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NEW REPORT from the Imagining the Digital Future Center: In 160+ impassioned essays, global experts note AI is quickly becoming the invisible operating system of society. They urge an institutions-first strategy to help support human resilience. imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...

🚨 AI governance is fragmented chaos. Over 500 standards, overlapping frameworks, contradictory regulations create a maze. But there's a roadmap to harmonize this and build human-centered AI governance 🧵 link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007...

AI governance faces 5 fundamental tensions: centralized vs. decentralized control, robust vs. minimal enforcement, adaptive vs. enduring rules. How do we navigate these trade-offs? 🤖 My new paper draws lessons from aviation, climate & open-source governance 👇 dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssr...

AI systems decide who gets hired, who gets loans, who receives healthcare. But who's auditing the AI? 🤖 Our new study explores the emerging field of AI ethics auditing—the people and processes trying to make AI accountable. @grailcenter.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/205... 🧵

Synthetic data promises to revolutionize healthcare research—solving privacy issues, modeling rare diseases, expanding equity. But it's also an ethical minefield that demands careful navigation 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10....

The AI job market is evolving beyond coding. Employers now demand AI ethics and governance skills at unprecedented rates. Our analysis of 4M+ job postings from 2018-2023 reveals what's driving this shift 🧵 doi.org/10.1109/TTS...

How do you measure AI literacy in under 5 minutes? 🧵 We developed AILIT-S—a 10-item test that maintains 91% accuracy of longer assessments while being practical for real-world use. Published in Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...

🚨 AI is reshaping the world—but how do we prepare the next generation to wield it ethically? Our systematic review of papers reveals AI ethics education has exploded since 2018, but faces critical growing pains. www.sciencedirect.com/science/art... 🧵

AI literacy isn't one-size-fits-all 🎯 Our new study reveals how students' attitudes, interest, and knowledge shape their AI confidence—and identifies 3 distinct student profiles that need different approaches. www.sciencedirect.com/science/art... 🧵

Are university students ready for an AI-driven world? 🤔 Our study of 1,465 students across Germany, UK, and US reveals significant gaps in AI literacy among future professionals. Published in Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...

Organizations aren't unified entities—they're arenas of competing goals and hidden factions. Our new paper in Management Science (with Scott C. Ganz) introduces Subcoalition Cluster Analysis (SCA), a method to uncover invisible coalitions driving conflict 🧵 pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287...

How did AI policymaking go from bipartisan collaboration to partisan gridlock in just a few years? 🧵 Our new study in Policy & Internet tracks this shift across US states (2019-2022) and reveals the triggers that fractured early cooperation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10....

🚨 Automation is reshaping work—and Norbert Wiener saw it coming decades ago. What can we learn from the "father of cybernetics" to help make sure technology serves humanity? Our new analysis of Wiener's legacy 👇 ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10...

Are we failing to teach social responsibility in STEM? 🚨 Our 5-year study of 124 Georgia Tech students reveals a troubling pattern: most STEM undergrads leave college LESS connected to societal impact than when they started. doi.org/10.1186/s40... 👇

We've been following deepfakes for the last 7 years. This article aims to shed additional light on the topic by: 1) creating a conceptual typology of deepfakes 2) coining new concepts like 'glowfakes' and 'fanfakes' 3) & analyzing deepfakes from the 2024 elections @grailcenter.bsky.social

Tejasvi Nallagundla (@GRAILatPurdue) explores new U.S. Copyright Office guidance in the AI Policy Corner. The update makes clear: only human creative input can earn copyright prompt-only AI output isn’t protected. #AIpolicy #ResponsibleAI #DigitalPolicy 🔗 montrealethics.ai/ai-policy-co...

1/7 Does the public actually influence policymakers on #AIpolicy? My paper in @policysociety.bsky.social used 5 million tweets + @nytimes.com articles to find out. The answer is yes, but with a huge catch that has major implications for #AIethics. 🧵 Link: doi.org/10.1093/pol...

1/7 Does the public actually influence policymakers on #AIpolicy? My paper in @policysociety.bsky.social used 5 million tweets + @nytimes.com articles to find out. The answer is yes, but with a huge catch that has major implications for #AIethics. 🧵 Link: doi.org/10.1093/pol...

1/12 🧵 Does college actually make students more socially responsible? You might think so. But our new study in Studies in Higher Ed (doi.org/10.1080/030...) finds students' sense of social responsibility actually stagnates (or declines). 👇 ‪@grailcenter.bsky.social‬ @purduepolsci.bsky.social‬

Can policy narratives be as effective as expert analysis in technical policy domains like AI? This open-access PSJ article says yes! By @dschiff.bsky.social and Kaylyn Jackson Schiff Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/psj.... #PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal