Before 2020, most of the AI field was open and collaborative. For me, that was the key factor that accelerated scientific progress and made the impossible possible—just look at the “T” in ChatGPT, which comes from the Transformer architecture openly shared by Google. Then came

ICYMI: @ColumbiaIGP’s @CamilleFrancois joined @EliPariser and @AudreyT to discuss how we can reshape social media for the public good and build a healthier internet. @DataSciColumbia @AllTechIsHuman Watch their conversation:

In today’s good news: Mozilla is welcoming a fabulous, visionary leader to bring joy and creativity back to the Internet. ready for the Nabiha Era ✨

There is much speculation about the risks of releasing powerful AI models openly, but not enough rigorous analysis. To raise the quality of the debate, we brought together 25 authors from 16 academic, industry, and civil society organizations. Out today:

A sharp overview of Signal's new phone number privacy features, & why they matter. Grateful to @camillefrancois x @RidT (as ever) for cutting to the marrow of stakes, and beautifully illuminating the imperative of private comms in 'uncertain times' ♥️🙏 https://t.co/MTKYPINVr3

Signal’s new default privacy setting means “it will get progressively harder for bad actors to contact-trace, and to find, hack, and track the end-points of their targets.” IGP Affiliated Faculty Member @CamilleFrancois writes for @Lawfare with @RidT: https://t.co/TDpPo6NTUq

#2024 Cycles d’auditions, journées délibératives au @lecese, tour de France, Agora...retrouvez le détail des travaux à venir des EGI ⤵️ https://t.co/vU2FKMqZnd @cdeloire @camillefrancois @nathqueencole

Le comité de pilotage des États généraux de l’information a lancé aujourd’hui ce chantier qui durera jusqu’à l’été 2024 pour garantir le droit à l’information à l’ère numérique et proposer une stratégie et un plan d’actions pour la France. #EGinformation

Back by popular demand for a 2nd year in a row, @camillefrancois and I get to interview @dseetharaman (WSJ) & @ZoeSchiffer (Platformer) at #trustcon23 on Thursday! We get to be the ones asking questions for a change! What question would YOU want to ask these 2 tech reporters?

👂🏼 This is something students routinely ask about, so I’m also curious for other favorite papers / reports / talks on this topic…

👇🏼If you’re confused about wine tempests caramel tsunamis strawberry typhoons and unsure where to start with the threat actor naming debate… Context:

Quite fun to be home in France with the @NianticLabs team for my first live NBA game 🏀 #NBAParisGame2023

Merci à @sorianotech et à l’@IGNFrance de m’avoir reçue ce soir pour un échange sur les communs numérique, et sur comment l’action publique peut soutenir et pérenniser ces infrastructures digitales !

I think the intro scene is suggesting that @t_gidwani is Queen of the Meerkats? In any case, this should be a good discussion on TAG's colorful ten year history hunting sophisticated threats targeted at Google, its users, and increasingly - at democratic systems writ large.

📅 Thrilled to host @ShaneHuntley at @ColumbiaSIPA this week to discuss the history of Google's Threat Analysis Team (TAG), and how its mission evolved since the group's founding in 2010. 📺 For more context on TAG, here's the "Hacking Google" episode:

Thank you @krmaher for making my day and breaking this news to me cc @internetarchive @lilabailey — you’re up next 😍😘

Delicious news of the day: 🇫🇷🥖 is now officially on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list. Poems and testimonies were submitted in support of the application, coming up is an official Baguette Day to help showcase the craft of baguette making ❤️ https://t.co/Wt1QEaUbMy

ohh interesting to see the "Bias Bounty" report by @AJLUnited cited as motivation for the the ChatGPT Feedback Contest 👀 cc: @CyberSemantics @camillefrancois @jovialjoy @schock

Former head of counter-terrorism for UK's Met Police says the threat from extreme right-wing terrorism is the "fastest growing" threat in UK. When he started in counter-terrorism in 2015, it was 6% of their total workload. Now it's more than 20% of the CT workload.

Fascinating for the anecdotes and detail on app stores’ ability to shape the field here— Apple, Google are stepping up enforcement of content moderation standards for apps. This took center stage during the Parler removal but is increasingly applied to all across the industry.