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Data Voids and Warning Banners on Google Search
Research by CPC's Ronald E. Robertson and co-authors, point to the need for greater transparency on search engines' content moderation practices, especially around important events like elections.
Japan’s unique strategy – combining regulatory oversight, resource efficiency, and international partnership – offers a potential blueprint for the world. By GDPi's Charles Mok.
Summit in Paris Looks at AI and the Future of Democracy
The Stanford Cyber Policy Center and the Paris Bar Association hosted a round table discussion on "AI and the Future of Democracy: Challenges and Opportunities," at the Maison du Barreau in Paris.
Join us for a weekly webinar series organized by Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center (CPC). Our speakers include those who focus on policy to others who concentrate on empirical work around cyber issues. There will be both in person and virtual zoom options and attendees can register for all events in the series or single events. Events begin April 1st and run through the end of May.
March 11 | The Power of Purpose-Driven AI: Implications for Design, Adoption, and Policy
How a purpose-driven approach to AI differs from the current industry approach and why it is critical for realizing the widespread adoption and beneficial impact we hope to see from AI. With Nathanael Fast, PhD.
February 25 | Adolescents, Literacy, and Health: Implications for Cyber Policy
Opportunities and challenges from the perspective of health services and policy research and implications for efforts to promote positive youth development. With Jonathan D. Klein.
The Program on Platform Regulation focuses on current or emerging law governing Internet platforms, with an emphasis on laws’ consequences for the rights and interests of Internet users and the public.
The Stanford Social Media Lab works on understanding psychological and interpersonal processes in social media. The team specializes in using computational linguistics and behavioral experiments to understand how the words we use can reveal psychological and social dynamics, such as deception and trust, emotional dynamics, and relationships.
The Program on Democracy and the Internet seeks to promote research, convenings, and courses that engage with the challenges new technologies pose to democracy in the digital age.
The mission of the Global Digital Policy Incubator at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center is to inspire policy and governance innovations that reinforce democratic values, universal human rights, and the rule of law in the digital realm.
The Program on Governance of Emerging Technologies aims to build a path for future research and policymaking in order to explore the impacts of emerging technologies on democratic governance, rule of law, and socioeconomic inequality.
The Stanford Cyber Policy Center and the Paris Bar Association hosted a round table discussion on "AI and the Future of Democracy: Challenges and Opportunities," at the Maison du Barreau in Paris
This brief presents the findings of an experiment that measures how persuasive AI-generated propaganda is compared to foreign propaganda articles written by humans.
Tickets on sale for the third annual Trust & Safety Research Conference to be held September 26-27, 2024. Lock in early bird prices by registering before August 1.
At a gathering for alumni, the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy program hosted four experts to discuss the ramifications of AI on global security, the environment, and political systems.
A new Stanford Internet Observatory report examines how to improve the CyberTipline pipeline from dozens of interviews with tech companies, law enforcement and the nonprofit that runs the U.S. online child abuse reporting system.
Rice, who most recently served as President Biden’s domestic policy advisor, will have simultaneous appointments across FSI, as well as at Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence institute.
The Stanford Internet Observatory and Social Media Lab will hold a March 13 convening with the Biden-Harris Administration’s Kids Online Health & Safety Task Force and leading experts
