Public Media is Under Assault. Here's a Way to Fight Back
An article for The Boston Globe about how we can respond to the federal defunding of public media by putting an attention extraction tax on tech companies to support civic technology.
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Mass. must resist Congress’s proposed moratorium on state AI regulation
An article for CommonWealth Beacon about Massachusetts' potentials role in resisting the proposed Congressional moratorium on state-level AI policy.
Will AI take your job? The answer could hinge on the 4 S’s of the technology’s advantages over humans
An article for The Conversation about AI's fundamendal differentiating capabilities.
AI-Generated Law Isn’t Necessarily a Terrible Idea
An article for Foreign Policy about the new UAE plan to use AI to generate law and its precedents.
Why US States Are the Best Labs for Public AI
An article for Tech Policy Press making the case for US states as the best incubators for Public AI projects.
It’s Time to Worry About DOGE’s AI Plans
An article for The Atlantic about the long term democratic risks posed by DOGE's plan for an 'AI-first' administration.
AI Will Write Complex Laws
An article for Lawfare about the pressures and capabilities for AI to write increasingly complex law.
AI Mistakes Are Very Different Than Human Mistakes
An article for IEEE Spectrum about how the weirdness of AI's mistakes deceives us about its capabilities and appropriate use cases.
AI Futures | Trust Issues: The closed corporate ecosystem is the problem.
An article for the Boston Review in response to Evgeny Morozov's essay 'The AI We Deserve'.
The Wired World in 2025: Algorithms are Coming for Democracy--But It's Not All Bad
An article for Wired's world in review for 2025 about the many ways AI is impacting democracy.
The SEC Whistleblower Program Is Dominating Regulatory Enforcement
An article for The American Prospect about the risks of the SEC whistleblower program when confronted with AI.
AI Could Still Wreck the Presidential Election
An article for The Atlantic about the US federal agencies' failure to regulate AI in time for the 2024 election.
Applications Of Artificial Intelligence Tools To Enhance Legislative Engagement: Case Studies From Make.org And MAPLE
Case studies on using AI for legislative engagement from Make.org and MAPLE.
Using AI for Political Polling
A blog post for the Ash Center about how AI will change political polling.
Let’s Not Make the Same Mistakes with AI That We Made With Social Media.
This article was written with Bruce Schneier and originally published at Technology Review on 2024-03-13. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. A decade ago, social media was celebrated ...
How public AI can strengthen democracy.
An article for Brookings laying out the case for Public AI as a tool to strengthen democracy.
ComboPath: An ML system for predicting drug combination effects with superior model specification
An ML system for predicting drug combination effects, presented at NeurIPS AI4Science and on bioRxiv.
Demonstrations of the Potential of AI-based Political Issue Polling
This paper explores the capabilities of artificial intelligence in conducting political issue polling, using LLMs to simulate responses and comparing them to human polling data.
Who's accountable for AI usage in digital campaign ads? Right now, no one.
An article for Harvard's Ash center blog about the tangle of US federal agencies failing to enforce regulations relating to AI in election campaigns.
The A.I. Wars Have Three Factions, and They All Crave Power
An article for The New York Times about the emerging factions within the AI community.