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Digital and Cyberspace Update Wednesday, January 24, 2023

Featured Writing by Program Experts Defending the Year of Democracy This year will see one of the busiest election cycles in decades, with over eighty national elections that will directly affect 4.2 billion people, write Senior Fellow for Global Cyber Policy Kat Duffy and Katie Harbath, global affairs officer at Duco Experts. Cheap generative AI tools threaten the global and domestic information environments, social media platforms and technology companies have diminished investment in trust and safety, and major U.S. and European elections could distract companies, governments, and civil-society groups from threats to the rest of the world. Find out more

Governing Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation with Rumman Chowdhury AI has become a focus of governments and companies since 2022, and society needs to mitigate AI’s risks and ensure it remains a positive force, says Rumman Chowdhury, CEO and cofounder of Humane Intelligence, in an interview with Duffy. AI developers should build with safety in mind, work with academia and civil society to define transparency and accountability, and ensure a feedback loop between the public, government, and companies. Read the interview

New Entries in the “Cyber Operations Tracker”: Q3 2023 The “Cyber Operations Tracker” has been updated to include all state-sponsored incidents and threat actors made public between July and September 2023. Explore the tracker

The Best of Net Politics

The Importance of the Internet Governance Forum Konstantinos Komaitis UN Secretary General António Guterres is pushing the multilateral UN Global Digital Compact as the central governance mechanism for the internet. However, that is the wrong approach to internet governance, writes Konstantinos Komaitis, nonresident fellow with the Democracy + Tech Initiative of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. Find out why

The AI Assault on Women: Iran’s Tech-Enabled Morality Laws Rachel George The 2022 killing of Mahsa Amini sparked massive protests in Iran for women’s rights, but it also revealed the scale of the government’s digital repression apparatus and how AI enhances that repression, writes Rachel George, director of education content at the Council on Foreign Relations. International agreements that address technology and gender issues need stronger guidelines to prevent technology-enabled gendered morality laws. Read more

Taiwan’s Early Warning for the Future of Tech Moira Whelan Taiwan foreshadows the spread of digital authoritarianism, writes Moira Whelan, director of the National Endowment for Democracy’s democracy and technology team. Taiwan’s allies, social media platforms, and civil society need to assist organizations defending its information environment, support the multistakeholder model of internet governance that gives Taiwan a seat at the table, and stem information operations against the island. Read the blog post

Curated Stories From Around the Web Computation Power and AI, by Jai Vipra and Sarah Myers West, AI Now Institute The Authoritarian Data Problem, by Eddie Yang and Margaret E. Roberts, Journal of Democracy Artificial Intelligence’s Threat to Democracy, by Jen Easterly, Scott Schwab, and Cait Conley, Foreign Affairs

About the Digital and Cyberspace Program The Digital and Cyberspace Policy program addresses one of the twenty-first century’s most pressing challenges: keeping the global Internet open and secure in the face of unprecedented threats. Through briefings, reports, and the Net Politics blog, the program’s fellows produce timely analysis on the most important issues in cyberspace. Cyber Briefs are short memos that offer concrete recommendations on cybersecurity, Internet governance, online privacy, and the trade of digital goods and services.

Jared Cohen @JaredCohen Adjunct Senior Fellow Kat Duffy   @rightsduff Senior Fellow for Digital and Cyberspace Policy James P. Dougherty Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy Richard Falkenrath Senior Fellow for National Security David P. Fidler @D_P_Fidler Senior Fellow for Global Health and Cybersecurity Matthew C. Waxman @MattWaxman1 Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy Tarah Wheeler @tarah Senior Fellow for Global Cyber Policy

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