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Why Marginalized Areas Bear the Brunt of the Disinformation Crisis

Faculty Associate David Nemer highlights how platform-driven disinformation disproportionately harms marginalized communities and calls for urgent, systemic regulatory action.

May 7, 2025

Human Development Report 2025

A matter of choice: People and possibilities in the age of AI

Read Affiliate Joe Bak-Coleman's contribution to the UN Human Development Report 2025, with advisory input from Faculty Associate Arvind Narayanan and alums J. Nathan Matias and…

May 7, 2025

A.I. Can Trick You, Warns Book That Hid A.I.’s Help Writing It

“A piece of performance art, or simply marketing, that involved using a pen name.” Director and Faculty Chair, Jonathan Zittrain comments on Andrea Colmedici's AI generated book…

May 7, 2025

Trump Wants to Erase Black History. These Digital Archivists Are Racing to Save It

"Open source, decentralized tooling ensures that, if any single company becomes a nation-state target, the communities that rely on its infrastructure can keep operating." ASML…

May 7, 2025

AGI is not a milestone

"Treating AGI as a milestone for the development of transformative AI is seductive but misguided." Faculty Associate Arvind Narayanan and Affiliate Sayash Kapoor argue that AGI is…

May 2, 2025

Learning to speak with honesty—and without AI

"As AI embeds itself more deeply in our society, we need a conversation about authenticity in culture, technology and politics." Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman explores the…

May 2, 2025
Tech Policy Press

100 Days In, Trump's Silicon Valley Romance Isn't What It Seemed

Anupam Chander observes that the Trump Administration's seeming warmth toward Big Tech may have been a ruse.

Apr 29, 2025
Journal of Online Trust & Safety

Science and Causality in Technology Litigation

Jon Penney and Nathan Matias offer commentary on a 2023 lawsuit filed against Meta which alleged that its social media platforms harm young users' mental health.

Apr 28, 2025
Tech Policy Press

Ask the Experts

AI Surveillance and US Immigration Enforcement

Dia Kayyali spoke to Petra Molnar and other experts to ascertain how the Trump administration is using AI for immigration enforcement.

Apr 22, 2025
arXiv

Guillotine

Hypervisors for Isolating Malicious AIs

BKC Director James Mickens, along with Sarah Radway and Ravi Netravali, treat advanced AI as potentially rogue actors.

Apr 22, 2025
Tech Policy Press

The Future is Coded

How AI is Rewriting the Rules of Decision Theaters

The blending of generative AI with strategic foresight practices means that algorithms can predict trends with uncanny accuracy, writes Mark Esposito.

Apr 22, 2025
Tech Policy Press

Trump's Social Media Surveillance

Social Scoring by Another Name

Faculty Associate Petra Molnar warns that AI-driven visa revocation programs chill discourse and weaken civil society at large.

Apr 21, 2025
BKC Medium

Reporting from “The Battle for Our Attention” Workshop @ Northeastern, April 11, 2025

At a workshop organized by Faculty Associates Elettra Bietti and Aileen Nielsen, along with Laura Aade, participants—including many members of the BKC community—examined how…

Apr 19, 2025
Tech Policy Press

AI Regulation Versus AI Innovation

A Fake Dichotomy

Virgilio Almeida and coauthors explore the (false) tension between regulation and innovation, arguing that democratic regulation can ensure that citizens have a role in shaping…

Apr 18, 2025
The New York Times

Meta on Trial + Is A.I. a 'Normal' Technology?

Faculty Associate Arvind Narayanan joined the New York Times podcast Hard Fork to unpack his paper coauthored with Sayash Kapoor, "AI as Normal Technology," which challenges…

Apr 18, 2025
Stanford Journal of International Law

The Silicon Valley Effect

In a paper drafted in 2023-4, Chinmayi Arun argues that the most influential AI companies are shaping AI’s transnational legal order and regulatory discourse to protect their…

Apr 17, 2025
The Humanist

Artificial Intelligence, Totalitarianism, and the Future of Cognitive Liberty

Magda Romanska argues that we're nearing a frightening form of technological totalitarianism.

Apr 16, 2025
AI Snake Oil

AI as Normal Technology

Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor challenge notions of AI as an existential threat.

Apr 15, 2025
University of Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy

Smoke and Mirrors?

AI Regulation and Corporate Power

In a new paper, Maroussia Lévesque asks who controls AI regulation - and whether they're who we want in the driver's seat.

Apr 15, 2025

ASML Fellow Launches CLR:SKY

Introducing A New AI-Powered Civility Overlay for Bluesky

I am grateful to have been part of the first cohort of fellows at the Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Over the past six months…

Apr 15, 2025
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