Artificial Intelligence

Advocates of competing A.I. futures are undermining our ability to grapple with a technology destined to drive the future of politics, our economy and even our daily lives.

Stephen Walt advises that in order to prepare students of public policy schools for a rapidly changing world, faculty should teach historical cases where the prevailing theories led to bad policy choices, and where new ones had to be devised to address a novel set of circumstances. 

Teaching generative AI systems to manipulate tools has the potential to supercharge AI applications - and comes with tremendous risks.

ChatGPT and other natural language models have recently sparked considerable intrigue and unease. Governments and businesses are increasingly acknowledging the role of Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) in shaping the cybersecurity landscape. This article discusses the implications of using GPTs in software development and the potential impact on cybersecurity in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). While GPTs can improve efficiency and productivity for programmers, they will not replace human programmers due to the complex decision-making processes involved in programming beyond simply writing code. And while they may help in finding shallow bugs to prevent short-lived vulnerabilities, GPTs are unlikely to change the balance of power between offense and defense in cybersecurity.

The modern representative democracy was the best form of government that mid-18th-century technology could conceive of. The 21st century is a different place scientifically, technically and socially. Should we rethink the ways we govern ourselves?

Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders propose six milestones that will herald a new era of democratic politics driven by AI in the near future.

AI is shaping up to be part of surveillance capitalism, warn Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders.

Gabrielle Armstrong-Scott and Jim Waldo argue that machine learning tools and a better definition of "terrorist and extremist content" could help make the Web a safer place.

A future where A.I.s interpret, apply, and enforce most laws at societal scale like this will exponentially magnify problems around fairness, transparency, and freedom, warn Jonathon W. Penney and Bruce Schneier.

Big tech companies use citizens' photos, writing, and other data to train their AI models and turn a profit. Barath Raghavan and Bruce Schneier argue that you should be paid for your data.