Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Bolstering cybersecurity has become an increased priority in the financial sector. Maintaining a secure cyberspace for the financial system has implications for digital financial inclusion, particularly among vulnerable populations.
The universal adoption of cloud-centric operating models is bringing enormous benefits to every sector of the global economy, yet the ubiquity of dependence on common technologies and service providers also creates a new potential for systemic risk.
Over the past few years, Big Tech firms’ failure to address privacy concerns and combat disinformation has prompted a growing debate about the apparent conflict between their professed values and their bottom lines.
The Central African Republic faces many challenges in adopting digital financial solutions, but it can learn from other post-conflict countries and improve its approach.
Researchers, policymakers, and civil society groups need to come together to clarify among themselves and for platforms what type of information would be most helpful to protect the public interest and what framework could ensure this information is feasible for platforms to provide.
Despite its authoritarian origins, the draft offers lessons for building a truly democratic framework.
It’s time to look at the problem differently. Those attempting to address the issue should move away from attempts to regulate disinformation and toward the ecology of the information environment more generally.
America’s AI policy has been—and likely will remain—a mosaic of individual agency approaches and narrow legislation rather than a centralized strategy.
It is understandable that the potential broadening of the scope of the EU’s AI Act’ makes the United States nervous. Washington should come to the EU with targeted suggestions, as its domestic conversation around AI risks matures.
A closer look at one of the most accepted norms for AI systems—algorithmic transparency— demonstrates the challenges inherent in incorporating democratic values into technology.