Xconomy recently featured the Strauss Center’s newly launched partnership with Al-Austin in an article entitled “Austin Innovators Form Group to Promote Ethical Use of AI Tools.” The article provides an overview of AI-Austin’s mission to pursue the solutions to societal issues through the responsible use of artificial intelligence. Also discussed are the group’s areas of focus in employing AI tools on healthcare and social justice initiatives.
AI-Austin is led by Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar and Visiting UT Law School Professor Kay Firth-Butterfield.
The full article can be found here.
Adam Klein, Director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, was quoted in an article in Dispatch on "FISA's Section 702 Has Lapsed. Now What?". Section 702's authority on surveilling non-Americans abroad lapsed for the first time on June 12. “The relative constitutional clarity that 702 provides should be seen as stabilizing and protective, and so for that...
After Congress allowed Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to expire over the weekend, Strauss Center Director Adam Klein provided his perspective to The Christian Science Monitor in their article "Congress lets part of spy law lapse. What's next for counterterrorism efforts?" FISA Section 702 grants the U.S. government the ability to surveil non-U.S. persons abroad without...
Strauss Center Director Adam Klein was interviewed for The Christian Science Monitor on "Why the surveillance powers in FISA roil Congress – across party lines," which discusses the national security and privacy issues surrounding Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which is set to expire at the end of April. “Imagine that, today, an FBI agent is...