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- The battle for internet search (The Economist) Deny, deflect, distract, confuse. repeat (EU vs DisInfo) Artificial Intelligence for the Poor (Foreign Affairs) Biden orders ban on certain US tech investments in... Continue Reading →

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- Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg fight will be streamed on X, according to Musk (CNN) Ukraine’s elite forces rely on technology to strike behind enemy lines (The Washington Post) U.S. company... Continue Reading →

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- Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement (The Verge) China just fought back in the semiconductor exports war (MIT Technology Review) Zombie Twitter Has Arrived (The Atlantic) China... Continue Reading →

Real Fakes and The Future of Diplomacy

In 2014, a group of data scientists from Microsoft teamed up with AI experts to create a computer program that could generate pictures in the style of Rembrandt. The team created a deep learning network which reviewed 150 gigabytes’ worth of Rembrandt paintings. The network soon learned to recognize distinctive features of Rembrandt’s works be... Continue Reading →

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- Uncensored Chatbots Provoke a Fracas Over Free Speech (The New York Times) Israeli technology pioneers using drones, AI and big data to farm (Times of Israel) Can China develop its own... Continue Reading →

The Many Races That Will Shape AI

There are two different prisms for investigating the relationship between technology and society. The technological prism views technology as a determining factor in society’s evolution. This prism assumes that once a new technology has been introduced, it will send multiple ripple effects through society impacting power relations, class struggles, geopolitical competitions and even norms, values, and laws.... Continue Reading →

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- GPT AI Has Arrived in the Doctor's Office (Bloomberg) Apple’s Vision Pro VR is incredible technology but is it useful? (The Guardian) ‘No regrets,’ says Edward Snowden, after 10 years in... Continue Reading →

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- How India is using digital technology to project power (The Economist) 8 Big Questions About AI (The New York Times) Robot takeover? Not quite. Here’s what AI doomsday would look like... Continue Reading →

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- The Global Race to Regulate AI (Foreign Policy) Google engineer warns it could lose out to open-source technology in AI race (The Guardian) Congress eyes new rules for tech: What’s under... Continue Reading →

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- The Delusion at the Center of the A.I. Boom (Slate) The AI Disaster Scenario (The Atlantic) Is Globalization Over? (Project Syndicate) ChatGPT is making up fake Guardian articles. Here’s how we’re... Continue Reading →

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