Alex Engler

US President Joe Biden points out of frame

The Declaration for the Future of the Internet is for wavering democracies, not China and Russia

Monday, May 9, 2022

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen departs from the White House following her meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden

The EU and U.S. are starting to align on AI regulation

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Code on computer screen

Five ways that Open Source Software shapes AI policy

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

A facial recognition camera is shown pointed at the entrance of a store.

Why President Biden should ban affective computing in federal law enforcement

Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Man stands on stage with AI in background

How the National Science Foundation is taking on fairness in AI

Thursday, July 22, 2021

European Union flag at half mast

Platform data access is a lynchpin of the EU’s Digital Services Act

Friday, January 15, 2021

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks about health care and the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) at the theater serving as his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. November 10, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

How Biden can take the high road on misinformation

Monday, December 21, 2020

If not AI ethicists like Timnit Gebru, who will hold Big Tech accountable?

Thursday, December 17, 2020

A general view of the White House in Washington, D.C.

New White House guidance downplays important AI harms

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

A view of Zhangbei data center of Alibaba is pictured in Zhangbei county, Zhangjiakou city, north China's Hebei province, 12 September 2016.China's e-commerce giant Alibaba is expanding its cloud facilities vigorously. After announcing a cloud data center in Silicon Valley in the US this March, it has launched a large cloud data center in North China. The Zhangbei cloud data center broke ground in the Miaotan Industrial Park in Zhangbei County, Hebei Province, in April 2015. It is expected to host 80 percent of Alibaba's cloud and big data in North China and to serve as the group's North China settlement center. Currently, cloud only accounts for one percent of Alibaba's total income, but the group has bet its future on cloud. The Zhangbei data center, which covers about 165 acres, will cost 18 billion yuan (US$2.9 billion), according to Haifeng Qu, research fellow in the technical support department of Alibaba.No Use China. No Use France.

Tech cannot be governed without access to its data

Thursday, September 10, 2020