A Review of the Draft Report of the California Working Group on AI Frontier Models
In September 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom asked prominent researchers at Stanford, UC Berkeley and the Carnegie Endowment to prepare a report to help the State develop responsible guardrails for the deployment of Generative AI. Gov. Newsom’s action followed in the…
OpenAI’s manifesto: Neo-mercantilism Enters Global AI Governance
It was probably inevitable, given the current world situation. In a filing with the US Office of Science and Technology Policy for the Trump administration’s “AI Action Plan,” OpenAI played the geopolitical card, urging the U.S. government to ban its…
Digital Sovereignty and the Open Internet: Can they Coexist?
On April 4, 2025 the Internet Governance Project (IGP) in collaboration with the Quello Center will gather scholars of differing views to debate what digital sovereignty means, how it is being used as a label, and whether the various interpretations…
DeepSeek Says “Xi Jinping is a Dictator”
In last week’s blog post, The Frontier Illusion: Rethinking DeepSeek’s AI Threat, I discussed Cisco’s safety test on DeepSeek R1, which revealed the model’s inability to filter out socially unacceptable content, including cybercrime, harassment (bullying), chemical and biological weapons, and…
AI in Threat Intelligence Newsletters: Faster creation, bigger impact
Threat IntelligenceAI in Threat Intelligence Newsletters: Faster creation, bigger impactAnalyze and personalize threat intel faster with help from AI.15-Second summaryCreating threat intel newsletters involves more than collecting relevant information. You need to summarize key concepts, extract TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and…
India’s Report on AI Governance Guidelines Development
The Internet Governance Project (IGP) filed these comments on the report of the Subcommittee on ‘AI Governance and Guidelines Development’ constituted by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). General comments on the subcommittee’s report The term AI should…
The Frontier Illusion: Rethinking DeepSeek’s AI Threat
The Frontier Illusion: Rethinking DeepSeek’s AI Threat Following the release of DeepSeek-V3 on December 26, 2024, Western nations, led by the United States, have found themselves caught between astonishment at China’s AI advancement and deep concerns over potential threats to…
Who is the colonizer and who is colonized?
Review City on the Edge: Hong Kong under Chinese Rule Ho-Fung Hung. Cambridge University Press, 2022. It takes time to digest the meaning of an event of such monumental geopolitical importance as Hong Kong’s revolt against Chinese rule from 2003…
Meet your new sidebar : Less clutter, more personalization
FundamentalsMeet your new sidebar : Less clutter, more personalizationYes, we moved your cheese, but you can move it back15-Second summaryChange is hard, but these changes are worth it. We have revised the Feedly sidebar and eliminated the dock to create…
So Much for Global Governance of AI…
The Paris AI Action Summit was another expensive, flashy failure of multilateral global governance. It signaled the end of a short-lived attempt by liberal democracies to, as the Action Summit website put it, “shape an effective and inclusive framework of…