Unpacking US-China “Decoupling” in AI

This is a guest blog from two University of Manchester (UK) doctoral students involved in researching the causal mechanisms linking policy interventions to decoupling outcomes, with implications for innovation ecosystems and global governance. Earlier this year, the release of DeepSeek—an open-source large language model from China—intensified the technological competition between the...

A Review of the Draft Report of the California Working Group on AI Frontier Models

In September 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom asked prominent researchers at Stanford, UC Berkeley and the Carnegie Endowment to prepare a report to help the State develop responsible guardrails for the deployment of Generative AI. Gov. Newsom's action followed in the wake of his veto of SB 1047. SB 1047 would...

OpenAI’s manifesto: Neo-mercantilism Enters Global AI Governance

It was probably inevitable, given the current world situation. In a filing with the US Office of Science and Technology Policy for the Trump administration’s “AI Action Plan,” OpenAI played the geopolitical card, urging the U.S. government to ban its Chinese competitor. In what is becoming an increasingly tiresome trope,...

DeepSeek Says “Xi Jinping is a Dictator”

In last week’s blog post, The Frontier Illusion: Rethinking DeepSeek’s AI Threat, I discussed Cisco’s safety test on DeepSeek R1, which revealed the model’s inability to filter out socially unacceptable content, including cybercrime, harassment (bullying), chemical and biological weapons, and other illegal activities. During my data collection process last month,...

India’s Report on AI Governance Guidelines Development

The Internet Governance Project (IGP) filed these comments on the report of the Subcommittee on ‘AI Governance and Guidelines Development’ constituted by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). General comments on the subcommittee's report  The term AI should more accurately be referred to as advanced machine learning. Machine...

The Frontier Illusion: Rethinking DeepSeek’s AI Threat

The Frontier Illusion: Rethinking DeepSeek’s AI Threat Following the release of DeepSeek-V3 on December 26, 2024, Western nations, led by the United States, have found themselves caught between astonishment at China's AI advancement and deep concerns over potential threats to privacy, safety, and national security. This tension has sparked a...

DeepSeek Disruption

DeepSeek is being portrayed as a wakeup call, but it seems American policy makers and tech companies are hitting the snooze button. That may not be the right metaphor. They are alarmed, very much so. But instead of waking up, getting out of bed and questioning what they have been...

IGP at AoIR 2024

From October 30 to November 2nd, the 2024 Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference was held at the University of Sheffield in Sheffield, United Kingdom. This year marked the 25th anniversary of the AoIR conference, which set a record as the largest in its history, drawing approximately 700 attendees from...