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AI Liability Along the Value Chain
In a new report for Mozilla, Beatriz Botera Arcila explores how liability law can help make sense of the complex nature…
How the Signal Chat Leak Makes the NSA’s Job Harder
Should the NSA be concerned about security flaws in Signal?
“Post-post-truth”, or how the SignalGate story is forking reality
Ethan Zuckerman uses the recent "Signalgate" scandal to reflect on how modern political discourse creates divergent…
What is Signal?
Jack Cushman gives readers a primer on Signal's privacy capabilities in light of the Atlantic's editor in chief being…
I Built a Custom GPT, Then Read the Fine Print
BKC Affiliate Nana Mgbechikwere Nwachukwu argues that the AI-creator relationship as it exists is exploitative -- but…
Beyond Horseless Carriages
ASML Fellow and Blacksky founder Rudy Fraser presents a vision for community-led digital spaces centered on mutual aid,…
Web 3.0 Requires Data Integrity
Bruce Schneier and Davi Ottenheimer argue that the emergence of artifical intelligence in the age of Web 3.0 requires a…
Dystopia Now
Affiliate Sean Harvey examines the troubling rise of deepfakes, calling for stronger detection tools to curb their…
Featured Programs
See all ProgramsFellowship 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…
Professional Learning and Engagement
Professional Learning and Engagement (PLE) at the Berkman Klein Center offers transformative experiences for…
Applied Social Media Lab
A new home for technologists and practitioners to reimagine, rebuild, and reboot social media to serve the public good…
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…
Artificial Intelligence and the Law
This initiative focuses on new challenges and opportunities for the law created by the rise of AI.
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…