December 5, 2024

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Strengthening AI Accountability Through Better Third Party Evaluations (Part 2)

At a recent Stanford-MIT-Princeton workshop, experts highlight the need for legal protections, standardized evaluation practices, and better terminology to support third-party AI evaluations. On October 28, researchers at Stanford, MIT, Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, and Humane Intelligence convened leaders from academia, industry, civil society and government for a virtual workshop to articulate a […]

Strengthening AI Accountability Through Better Third Party Evaluations (Part 1)

At a recent Stanford-MIT-Princeton workshop, experts highlight the need for legal protections, standardized evaluation practices, and better terminology to support third-party AI evaluations. Millions of people worldwide use general purpose AI systems: They use ChatGPT to write documents, Claude to analyze data, and Stable Diffusion to generate images. While these AI systems offer significant benefits, […]

CAC-Vote: Another Insecure Internet Voting System

Philip Stark and I have released this paper with an analysis of a DARPA-sponsored research project to develop an internet voting system. An Internet Voting System Fatally Flawed in Creative New Ways Abstract: The recently published “MERGE” protocol is designed to be used in the prototype CAC-vote system. The voting kiosk and protocol transmit votes […]