Explore a growing portfolio of academic research and critical thinking — from blogs and op-eds to research papers and podcast interviews. Each piece offers critical insight into urgent digital issues and is tagged by theme for easy discovery.
China’s new AI + Action Plan marks a turning point: treating AI not as a tool, but as the backbone of future economies, governance, and global collaboration. From smart enterprises to UN-led governance, the blueprint signals how AI will reshape industries, jobs, and society by 2030.
On August 22, China released draft AI Ethics Services Measures (2025). Building on earlier policies, it sets a three tiered framework that stresses responsibility, risk management, and compliance, placing China’s approach between the EU’s strict rules and the US’s more fragmented model.
Dr. Christy Hamilton (UC Santa Barbara) looks at how technology shapes how we think about our own thinking. She reflects on digital divides, our reliance on familiar platforms, and the risks of personalization. We conclude that design choices can either deepen inequality or build more inclusive digital futures.
The release of Grok 4 in 2025 was celebrated as a milestone in multimodal large-scale language models. However, closer examination reveals troubling biases, partisan tendencies, and ethical risks, raising urgent questions about neutrality and accountability in artificial intelligence.
AI now permeates healthcare, education, and social media, but it mirrors human data and values, reproducing bias and inequality. This essay questions whether AI can be unbiased, and who holds the authority to decide so.
