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Tatiana Dias is a fellow at Tech Policy Press. Miami, June 24, 2026: WORLD CUP, BRAZIL vs. SCOTLAND. General view of the VAR screen at the Miami stadium for the match between Brazil and Scotland in the 2026 World Cup. Photo: Rodolfo Buhrer/AGIF At this World Cup, a spectacle of sensors, cameras and AI has made technology part of the sport's appeal.

Artificial intelligence is a growing concern for election integrity, with major elections this year in Brazil, the United States, and numerous other jurisdictions. Governments and civil society need to address an overlooked concern: citizens asking chatbots how to vote. Before local elections in the United Kingdom in May, one in seven voters said they were open to using AI chatbots to decide how to vote, with nearly 5 percent having already done so.

The future of dissent isn’t just playing out in city streets or legislative halls, against Flock cameras, or data centers, or would-be kings. It’s being negotiated, and often negated, in digital consumer spaces and the platforms that make them possible, thanks in large part to the explosive and controversial nature of review bombing.

The authors, along with Andrew Ting, are the co-authors of “Learnright, and Fair Use: Rethinking, Compensation for AI Model Training,” a research paper published in the Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property. March 10, 2026: The London Book Fair (LBF) at Kensington Olympia. Names of authors in an otherwise blank book titled Don't Steal This Book protesting against AI companies taking authors’ works.

The author is director of innovation and AI at Kaiser Permanente, an organization that develops and deploys clinical AI. The essay reflects their personal views, not Kaiser Permanente's, and they hold no financial interest in any company discussed. Access to mental health care is a real and well-documented problem. Many people cannot obtain timely care, and mental health chatbots promise immediacy, privacy, and low cost. However, the risks are equally real.

A humanoid robot developed by Geneva-based technology company RB Labs runs through the exhibition aisles during a showcase at the AI for Good Global Summit, a United Nations flagship event aimed at shaping the future of artificial intelligence, in Geneva on July 7, 2026.

The United Nations General Assembly Hall in New York City. Shutterstock Fifty of the 92 organizations that asked to join the UN's new cybersecurity process this year were blocked from taking part, and in most cases no reason was given.

Major regulators and AI developers now agree that to safely roll out AI agents we need to be able to monitor these systems real-time. Once agents are deployed, we should be able to observe them, detect failures, and intervene before things go wrong. But the infrastructure to actually monitor agents at scale isn't being built fast enough. It doesn't exist yet in any mature form for the volume and complexity at which agents are being deployed.

This photograph shows Robert the Robot, an advanced conversational humanoid developed by Geneva-based technology company RB Labs, at the AI for Good Global Summit, a United Nations flagship event aimed at shaping the future of artificial intelligence, in Geneva on July 7, 2026.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres speaks at the opening of the first session of the Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, Switzerland, July 6, 2026. (Photo by Lian Yi/Xinhua via Getty Images) Last week, Geneva hosted the first session of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, the most recent multilateral effort to coordinate international responses to the risks and opportunities of artificial intelligence.