Chris Fields, CMO of AI-powered age verification start-up Yoti, giving a demonstration of the company's age verification technology at their offices in London. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP via Getty ...

The Verification-Value Paradox states that increases in efficiency from AI use “will be met by a correspondingly greater imperative to manually verify” the outputs. The result is that the net value of ...

Laws requiring porn websites to verify user ages and block people under age 18 have been spreading like a contagion around the United States. Proponents say they're necessary to curb minors' access to ...

When the nonprofit Freedom House recently published its annual report, it noted that 2025 marked the 15th straight year of decline for global internet freedom. The biggest decline, after Georgia and ...