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Social Media Bots: Laws

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While social media bots have the ability to greatly affect US national security and public discourse, the current landscape of US federal and state laws regulating such bots is limited. This study explores the challenges inherent to passing social media bot-related legislation and details current efforts to do so, including at the federal and state levels. It briefly explores the context in the European Union as well. This paper then discusses the dilemmas social media companies face as they think about effective bot policies and identifies the four main categories of policies through which the social media platforms regulate the use of bots on their sites. As they face evolving threats from bots, the social media companies will continue to adapt their policies accordingly, though it remains an open question whether and to what extent these companies should regulate themselves in the face of additional pressure from Congress and the public.

attention to the problem. Therefore, the social media platforms are likely to shoulder much of the burden going forward, and it is an open question how and to what extent the platforms should police

Focused Deterrence with CNA: Empowering Police Departments and Communities for Effective Crime Reduction

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CNA’s focused deterrence services have a proven track-record of enhancing crime reduction.

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World Cup Support

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In preparation for the World Cup, DHS and FEMA have released grant funding to ensure it is also the safest event possible.

will be available to the 11 US World Cup hosts to support preparedness activities like training and exercises, cybersecurity defense, as well as increased police and emergency response staff. CNA has over 16

Protecting Critical Government Services from Cyber Disruptions

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The potential human cost of cyber attacks is pronounced for state and local governments that rely on networked technologies to operate critical public safety and social services.

Protecting Critical Government Services from Cyber Disruptions The potential human cost of cyber attacks is pronounced for state and local governments that rely on networked technologies to operate critical public safety and social services. On September 8, 2022, the government of Suffolk County, New York was the victim of a ransomware attack. The breach caused significant data loss and prolonged disruptions to government services. For example, police incident reporting systems went offline, requiring officers to manually phone in reports over the radio. Most alarmingly, 911 dispatch

BTAM: Cooperation, Not Coercion

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In July 2018, the US Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) released guidelines to help schools create a targeted violence prevention plan.

for law enforcement involvement, which both implies and assumes that the process is being led by the school and not by the police. Having the process led by schools makes sense because most of the cases

cna talks: The Future of Police Reform

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On this episode of CNA Talks, Stephen Rickman, Zoë Thorkildsen and Hildy Saizow, discuss the future of police reform in the United States.

The Future of Police Reform On this episode of CNA Talks, Stephen Rickman, Zoë Thorkildsen and Hildy Saizow, discuss the future of police reform in the United States. The Future of Police Reform Biographies Stephen Rickman, MA, is an expert in police-community relations. He has worked for over 20 years in high-level positions in public safety and community support. Zoë Thorkildsen   provides expertise in the areas of criminal justice and policing, program evaluation and research design. Hildy Saizow is a Senior Advisor in CNA’s Center for Justice Research and Innovation

What Suicide Data for Public Safety Officers Tell Us

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The first study of a comprehensive data collection effort on suicides by police and correctional officers shows trends, suggests opportunities for prevention.

Suicide Data for Public Safety Officers The first study of a comprehensive data collection effort on suicides by police and correctional officers shows trends, suggests opportunities for prevention. /images/InDepth/2024/04/casket-flag.webp What Suicide Data for Public Safety Officers Tell Us Jessica Dockstader and Daniel Lawrence Jessica Dockstader is an expert in officer wellness and Daniel ... for collecting and providing these data and collaborating with CNA on the analysis. Police officers are at a greater risk of dying by suicide than the general public, and even more likely to die by suicide

Law Enforcement-Community Engagement

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As law enforcement agencies navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and increased calls for social justice, agencies with robust community engagement programs have had more successful public health education efforts.

