The AI That Claimed to Be a Rape Survivor
From December 2024 to March 2025, users of the Reddit community r/ChangeMyView encountered people who seemed unusually articulate and persuasive. They engaged in heated discussions with these individuals, and many users developed a sense of familiarity and rapport with them,…
Announcing IGP’s Identity Workshop: Shaping Governance Through Digital Identifiers | Sept. 24, 2026
Am I talking to a human or a bot? Is that face on Zoom a real person or gen-AI trained to sound like my boss? Is the software update I allowed coming from the vendor or from an adversary installing…
Tanzania Is Getting Online. Its Digital Economy Isn’t Following.
Across most of the developing world, the story of the last two decades has been a hopeful one: as people come online, the digital economy grows, services expand, new businesses take root, people make more money and lift themselves by…
Running a Race Looking Backwards: US Digital Export Controls
Congress has introduced another law tightening export controls on additional segments of the semiconductor industry (the MATCH Act). Like all the others, it is based on the premise that US technological leadership and national security is advanced by looking backwards…
What Everyone Is Missing About Anthropic and the Pentagon
On February 27th, President Trump directed all federal agencies to cease using Anthropic’s technology after the company refused the Pentagon’s demand to allow lawful use of its AI models for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. Much of the…
IGP Year in Review (2025)
The Internet Governance Project’s coverage in 2025 documents a troublesome ongoing global shift from “multistakeholder” governance and ICT liberalization norms toward an era characterized by aggressive techno-nationalism and state-centric control over networks, software applications, and expression. However, there were also…
Join the Conversation: AI Governance and Global Economic Development
An Official Pre-Summit Event of the AI Impact Summit 2026 The Internet Governance Project at Georgia Tech invites scholars, practitioners, students, and representatives from civil society to an essential dialogue on how AI governance shapes our global economic future. Event…
DeepSeek-OCR: China’s Answer to the U.S. Chip Ban
The CTO of Palantir Technologies Shyam Sankar recently criticized Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s idea that selling products in China would ultimately serve U.S. interests by making China dependent on American technology. Sankar argued that deepening economic dependence on China would…
Identity politics: The TikTok Deal, Chinese export controls, and firms’ country-of-origin conundrum
In mid-September 2025, U.S. and Chinese officials convened in Madrid for a high-level negotiation that yielded a breakthrough on the TikTok deal: a “basic framework consensus” for resolving the long dispute over the platform. This meeting marked the fourth round…
A conversation with the author of “Apple in China”
On Thursday, September 11, IGP will host a webinar with Patrick McGee, the author of “Apple in China.” This well-researched book tells the story of Apple’s symbiotic relationship with manufacturing companies in China – how it evolved, what it accomplished,…