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Check out our weekly "What We're Reading" posts, updates from affiliate scholars, relevant research, and more.

Wrapping up September, we're reading up on thoughtful recommendations from Center for American Progress on how social media should handle the 2024 elections, the decline of local journalism and parallels between AI evangelists and religion. Also, a quirky use of AI to create futuristic soft drinks. 

 

In this week's edition: podcasts from Politico Tech and Center for Human Tech, California's new data broker deletion bill, AI discussion out of UNGA and automatic voter registration in Pennsylvania.

This week, we're reading about International Criminal Court plans to include cybercrimes in its mandates, the risks of online voting, deepfakes in action and whether changes in the labor market stemming from AI could open to door to Universal Basic Income. 

With the White House's new Executive Order on AI expected any day now and Senator Schumer's AI Insight Forum 

With Congress due back in session next week and the UN General Assembly session wrapping up, we're reading about quantum R&D support and cybercrime negotiations. Plus some thoughts on how we should write/speak about AI and what is actually being measured when an AI model passes the bar exam. 

Pitt Cyber has nearly 100 affiliate scholars drawn from across the University. Affiliate scholars are Pitt faculty working on cyber-related transdisciplinary research. Every so often we catch up with one of them on the blog to learn more about what they’re working on.

This week, we spoke with Beth Hoffman, Assistant Professor, Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, School for Public Health.

Q: What are you working on that has you excited right now?

This week we're reading an unusually thoughtful op-ed on the question of overarching AI regulation, data privacy concerns related to telehealth platforms and reflecting on how in-house ethics work operates within  Big Tech – and what we can realistically expect from it.