI...
Congress has introduced another law tightening export controls on additional segments of the semiconductor industry (the MATCH Act). Like all the others, it is based on the premise that US technological leadership and national security is advanced by looking backwards and throwing obstacles at trailing China rather than running faster...
On April 7, Anthropic published a 244-page system card for a model that will not be made generally available for now. Claude Mythos Preview, the company's newest frontier model, is “capable of identifying and then exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major web browser when directed...
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.”