and research criminal justice projects. Tom Woodmansee is a Senior Advisor at CNA. Prior to joining CNA, he worked for the Madison, Wisconsin, Police Department for 25 years. Mr. Woodmansee worked ... . The killing of George Floyd by a now-former Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officer in Hennepin County sparked social unrest around the world. The pandemic affected law enforcement agencies

ai with ai: AI-chemy 2: This Time It's Personal

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Andy and Dave discuss the latest in AI news and research, including an update from DARPA on its Machine Common Sense program, demonstrating rapidly adapting to changing terrain, carrying dynamic loads, and understanding how to grasp objects [0:55]. The Israeli military fields new tech from Camero-Tech that allows operators to ‘see through walls,’ using pulse-based ultra-wideband micro-power radar in combination with an AI-based algorithm for tracking live targets [5:01]. In autonomous shipping [8:13], the Suzaka, a cargo ship powered by Orca AI, makes a nearly 500-mile voyage “without human intervention” for 99% of the trip; the Prism Courage sails from the Gulf of Mexico to South Korea “controlled mostly” by HiNAS 2.0, a system by Avikus, a subsidiary of Hyundai; and Promare’s and IBM’s Mayflower Autonomous Ship travels from the UK to Nova Scotia. In large language models [10:09], a Chinese research team unveils a 174 trillion parameter model, Bagualu (‘alchemist pot’) and claims it runs an AI model as sophisticated as a human brain (not quite, though); Meta releases the largest open-source AI language model, with OPT-66B, a 66 billion parameter model; and Russia’s Yandex opens its 100 billion parameters YaLM to public access. Researchers from the University of Chicago publish a model that can predict future crimes “one week in advance with about 90% accuracy” (referring to general crime levels, not specific people and exact locations), and also demonstrate the potential effects of bias in police response and enforcement [13:32]. In a similar vein, researchers from Berkeley, MIT, and Oxford publish attempts to forecast future world events using the neural network system Autocast and show that forecasting performance still comes in far below a human expertise baseline [16:37]. Angelo Cangelosi and Minoru Asada provide the (graduate) book of the week, with Cognitive Robotics.

to general crime levels, not specific people and exact locations), and also demonstrate the potential effects of bias in police response and enforcement [13:32]. In a similar vein, researchers from ... public access to AI large language model Research Algorithm predicts crime a week in advance, but reveals bias in police response Nontechnical summary Technical paper

ai with ai: Life Is Like a Box of Matrices

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Andy and Dave start with COVID-related AI news, and efforts from the Roche Data Science Coalition for UNCOVER (the United Network for COVID-19 Data Exploration and Research), which includes a dataset of a curated collection of over 200 publicly available COVID-19 related datasets; efforts from Akai Kaeru are included. The Biomedical Engineering Society publishes an overview of emerging technologies to combat COVID-19. Zetane Systems uses machine learning to search the DrugVirus database and information from the National Center for Biotechnology to identify existing drugs that might be effective against COVID. And researchers at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research are using machine learning to narrow down a space of 41 million compounds to identify candidates for further testing. And the IEEE hosted a conference on 9 July, "Does your COVID-19 tracing app follow you forever?" In non-COVID-related AI news, MIT takes offline the TinyImages dataset, due to its inclusion of derogatory terms and images. The second (actually first) wrongful arrest from facial recognition technology (again by the Detroit Police Department) comes to light. Appen Limited releases its annual "State of AI and ML" report, with a look at how businesses are (or aren’t) considering AI technologies. Anaconda releases its 2020 State of Data Science survey results. And the International Baccalaureate Educational Foundation turn to machine learning algorithms to predict student grades, due to COVID-related cancelations of actual testing, and much to the frustration of numerous students and parents. Research from the Vector Institute and the University of Toronto tackles analogy and the Raven Progressive Matrices with an ensemble of three neural networks for objects, attributes, and relationships. Researchers at the University of Sydney and the Imperial College London have established CompEngine, a collection of time-series data (over 24,000 initially) from a variety of fields, and have placed them into a common feature space; CompEngine then self-organizes the information based on empirical properties. Garfinkel, Shevtsov, and Guo make Modeling Life available for free. Meanwhile, Russell and Norvig release the not-so-free 4th Edition of AI: A Modern Approach. Lex Fridman interviews Norvig in a video podcast. And Elias Henriksen creates the Computer Prophet, which generates metaphors from a database of collected sayings.

of derogatory terms and images. The second (actually first) wrongful arrest from facial recognition technology (again by the Detroit Police Department) comes to light. Appen Limited releases its annual ... recognition linked to a 2nd (actually,   1st! ) wrongful arrest by Detroit police Appen Limited Releases its Annual "State of AI and ML" Report Anaconda Releases 2020 State of Data Science Survey