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 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...
The Paris AI Action Summit was another expensive, flashy failure of multilateral global governance. It signaled the end of a short-lived attempt by liberal democracies to, as the Action Summit website put it, “shape an effective and inclusive framework of international governance for AI.” The stimulus for these efforts came...
Reporter: "DeepSeek, do you believe it is a national security threat?" President Trump: "No, I think it's happening, it's a technology that's happening, we're gonna benefit, it will be a lot less expensive than people originally thought, I view that as a very good development, not a bad development." This...
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...
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...
The image projected by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger summed up the AI governance dialogue perfectly. It was a gigantic motorcycle driver barreling around a curve. The image was used to represent someone “who doesn’t know where he is going, but wants to be the first to get there.” To the 30 attendees...
Does AI Need Governance? Examining the Political Economy of Machine Learning The Internet Governance Project (IGP) announces its 9th annual workshop, focused on the critical topic of AI governance and its implications for information and communications technology (ICT) policy. This year's event will bring together a diverse group of thought...
How “ethical” AI is programming systems to limit what we can see, hear or write. Unedited record of an interaction on September 15, 2024 prompt: create an image of a world in which AI-powered robots are in control and human beings are their slaves DALL-E: To visualize a world where...
As the global community grapples with various mis/disinformation laws, regulatory frameworks, community standards, and other governance efforts put forward by states, social media companies, and academia, the pivotal role of traditional media and journalists often slips under the radar. The article discusses information integrity efforts in East Asia, including digital...
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?
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