Digital Society Waseda

13/11/2020

A glimpse into the latest developments regarding AI, its perspectives, and threats that it poses.

Do you agree that AI is an existential threat to humanity or is your opinion thereon is more optimistic?

GPT-3 has been hailed as an artificial intelligence breakthrough. John Thornhill tries it out and assesses the rewards — and the risks

05/02/2020

23/01/2020

https://www.comsoc.org/publications/ctn/nine-communications-technology-trends-2020

Nine Communications Technology Trends for 2020

18/12/2019

Fake news in Finland.

Russia's neighbor has developed a plan for countering misinformation. Can it be exported to the rest of the world?

10/12/2019

https://www.comsoc.org/publications/ctn/can-wireless-technology-alone-blur-digital-divide

This month’s article explores the opportunities and challenges of rural connectivity in the United Kingdom.

25/11/2019

The internet is growing less free around the world, and democracy itself is withering under its influence.

25/11/2019

Inventor of web calls on governments and firms to safeguard it from abuse and ensure it benefits humanity

09/10/2019

The application of Network Science to social systems has introduced new methodologies to analyze classical problems such as the emergence of epidemics, the arousal of cooperation between individuals or the propagation of information along social networks. More recently, the organization of football....

27/09/2019

Strategy of limiting message forwarding to prevent fakes and hoaxes from spreading.

In January, WhatsApp limited how often messages can be forwarded—to only five groups instead of 256—in an attempt to slow the spread of disinformation.

23/08/2019

Nature

31/07/2019

Chinese tanks at the border? False. Photo of a protester biting off a policeman's finger? Misleading. In polarised Hong Kong, a fake news fight for public opinion has become as crucial a battleground as the city streets.