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This week, we're reading about opportunities to develop 'RegTech' that supports compliance with new EU technology regulations, research on how reigning in BigTech through antitrust enforcement could mitigate AI risks, the pernicious Russian and PRC efforts to collaborate with authoritarian regimes in South America in corrupting the information ecosystem, and more. 

This week, we're reading about initial public sector ventures in AI-supported operations, the complicated relationship between emerging technology and national security, and research on the use of AI in real world forecasting (spoiler: it's not very good, yet). 

Lots of great content to highlight this week! In AI news, a new UNESCO report explores how generative AI can supercharge online gender-based violence and an op-ed by Jennifer Pahlka reminds us that a government AI hiring surge must be accompanying by a change in organizational culture. In cyber security, a global market shift in underway following domestic restrictions based on dominant Israeli firms.

This week, we highlight a few ways in which the culture wars are manifesting through technology, to include Musk's 'anti-woke' LLM, cybersecurity concerns about Speaker Mike Johnson's porn-monitoring software and BigTech's relationship with state surveillance.  

 #AIWeek certainly delivered.  Conversations remains focused on about the much anticipated Executive Order on AI

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 Amin Rahimian, Assistant Professor, Swanson School of Engineering.

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 regulation in the "digital gilded age." 

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.  

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.