1:58 pm on September 25, 2026 · 2026 (277), ai (66), dns abuse (15), ICANN (195), ncuc (12)

WEBINAR 28 SEP 14:30 UTC: NCUC – AI and DNS Abuse: Keeping the Internet Safe and Open

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Blue-and-white NCUC event graphic with the Noncommercial Users Constituency logo at upper left. A glowing digital globe showing the Americas dominates the right side, surrounded by interconnected network lines and nodes, with the terms “DNS,” “Policy,” “Open Internet,” and “Trust.” Large dark blue text at left reads “AI and DNS Abuse: Keeping the Internet Safe and Open,” with the date 28 September 2026 below.
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On Monday, 28 September 2026 at 14:30–16:00 UTC, the Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) hosts its quarterly webinar, with the theme ‘AI and DNS Abuse: Keeping the Internet Safe and Open‘.

SPEAKERS
Eyitayo Iyortim – President/Chairperson, AfTLD Board
Dan York – Senior Director, Online Trust and Safety, Internet Society
Ram Mohan – Chief Strategy Officer, Identity Digital
Farzaneh Badii – Digital Medusa
Brian F. Cimbolic – Chief Legal and Industry Affairs, .org

MODERATOR
Amine Hacha – Representing Europe, NCUC Executive Committee

HOST
Wisdom Donkor – Chair, NCUC

#DNSAbuse #AI #ICANN #OpenInternet

HYBRID 28 SEP 22:30 UTC: NYPL – Who Gets to Decide How AI Enters Our Schools? With Data & Society

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On Monday, 28 September 2026 at 18:30–19:30 EDT (22:30–23:30 UTC), The New York Public Library (NYPL) and Data & Society host ‘Who Gets to Decide How AI Enters Our Schools?‘ at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) and online.

This is a pivotal year for shaping the role AI will play in American classrooms: states have begun distributing AI products across school districts, and the New York City Department of Education has barred student AI use in elementary and middle schools this school year. The event explores what’s at stake for the city’s more than 1,700 schools and the families they serve. It is built around ‘Coding Kids: Big Tech’s Battle to Remake Public Schools‘, the new book by New York Times reporter Natasha Singer, which explores how tech companies are using schools to mainstream their AI tools.

The session is part of the 7 Stories Up Series at SNFL,  Registration is free for both in-person and livestream attendance. The event is 18+.

INTRODUCTION
Janet Haven – Executive Director, Data & Society

SPEAKERS
Natasha Singer – Reporter, The New York Times; Author, Coding Kids
Amanda Lenhart – Senior Fellow, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop; Technology Policy Fellow, Princeton CITP
Scott Kern – Teacher, North Star Academy, Newark NJ; AI Innovation Lead, Uncommon Schools

MODERATOR
Meredith Broussard – Professor, NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute; Research Director, NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology

#AIinEducation #EdTech #PublicSchools

6:27 pm on September 22, 2026 · 2026 (277), ai (66), free speech (13), netcaucus (20)

HYBRID 22 SEP 16:00 UTC: Internet Caucus Academy – AI, Speech, and the First Amendment: Where Are the Constitutional Lines?

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On 22 September 2026, the Congressional Internet Caucus Academy hosted a lunchtime briefing for congressional staff and tech policy leaders, ‘AI, Speech, and the First Amendment: Where Are the Constitutional Lines?‘, in person at Rayburn 2045 on Capitol Hill and livestreamed.

As Congress considers how to respond to the risks of artificial intelligence, from discrimination to deceptive content and unsafe outputs, lawmakers are increasingly confronting a threshold question: when does AI regulation regulate conduct, and when does it regulate speech? The briefing examined the emerging First Amendment questions raised by AI systems, including chatbot outputs, transparency mandates, model restrictions, and civil rights enforcement. Panelists discussed where constitutional concerns are most likely to arise, where regulation may be on firmer ground, and how courts may approach these issues as AI policy moves from theory to litigation.

INTRODUCTION
Tim Lordan – Executive Director, Congressional Internet Caucus Academy

SPEAKERS
Megan Iorio – Senior Counsel, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Kate Ruane – Director, Free Expression, Center for Democracy & Technology
Corbin Barthold – Senior Litigation Fellow, NetChoice

MODERATOR
Cristiano Lima-Strong – Senior AI & Government Reporter, Bloomberg Government

#FirstAmendment #AIPolicy #FreeSpeech

9:52 am on September 21, 2026 · 2026 (277), ai (66), isoc-ny (53)

WEBINAR 22 SEP 23:00 UTC – ISOC-NY General Membership Meeting

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On Tuesday, 22 September 2026 at 19:00–20:30 EDT (23:00 UTC 22 Sep – 00:30 UTC 23 Sep), the Internet Society New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) holds its ‘General Membership Meeting‘ on Zoom, featuring an interactive discussion on key AI questions: When will they be smarter? What is the effect on jobs? Will they treat humans with respect or the way we treat cockroaches? The meeting is free and open to all – ISOC-NY members especially welcome.

