Weekly Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (10 March 2025)
Governance and Legislation We Need to Avert an AI Safety Winter (Siméon Campos, Chloe Touzet – RUSI – 7 March 2025) The third AI Summit in Paris (February 10-11th) is markedly differed from its Seoul and Bletchley Park predecessors. A successful fundraiser, the summit was an occasion for President Macron to present his strategy […]
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (7 March 2025)
Top of the Day Meta’s Move to Limit Fact-Checking Endangers Women—and Democracy (Melanne Verveer, Kristine Baekgaard – Lawfare – 6 March 2025) “We’re going to catch less bad stuff.” That’s how Mark Zuckerberg described his recent decision to end Meta’s fact-checking program, conceding that more harmful posts are going to make their way onto his […]
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (5 March 2025)
Top of the Day From Open-Source to All-Source: Leveraging Local Knowledge for Atrocity Prevention (Jacqueline Geis – Just Security – 4 March 2025) The tools available to human rights researchers have expanded dramatically over the past 20 years, enabling greater remote investigative powers than ever before. Analysts in distant locations working independently, in loose collectives […]
Daily Digest and AI and Emerging Technologies (4 March 2025)
Top of the Day Challenges in Governing AI Agents (Noam Kolt – Lawfare – 3 March 2025) Leading AI companies have released a new type of AI system: autonomous agents that can plan and execute complex tasks in digital environments with limited human involvement. OpenAI’s Operator, Google’s Project Mariner, and Anthropic’s Computer Use Model all […]
Weekly Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (3 March 2025)
Governance and Legislation Anne Neuberger on AI: ‘We have to challenge ourselves to be first’ (Dina Temple-Raston – The Record – 28 February 2025) The Record caught up with Anne Neuberger, the former White House deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, on the sidelines of this year’s Munich Security Conference. Neuberger […]
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (3 March 2025)
Top of the Day Anne Neuberger on AI: ‘We have to challenge ourselves to be first’ (Dina Temple-Raston – The Record – 28 February 2025) The Record caught up with Anne Neuberger, the former White House deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, on the sidelines of this year’s Munich Security Conference. Neuberger […]
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (28 February 2025)
Top of the Day Targeted by Ransomware, Middle East Banks Shore Up Security (Robert Lemos – Dark Reading – 28 February 2025) Banks and financial services firms across the Middle East weathered simulated attacks at the fourth annual Cyber Wargaming exercise in the United Arab Emirates last week, but security experts continue to […]
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (27 February 2025)
Top of the Day Human Rights and Democracy in the Quantum Age (Maya Recanati – Just Security – 26 February 2025) On Feb. 19 2025, Microsoft unveiled Majorana 1, a quantum chip powered by a new state of matter that the company claims will help create more powerful and less error prone quantum […]
Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (26 February 2025)
Top of the Day Export Controls on Open-Source Models Will Not Win the AI Race (Claudia Wilson and Emmie Hine – Just Security – 25 February 2025) Even prior to the release of DeepSeek-R1, a contentious policy debate was taking shape: should open-source AI be regulated? In the United States, this debate has been dominated […]