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‘Contextualization Engines’ can fight misinformation without censorship

Search engines are nice. But we can do far better with modern AI.

Apr 14, 2021

‘Contextualization Engines’ can fight misinformation without censorship

Apr 14, 2021

Build Wise Systems: Combining Competence, Alignment, and Robustness

Understanding decision-making systems and what that means for governance, corporations, and technology creators.

Jul 29, 2021

Build Wise Systems: Combining Competence, Alignment, and Robustness

Jul 29, 2021

Unbundling Facebook—and the Oversight Board’s Decision on President Trump…

How better understanding what Facebook is can help ensure the Oversight Board makes the right call—and how “Literacy Friction” can help.

Apr 16, 2021

Apr 16, 2021

When we change the efficiency of knowledge operations, we change the shape of society.

AI-augmented knowledge summarization, refactoring, & integration are about to transform the world. Again.

Apr 2, 2021

When we change the efficiency of knowledge operations, we change the shape of society.

Apr 2, 2021

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OneZero

Platforms Are Still Flying Blind When It Comes to Societal Impact — Better Metrics Could Help

Metrics are key to how product teams at tech companies function

Jan 11, 2021

Platforms Are Still Flying Blind When It Comes to Societal Impact — Better Metrics Could Help

Jan 11, 2021

The Path to Deepfake Harm

How, when, and why synthetic media is actually used to harm

Jul 30, 2020

The Path to Deepfake Harm

Jul 30, 2020

How to tackle misinformation on WhatsApp

Rumors on WhatsApp have led to mob violence. Here’s how to prevent them — without sacrificing privacy.

Jun 27, 2020

How to tackle misinformation on WhatsApp

Jun 27, 2020

Making Sense of Deepfake Mitigations

How can we fortify our “Knowledge Pipeline” in the face of synthetic media?

Feb 5, 2020

Making Sense of Deepfake Mitigations

Feb 5, 2020

Reducing malicious use of synthetic media research

Considerations and potential release practices for machine learning

Jul 27, 2019

Reducing malicious use of synthetic media research

Jul 27, 2019

What does a world with automated social engineering look like?

And how that should change the way we approach security and disclosure?

Feb 14, 2019

What does a world with automated social engineering look like?

Feb 14, 2019

Client-Side Context: A defense against misinformation in the encrypted WhatsApp

Balancing privacy, security, and mitigation of misinformation

Jan 30, 2019

Client-Side Context: A defense against misinformation in the encrypted WhatsApp

Jan 30, 2019

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Tow Center

What do we mean by “quality news?”

Imagine this: You work at Facebook and you have been instructed by Zuck himself to “fix news on the platform” — to do “the right thing”…

Nov 16, 2018

What do we mean by “quality news?”

Nov 16, 2018

The “Magical Decentralization Fallacy”

Decentralization won’t solve our problems. Maybe multi-centralization can?

Nov 6, 2018

The “Magical Decentralization Fallacy”

Nov 6, 2018

Published in
Tow Center

Even in September of 2015, hyperpartisan news sites had massive engagement on Facebook

I just confirmed this by analyzing the top 150,000 articles for the month

Oct 20, 2017

Even in September of 2015, hyperpartisan news sites had massive engagement on Facebook

Oct 20, 2017

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MisinfoCon

Infrastructure against misinformation

We need new institutions to counter the forces polluting our information streams.

Jun 5, 2017

Infrastructure against misinformation

Jun 5, 2017

“Can we survive technology?”

Lessons from John von Neumann

Jun 1, 2017

Jun 1, 2017

How to fix our news ecosystem

Step 1: Acquire more data! (attention metrics & credibility scores)

Jan 5, 2017

How to fix our news ecosystem

Jan 5, 2017

Dying Journalism and Deadly Water

Flint is a preview of a world where accountability is no longer profitable

Nov 12, 2016

Dying Journalism and Deadly Water

Nov 12, 2016

Degrees of Freedom

Can we develop technology that improves governance & mutual understanding?

Nov 12, 2016

Nov 12, 2016

Aviv Ovadya

Aviv Ovadya

See aviv.substack.com. BKC & GovAI Affiliations. Prev Tow fellow & Chief Technologist @ Center for Social Media Responsibility. av@aviv.me

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