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Stay updated on our mission to encourage the equitable ownership, governance, and regulation of emerging technologies that impact our everyday lives.
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April 19, 2024 at 11:50 AM
7. How AI Tools Could Change India’s Elections

Avatars are addressing voters by name in a country already grappling with disinformation campaigns. Fascinating story by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/w...
How A.I. Tools Could Change India’s Elections
Avatars are addressing voters by name, in whichever of India’s many languages they speak. Experts see potential for misuse in a country already rife with disinformation.
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2024 at 11:50 AM
6. Worldcoin announces its own blockchain

What will this mean for the governance of one of the most controversial identity systems currently in development? Fortune‘s Niamh Rowe reports.

fortune.com/crypto/2024/...
Worldcoin, Sam Altman’s eye-scanning crypto project, announces its own blockchain
The blockchain will be deeply entwined with the Worldcoin protocol and is aimed at accelerating adoption of World ID.
fortune.com
April 19, 2024 at 11:50 AM
5. Podcast: Matt Prewitt on Partial Common Ownership

In this episode of RadicalxChange(s), Matt discusses how rethinking ownership can lead to a politics of change.

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‎RadicalxChange(s): Matt Prewitt: Lawyer, Writer, & President of RadicalxChange Foundation on Apple Podcasts
‎Show RadicalxChange(s), Ep Matt Prewitt: Lawyer, Writer, & President of RadicalxChange Foundation - Apr 15, 2024
podcasts.apple.com
April 19, 2024 at 11:49 AM
4. Ideologies of AI and the consolidation of power

The relationship between AI and power structures is covered at length in the new issue of @First Monday. 

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First Monday
First Monday is one of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet.
firstmonday.org
April 19, 2024 at 11:49 AM
3. Blockchain’s intersection with regulation

SEC Commisioner Hester Peirce joined the DRC to discuss the relationship between industry, regulators, and the public. She also shared what decentralization means to her. 

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x.com
April 19, 2024 at 11:49 AM
2. How much do you know about crypto regulation?

A new website with everything on crypto regulation and advocacy, including a dictionary, library and encyclopedia, from the European Crypto Initiative is now live. 

eu.ci/euci-updated...
EUCI's Updated and Improved Website is Live
Our platform is rich with features that break down regulatory and technical jargon into easy-to-consume content.
eu.ci
April 19, 2024 at 11:48 AM
1. Tracking AI misinformation campaigns

Rest of World shares their tracker, covering the most noteworthy incidents of AI-generated election content globally in 2024 as more than 2 billion people head to the polls.

restofworld.org/2024/electio...
Rest of World’s 2024 AI elections tracker
As more than two billion people vote, we’re monitoring the way AI is being used in political campaigns, memes, and misinformation.
restofworld.org
April 19, 2024 at 11:47 AM
7. Why fear open platforms?

Fear and regulation are hindering the progress of open platforms and their ability to solve challenges, particularly in Africa, a perspective by Denelle Dixon for Blockworks explains

blockworks.co/news/open-te...
There’s no reason to fear open platforms
Opinion: A frustrating reality is that the technology is already there to meet people’s needs, but fear and regulation stop progress.
blockworks.co
April 11, 2024 at 3:39 PM
6. How democracies can govern AI

How can you ensure that democracies have the information they need for complex decision making, especially around AI? The Society Library presents their solution.

societylibrary.medium.com/making-decis...
Making Decisions About AI — or Anything
Accessing information and acting on it via debate maps and decision-making models.
societylibrary.medium.com
April 11, 2024 at 3:39 PM
5. Blockchain, Religious Imaginaries, and Theology

In this issue of Zygon, writers explore the unique links between blockchain and theology, with works from Nathan Schneider, David Pucheu, Cassandra Dana, Franck Damour, and Finn Brunton

www.zygonjournal.org/collections/...
Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science | Collection:
www.zygonjournal.org
April 11, 2024 at 3:38 PM
4. Plural Property

A portal for papers and projects that discuss a form of ownership with greater equitable properties, presented by RadicalxChange 

www.radicalxchange.org/wiki/plural-...
Plural Property
www.radicalxchange.org
April 11, 2024 at 3:37 PM
3. How economies of scale affect decentralization

To strengthen decentralization, you must counteract the advantages of economies of scale, as explored in an analysis by Toni Wahrstätter as a response to Vitalik Buterin

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Analysis on ''Correlated Attestation Penalties''
Analysis on ‘‘Correlated Attestation Penalties’’ This is a quick quantitative analysis on anti-correlation penalties looking into its potential impact on staking operators and CL clients. Before getti...
ethresear.ch
April 11, 2024 at 3:36 PM
2. Democracy as technology

Audrey Tang goes on the offensive with “democracy as a social technology.” A piece by Martin Regg Cohn for the Toronto Star examines how Taiwan’s digital minister “debunked and beat the bots.”

www.thestar.com/politics/fro...
Martin Regg Cohn: From anarchist to defender of democracy: How Taiwan’s digital minister debunked and beat the bots
Taiwan’s minister of digital affairs is on the frontlines of cyber warfare, information wars and disinformation disruptions, Martin Regg Cohn writes.
www.thestar.com
April 11, 2024 at 3:36 PM
1. American Privacy Rights Act, APRA

What might a GDPR-like data privacy bill look like for the U.S.? A report by David Meyer for Fortune explores a set of rules “way beyond” existing regulation. 

fortune.com/2024/04/08/a...
The U.S. may finally get a federal privacy law to rival Europe’s GDPR
Meet APRA, which—if it passes—would be the mythical federal privacy law that Americans want and deserve.
fortune.com
April 11, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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