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The events of the last few years have underlined that we are awash in disinformation, AND that a large swath of society believes that disinformation to be reality.  But disinformation doesn’t just include easily refutable assertions, it also includes sophisticated

Like it or not – we are at war: one of information and disinformation and the stakes cannot be higher.  How can we  better understand and mitigate, or at least anticipate what is next in a disinformation campaign? For example,

Guest: Carl Gahnberg The field of AI ethics is relatively new, mostly because we are just starting to grasp the implications of advances in AI and therefore decisions that may need to be made by the machines then, or by

Guest: Joanna Bryson Artificial intelligence and machine learning and data are inextricably linked.  Yet common misconceptions persist. What is intelligence and is machine intelligence same or better than human intelligence? What are implicit biases and can we eliminate them from

Guest: Keith Kirkpatrick Today, retailers collect a wealth of data on consumers, both online and offline. And consumers hand it over, sometimes willingly and sometimes unwittingly. In retail locations surveillance cameras have given way to unobtrusive “beacons” spaced out in

Guest: Bruce Schneier You have probably heard the saying: “If you are not paying for the product, you ARE the product”.  Nowhere is this more acute than on the internet when our personal data is collected, analyzed and used to persuade

Guest: Aynne Kokas Chances are, by now you have heard about the controversy surrounding TikTok, the popular social media video app.  The controversy stems from allegations that TikTok complies with Chinese Communist Party’s request to provide user data for purposes of

Guest: Konstantinos Komaitis The Internet is the quintessential example of collaboration across stakeholders and geographic boundaries resulting in both economic gain and seismic innovations.  Yet as the Internet  evolves it is increasingly regulated by nation states as they claim sovereignty

Or: The business of competition and the future of the Internet. Guest: Patrik Fältström A company’s business development tactics are usually about getting a bigger slice of the market “pie” for themselves through successful competition against other companies. However, the

Guest: Maria Farrell To what extent does the political climate and the favored geopolitical model du jour impact internet and technology development?  Many would argue globalization is either dead or in the early stage of demise as evidenced by the