Confidential Chats in the Age of AI
Confer is one early example of how to build a private AI chatbot. We should have many more says Mallory Knodel.
author: Mallory Knodel
People, Protocols and AI: Power and Governance in Open Social Networks
This is the pre-reading for the first event in a global series focused on AI and the social web, held at the India AI Impact Summit. An expanded version incorporating insights from the workshop will follow.
Censorship Should Be Obsolete by Now. Why Isn’t It?
Internet censorship is accelerating worldwide, driven by governance choices, corporate power, and governments invoking digital sovereignty to justify tighter control.
Technical Standards in Service to Humanity
Inside the making of a new UN report on technology and human rights.
Protecting Kids Without Breaking the Internet
Mallory Knodel discusses an output from the IAB and W3C workshop, now open for feedback, outlining a neutral framework for age verification that maps where checks could occur while weighing privacy, security, and human rights impacts.
Encryption and Feminism: Reimagining Child Safety Without Surveillance
Internet Exchange is bringing the conversation about encryption, feminism, and reimagining child safety without surveillance to MozFest.
What We Learned About Publishing on the Open Social Web
Over two years, we’ve grown alongside the open social web, experimenting with Ghost, ActivityPub, and Bluesky to publish in ways that align with our values.