On February 27th, President Trump directed all federal agencies to cease using Anthropic's technology after the company refused the Pentagon's demand to allow lawful use of its AI models for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. Much of the current media coverage frames this dispute as a straightforward ethical...
The Internet Governance Project's coverage in 2025 documents a troublesome ongoing global shift from "multistakeholder" governance and ICT liberalization norms toward an era characterized by aggressive techno-nationalism and state-centric control over networks, software applications, and expression. However, there were also important positive developments surrounding decentralized digital currency, a pragmatic transition...
An Official Pre-Summit Event of the AI Impact Summit 2026 As artificial intelligence reshapes economies worldwide, critical questions emerge: Who benefits from AI development? How do export controls and geopolitical barriers affect global collaboration? What balance can we strike between innovation and creators' rights? The Internet Governance Project at Georgia...
The CTO of Palantir Technologies Shyam Sankar recently criticized Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's idea that selling products in China would ultimately serve U.S. interests by making China dependent on American technology. Sankar argued that deepening economic dependence on China would only finance America's own destruction. Huang, for his part, has...
In mid-September 2025, U.S. and Chinese officials convened in Madrid for a high-level negotiation that yielded a breakthrough on the TikTok deal: a “basic framework consensus” for resolving the long dispute over the platform. This meeting marked the fourth round of China–U.S. trade and technology negotiations since Trump announced new...
On Thursday, September 11, IGP will host a webinar with Patrick McGee, the author of “Apple in China.” This well-researched book tells the story of Apple’s symbiotic relationship with manufacturing companies in China - how it evolved, what it accomplished, and what currently threatens it. McGee is a business journalist...
What? A moderated webinar on Dr. Milton Mueller’s new book When? Wednesday, September 3, 2025, 10-11 AM ET Where? On Zoom https://tinyurl.com/yh9m8wh8 On three separate occasions this year, I heard the phrase “Who reads books anymore?” The deluge of LLM content has certainly disrupted the information space. That transformation makes...
The integration of digital public infrastructure, like digital identity and wallets for accessing public and private services, has made Internet access a necessity in India. In 2024, India ranked second globally in Internet usage. Yet, only 49.15 percent of its population has Internet access, with rural and remote regions remaining significantly...
How does the digitization of money intersect with financial governance? This is an issue IGP has been working on since 2021. On August 7, two webinars hosted by the Institute for Humane Studies will bring our work directly into the policy discussion. A white paper released by the Internet Governance...
On July 1, 2025, dubbed “Content Independence Day”, Cloudflare announced a bold initiative to block unauthorized AI crawlers from accessing websites by default and to create a marketplace where content owners and AI model providers can transact. This move marks a pivotal shift in the contest over who controls, benefits...
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.”
