Deepfakes: Weighing the Risks and the Benefits
By: Darren Lee As reported by Maria Negreiro, a Researcher at the European Parliamentary Research Service, an astounding 8 million deepfakes will be shared in 2025 up 7.5 million from 2023 and a projected 90 % of online content may be generated synthetically by 2026 (Negreiro, 2025). The use of deepfakes, realistic but fabricated videos, images or files created by Artificial Intelligence, has become a major issue for politics and society as a whole. Deepfakes can threaten de
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Justice Without Leniency: The Necessity of Proportionate Punishment
By: Sean Yin Introduction There exists a renowned maxim in law that is commonly repeated in and out of courtrooms, and few others has received as much prevalent recognition as the reassurance that all accused will be presumed innocent until deemed otherwise during a formal trial. [1] This, along with the promise that all accused will be provided with a lawyer if they are not able to by the state/country, [2] are both examples of international laws passed to ensure a just cr
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Markets, States, and the Logic of Incentives
By: Yan Xinkai (Kelly) From the butcher in Smith’s time 1 to the chatbot today, we are served not out of goodwill, but because it pays to serve. Enterprise behavior is not about intent, but about incentives. The question is not whether a firm seeks profit or serves under a public or charitable flag, but what kinds of behavior its "incentive architecture" promotes. This essay examines the hope of profit, and its opposite: do they encourage innovation, adaptiveness and account
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