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Specialized global team of early career scholars examine ways to use AI technology to support public school students and teachers
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Apple’s proposed new child safety features and the problems with privacy tradeoffs
Shreya Tewari shares the problems with proposals that compromise user privacy in favor of other important goals.
How digital surveillance thrived in the 20 years since 9/11
David O'Brien explains how the two decades since the September 11 terrorist attacks have involved a broad expansion of…
From Harvard to Berkeley, Clinics Train Next-Gen Tech Lawyers
Kendra Albert and Christopher Bavitz share how the Cyberlaw Clinic prepares students to address the biggest issues in…
Social Media Companies Need to Take a Lesson from 16th-Century Bavaria
John Bowers, Will Marks, and Jonathan Zittrain propose a path forward for how to improve content moderation
A Harvard professor predicted COVID disinformation on the web. Here’s what may be coming next
Joan Donovan explains the dangers of spreading falsehoods on social media and the challenges with stopping misinformati…
The Feature is the Bug
Colin Doyle explains how algorithms can expose flaws in criminal laws and the harms that they can produce.
How Imperfect Data Leads Us Astray
Kasia Chmielinski explains how a popular algorithm used to predict race or ethnicity based on scant personal details…
The Lawfare Podcast: Facebook’s Thoughts on Its Oversight Board
evelyn douek explores the impacts of the Facebook Oversight Board
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Security, Privacy, AI, Law
Constitutional Values and the Rule of Law in the AI Era: Confronting a Changing Threat Landscape
Security, Privacy, AI, Law
Please join the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society for our first Tuesday lunch of the academic year, featuring…
Security, Privacy, AI
Featured Programs
See all ProgramsBKC Policy Practice: Artificial Intelligence
The BKC Policy Practice on Artificial Intelligence (BKC PP: AI) is a public interest-oriented program that helps…
Cyberlaw Clinic
Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic provides high-quality, pro-bono legal services to clients on issues relating to…
Initiative for a Representative First Amendment
IfRFA is a shared program between the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the Cyberlaw Clinic.
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…
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See all Projects & ToolsAI Policy Research Clinic with the City of Helsinki
During the summer of 2021, the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society collaborated with the City of Helsinki’s…
metaLAB (at) Harvard
Explores the digital arts and humanities through research, teaching, publications, and exhibitions
The Ethics of Digitalization
Led by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), the Berkman Klein Center, and the Digital…
Lumen
Lumen collects and studies online content removal requests, providing transparency and supporting research and analysis…
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 technologi…
Internet Health
Censorship, filtering, throttling, dead links, blockages. The health of the Internet can be measured by the ease with which its users can access and share information. We develop tools and research to…
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…
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…