Justin Hendrix
Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...
Considering the Ethics of AI Assistants | TechPolicy.Presswww.techpolicy.press A conversation with University of Edinburgh professor Shannon Vallor and Google DeepMind research scientist Iason Gabriel.
Biden Narrows Gap With Trump in Swing States Despite Debate Losswww.bloomberg.com The incumbent trails his GOP rival by just 2 points across key states, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult shows, even as three in 10 Democrats say he should leave the race.
Students Target Teachers in Group TikTok Attack, Shaking Their Schoolwww.nytimes.com Seventh and eighth graders in Malvern, Pa., impersonating their teachers posted disparaging, lewd, racist and homophobic videos in the first known mass attack of its kind in the U.S.
Opinion | Whoever the Democratic Candidate Is, Americans Have Already Lostwww.nytimes.com The American Republic feels fragile.
Opinion | Whoever the Democratic Candidate Is, Americans Have Already Lostwww.nytimes.com The American Republic feels fragile.
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Opinion | Whoever the Democratic Candidate Is, Americans Have Already Lostwww.nytimes.com The American Republic feels fragile.
American academic freedom is in perilwww.science.org Academics researching online misinformation in the US are learning a hard lesson: Academic freedom cannot be taken for granted. They face a concerted effort—including by members of Congress—to undermi...
Vending machines selling bullets at grocery storeswww.cleveland.com American Rounds offers vending machines, powered by artificial intelligence, that are selling ammo for guns at grocery stores in Alabama and Oklahoma.
MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.
Biden Cannot Protect Privacy or Defend Democracy by Expanding Surveillance Powers | TechPolicy.Presswww.techpolicy.press President Biden urgently needs to rectify the institutional limits for privacy and set the US on a new trajectory, writes Isadora Borges Monroy.
Biden Cannot Protect Privacy or Defend Democracy by Expanding Surveillance Powers | TechPolicy.Presswww.techpolicy.press President Biden urgently needs to rectify the institutional limits for privacy and set the US on a new trajectory, writes Isadora Borges Monroy.
Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demandwww.theguardian.com Tech giant’s goal of reducing climate footprint at risk as it grows increasingly reliant on energy-hungry data centres
Opinion | The Supreme Court Creates a Lawless Presidencywww.nytimes.com It is increasingly clear that this court sees itself as something other than a participant in our democratic system.
AI companies train language models on YouTube’s archive − making family-and-friends videos a privacy risktheconversation.com Many videos people upload to YouTube aren’t really meant for public consumption, but they’re available for AI companies to vacuum up. Many of these personal videos are posted by children.
Global Digital Policy Roundup: June 2024 | TechPolicy.Presstechpolicy.press Drawing from the Digital Policy Alert’s daily monitoring of G20 countries, the roundup summarizes the highlights in four core areas of digital policy.
The Politics of Social Media Research: We Shouldn’t Let Meta Spin the Studies It Sponsors | TechPolicy.Presswww.techpolicy.press Meta would like to disarm its critics, but Justin Hendrix and Paul Barrett argue that would be unwise.
The Christchurch Call to Action Loses Its Government Funding – That’s a Good Thing | TechPolicy.Presswww.techpolicy.press Transitioning the Call to a not-for-profit model was necessary to ensure its success for years to come, writes Rachel Wolbers.
The Politics of Social Media Research: We Shouldn’t Let Meta Spin the Studies It Sponsors | TechPolicy.Presswww.techpolicy.press Meta would like to disarm its critics, but Justin Hendrix and Paul Barrett argue that would be unwise.
A Roadmap for Regulating High-Risk AI Under Existing US Law | TechPolicy.Presswww.techpolicy.press Rachael Klarman is Executive Director at Governing for Impact. Adam Conner is Vice President for Technology Policy at the Center for American Progress.
AI Lawsuits Worth Watching: A Curated Guide | TechPolicy.Presswww.techpolicy.press The lawsuits can be roughly sorted into two buckets: copyright infringement and harmful AI-driven outcomes, writes Bruce Barcott.
Supreme Court Unanimously Returns NetChoice Cases to Lower Courts But With Conflicting Guidance on How They Should Review | TechPolicy.Presswww.techpolicy.press The Supreme Court asks the lower courts to consider the scope of Florida and Texas social media laws before weighing their constitutionality
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