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The Harvard Gazette

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 the threats and opportunities presented by governments…

Feb 10, 2026
Stanford Social Innovation Review

Building a Solidarity Ecosystem for AI

Trebor Scholz and Mark Esposito provide guidance for building community-owned alternatives to extractive AI systems.

Feb 5, 2026
Working Knowledge

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 objections about devaluing human labor, but from concerns about…

Feb 5, 2026
The Conversation

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, swamping traditional editorial models.

Feb 5, 2026
Tech Policy Press

Governing AI Agents with Democratic ‘Algorithmic Institutions’

Faculty Associate Virgilio Almeida and coauthors explore governance structures and forms of institutional oversight to maintain human control over agentic AI.

Feb 4, 2026
arXiv

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 backdoors in causal language models."

Feb 3, 2026

Inside the Black Box

New tools reveal how AI models “see” users and raise questions about transparency

Researchers from Harvard’s Insight and Interaction Lab built an interpretability dashboard that shows a chatbot’s internal assumptions about a user — such as age, gender, class,…

Feb 2, 2026
Tech Policy Press

Quantum Sensing Will Test Legal Frameworks for Privacy

Quantum sensing technologies test existing privacy frameworks severely because they bypass the physical boundaries—walls, distance, the opacity of the human body—on which existing…

Feb 2, 2026
AI as Normal Technology

Fact checking Moravec's paradox

The famous aphorism is neither true nor useful

Faculty Associate Arvind Narayanan contends that Moravec's paradox is more a statement of AI technologists' values than of fact.

Jan 29, 2026
The Harvard Gazette

How AI deepfakes have skirted revenge porn laws

Limits unclear when explicit images of individuals look real, but are digitally generated

In an interview with The Harvard Gazette, Faculty Co-Director Rebecca Tushnet explains the legal difficulties that AI deepfakes present.

Jan 28, 2026
The New York Times

TikTok Strikes Deal for New U.S. Entity, Ending Long Legal Saga

ByteDance has struck a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to loosen TikTok's ties to China, alleviating national security concerns relating to the app.

Jan 23, 2026
OONI

Uganda blocked social media following 2026 general election

In a solo-authored report for OONI, Maria Xynou documents the Ugandan Communications Commission's internet shutdown and subsequent social media blocks.

Jan 23, 2026
IEEE Spectrum

Why AI Keeps Falling for Prompt Injection Attacks

We can learn lessons about AI security at the drive-through

Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan explore why LLMs struggle with context and judgment and, consequently, are vulnerable to prompt injection attacks.

Jan 21, 2026
Slate

Why Does Greenland Look So Big on the Map?

Noah Giansiracusa dispels a myth about the world's largest island.

Jan 21, 2026
Prospect

Why tech billionaires dream of servers in the sky

Behind the hopes for artificial general intelligence is the desire for a world without obligations to governments, workers or fellow citizens

Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman argues that billionaires' predictions about tech futures reveal their psyches.

Jan 20, 2026
Science

Nearly one-third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry, preprint claims

Industry-linked studies were also more likely to focus on particular topics, suggesting these ties may be skewing the field

Joe Bak-Coleman and coauthors determine that researchers' undisclosed ties to industry might be skewing research.

Jan 18, 2026
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

What experts can learn by tracking AI harms

Fellow Sean McGregor's work on the AI Incident Database (AIID) is highlighted.

Jan 16, 2026
Just Security

Key Trends that Will Shape Tech Policy in 2026

Faculty Associate Petra Molnar and other tech experts identify trends that they're watching in the new year.

Jan 15, 2026
The Conversation

Could ChatGPT convince you to buy something?

Threat of manipulation looms as AI companies gear up to sell ads

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman promises that ChatGPT can deploy ads without eroding users' trust.

Jan 14, 2026