Announcing the Winners of the AI and the News Open Challenge
BKC Meet the Author Series: Urs Gasser in conversation with Farah Pandith
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Announcing the 2019 Assembly Cohort
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Fall from Grace
"Network Propaganda" shines a light on the dark side of democracy.
The “Smart Enough” City
The promise of Smart Cities often fails to acknowledge the complex political and social factors of cities, which may…
Adversarial attacks on medical AI: A health policy challenge
Technical solutions alone aren't enough to address vulnerabilities in machine learning systems
Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom: Raising Really Good Hell for People Who Cannot
The sociologist speaks on owning her authority, taking black women seriously, and how she shaped her trenchant new…
Harvard and MIT Fund Deepfake Detection, Government Transparency AI Tools
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A Legislative Shot at Internet of Things Security
A recently unveiled proposal for regulating the Internet of Things in the US falls short in some areas, but could make…
The Making of the Fox News White House
What does the data show? Looking at the relationship between Fox News and the Trump Administration.
Charles Nesson Joins Attorney and HLS Alumnus' Challenge Against Chevron
Charles Nesson is one of three prominent lawyers rallying behind a human rights attorney's challenge against Chevron
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The Berkman Klein Center has long been home to a number of cross-disciplinary initiatives that investigate privacy and… More
Global Access in Action
Global Access in Action, a project of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, conducts… More
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The rapidly growing capabilities and increasing presence of AI-based systems in our lives is raising pressing questions about the impact, governance, ethics, and accountability of these techn… More
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… More
Privacy & Security
Privacy violations are a serious threat to the health of the Internet and the effective use of technology. We study how people understand their privacy as users of technology, examine and document the… More
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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, analy… More
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BKC Meet the Author Series: Urs Gasser in conversation with Andreas Reckwitz
Andreas Reckwitz argues that the new antagonism between a new middle class and a traditional middle class turns out as… More
How to work with tech companies on human rights
David Sullivan draws upon a decade of work with technology companies (and a heated argument with Steve Jobs) to offer… More
Dirty Data, Bad Predictions
An examination of the data provenance of police data commonly used in predictive policing system. More
Constitutionalizing Speech Platforms
We're never going to get a global set of norms for online speech but do the platforms pick our global values and… More