#ISOCNY #AI #FutureOfWork #AIAlignment

WEBINAR 21 OCT 16:00 UTC – Trust, Safety, and Infrastructure-Aware AI: Building a Secure Internet for the Next Decade

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On Wednesday, 21 October 2026, at 12:00-13:00 EDT (16:00-17:00 UTC), the Marconi Society will host a webinar ‘Trust, Safety, and Infrastructure-Aware AI: Building a Secure Internet for the Next Decade‘. With AI becoming deeply embedded in cloud, edge, and network infrastructure, the stakes for trust, safety, and operational resilience have risen dramatically. The next few years will be defined not only by model-level safeguards but also by governance, observability, and resilience of the infrastructure that powers AI systems at scale. This webinar responds directly to that challenge by sitting at the intersection of three critical themes prioritized by the Marconi Society this year: Trust & Safety, Infrastructure & Energy Transformation, and Internet Resilience. By bringing together industry leaders and cross-sector experts, attendees will learn how the world’s most relied-upon cloud and edge platforms approach trust and safety, what new risks are emerging, and how organizations can prepare for a future in which AI and critical infrastructure are inseparable.

PANELISTS
David Bray – 2026 Institute Award Recipient for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence
David B. Cross – CISO, Atlassian

MODERATOR
Jeff Collins – Global Director for Trust and Safety, AWS

HOST
John Janowiak – President & CEO, Marconi Society

#TrustAndSafety #AI #InternetResilience #Infrastructure

WEBINAR 15-16 OCT 14:00 UTC – MOSAICS Symposium

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On Thursday – Friday, 15–16 October 2026 at 09:00–17:30 CDT (14:00–22:30 UTC) each day, the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) at the University of Minnesota hosts the virtual ‘MOSAICS Symposium.. MOSAICS is an acronym for ‘Meanings, Ontologies and Structures of Artificial Intelligence in Culture & Society’.

Themes include AI and mind, data ontologies, postcolonialism, social hierarchies, power imbalances, inequality and intersections (race, class, caste, gender, disability), cultural meanings, infrastructures, landscapes, work, users, human and machine interaction, reappropriations, and resistances.

DAY 1 – THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER 2026

09:00 CDT (14:00 UTC) — OPENING REMARKS AND LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Jeffrey Yost – Director, Charles Babbage Institute

09:10 CDT (14:10 UTC) — KEYNOTE SESSION I
Janet Vertesi – Princeton University – ‘”The Project of AI” and its Decoys: Observing a Political Economy in the Making’
Tiara Roxanne – Disruption Network Lab
Moderator: Anita Say Chan – University of Illinois

10:45 CDT (15:45 UTC) — SESSION I: ATTENTION AND RESISTANCE
Lauren Klein (Emory University), Derya Akbaba (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Miriah Meyer (Linköping University) and Maria Antoniak (University of Colorado Boulder) – ‘Attention, Alignment and Other Feminist Concerns’
Mar Hicks – University of Virginia – ‘Computer People for Peace and Useful Histories of Data Backlash’
Cassius Adair – The New School
Moderator: Sareeta Amrute – The New School for Social Research

12:45 CDT (17:45 UTC) — SESSION II: LABOR SUBVERSION
Sayamsiddha – The New School – ‘Human Labor Behind AI: From Ghost Workers to Platformized Experts’
Jason Ludwig – University of California, Santa Barbara – ‘Beyond Bias: Computerized Racecraft and the History of Algorithmic Job-Matching’
Héctor Beltrán – Massachusetts Institute of Technology – ‘Platform Parasites: Using AI to Debug Nomadic Extraction’
Moderator: Gerardo Con Diaz – University of California, Davis

14:20 CDT (19:20 UTC) — SESSION III: NARRATIVE MATTERS
Bo An – Lingnan University – ‘Making IT Proper: A Critical Pre-History of Artificial Intelligence in the People’s Republic of China’
Pierre Schwarzer – New York University – ‘Liquidating Language: Generative AI and the Technical Conditions of Thought’
Vinay Brandon – University of Minnesota – ‘Defiant Protocols: Trust, Reputation, and Controversy in India’s Agentic Finance Landscape’
Moderator: Jeffrey Yost – University of Minnesota

