How the risk of AI weapons could spiral out of control

Google recently ended its longstanding ban on developing AI weapons.

Akhil Bhardwaj, Associate Professor (Strategy and Organisation), School of Management, University of Bath • conversation
March 4, 2025 ~7 min

Brain monitoring may be the future of work – how it’s used could improve employee performance or worsen discrimination

Neurotechnology raises many high-stakes ethical questions. Setting ground rules could help protect workers and ensure that tasks are adapted to the person, rather than the other way around.

Paul Brandt-Rauf, Professor and Dean of Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University • conversation
Jan. 7, 2025 ~7 min


Pagers and walkie-talkies over cellphones – a security expert explains why Hezbollah went low-tech for communications

Smartphones may be indispensable to modern life, but they’re also perfect tools for spying on their owners. Anyone looking to avoid being tracked – like, say, militant groups – tends to ditch them.

Richard Forno, Principal Lecturer in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County • conversation
Sept. 18, 2024 ~8 min

China leans into using AI − even as the US leads in developing it

In the AI game, China has bet on strategic use over innovation, tightening its grip domestically and extending its reach internationally.

Shaoyu Yuan, Dean's Fellow at the Division of Global Affairs, Rutgers University - Newark • conversation
Aug. 21, 2024 ~8 min

Real-time crime centers are transforming policing – a criminologist explains how these advanced surveillance systems work

As police departments across the US and the world adopt real-time crime centers, there’s a need for better public understanding of how these centers work.

Kimberly Przeszlowski, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Quinnipiac University • conversation
Aug. 15, 2024 ~9 min

AI mass surveillance at Paris Olympics – a legal scholar on the security boon and privacy nightmare

France is using experimental AI-enabled surveillance and data collection tools before, during and after the 2024 Summer Olympics. Here’s what that means for the trade-off between security and privacy.

Anne Toomey McKenna, Visiting Professor of Law, University of Richmond • conversation
July 17, 2024 ~10 min

What Philadelphians need to know about the city’s 7,000-camera surveillance system

Police can reconstruct someone’s movements for days or weeks at a time, without any court oversight.

Albert Fox Cahn, Practitioner-in-Residence, Information Law Institute, New York University • conversation
May 24, 2024 ~7 min

Section 702 foreign surveillance law lives on, but privacy fight continues

Privacy advocates lost out when Congress reauthorized Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act without major reforms. But the renewal fight returns in 2 years.

Peter Swire, Professor of Law and Ethics, Georgia Institute of Technology • conversation
May 9, 2024 ~8 min


Are private conversations truly private? A cybersecurity expert explains how end-to-end encryption protects you

End-to-end encryption provides strong protection for keeping your communications private, but not every messaging app uses it, and even some of the ones that do don’t have it turned on by default.

Robin Chataut, Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity and Computer Science, Quinnipiac University • conversation
March 11, 2024 ~7 min

DOJ funding pipeline subsidizes questionable big data surveillance technologies

Predictive policing has been a bust. The Department of Justice nurtured the technology from researchers’ minds to corporate production lines and into the hands of police departments.

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Professor of Law, American University • conversation
Feb. 7, 2024 ~10 min

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