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*  Picture this: you are about fourteen years old; you have never known a world without the Internet, and social media is the first thing that comes to your mind when you contemplate putting creative works out into the world. You take dance classes after school and love collaborating with your friends to make choreographic […]

The federal government is expanding its use of artificial intelligence (AI) to perform key human tasks. But the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), enacted in 1946, is ill-equipped to handle the use of AI by administrative agencies. Given its dynamic nature, approval of AI software in the rulemaking process is unlikely. At the same time, the […]

With increasing regulatory attention on digital technologies, it has become clear that the United States, the European Union, and China are all, concurrently and in parallel, developing rules and frameworks on how best to govern emerging technologies and set standards of acceptable technological use. Despite the seemingly borderless nature of technology, all three jurisdictions have […]

A few months ago, I found myself at the counter of La Mallorca, a diner that one TripAdvisor review calls “the last cafetería” in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I ordered a coffee and a quesito, a cheese pastry. The server did not input my order into a computer; he just nodded, poured my coffee from an […]

The doorbell rings, but no one is there. The temperature in the home goes from extremely cold to extremely hot without anyone touching the thermostat. Locks change when no one is home or unlock without warning in the middle of the night. The refrigerator is mysteriously turned off, leaving all the food inside to spoil. […]

As governments and private companies alike increasingly invest in surveillance tools such as facial recognition technology (FRT), the specter of a much more pervasive surveillance state looms. Clearview AI—a startup that scrapes publicly available photos on the Internet and sells a facial recognition search engine to law enforcement—has in turn faced numerous lawsuits alleging violations […]

The United States Census Bureau estimates that over nine million American households are currently behind on their rent. That is just one signal that when the United States overcomes the COVID-19 crisis, it will have to deal with the eviction crisis that has been simmering for over a decade and has now boiled over due […]

The willingness to be exposed to risk—to trust another—enables individuals to cooperate and accomplish more together than what would be possible individually. The impacts of this trust resonate throughout society even if they are not outwardly obvious: We trust that architects and builders have created bridges that will support us when we cross them. We […]

On May 5, 2020, a group of telecom system operators and network vendors including AT&T, Samsung, and Vodafone published a blog post announcing the formation of the Open Radio Access Network (RAN) Policy Coalition, a new coalition of companies that promotes “open and interoperable solutions” in RAN, the crucial back-end equipment that enables 5G. The […]

Suggesting that it is possible to determine a person’s interior characteristics or future social outcomes based on their facial expressions, body movements, and other characteristics is not backed by scientific consensus. Technologies that aim to do so often reflect discredited and racist pseudoscientific practices, including physiognomy, phrenology, and other forms of race science. These practices […]