16:00 CDT (21:00 UTC) — SESSION IV: INSTITUTIONAL POWER
Sananda Sahoo – University of Western Ontario – ‘Data Harm in Governmental (Ac)counting System’
Mayank Kejriwal – University of Southern California – ‘From Administrative Automation to Institutional Stewardship: Reimagining AI in the Research Office’
Avery Wiscomb (Virginia Tech) and Steven Gotzler (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) – ‘Pretrained: The University and the Making of AI’
Moderator: Ekaterina Babintseva – Carnegie Mellon University

DAY 2 – FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER 2026

09:00 CDT (14:00 UTC) — OPENING REMARKS
Jeffrey Yost – Director, Charles Babbage Institute

09:05 CDT (14:05 UTC) — SESSION V: PUBLIC CONCERNS
Margarita Boenig-Liptsin – ETH Zürich – ‘Constituting AI, Re-constituting Society’
Fergus Linley-Mota – Simon Fraser University – ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Making of “the Public”‘
Laine McCrory – New York University – ‘Care Over Code: AI Harms and Collective (In)Justice’
Moderator: Anita Say Chan – University of Illinois

10:45 CDT (15:45 UTC) — SESSION VI: CODED COGNITION
Jiantong Liao – Johns Hopkins University – ‘Tokens Without Concepts: Leibniz and the Calculable Characters of Large Language Models’
Yoehan Oh – Yale University – ‘The Memory/Intelligence Divide: A Manual/Intellectual, Raced, and Classed Hierarchy’
Yufei Qi – New York University – ‘Antinomies of Russian Formalism: For and Against the Automation of Language’
Moderator: Ekaterina Babintseva – Carnegie Mellon University

12:45 CDT (17:45 UTC) — SESSION VII: COMPUTING AND THE BODY
Juana Calina Becerra Sandoval – Harvard University – ‘Faith in Computers: Voice Biometrics and the Politics of Listening’
Jeff Nagy and Tiff Regaudie – York University – ‘Simulated Sadness: AI Psychodiagnostics, Synthetic Data, and Disability Politics’
Hanzhang (John) Ye – University of Minnesota – ‘Transforming Medicine for Computer Intelligence: Expert System, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Medical Expertise in the 1970s and 1980s China’
Moderator: Gerardo Con Diaz – University of California, Davis

14:20 CDT (19:20 UTC) — SESSION VIII: FALLIBILITY AND DISAGREEMENT
Aaron Mendon-Plasek – Purdue University – ‘Subjectivity as a Solution to Human Fallibility: Political Knowledge, Machine Learning, Efficacy, and the Reorientation of the 1980s Artificial Intelligence Around Extra-Evidential Judging’
Özgür Çalışkan – Anadolu University – ‘Counting Worlds Otherwise: AI, Data Ontologies, and Colonial Logics in Global Science Fiction Cinema’
Ashlee Mirizio and Nathan Ensmenger – Indiana University – ‘Mapping the AI Debate: Beyond Binary Tribes and Flattened Landscapes’
Moderator: Sareeta Amrute – The New School for Social Research

16:00 CDT (21:00 UTC) — KEYNOTE SESSION II
Paula Chakravartty – New York University – ‘Palestine as Paradigm: AI and the Colonial Present’
Roderic Nicholaus Crooks – University of California, Irvine – ‘Access Is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality’
Moderator: Ekaterina Babintseva – Carnegie Mellon University

#AI #CriticalAI #HistoryOfComputing #STS

5:15 pm on September 8, 2026 · 2026 (277), ai (66), Atlantic Council (4), digital health (7)

VIDEO 8 SEP 2026 – Data Governance for AI and Healthcare: From Washington to Beijing

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On Tuesday, 8 September 2026, the Atlantic Council‘s Cyber Statecraft Initiative hosted a hybrid public discussion ‘Data Governance for AI and Healthcare: From Washington to Beijing‘ at Atlantic Council Headquarters in Washington DC.

AI is reshaping drug discovery, clinical trials, precision medicine and healthcare delivery, but building and deploying it at scale depends on high-quality data, computing power, energy and digital infrastructure, as well as on navigating fast-moving regulatory requirements. Part of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative’s Data Rules Project, the session brought together leaders from the biosciences industry, government and academia to ask how healthcare and pharmaceutical companies can build AI at scale while protecting patient trust, privacy, security and sustainability, and to weigh how the United States, China and other major technology markets are approaching these questions, and what their differing policy and infrastructure choices mean for pharmaceutical research and development, patient outcomes and US competitiveness.

