Digital Safety Research Institute
Understanding potential benefits and harms in the digital ecosystem
A growing percentage of the world population uses the digital ecosystem is to get information and conduct business. Advances in artificial intelligence are creating huge improvements in medicine, science, and creative works. While these progresses are extremely beneficial, cybercrime and disinformation are also increasing.
The Digital Safety Research Institute (DSRI) at UL Research Institutes aims to partner with other safety-minded organizations to help protect individuals from rapidly evolving digital threats. Learn more below and visit DSRI.org.
DSRI aims to help protect individuals from digital threats
Cybersecurity threats
Unwanted access to personal devices can lead to surveillance, lateral movement, and data theft.
Privacy threats
The collection and brokering of private information can lead to massive data breaches, identity theft and fraud, and harassment.
Algorithm threats
Algorithms that counter individuals’ best interests can lead to discrimination, addiction, polarization, radicalization, phishing and malware.
Information threats
The freedom to post anything online can lead to inappropriate content, mis/disinformation, deception and scams, slander, and biometric loss.
Creating a new digital safety ecosystem
Advocate tools
Working with advocacy groups, we will create testing tools that enable advocates to dynamically test and compare apps in ways individuals can easily understand.
Individual tools
Working with consumer groups, we will create tools that enable individuals to better understand digital systems and protect themselves from digital threats.
Developer frameworks
Working with safety-minded developers, we will create safer-by-design app frameworks, platforms, and machine learning processes to enable developers to rapidly create safer devices and apps.
Basic research
Working with researchers, we will aggregate, mature, and integrate advanced digital discoveries into individual and advocate tools and safer-by-design developer frameworks.
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