An Intelligent Human Rights Agenda for Artificial Intelligence

By Eileen Donahoe and Megan MacDuffee Metzger Around the world, concern about the consequences of our growing reliance upon artificial intelligence (AI) is rising. Perhaps the darkest concerns relate to development of AI by authoritarian regimes, some of which are devoting massive resources toward a ...

Social Media and Risks to Digital Freedom: A Conversation with Ronald J. Deibert

In this episode, featured guest Ronald J. Deibert discusses the dramatic shift in perceptions of social media, which principally have been seen as providing space for free expression, democratic mobilization, and citizen empowerment.  Increasingly, however, a more problematic underside of social med ...

Digital Authoritarianism: A Conversation with Alina Polyakova

In this episode, featured guest Alina Polyakova discusses how authoritarian regimes have bet big on technology—including social media manipulation as well as new applications of artificial intelligence—as a tool to control political debate at home and disrupt democracy abroad. Alina Polyakova is the ...

Curbing Authoritarian Influence in Europe: A Conversation with Andrea Kendall-Taylor

In this episode, featured guest Andrea Kendall-Taylor reflects on the shifting landscape for democratic governance in Europe and assesses the impact of Russia and China’s authoritarian influence as they converge with one another and with other illiberal actors around the region. Andrea Kendall-Taylo ...