There is always another, higher peak.

Hannah Bailey takes on a different side of the AI question: Does the use of LLMs to find information reduce lateral reading, critical thinking, and exposure to diverse perspectives?

www.techpolicy.press/ai-trustwash...

Sarah Barrington questions the narrative that AI is "too new to regulate," pointing to examples of harm-based and use-based regulation that policymakers can easily understand and adapt to fit new technology

www.techpolicy.press/generative-a...

@davekarpf.bsky.social meanwhile describes how the dynamic between advocates, tech companies, and the government has shifted dramatically over the past year--necessitating new strategies for change in an era of fewer cross-sector alliances.

www.techpolicy.press/the-dance-wi...

@brooklyne.bsky.social makes a compelling case that it's beyond time to focus on corporate accountability, not citizen education, in the fight for a healthier information ecosystem

www.techpolicy.press/its-time-to-...

@rhetoricpj.bsky.social on how little facts matter when the government places itself above accountability and "your mom" becomes the official response to public inquiry.

"For decades the American right invested in infrastructure and networks... All that it has won them is the world."

wihbey.bsky.social writes that the "authenticity crisis" created by GAI requires vigorous reinvestment in institutions which can provide an "epistemic backstop"--that is, professionals like journalists and scholars who can help sort fact from fiction.

Amelia Acker's contribution describes the administration's self-destructive assault on the value chain of knowledge: government workers and scientists create data, used by academics, to produce knowledge, curated by libraries and taught by schools.

www.techpolicy.press/week-after-w...

@dratropos.bsky.social, meanwhile, critiques common approaches to counter-disinformation for neglecting the role of emotion and affect, even though many of the most prominent "tactics of digital emotional manipulation" exploit frustration and rage.

In her contribution, @noupside.bsky.social describes an opposing infrastructure using public health as a case study: Through the capture of institutions which produce data and science, the politically powerful can produce structural ignorance instead.

The first piece, an intro to the series, is by me and Sam Woolley at CTRL.

In it, we describe knowledge as a source of human flourishing created not by lone geniuses, but through infrastructure.

We have reached a new and accelerated phase in the deconstruction of that infrastructure.

Of course there's also the issue of, Dems need to win voters in red states more than R's need to win voters in blue states.