The UK Struggles to Balance AI Innovation and Creative Protection
The UK, a global hub for both AI and the arts, struggles to balance tech innovation and protecting a creative sector increasingly threatened by AI trained on copyrighted works.
author: Audrey Hingle
Rethinking Robots: Why Visual Representation of AI Matters
The images we use to depict AI, from robots, to blue brains and cascading code, are more than just clichés. They shape public understanding, feed myths and undermine meaningful engagement. Better Images of AI is working to change that.
Building an Open Prosocial Web
What if online platforms were designed to strengthen our social fabric? This week, in our main story, Audrey Tang—Taiwan’s Cyber Ambassador-at-Large, first Digital Minister, and a pioneer of civic tech—and IX’s Audrey Hingle explore how federated platforms can prioritize social cohesion.
Toward a Prosocial
Old Protocol, New Problems: Robots.txt
This week, in our main story: we examine how robots.txt, a decades-old web protocol, has become central to discussions about consent, copyright, and web scraping to power new generative AI tools.
Robots.txt Is Having a Moment: Here's Why We Should Care
By Mallory Knodel and
DeepSeek and the Creative Power of Constraints: Doing More with Less Compute
DeepSeek’s success challenges the belief that bigger compute means better AI. Facing chip shortages and export restrictions, it built a powerful reasoning model using reinforcement learning over brute-force scale. In our main article today, Betty Li Hou, Computer Science PhD Student and Machine Learning Researcher at NYU, explores
Zuckerberg Scales Back Content Moderation—What Happens Next Is Up to Us
A Call To Build Better Social Media Spaces