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Full Disclosure: Stress testing tech platforms’ ad repositories
April 16, 2024Amaury Lesplingart, Claire PershanAds Transparency / ElectionsMozilla called on Check First to test the ad transparency tools maintained by 11 of the world's largest tech companies. These tools aim to let researchers, watchdogs, and members of the public understand how commercial communications influence the information space and affect society.
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Policy Readout - Columbia Convening on Openness and AI
March 27, 2024Udbhav TiwariTech Policy & Regulation / Openness and AIThis policy brief distills the discussions at Columbia Convening in 2024 for policymakers - identifying benefits that openness can bring to the AI ecosystem, the risk/benefit tradeoffs in opening up different components of the AI stack, and recommendations for policymakers.
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Technical Readout - Columbia Convening on Openness and AI
March 27, 2024Nik MardaOpenness and AIKey technical takeaways from a convening focused on exploring what "openness" means in the AI era.
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AI Report on Southern Africa
March 21, 2024Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)AI Fairness, Accountability and TransparencyAs governments, communities, and businesses across southern Africa continue to integrate artificial intelligence technologies into everyday life, they face three key challenges: AI readiness, AI deployment, and potential misuse of AI.
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Mozilla’s Elections Casebook
Feb. 27, 2024Odanga Madung, Becca Ricks, Open Source Research & InvestigationsElections / Platform AccountabilityMozilla's Elections Casebook scrutinizes what steps platforms have taken to protect election integrity globally. Case studies explore the impact of platform policies and interventions.
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In Transparency We Trust?
Feb. 26, 2024Ramak Molavi Vasse'i, Gabriel UdohAI Fairness, Accountability and TransparencyEvaluating the Effectiveness of Watermarking and Labeling AI-Generated Content
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Accelerating Progress Toward Trustworthy AI
Feb. 22, 2024Mark Surman, Lindsey Dodson, Ayah Bdeir, Alexis-Brianna Felix, Nik MardaAI Fairness, Accountability and Transparency / Meaningful AI TransparencyStatus update on our 2020 paper “Creating Trustworthy AI” and next steps to promote openness, competition, and accountability in AI
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A Public Administration Route to Algorithmic Transparency III: Thresholds for Transparency in the Private Sector
Feb. 16, 2024Amber SinhaA regulatory focus on public law leaves out the bulk of algorithmic decision-making that we encounter in sectors such as finance, private healthcare, insurance, entertainment, and a host of other services. However, the features of administrative law which render it suitable for public sector use of
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A Public Administration Route to Algorithmic Transparency II: Thresholds for Transparency in the Public Sector
Feb. 8, 2024Amber SinhaThe use of algorithmic systems for public use comes with this own set of transparency expectations. The history of administrative decisions offers a rich body which can clearly inform the threshold of transparency for these decisions and how to apply them.
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Training Data for the Price of a Sandwich: Common Crawl’s Impact on Generative AI
Feb. 6, 2024Mozilla Insights, Stefan BaackAI Bias / AI Fairness, Accountability and TransparencyMozilla finds that Common Crawl's outsized role in the generative AI boom has improved transparency and competition, but is also contributing to biased and opaque generative AI models.
