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The Future of Third-Party AI Evaluation | CRFM & CITP

Virtual

General-purpose AI systems are now deployed to billions of users, but they pose risks related to bias, fraud, privacy, copyright, CBRN, NCII, and more. To assess these risks, we need independent and community-driven evaluations, audits and red teaming, and responsible disclosure.  Our workshop on the future of third-party AI evaluation dives into these topics with experts on: Third-party evaluations, […]

Session 13: Robyn Caplan: Studying Networked Platform Governance: A Multi-Perspective Approach | PGMT

This talk will be a reflection on Robyn Caplan’s multi-perspective approach to studying platforms, and will highlight the importance of triangulation when it comes to studying networked actors. This talk will give an overview of Caplan’s research (touching on research on platform personnel, media associations, online creators, civil society actors) and will explore the theoretical […]

The Future of Social Media Transparency

Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts

Social media platforms have become increasingly opaque at precisely the moment their influence on society has reached unprecedented levels. Over the long-term, we need to conceptualize true independent transparency as an infrastructure project built on four pillars—government requirements & legal protections, international standards, shared tooling, and sustainable funding. We are making slow but steady progress […]

Anger, fear, domination: Dark passions and the power of political speech

The Brookings Institute 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, D.C., United States

As liberal democracies around the world are faltering, William Galston’s new book, “Anger, Fear, Domination: Dark Passions and the Power of Political Speech,” explores the sources of this decline that stem from the internal vulnerabilities of liberal democracy, particularly the ability of ambitious leaders to mobilize public anger and fear in the service of domination. […]

Federal Efforts to Expand Access to State Administrative Data

Webinar

Join the Center for Democracy & Technology, the Leadership Conference’s Center for Civil Rights and Technology, and Protect Democracy for a webinar on Federal Efforts to Expand Access to State Administrative Data. This event, the third in a series related to government data privacy, follows a recently-released explainer on Federal Efforts to Expand Access to Data from State-Run […]

The EU Code of Practice on disinformation: evaluating VLOPSE compliance and effectiveness

Webinar

In this webinar, Trisha Meyer (co-author) will present the findings of the recently published EDMO report on the compliance and effectiveness of Very Large Online Platforms and Search Engines’ (VLOPSE) actions to implement the Code of Practice (now Code of Conduct) on Disinformation, focusing on Meta (Facebook and Instagram), Google (Search and YouTube), Microsoft (Bing […]

Webcast | The Human Edge: Our Future with Artificial Intelligences

Hybrid

Higher education leaders, researchers, and practitioners will meet in Research Triangle Park on September 17th to explore the evolution of the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Attendees will generate a research agenda to understand and guide the evolution in a positive direction and to bring attention to regional AI capabilities. RTI International […]

Live Podcast Recording | Setting a ‘Tech Agenda’ for Climate Week with Tech Policy Press

Virtual

From September 21–28, New York City will host Climate Week. Leaders from business, politics, academia, and civil society will gather to share ideas and develop strategies to address the climate crisis. ​The tech industry intersects with climate concerns in a number of ways, not least of which is through its own growing demand for natural […]

Operation Overload: smarter, bolder, powered by AI

Webinar

The Russian propaganda operation targeted at media organisations and fact-checkers is going stronger than ever. Operation Overload, which was first documented in June 2024, is conquering new platforms and harnessing AI tools to target fact-checkers, media and international audiences with Kremlin propaganda. Don’t miss this webinar with insights from Reset Tech and CheckFirst on how […]