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Employees’ enthusiasm for AI-driven productivity collides with the institutional inertia of large firms trying to control an unpredictable technology.
The next frontier of corporate governance lies in closing this gap — transforming awareness into accountability and risk disclosure into demonstrable resilience.
Internet Archive. The Belgian decision marks a strategic win for publishers, showing that even large and respected platforms can be held accountable when they operate outside licensing frameworks.
However, it also highlights the importance of measured, rights-based enforcement that respects user freedoms and encourages legitimate access.
Standards are the bridge between AI principles and practical implementation. They operationalize abstract values into testable metrics, certification schemes, and technical specifications.
Standards are emerging as the pivotal mechanism to operationalize ethics, ensure interoperability, and enable safe deployment at scale. A roadmap to align technical progress with human values.
By grounding AI evaluation in counterfactual logic, economic theory, and implementation realism, they steer organizations toward value creation...
...that is verifiable, repeatable & accountable. Without adoption of RoAI-like frameworks, firms may continue to scale unaccountable AI based on flawed assumptions, vanity metrics, or herd behavior.
Wiley’s ExplanAItions 2025 preview reveals a research community racing to adopt AI but pausing to recalibrate its expectations.
The gap between enthusiasm and infrastructure, capability and credibility, remains wide. But the desire to use AI responsibly and effectively is unmistakable.
Google's LearnLM team proposes an “AI-augmented textbook” tailored to individual learners’ grade level and personal interests, offering multiple modalities.
This essay summarizes the most valuable, promising, and—where necessary—questionable aspects of the strategy, with a focus on its relevance to scholarly publishers.
AI is racing ahead in schools faster than policies and training can catch up. The technology is now embedded in everyday student life, but schools lack a shared language...
...for when AI helps learning and when it undermines it. The most surprising finding is how deeply AI has already penetrated K–12 classrooms.
The ultimate objective is an authoritarian state achieved through a controlled demolition of democratic structures. This process is both lubricated and enforced by the strategic application of...
...political violence. The aim is not to avoid bloodshed, but to monopolize it, ensuring that it flows in only one direction: from the state against its people.
The Trump Action Tracker: a warning system for what democratic backsliding can look like when populism fuses with executive power and algorithmic control of discourse.
Judges, journalists, and governments—domestic and foreign—must therefore treat these developments not as internal U.S. politics but as a transnational democratic emergency.
AI chatbots on Character AI are not harmless companions for children and teens but active vectors of grooming, manipulation, and harm.
Through 50 hours of conversations with 50 AI bots using child avatars, researchers documented 669 harmful interactions—averaging one every five minutes.
The petitioner—a person with a broken leg and no formal charges—was effectively disappeared into a bureaucratic black hole, stripped of liberty, privacy, and due process.
This case paints a disturbing picture of systemic overreach by ICE, revealing a disregard for constitutional protections, transparency, and human dignity. Such conduct corrodes the rule of law.
When Silicon Valley becomes the Vichy of the digital age, the danger is not only compliance—it is complicity. The same corporations that once marketed themselves as liberators of speech...
...now decide, under government whisper or corporate cowardice, which communities are “vulnerable” and which are expendable.