AI systems are tested and evaluated more extensively than ever, but the effects of AI on humanity are still not fully understood, while narratives about our future vacillate between apocalypse and ...

Gregory Narr received his PhD in Sociology from CUNY in 2021. He studies the intersection of technology, sociality, and capitalism from a critical algorithms perspective. His work is informed by queer ...

Holden Karnofsky is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, where he focuses on the design of the company's Responsible Scaling Policy and other aspects of preparing for the possibility of highly ...

I am a Professor at the School of Communications at Howard University. My works focus on effects of emerging AI technologies in intersection with social and policy problems. Currently, my research ...

Margo I. Seltzer is Canada 150 Research Chair in Computer Systems and the Cheriton Family chair in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. Previously, she was the Herchel Smith ...

The Digital Media Project aims to resolve emerging and outstanding problems revealed by recent social and technological change. A simple shift of format – the transition from hard-copy objects like ...

For over a decade, USC Annenberg Associate Professor David Craig has been conducting research about the structural and material conditions that distinguish global, Chinese, and peripheral creator and ...

Google offers interested users a version of its search engine restricted by a service it calls SafeSearch, intended to omit references to sites with "pornography and explicit sexual content." However, ...

In this study, we analyze both mainstream and social media coverage of the 2016 United States presidential election. We document that the majority of mainstream media coverage was negative for both ...

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is an increasingly common Internet phenomenon capable of silencing Internet speech, usually for a brief interval but occasionally for longer. In this paper, we ...

Or you can download each chapter individually: (the "paper-friendly" versions have been reformatted for 8.5 x 11" paper and require approximately one-third fewer pages) Chapter 1. Introduction: A ...