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By Larry Magid ConnectSafely Senior Researcher and Oxford University graduate student Nathan Davies contributed to this article If you ever experience or hear others panic about new technologies, consider the historical context. We’ve been hearing about moral panics...
By Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News and is based on a narrated slide deck and a much longer article that you can view here. There has been a lot of ink spilled on doomsday scenarios about Generative AI, including a statement signed by several...
by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Virtual Reality (VR) headsets have been on the market for years, including several iterations from Meta’s Reality Labs, most recently its Quest 3 headset, introduced late last year. And while millions of VR...
Brittan Heller is ConnectSafely’s human rights advisor. Brittan Heller works at the intersection of law, technology, and human rights. She specializes in VR/AR/XR and social media – advising on the Metaverse, privacy, content moderation, online harassment,...
