3 papers
cs.CY2024
Shaping the Future of Social Media with Middleware
Luke Hogg, Renée DiResta, Francis Fukuyama +6
Middleware, third-party software intermediaries between users and platforms, has been broached as a means to decentralize the power of social media platforms and enhance user agenc…
cs.CY2024
AI and the Future of Digital Public Squares
Beth Goldberg, Diana Acosta-Navas, Michiel Bakker +24
Two substantial technological advances have reshaped the public square in recent decades: first with the advent of the internet and second with the recent introduction of large lan…
cs.CY2024
Personhood credentials: Artificial intelligence and the value of privacy-preserving tools to distinguish who is real online
Steven Adler, Zoë Hitzig, Shrey Jain +29
Anonymity is an important principle online. However, malicious actors have long used misleading identities to conduct fraud, spread disinformation, and carry out other deceptive sc…