Lots going on about AI policy right now (+ lots more to come). To help make sense of it all, my colleagues at CSET do deep-dives into AI workforce development, the impact of AI on cyber, US-China competition, military applications, bio risk, and more. Check em out below: bsky.app/starter-pack...

In a new publication, @samlai.bsky.social, @benimmo.bsky.social, Derek Ruths and @lageneralista.ca lay out four key questions that underpin successful measurement of changes caused by GenAI:

This Friday (Jan 3rd) is the deadline to apply to be in the 2nd cohort of @goodauth.bsky.social fellows: goodauthority.org/news/goodaut... Please share with scholars who want to bring insights from political science to a broader audience.

Wrote a piece in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on some of the lessons that Meta’s Q3 threat report brings back to the surface in online IO: 1. Tension between virality & opsec 2. Experimentation is ongoing 3. Variation in defenses creates arbitrage dynamics 4. Line btwn overt & covert is blurry

🚀🏛️🚀 Introducing AGORA, ETO's new explorer for the AI governance landscape - with plain-English summaries, full text, and thematic tags for AI laws and policies around the world, from D.C. to Sacramento to Beijing 🌎 🗺️ agora.eto.tech

What's it like to build platform policies in real time, as new waves of users pour in? @aaron.bsky.team pulls back layers on @katieharbath.bsky.social's podcast with quite interesting examples about the challenges that have come on the radar at Bluesky (copyright, spam, youth verification, etc.)

Oxford dictionary's word of the year: "brain rot." @shiraovide.bsky.social prefers another one from the shortlist: "slop." “Spammers are opportunists,” I shared. “They’re constantly asking: What are people online interested in, and what technologies are available?”

Digital identity is going to be a hugely important space in the next few years. A lot of complaints in this thread highlight the reasons why.

Starter pack of ppl working in influence operations, disinformation, propaganda, information environment space. This is an iteration of a list I maintained in the bad place called “disinformation braintrust.” I’m selective here to avoid the bs artists. Lemme know if I missed ppl go.bsky.app/4URqqgz

Thanks @justinhendrix.bsky.social for coming to @cset.bsky.social today to chat with the analysis team about all things pitching & publishing in the tech and democracy space. We’ll be following @techpolicypress.bsky.social in the year ahead!