Justin Hendrix

1 week ago | techpolicy.press | Justin Hendrix

PodcastJustin Hendrix / Jun 15, 2025Audio of this conversation is available via your favorite podcast service. Concerns about AI chatbots delivering harmful, even profoundly dangerous advice or instructions to users is growing. Just this week, a substantial piece by The New York Times writer Kashmir Hill detailed a range of disturbing phenomena, in particular with people who interacted with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Justin Hendrix

2 hours agoBookLore turns ebook chaos into a modern, streamlined library you control completely. If you’ve ever bought an e-book from Amazon, you already know you don’t really own it. Sure, it’s in your Kindle library and you can read it in the app. But try moving it to another device or archiving it somewhere …

2 weeks ago | techpolicy.press | Ramsha Jahangir |Dean Jackson |Justin Hendrix

AnalysisRamsha Jahangir, Dean Jackson, Justin Hendrix / Jun 10, 2025Six months into 2025, democracy faces immense pressure—from rising authoritarianism, fractured public trust, and the unchecked power of tech owners. The ideal of free speech, once a cornerstone of democratic societies, is increasingly weaponized and distorted—used not only to silence dissent, but also to exert geopolitical leverage, whether it’s tariffs or visa restrictions.

2 weeks ago | techpolicy.press | Justin Hendrix

PodcastJustin Hendrix / Jun 8, 2025Audio of this conversation is available via your favorite podcast service. If you want to understand how technology is interacting with democracy and politics and with conceptions of the future, you have to pay attention to Africa, and in particular to Kenya, where a variety of issues and questions are at play.

3 weeks ago | techpolicy.press | Justin Hendrix

PodcastJustin Hendrix / Jun 1, 2025Audio of this conversation is available via your favorite podcast service. Earlier this year, an entity called the Observatory on Information and Democracy released a major report called INFORMATION ECOSYSTEMS AND TROUBLED DEMOCRACY: A Global Synthesis of the State of Knowledge on News Media, AI and Data Governance.