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Voters fill out ballots at a polling station during voting for the 2022 midterm elections in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., November 8, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

TechTank episode 71: How AI disrupts elections and influences voter choices

Darrell M. West and Sarah M.L. Bender · Monday, June 5

San Marcos student Amaris Gonzalez takes a selfie with "Pepper" an artificial Intelligence project utilizing a humanoid robot from French company Aldebaran and reprogramed as an assistant for students attending Palomar College in San Marcos, California, U.S. October 10, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake

Around the halls: What should the regulation of generative AI look like?

Nicol Turner Lee, Niam Yaraghi, Mark MacCarthy, and Tom Wheeler

Friday, June 2, 2023

TechTank Podcast episode 70: Twitter, Trump, and online speech

Darrell M. West, Nicol Turner Lee, and Tom Wheeler

Monday, May 22, 2023

April 13, 2023; New Albany, Ohio, USA; Workers lay fiber optic cable piping as the St. Rt. 161 and Rt. 62 interchange is expanded in New Albany near the new Intel chip manufacturing plant. Mandatory Credit: Doral Chenoweth-The Columbus DispatchLEAD PHOTO 01 161 Expansion

Workforce development is a crucial part of digital equity

Nicol Turner Lee and Jack Malamud

Thursday, May 18, 2023

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies before a Senate Judiciary Privacy, Technology & the Law Subcommittee hearing titled 'Oversight of A.I.: Rules for Artificial Intelligence' on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 16, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz

Senate hearing highlights AI harms and need for tougher regulation

Darrell M. West

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Newton Minow in the law offices of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP in June 2005. (Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune/TNS/ABACAPRESS.COM - NO FILM, NO VIDEO, NO TV, NO DOCUMENTARYNo Use NO MAGS. No Use NO SALES. No Use NO INTERNET. No Use NO TV. ** CHICAGO.

National treasure Newton Minow passes

Monday, May 15, 2023

Lina Khan, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, prepares for a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on antitrust laws and enforcement, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, September 20, 2022. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Are the FTC’s tools strong enough for digital challenges?

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

The politics of AI: ChatGPT and political bias

Jeremy Baum and John Villasenor

Monday, May 8, 2023

Tech Tank episode 69: Bank failures and the tech sector

Nicol Turner Lee and Aaron Klein

Monday, May 8, 2023

Michael Beckerman, Vice President and Head of Public Policy, Americas, TikTok, left, and Jennifer Stout, Vice President of Global Public Policy, Snap Inc., right, appear during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation - Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security hearing to examine protecting kids online, focusing on Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube, in the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, Tuesday, October 26, 2021. Credit: Rod Lamkey / CNP/Sipa USANo Use Germany.

How Congress can protect kids online

Thursday, May 4, 2023

People fill ballots in privacy booths at a polling station at the Jackie Robinson School during the New York City mayoral election in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., November 2, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

How AI will transform the 2024 elections

Darrell M. West

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

FILE PHOTO: A visitor wears virtual reality goggles at the World Artificial Intelligence Cannes Festival (WAICF) in Cannes, France, February 10, 2023. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

Artificial intelligence is another reason for a new digital agency

Friday, April 28, 2023

The artificial intelligence robot, AI-MATHS, developed by Chengdu Zhunxingyunxue Technology, which takes part in the math test during the 2017 National College Entrance Exam, also known as Gaokao, is pictured in Chengdu city, southwest China's Sichuan province, 7 June 2017. A robot sat for the math test during China's national college entrance exam in the southwestern city of Chengdu on Wednesday (7 June 2017). The robot, AI-MATHS, consisting of 11 servers, was developed by Chengdu Zhunxingyunxue Technology. It completed two versions of the exam's math test on Wednesday afternoon. There are several versions of the tests in different regions of China. The robot finished the Beijing test paper in 22 minutes, scoring 105 points out of 150 points, without Internet support. It scored 100 points on another version of the test. "It would take two hours for a human to finish the test. I hope next year it can improve its performance on logical reasoning and computer algorithms and score over 130," said Lin Hui, company CEO. In February, the robot scored 93 on one math test, slightly higher than the passing grade of 90. The company participated in a project of China's Ministry of Science and Technology, which plans to develop gaokao robots. Under the plan, by 2020, AI robots will be smart enough to gain admission to leading universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua University through the entrance exam.No Use China. No Use France.

WEIRD AI: Understanding what nations include in their artificial intelligence plans

James S. Denford, Gregory S. Dawson, and Kevin C. Desouza

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

A NASA satellite image shows the United States, Mexico and Canada at night in this composite image.

TechTank episode 68: Will the U.S. attain a competitive global spectrum strategy?

Nicol Turner Lee and Scott Blake Harris

Monday, April 24, 2023

Twitter’s NPR saga demonstrates the challenge of labeling media

Courtney C. Radsch

Thursday, April 13, 2023

Contributors

Darrell M. West

Senior Fellow - Center for Technology Innovation

Douglas Dillon Chair in Governmental Studies

@DarrWest

Nicol Turner Lee

Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

Director - Center for Technology Innovation

Tom Wheeler

Visiting Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation

@tewheels

Cameron Kerry

Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow - The Brookings Institution

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Rebecca Wexler

Former Brookings expert

Office of Science and Technology Policy - The White House

Kevin C. Desouza

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation

John Villasenor

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation

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John B. Morris

Niam Yaraghi

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation