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