Rewiring Democracy Now: Switzerland shows us an alternative to corporate AI
An article for The Renovator about Imanol Schlag and the most advanced Public AI project in the world, Switzerland's Apertus model.
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How sky-high AI pay warps science
A Nature Commentary article about how academia should resist the corporate arms race involving paying AI developers exorbitant salaries.
Rewiring Democracy Now: Japan
An article for The Renovator about Takahiro Anno and the digital democracy politcal party in Japan, Team Mirai.
New book: Rewiring Democracy
Announcing the book Rewiring Democracy written with Bruce Schneier
How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI.
An article for Jacobin about how the 'frontier' analogy is a dangerous metaphor for AI.
AI use by the US government is ballooning. And the lack of transparency is troubling
An article for The Guardian outlining the US government's 2025 AI use disclosure and its limitations.
Bernie Sanders’ AI sovereign wealth fund plan is good. But we think this is better
An article for The Guardian proposing an alternative to the AI Sovereign Wealth Fund plan introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Rewiring Democracy: AI & the Struggle for Open Knowledge in Brazil
An article for The Renovator about Open Knowledge Brasil and the sustainability of open source civic technology.
As the US midterms approach, AI is going to emerge as a key issue concerning voters
An article for The Guardian about the role of AI and recent Trump administration regulatory actions in the 2026 US midterms.
Japan's Team Mirai Uses Tech to Bolster Democracy, Not Undermine It
An article for Tech Policy Press reporting on Team Mirai's gains in the Japanes election and the future of AI in politics.
Characterizing the ability of LLMs to recapitulate Americans’ distributional responses to public opinion polling questions across political issues
A quantitative analysis of the capability of a foundation model (GPT-4o-mini) to predict demographic distributions of American public opinion on political issues.
Don’t bet that the Pentagon – or Anthropic – is acting in the public interest
An article for The Guardian with perspective on the Defense Department's designation of Anthropic as a national security risk.
OpenAI has shown it cannot be trusted. Canada needs nationalized, public AI
An article for The Globe and Mail arguing against Canada's outsourcing of sovereign AI to American Big Tech and in favor of a Canadian Public AI solution.
Is AI good for democracy?
An article for the Times of India about how the so-called AI arms race between the US and China is a distraction from the real democratic risk of power concentration created with AI.
AI-generated text is overwhelming institutions – setting off a no-win ‘arms race’ with AI detectors
An article for The Conversation about the arms races AI is fueling across publishing, academia, courts, legislatures, and beyond.
Could ChatGPT convince you to buy something? Threat of manipulation looms as AI companies gear up to sell ads
An article for The Conversation about the increasing role of advertising revenue streams in corporate AI.
AI + Humans: Making the Relationship Work
An article for Rotman Management Magazine (University of Toronto) explaining research into how to make agentic AI systems work in terms of traditional human management principles.
Are We Ready to Be Governed by Artificial Intelligence?
An article for Merion West exploring examples of how AI is already changing governmental functions around the world.
Against the Federal Moratorium on State-Level Regulation of AI
An article for Gizmodo arguing against the Trump administration's proposed federal moratorium on state regulation of AI.
Like Social Media, AI Requires Difficult Choices
An article for Lawfare laying out four key governance choices presented by AI.