Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) 2025 At the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 4-12, 2025), the Ecumenical Jury, appointed by INTERFILM and SIGNIS, awarded its Prize to Rebuilding directed by Max Walker-Silverman (USA, 2025). Motivation: A quiet, divorced Colorado rancher who lost everything in a wildfire...
Anna Oosterlinck Independent journalism is under attack. The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that 2024 has been the deadliest year for journalists in the past three decades. ARTICLE 19 reports that 27 countries experienced decline in media freedom in the past year alone; over the past...
The Internet is the world’s digital lifeline. For the approximately 5.6 billion people connected to the Internet (some 70% of the global population), access is essential. The entire Internet cannot be switched off, but governments and other actors can temporarily disrupt or restrict access by shutting...
A Beijing+30 reflection Exactly 30 years ago today, hope for a new dawn for women and girls was palpable. Governments and civil society that had gathered in Beijing for the Fourth UN World Conference on Women were united on a roadmap to end gender-based discrimination and achieve...
Have you ever read through the agenda of a United Nations General Assembly? The 80th regular session of the General Assembly opens tomorrow, 9 September. Under the theme, “Better Together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights,” the provisional agenda has 174 main...
Visiting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is harrowing. It records, in photos, artifacts, quotes, and stories, the days and months following the dropping of the first atomic bomb on 6 August 1945. Intellectually, we all know the death and destruction was horrific. Coming face-to-face with eyewitness...
Lemi Baruh and Mihaela Popescu When we talk about online privacy, what comes to mind? For decades, the dominant answer in law and everyday thinking has centred on one idea: control over personal information. This approach, called informational privacy, treats our personal data – our clicks,...
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The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) encompasses three variations. There is Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) with limited capabilities, e.g. Google translate and Siri. There is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), which attempts to replicate human capabilities, e.g. chatbots. And then there is Artificial Superintelligence (ASI): machines that...
Anne Kruger and Richard Murray Responses from policymakers, professionals and educators to the urgency of AI draw many parallels to earlier phenomena in the growth of online misinformation and disinformation. A key difference however was the sudden global generative AI product releases that forced stakeholders into...