The latest instalment in the EIA’s Research Paper Series is an essay by Ellie Cassidy, entitled “Regulating Innovative Platforms: AI-Based Online Monetization Methods and Their Ramifications“. It vividly and cohesively describes the way in which the digital media has utilized advancements in persuasive technology and artificial intelligence to monetize manipulation. It also outlines the security ramifications of unchecked digital media, as seen in the rise in political polarization, amplification of misinformation and modernization of systematic inequity in our time. The author then advances the argument that this increasingly dystopian reality requires external regulators to ethically occupy the public space. The paper can be accessed here.[pdf]
