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The Essential Convergence: Global Compact on Extreme AI Risks
Mumbai: Strategic Foresight Group (2026), 90 pp.
"Supply-Side Governance: Progress and Limitations: Most existing AI governance frameworks focus on the supply side of the technology ecosystem. These measures regulate developers, model providers, and infrastructure operators responsible for building advanced systems. Supply-side mechanisms include:
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Companion AI: Risiken von sykophantischen und suchtfördernden Designs von KI-Systemen, ihre rechtliche Erfassung und Handlungsempfehlungen
Deep Insights
Berlin: Zentrum für Digitalrechte und Demokratie (2026), 82 pp.
"Diese Studie untersucht Risiken von KI-Systemen, die im fortlaufenden Dialog mit Nutzern Emotionen erkennen, persönliche Bedürfnisse adressieren und darauf reagieren. Chatbots mit dieser Funktionalität werden als Companion-AI bezeichnet. Sie sind hochgradig personalisiert und treten Nutzern als
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AI in the media: Kenya and South Africa
Bonn; Stellenbosch (ZA): Deutsche Welle DW Akademie; Centre for Information Integrity in Africa (CINIA) (2026), 27 pp.
"This study shows that AI remains largely an underexplored, and often misunderstood, topic for journalism in South Africa and Kenya. Stories can be framed in overly positive terms, such as the potential AI holds for development and social change, or negative terms, by highlighting the extractive nat
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Usos problemáticos de dispositivos digitales en la infancia y adolescencia en América Latina: Desigualdad, bienestar y apoyo familiar
Santiago de Chile: Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL); Kids Online Red América Latina (2026), 42 pp.
"Este estudio aporta datos clave para diseñar políticas públicas y marcos regulatorios que promuevan el bienestar integral de niñas, niños y adolescentes en América Latina. Los hallazgos revelan que los usos problemáticos de las tecnologías no obedecen únicamente al tiempo frente a las pant
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No Signal, no Voice: How Internet Shutdowns Undermined Uganda’s 2026 Elections
Kampala: Unwanted Witness; Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) (2026), 55 pp.
"This report finds that significant, deliberate, and centrally coordinated internet disruptions occurred before, during, and after Uganda’s January 2026 general elections. Contrary to public assurances issued by government officials in the weeks preceding polling, access to the internet was progre
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Taking a Look at the most common AI myths & debunking them the Superrr way!
Berlin: SUPERRR (2026), 22 pp.
"How do we want to use technology, and when do we hit the brakes? As part of our work in 2026, we held 14 public-facing “AI mythbusting” sessions at libraries across Berlin, Germany. We were astonished by the strong public response and clear need for judgement-free spaces to talk about AI. Colle
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Generative AI and democracy: Study on advantages and risks of the use of generative artificial intelligence in public debate and democratic processes
Strasbourg: Council of Europe, Steering Committee on Democracy (CDDM) (2026), 77 pp.
"The key finding of this report is that it is not enough to make sure that the technology is safe and no risk to human rights and public values. GenAI’s impact and potential for the realisation of fundamental rights depends on the societal, organisation and regulatory context in which it operates,
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The Routledge Companion to Social Media Influencers
London: Routledge (2026), xvii, 449 pp.
" As masters of large followerships, influencers can direct online attention and engagement toward certain topics—and away from others. Followers build long-lasting relationships with their favorite influencers and trust their authentic recommendations and advice. This makes them sought-after coop
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Why Silicon Valley is turning to the Catholic Church: Priests and theologians want to shape the future of AI. Big Tech is listening
The Atlantic, April 25 (2026)
"Silicon Valley and the Vatican may “seem like strange bedfellows”—but they each have something to gain from the other, @EliasWachtel argues. He examines why Big Tech is listening to priests and theologians who want to shape the future of AI." (Publisher description)
Preserving Human Voices and Faces. Message of his Holiness Pope Leo XIV for the 60th World Day of Social Communication
Vatican City: Holy See, January 24 (2026)
"The task laid before us is not to stop digital innovation, but rather to guide it and to be aware of its ambivalent nature. It is up to each of us to raise our voice in defense of human persons, so that we can truly assimilate these tools as allies. This alliance is possible, but needs to be based
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Handbook on Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence
Deep Insights
Cheltenham (UK); Northampton, MA (US): Edward Elgar Publishing (2026), xix, 495 pp.
"This timely Handbook provides a groundbreaking collection of anthropological research on artificial intelligence (AI), examining how anthropology can help to comprehend and critique its development. Evaluating the limits, hopes and fears of AI, leading experts explore its influence as a sociocultur
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Digital Transformations: Social and Ethical Consequences of Rapid Technological Change
Edward Elgar Publishing (2026), x, 276 pp.
"This timely book explores how digital transformations are rapidly reshaping modern societies, including public service, business, educational, health and welfare systems. Leading experts in the field investigate the ways in which digital technologies increase both the demand for and promise of new
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Six Critical Lenses on AI-Generated Images
CRC Press (2026), xvii, 176 pp.
"This book offers six critical, interdisciplinary approaches to AI-generated images. It invites the reader to (re-)imagine relationships between artefacts and media, authorship and agency, creativity and commodification, representation, and visual style. Across the chapters, the book examines three
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"Digital scams have become a global development challenge, inflicting costs of up to one trillion dollars annually. Beyond financial losses, scams inflict emotional harm and erode trust in digital systems, weakening confidence in governments, financial institutions, and online services. As countries
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Safer platforms, stronger participation: Mapping gender-based violence online in Syria
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2026), 57 pp.
"Findings show that Gender-Based Violence Online( GBVO) in Syria is normalized and systemic, not merely isolated incidents, functioning as a mechanism of social control that reinforces patriarchal power and restricts civic participation. It takes overlapping forms, including sexual blackmail, harass
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Automated Disinformation and Malicious AI Swarms: Risks for Democracy and Development in Africa
Online: arXiv, First (2026), 26 pp.
"Generative artificial intelligence is reshaping how information is produced, accessed, and circulated, while enabling disinformation campaigns of increasing scale and sophistication. There is currently no clear evidence that fully autonomous AI swarms conduct influence operations at scale, but thei
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Destructive polarization in digital communication contexts: A critical review and conceptual framework
Information, Communication & Society, volume 28, issue 8 (2025), pp. 1499-1520
"While the digital turn in communication research offers novel opportunities to study polarization at scale, it also adds complexity to a challenging concept. Ambiguities surrounding the conceptual understanding of polarization in different fields lead to problems in advancing the research in the di
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Psychological Defence and Information Influence: A Textbook on Theory and Practice
Karlstad: Psychological Defence Agency (2025), 257 pp.
"In an age defined by rapid information flows and shifting security landscapes, the resilience of societies rests not only on military strength or technological capacity, but equally on the ability of individuals and institutions to withstand psychological influence and manipulation. Psychological d
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Peer(ing) pressure: Maintenance, care, and infrastructural capital in a cybersecurity intervention at Internet scale
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 20 pp.
"We discuss a successful intervention in the management of Internet infrastructure – a campaign which has achieved genuine traction against a cybercrime issue that has dogged the network engineering community for more than thirty years. Internet infrastructure is often characterised as beset by pe
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Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2025
Deep Insights
Stanford: Stanford University, Institute for Human-Centered AI (2025), 456 pp.
"Welcome to the eighth edition of the AI Index report. The 2025 Index is our most comprehensive to date and arrives at an important moment, as AI’s influence across society, the economy, and global governance continues to intensify. New in this year’s report are in-depth analyses of the evolving
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