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Artificial Intelligence Act: What Is the European Approach for AI? European Union flags outside the European Commission building in Brussels (Flickr/Stefano Cannas, https://flic.kr/p/4oofGt; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) On April 21, the European Commission unveiled the first-ever legal framework on artificial intelligence (AI): the Artificial Intelligence Act. The extensive AI Act addresses the risks stemming from the various uses of AI systems and aims to promote in...

The Cyberlaw Podcast: The Robot Apocalypse and You Our interview is with Kevin Roose, author of Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation that debunks most of the comforting stories we use to anaesthetize ourselves to the danger that artificial intelligence and digitization poses to our jobs. Luckily, he also offers some practical and very personal ideas for how to avoid being caught in the oncoming robot apocalypse.  In the news roundup, Dmitri Alperovitch and I take a few mome...

Today’s Headlines and Commentary U.S. officials are investigating at least two possible incidents on U.S. soil that appear similar to previous mysterious, invisible attacks on CIA and State Department personnel that occurred abroad, reports CNN. The suspected condition—sometimes called “Havana syndrome” in reference to an unexplained illness U.S. officials experienced in Cuba in 2016—includes symptoms such as ear popping, vertigo, pounding headaches and nausea, sometimes with an unide...

The Cyberlaw Podcast: “This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends” Our interview this week is with Nicole Perlroth, The New York Times reporter and author of This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race. It’s wide-ranging, occasionally confrontational and a great tour of the issues raised in the book about 0-day exploits, U.S. responsibility for the global cyber arms race and the colorful personalities whose hard choices helped shape the cybersecurity environment we al...

The Cyberlaw Podcast: Could European Privacy Law Protect American Child Molesters? Our interview is with Alex Stamos, who lays out a complex debate over child sexual abuse that’s now roiling Brussels. The application of European privacy standards and artificial intelligence (AI) hostility to internet communications providers has called into question the one tool that has reduced online child sex predation. Scanning for sex abuse images works well, and even scanning for signs of “grooming”...