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The Internet Was Built For Human Agency. AI Agents Are Changing the Rules.
Konstantinos Komaitis and Rumman Chowdhury argue that autonomous AI agents are forcing a rethink of internet governance, shifting the central…
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Millions of Volunteers Are Keeping the Internet Human. For Now.
Sarah Gilbert argues that unpaid volunteer moderators are what currently keeps platforms such as Reddit and Wikipedia at roughly 5%…
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GPS and the Limits of Control
Isobel Porteous and Matt Kaplan revisit the U.S. government’s Cold War-era Selective Availability policy, which deliberately degraded civilian GPS accuracy,…
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AI and Biotechnology Risks Demand Science Diplomacy
Published September 10, 2026 by researchers Sophie Berman and Yelena Biberman, this piece argues that track-two science diplomacy modeled after…
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The Next Frontier Is Not Artificial Intelligence, It’s Artificial Societies
Published September 11, 2026 by Nick Jennings, vice-chancellor and president of Loughborough University, this essay argues the more pressing challenge…
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AI Is Supercharging Money Scams – Here’s What You Can Do to Protect Yourself
Published September 15, 2026 by Pawan Jain, an associate professor of finance at the University of Michigan-Flint, this piece examines…
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Let’s Not Wait for Court Cases to Address Cognitive Harms in Education
Published September 15, 2026 by Mia Travers-Hayward, this piece argues governments should proactively regulate generative AI chatbots in K-12 schools…
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AI in Nature Conservation: Powerful Tool or Dangerous Shortcut?
Published September 11, 2026 (via The Conversation) by Jeran Cloete, Dian Spear, Jessica da Silva, Lavhelesani Dembe Simba and Peter…
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A New Form Of Life
William A. Haseltine argues in this September 15, 2026 essay that artificial intelligence constitutes a genuine second form of life…
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AI Models Need More Data About Biology, and OpenAI Is Paying to Create It
MIT Technology Review reports (September 15, 2026) that the OpenAI Foundation is funding an initiative called ‘Public Data for Health’…
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For a Century, Journalists Have Had a Voluntary Ethics Code. Editors Are Giving It an AI-Era Reboot
The Associated Press reports (September 1, 2026) that the Society of Professional Journalists is revising its Code of Ethics for…
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Op-Ed: The Expanding Mystery: What AI May Teach Us About Being Human
Virgin Islands policy strategist and community advocate Moleto A. Smith Jr. argues in this September 16, 2026 op-ed that the…