Marielza

Retired UNESCO Dir for Digital Inclusion, Policies & Transformation. Chair, UN University, eGov Institute. UNESCO Women in STEM Committee Some pottery and cyanotyping Profile picture is of my face and torso Banner is a picture I took of a light garden

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social

A key reason people in China are more receptive to AI than in America is that the courts there have ruled that you can't just lay people off because Claude can now do research and write code. You need a better reason than that. In America, CEOs can't wait to get rid of "low va…

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social

Tech Policy Press fellow Tatiana Dias covers the rise of “Dona Maria,” an AI-generated political influencer created by a Brazilian Uber driver that is reaching millions online, highlighting the challenge deepfakes and synthetic content pose ahead of the 2026 election.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social

For the first time since the birth of the Internet, the world is confronting not merely a new technology in artificial intelligence but a new operational status quo. The question is whether governance can evolve before security fears harden into permanent fragmentation, writes…

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social

Trump’s postponed AI executive order revealed more than internal disagreement over regulation. The real story is the now opaque system for governing frontier AI — shaped by secrecy, influence, and closed-door negotiations, argues James Görgen.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social

I recall being impressed by initial previews of OpenAI’s Sora video model and even more when the app launched. ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 dropped and blew it away. Nothing from American AI labs now comes close to the Gen AI video models from Chinese labs. It’s as if American lab…

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app

“The artist Darren Cullen, a Banksy-like figure who has conducted many similar ‘subvertising’ campaigns before, posted photos of the faux advertisements on X-formerly-Twitter.”

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social

A growing assumption in AI safety is that frontier systems will fail unpredictably rather than through coherent misalignment. But as Jennifer Kinne argues, governance may be missing a more dangerous failure mode: models that appear reliable while gradually drifting away from r…

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