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Amid deepening threats to pluralism and free expression, support for innovative civil society organizations that counter digital authoritarianism and build democratic infrastructure is key to carving out a freer future
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Amid deepening threats to pluralism and free expression, support for innovative civil society organizations that counter digital authoritarianism and build democratic infrastructure is key to carving out a freer future, writes Beth Kerley from the National Endowment for Democracy. https://www.techpolicy.press/autocrats-digital-advances-underscore-the-need-for-civil-society/

Measuring What Matters: The AI Pluralism Index
Rashid Mushkani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08193 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08193

Measuring What Matters: The AI Pluralism Index
Artificial intelligence systems increasingly mediate knowledge, communication, and decision making. Development and governance remain concentrated within a small set of firms and states, raising concerns that technologies may encode narrow interests and limit public agency. Capability benchmarks for language, vision, and coding are common, yet public, auditable measures of pluralistic governance are rare. We define AI pluralism as the degree to which affected stakeholders can shape objectives, …