Toward a Better Internet
Could a civic-minded digital media emerge as a counterweight to the current platform-dominated internet, where algorithms help spread mis- and disinformation, echo chambers cabin our online interactions, and tech giants dominate over a wide range of economic and expressive activities?
This blog channel explores the possibility of building a better internet, one that facilitates public discourse, respects individual privacy, and fosters democratic processes.
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Deep Dive: Toward a Better Internet
Responsible AI Regulation: Supporting Independent Researchers
New paper posits that general-purpose AI needs coordinated flaw reporting
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Deep Dive: Toward a Better Internet
We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation Is Not an AI Problem.
Technology isn’t the problem—or the solution.
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Inside Look: Toward a Better Internet
Zuckerman v. Meta: A User-Friendly Section 230
The Institute’s Ramya Krishnan on using a lesser known provision of Section 230 to protect the development of tools that empower social media users
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Deep Dive: Toward a Better Internet
A Safe Harbor for AI Evaluation and Red Teaming
An argument for legal and technical safe harbors for AI safety and trustworthiness research
By Shayne Longpre , Sayash Kapoor , Kevin Klyman , Ashwin Ramaswami , Rishi Bommasani , Arvind Narayanan , Percy Liang & Peter Henderson -
Deep Dive: Toward a Better Internet
A Safe Harbor for AI Evaluation and Red Teaming
An argument for legal and technical safe harbors for AI safety and trustworthiness research
By Shayne Longpre , Sayash Kapoor , Kevin Klyman , Ashwin Ramaswami , Rishi Bommasani , Arvind Narayanan , Percy Liang & Peter Henderson -
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Can Middleware Save Social Media?
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Essay Series
Lawyering Without Law: The Legal Profession in an Age of Authoritarianism
A project studying the crucial role that lawyers can play in preserving democratic freedoms and institutions
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Surveilling Border Lawyering
Lawyers who serve migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border face surveillance and attempts to suppress their work by U.S. and Mexican government officials
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"The Bully's Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment"
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