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Nicolas Zahn

Nicolas Zahn

What does the Swiss Constitution tell an LLM?

Large Language Models and their commercial applications like ChatGPT have spread like wildfire, gathering millions of users even quicker…

Jun 21

What does the Swiss Constitution tell an LLM?

Jun 21

Nicolas Zahn

2024: Embrace the chaos

The last years of troubling news around the world — from a pandemic to fragile supply chains coming to a halt with massive ripple effects…

Dec 27, 2023

2024: Embrace the chaos

Dec 27, 2023

Nicolas Zahn

The hidden message of failed crypto-projects

The latest “Crypto Crash” has prompted critics of cryptocurrency and other distributed ledger technology (DLT) projects to finally feel…

Jun 11, 2022

The hidden message of failed crypto-projects

Jun 11, 2022

Nicolas Zahn

Trolling is the easy part: Preliminary lessons on cyber capabilities

Perceptions matter enormously in international affairs and security policy. How an actor and his capabilities are perceived shapes…

Mar 26, 2022

Trolling is the easy part: Preliminary lessons on cyber capabilities

Mar 26, 2022

Nicolas Zahn

From laughing stock to real issue: how digital illiteracy puts us in danger

It’s all fun and games, until it suddenly isn’t. Ever since the internet made its way into the mainstream it was very clear that there are…

Feb 19, 2022

Feb 19, 2022

Nicolas Zahn

The alchemy of cyber operations

So far cyber operations are conducted much like the search for gold in ancient times. Promises about positive outcomes are paired with the…

Feb 5, 2022

The alchemy of cyber operations

Feb 5, 2022

Nicolas Zahn

What links the Wild West to today’s digital economy

The digital economy has sometimes been linked to the “Wild West” referring to two aspects of the time period: i) digital companies as the…

Jan 16, 2022

What links the Wild West to today’s digital economy

Jan 16, 2022

Nicolas Zahn

2022 bitte weniger naiv

Die Schweiz täte gut daran, sich im kommenden Jahr endgültig von drei naiven Ansichten zu verabschieden. Angesichts der internationalen…

Dec 31, 2021

2022 bitte weniger naiv

Dec 31, 2021

Nicolas Zahn

Europe and Digital Policy in 2022

We are in the self-proclaimed “digital decade” of Europe yet a lot needs to change if the continent is to make serious progress on the…

Dec 31, 2021

Europe and Digital Policy in 2022

Dec 31, 2021

Nicolas Zahn

Weder Engel noch Teufel: warum wir im politischen Umgang mit sozialen Medien mündiger und…

Egal ob in autoritären Systemen, frühen Monarchien oder modernen Demokratien: wer sich am politischen Prozess beteiligt, sei dies als…

Oct 20, 2021

Weder Engel noch Teufel: warum wir im politischen Umgang mit sozialen Medien mündiger und…

Oct 20, 2021

Nicolas Zahn

Nicolas Zahn

Political scientist and hobby geek, living at the intersection of politics and technology, European liberal https://about.me/nicolaszahn

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