Monday’s Must Read List

Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-

1. We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting (The New York Times)
2. Israeli tech worker goes viral with AI bot that churns out ‘cringe’ LinkedIn posts (Times of Israel)
3. Twitter and Meta take down pro-US propaganda campaign (BBC News)
4. WhatsApp’s super app ambitions are starting to come true in India (The Verge)
5. New rules for digital lenders in Kenya aim to weed out bad actors, boost sector growth (TechCrunch)
6. Metaverse Technology Opens Up a Wider World of Privacy Concerns (Bloomberg)
7. New 6G challenges inspire cross-disciplinary innovation (MIT Technology Review)
8. Facial recognition technology on Canada’s Parliament Hill would pose privacy risks (Globe & Mail)
9. Global Space Tourism Market Report 2022 (Yahoo! Finance)

Some light reading- New Working Paper on Digital Diplomacy, Nostalgia & Selfie Diplomacy