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Social media has turned decidedly uglier amidst the Israel/Hamas conflict, researchers raise new AI safety and transparency concerns, and former FCC chair Tom Wheeler has a new book out on...
Event Summary: Pitt Cyber Hosts the authors of "Battlefield Cyber: How China and Russia are Undermining Our Democracy and National Security"
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Great and diverse content this week on cyber threat actors Russia and China, the use of AI voices in campaign ads, city level planning for AI, and how we might make the internet less toxic. ...
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Some research on quantifying employees' AI exposure, new tools that visualize bias in AI text to image tools, and disinformation and graphic images run rampant on X. ...
Announcing Fall 2023 Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grant Recipients
Pitt Cyber is pleased to announce its awardees for the Fall 2023 Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grants Program (PCAG). PCAG provides support for projects that...
Pitt Cyber Announces New Affiliate Scholar
Pitt Cyber announced that Brian Murphy is joining the Institute as an affiliate practice scholar. Pitt Cyber ...
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This framework of "high-impact, content-agnostic election integrity recommendations for online platforms – readily actionable interventions rooted in their own product design and policy toolkits" is a product of Center for Human Technology, EPIC, Accountable Tech and others.
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Wrapping up September, we're reading up on thoughtful recommendations from the 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.
Event Recap: Why Social Media is So Uniquely Toxic to Our Mental Health by Professor Kristina Lerman
Speaking to a standing-room-only crowd, Professor Kristina Lerman, Principal Scientist, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, spoke about the profound impacts of social media on mental health.
What We're Reading
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 ...
What We're Reading
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.
What We're Reading
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...
A Conversation with Beth Hoffman, Assistant Professor, Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health
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.