WELCOME REMARKS
Jenna Ben-Yehuda – Executive Vice President, Atlantic Council

SPEAKERS
Ranjit Kumble – Vice President, Trusted AI, Pfizer
Stephen Moon – Global Public Sector Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Snowflake
Daria Bahrami – Head of Policy, Dreadnode
Gil Alterovitz – Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; President, Presidential Innovation Fellows Foundation

MODERATORS
Graham Brookie – Vice President, Atlantic Council Technology Programs, Atlantic Council
Trey Herr – Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Cyber Statecraft Initiative, Atlantic Council

CLOSING REMARKS
Safa Shahwan Edwards – Director, Cyber Statecraft Initiative, Atlantic Council

#ACCyber #AI #HealthData #DataGovernance

3:07 am on August 29, 2026 · 2026 (277), ai (66), AI governance (20), isoc chennai (11)

RECAP 29 AUG 2026 – ISOC Chennai – Convergence 360°: AI, Governance & Threat Intelligence at the Cross Roads

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On 29 August 2026, the Internet Society India Chennai Chapter with KriVin Academy hosted ‘Convergence 360°: AI, Governance & Threat Intelligence at the Cross Roads‘, the opening webinar of its ISOC Chennai TechX Series. Dr. N. Sudha Bhuvaneswari explored where AI, governance and threat intelligence converge.

01 Role of Internet Society India Chennai Chapter

Pravina Bharath – Executive Director, KriVin Academy / Communication Officer & Treasurer, Internet Society India Chennai Chapter


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02 Convergence 360°: AI, Governance & Threat Intelligence at the Cross Roads

Dr. N. Sudha Bhuvaneswari – CEO, KriVin Intellinet Solutions, Coimbatore / President, Internet Society India Chennai Chapter


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#AIGovernance #ThreatIntelligence #Cybersecurity #TechX

4:05 pm on August 23, 2026 · 2026 (277), ai (66), DNS (36), ICANN (195)

RECAP 24 JUN 2026 – ICANN EMEA: AI Models and the Internet’s Unique Identifiers

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On 24 June 2026, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) hosted a Technical webinar ‘EMEA: AI Models and the Internet’s Unique Identifiers‘. This talk looked at how two popular AI models use Internet identifiers, and how responses to queries may be different depending on the model.

SPEAKER
Patrick Jones – VP, Global Stakeholder Engagement, ICANN

FACILITATOR
Gabriella Schittek – Global Stakeholder Engagement Director – Nordic and Central Europe, ICANN

#ICANN #AI #DNS

WEBINAR 20 AUG 17:00 UTC – The Limits of Human Oversight in the Age of AI Agents

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A graphic for a Data & Society webinar. The design features a minimalist cream-colored background with a soft, blurred iridescent gradient panel in pastel green, blue, pink, and lavender along the left side. The Data & Society logo appears in the upper left, with the word "WEBINAR" in the upper right. Large dark burgundy serif typography dominates the center, presenting the title, "The Limits of Human Oversight in the Age of AI Agents." The event date, August 20, 2026, appears below in matching dark text. The clean layout and restrained color palette emphasize the title while the subtle gradient adds visual interest.
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On Thursday, 20 August 2026 at 13:00 EDT (17:00 UTC), the Data & Society Research Institute hosts a webinar ‘The Limits of Human Oversight in the Age of AI Agents‘, tied to its AI on the Ground program.

AI agents have moved from speculative promise into everyday deployment, translating high-level goals into plans and carrying them out across connected digital environments. Agent builders often promise that users remain in control through approval prompts and pause buttons, but those safeguards work only when users can recognize a mistake and intervene before consequences cascade.

Drawing on fieldwork in a computational biology laboratory, the Data & Society primer ‘The Oversight Fallacy: Why AI Agents Require More than Humans-in-the-Loop‘ examines what effective oversight of AI agents requires in practice. Co-authors Ranjit Singh and Samir Passi, joined by Margaret Mitchell and Madeleine Clare Elish, will discuss why putting a human in the loop is insufficient and what builders and deployers must do to make oversight meaningful. Closed captioning will be provided.

SPEAKERS
Ranjit Singh – Program Director, AI on the Ground, Data & Society
Samir Passi – Social Scientist and Affiliate, Data & Society; contracted AI Researcher at Microsoft via KForce
Margaret Mitchell – Chief Ethics Scientist, Hugging Face
Madeleine Clare Elish – Head of Evaluations, Responsible Development and Innovation, Google DeepMind

#AIAgents #HumanOversight #AIGovernance