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Worried about how AI may affect foreign policy? You should be.
At a recent panel convened by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier spoke on…
Building a Solidarity Ecosystem for AI
Trebor Scholz and Mark Esposito provide guidance for building community-owned alternatives to extractive AI systems.
People Are Mostly OK With AI Taking Over Many Jobs—Up to a Point
Research by Faculty Associate James Riley suggests that resistance to AI automating jobs arises not from ethical…
AI-generated text is overwhelming institutions – setting off a no-win ‘arms race’ with AI detector
Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders discuss media outlets being inundated with a high volume of AI-generated text,…
Governing AI Agents with Democratic ‘Algorithmic Institutions’
Faculty Associate Virgilio Almeida and coauthors explore governance structures and forms of institutional oversight to…
The Trigger in the Haystack: Extracting and Reconstructing LLM Backdoor Triggers
Affiliate Ram Shankar Siva Kumar and coauthors "present a practical scanner for identifying sleeper agent-style…
Moltbook, the viral social media site for AI bots, contains a ‘lethal trifecta’ for how the agent internet could fail, security researchers say
Faculty Associate George Chalhoub is quoted in Fortune.
Inside the Black Box
Researchers from Harvard’s Insight and Interaction Lab built an interpretability dashboard that shows a chatbot’s…
Featured Programs
See all ProgramsApplied Social Media Lab
The Applied Social Media Lab (ASML) is an applied engineering lab that brings together a team of technologists and…
Professional Learning and Engagement
Professional Learning and Engagement (PLE) at the Berkman Klein Center offers transformative experiences for…
Fellowship Program
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society welcomes an interdisciplinary and diverse community of academics and…
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media is a three-year "pop-up" initiative that will address the biggest questions in…
Featured Projects
See all Projects & ToolsNetwork of Interdisciplinary Internet & Society Research Centers
A collaborative initiative focused on interdisciplinary research on the development, social impact, policy implications…
metaLAB (at) Harvard
Explores the digital arts and humanities through research, teaching, publications, and exhibitions
Lumen
Lumen collects and studies online content removal requests, providing transparency and supporting research and analysis…
Nymity
Nymity creates a “trustspace” where participants feel free to explore ideas without the pressures of personal…
Featured Topics
See all TopicsEthics and Governance of AI
The rapidly growing capabilities and increasing presence of AI-based systems in our lives raise pressing questions about the impact, governance, ethics, and accountability of these technologies around the…
Media, Democracy, & Public Discourse
The way we communicate online evolves and changes shape rapidly. Through research, the building of tools, and bringing together diverse viewpoints and underrepresented voices, we seek to examine, analyze,…
Technology & the Law
Software, hardware, platforms, and networks are regulated by sometimes conflicting and overlapping sets of laws, policies, and norms. New technologies are constantly creating new frontiers for policymaker…
Governance of Technology & the Internet
Networked technologies are complex, multi-layered, interdependent, and subject to multiple competing interests. Through original research and by creating connections between stakeholders, we work to build…
