The need to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) as a weapon of war is obvious. As Daniel Araya writes, this is not the first time the world’s nation-states have been confronted with new technologies impacting global security. Despite the many divergent views on AI and its weaponization, past negotiations on weapons of mass destruction can serve as a basis for future treaties — particularly in defining the rules of war.
Dominating the modern economy, big tech platforms have upended competition policy, presenting complex new challenges for law makers. In this video, Vass Bednar explains the basics of antitrust laws and how they can be updated for the digital economy, looking at three key areas of competition policy: restrictive practices, monopolies and cartels, and mergers.
Samuel Woolley describes a problem in US politics of disinformation and propaganda specifically targeted to minority groups via a relentless barrage of top-down false information about voting, social issues and politics in general. Arising out of systemic neglect, this structural problem has become entrenched in many other democracies’ political systems as well. Woolley writes that building more robust informational and educational systems can support a shift to facts and candour.
With the invasion of Ukraine, we are in an extremely dangerous new world. Greg Fyffe says that Public Safety Canada, as it grapples with many critical issues, needs to add two urgently needed actions to its list: initiating a comprehensive review of Canada’s intelligence system and committing to the release of a new national security strategy. Fyffe outlines five priority reforms that need to be part of a government-led process for upgrading these capacities.
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