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Among the data being fed to AIs and LLMs is cultural data. But who has a say in how this art to be used, and how are artists being compensated. Here, Mika (Jaeyun) Noh argues that South Korea’s cultural data governance model, based in part in its AI Basic Act, could be one other countries could adopt to regain control over how their cultural outputs are used.
Mika (Jaeyun) Noh is a cultural policy strategist, AI governance researcher, and author working at the intersection of technology, culture, law, and public policy. She is founder and executive director […]
Yifan Miller is a postdoctoral research associate with the Center for Transformative Media at Northeastern University. She received her PhD in organizational communication and technology from The University of Texas […]
Mishal Khan is a senior researcher in the Technology and Work Program at the University of California Berkeley Labor Center. With a doctoral degree in sociology from the University of […]
Anna Su’s primary areas of research include the law and history of international human rights law, comparative constitutional law, technology and international law, and law and religion. She is currently […]
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, brings to bear Catholic social teaching on the impact of artificial intelligence on society. Here, Anna Su reflects on the pope’s message, arguing that within the encyclical’s skepticism of AI and technology lies a more radical appreciation for human imperfection. Magnifica Humanitas also introduces a moral dimension to the AI question. However, for Su, the encyclical falls short in answering questions on the nature of our own humanity and its worth; questions she believes the Catholic Church is well placed to answer.
Taylor Quinn is an undergraduate student studying cybersecurity and human rights at Purdue University. He is the lab manager of Purdue’s Tech Justice Lab, where he helps facilitate programming that […]
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson is professor of law at George Washington University Law School. He is a national expert on new surveillance technologies, policing, and criminal justice. He is the author […]
Chelsea Barabas is a scholar and cultural organizer whose work emerges through collaboration with communities confronting the harms of surveillance and punitive technologies. Rooted in both research and the arts, […]
Amba Kak has spent the last 15 years designing and advocating for technology policy in the public interest, ranging from network neutrality to privacy to algorithmic accountability, across government, industry, […]
Esme Harrington works for data rights law firm and consultancy AWO. Her research and policy work focuses on AI governance, platform accountability, and data protection in the European Union and […]