AI & Emerging Technology
Just Security’s expert authors offer strategic analysis on AI, cyber, quantum and other emerging technologies, including the national security implications of AI, global governance frameworks, the evolving cyber risk landscape, and how technology use cases comport with legal and ethical considerations.
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So, What Does Facebook Take Down? The Secret List of ‘Dangerous’ Individuals and Organizations
Facebook has been criticized for content it allows. But we should be equally skeptical of what it takes down, and its claimed legal reasoning for removals.

Symposium Recap: Security, Privacy and Innovation – Reshaping Law for the AI Era
Experts discuss how the law must adapt to promote innovation while addressing serious questions around the development and use of AI.

Client-Side Scanning: A New Front In the War on User Control of Technology
When technology has expanded to nearly every corner of our lives, how much control should users have over the devices they own?

Watchlisting the World: Digital Security Infrastructures, Informal Law, and the “Global War on Terror”
The Global Counterterrorism Forum's new "toolkit" ignores input, tracks US practice to dangerously expand the unaccountable post-9/11 system.

Congress Debates Cyber Incident Reporting Deadlines in the NDAA
The next NDAA could require cyber incident reporting for critical cyber infrastructure owners and operators within 24 or 72 hours of the incident.

Changing the Story: Artificial Intelligence and Patent Eligibility
To solve the problem of patent eligibility for AI inventions, it’s time to talk about AI inventions for the truly revolutionary advances that they are.

US Cybersecurity Has a Metrics Problem. Here’s How to Fix It.
Lawmakers have taken critical steps this year, but the lack of data makes it hard to know whether U.S. cybersecurity is actually improving.

Artificial Intelligence in the Intelligence Community: Know Risk, Know Reward
For AI, where the risk of inaction can be greater than the risk of action, the IC needs a flexible, strategic risk assessment framework.

Appetite for Obstruction: How Autocrats Subvert Democracy’s Infrastructure
Russia's block on a recent human rights meeting is part of a pattern of authoritarian powers rending the fabric of rules-based institutions.

Incorporating Digital Technology in the Investigation of International Crimes: Lessons from the Democratic Republic of Congo
Key lessons on incorporating digital evidence of international crimes throughout the justice process and increasing its admissibility in court.

The Overhyping of Over the Horizon
It might represent the only option for the US on terrorist threats from Afghanistan, but it will be brute, imperfect military force.

SEC Complaints: Fallout from the Facebook Files – Part 3
The Facebook Files dominated tech industry news in the past week, as whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before Congress, talked with 60 Minutes, and provided a consistent and…