Pitt Cyber Blog
What We're Reading
This week, we're thinking about the geopolitics of emerging technology. In the eyes of many policymakers, AI and quantum are fundamental to American national security and economic competitiveness...
What We're Reading
As Gary Marcus writes in Politico this week, "AI itself is not one thing but many." We dig into exploratory AI applications in healthcare (successful and less so), elections (good and bad) and a...
Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America” with Barbara McQuade
On April 4, 2024, the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security (Pitt Cyber),...
What We're Reading
Our reading this week is AI centric, from a new paper about the accuracy of LLM generated summaries to reporting on models' insatiable demands for training data and the steps tech companies are...
What We're Reading
Lots happening in the cyber/tech policy space as well as here at Pitt Cyber! The U.S. and UK retaliated against Chinese malware attack targeting critical infrastructure, NTIA released a detailed...
What We're Reading
AI and the Workforce Edition: This week we're doing some thinking about what workforce development and education should look like in...
What We're Reading
With Murthy vs. Missouri in front of the Supreme Court this week, the U.S. State Department is trying to reframe the conversation around disinformation...
What We're Reading
Tech headlines this week are tied up with Congress' latest attempt to ban TikTok, but there's lots of important technology reporting flying under the public's radar. This week, we highlight a few...
Announcing Spring 2024 Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grant Recipients
Pitt Cyber is pleased to announce its awardees for...
What We're Reading
This week, we're highlighting several articles that shine a light on the incentives underlying tech development and the surrounding ecosystem – and challenge us to envision alternatives. ...
What We're Reading
This week, we’re reading about leaks from a Chinese hacking firm, open-source AI trade-offs, a new Executive Order on foreign transfer of Americans' data, and polling data on the nation's trust in...
What We're Reading
Oftentimes, the conversation around AI spurs broader musings: about the role of work in our lives, the effects of runaway capitalism and what it means to be human in an age when computers can...
What We're Reading
This week, we're reading about FCC action again deepfake phone calls, considerations of antitrust law in the AI market, the dual edged sword of open source AI, and new industry efforts on...
Pitt Cyber’s David Hickton appointed by President Biden to Public Interest Declassification Board
President Biden appointed Pitt Cyber Founding Director David Hickton to the Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB)...
