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Stanford Youth Safety and Digital Wellbeing Report, 2025
The Stanford Youth Safety and Digital Wellbeing Report addresses the increasingly complex conversation around social media and youth well being.
Regulating Under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI
The two years since the release of ChatGPT have been marked by an exponential rise in development and attention to the technology. Unsurprisingly, governmental policy and regulation have lagged behind the fast pace of technological development.
Inspired by the Federalist Papers, the Digitalist Papers seeks to inspire a new era of governance, informed by the transformative power of technology to address the significant challenges and opportunities posed by AI and other digital technologies.
Balancing Code and Law: Governance and Policy Challenges in Blockchain
A new major report, Balancing Code and Law: Governance and Policy Challenges of Blockchain, offers a nuanced analysis of blockchain technology's relationship with legal and regulatory frameworks.
Japan’s unique strategy – combining regulatory oversight, resource efficiency, and international partnership – offers a potential blueprint for the world. Authored by Charles Mok and Athena Tong for The Diplomat
How to Fix the Online Child Exploitation Reporting System
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.
The power of large internet platforms to amplify or silence certain voices at a scale that can alter major political outcomes poses a grave threat to democracy.
POPULAR CULTURE HAS ENVISIONED SOCIETIES of intelligent machines for generations, with Alan Turing notably foreseeing the need for a test to distinguish machines from humans in 1950. Now, advances in artificial intelligence that promise to make creating convincing fake multimedia content like video, images, or audio relatively easy for many.
Explores common carriage proposals, FCC-style indecency or fairness proposals, and alternatives that would rely on user choice or competition rather than government-created rules for online speech.
