“The Digital Social Contract” paper series explores the role of changing technology and non-government actors in driving social, legal, and political change. It features long-form research papers and podcast interviews focusing on the relationship between governments, technology companies, and citizens.
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Lawfare Daily: Open Banking and the Benefits of Interoperability with Alexander Rigby and Chinmayi Sharma
Discussing the promise and pitfalls of interoperability. -
Open Banking: A Case Study in the Benefits of Interoperability
Policymakers must prioritize decentralizing decision-making power in industries before true technological decentralization can occur. -
Lawfare Daily: Peter Salib on AI Self-Improvement
What are the risks of AI self-improvement? -
AI Will Not Want To Self-Improve
Classic arguments for AI risk assume that capable, goal-seeking systems will naturally attempt to improve themselves, but a closer look at the operative incentives reveals a more complicated story. -
The Lawfare Podcast: Bryan Choi on NIST's Software Un-Standards
Discussing NIST's history in setting information technology standards -
NIST's Software Un-Standards
NIST’s latest forays in risk management frameworks disavow concrete metrics or outcomes, and solicit voluntary participation instead of providing stable mandates. -
The Lawfare Podcast: Riana Pfefferkorn and David Thiel on How to Fight Computer-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material
One of the dark sides of the rapid development of artificial intelligence and machine learning is the increase in computer-generated child pornography and other child sexual abuse material. -
Addressing Computer-Generated Child Sex Abuse Imagery: Legal Framework and Policy Implications
Computer-generated child sex abuse imagery poses significant challenges to law enforcement, including constitutional limits on criminal prosecutions. -
The Lawfare Podcast: Josh Goldfoot on Cybersecurity as a Legal Problem
What does viewing cybersecurity as a social problem mean for securing the digital world? -
Cybersecurity as a Legal Problem
Law is the foundation of cybersecurity. -
Regulating Commercial Spyware
Only a binding multistakeholder legal framework can effectively regulate a legitimate and efficiently controlled market for spyware. -
The Lawfare Podcast: Asaf Lubin on Regulating Commercial Spyware
Given the increasingly pervasive use of spyware by governments to spy, how should it be regulated?
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