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Kishonna Gray discusses digital migration and Black Twitter with Chris Gilliard.
Sandra Cortesi explores how young people can be included in decision-making processes that impact their futures
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Expert warns of AI tools’ potential threat to democracy
"Democracy is fundamentally a human way of organizing ourselves, and where an AI, whether it's a ChatGPT that is…
ChatGPT could be a useful AI tool. So how are we regulating it?
"My observation would be that the serious legislation that's been successfully passed for regulating machine…
Tech has an innate problem with bullshitters. But we don’t need to let them win
BKC Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman writes about technoculture's unique susceptibility to a…
Meet The Three Artists Behind A Landmark Lawsuit Against AI Art Generators
Jessica Fjeld is quoted discussing the viability of lawsuits involving generative AI alleged to…
Two Years Ago This Brazilian Expert on the Far Right Predicted Their Insurrection
BKC Faculty Associate David Nemer was interviewed about his accurate prediction of a "January 6…
How ChatGPT Hijacks Democracy
"So while it’s impossible to predict what a future filled with A.I. lobbyists will look like, it will probably make…
What TikTok Has On You
“We’re already used to tech companies having this enormous amount of access to our personal life. By extension, the…
Social media can be polarizing. A new type of algorithm aims to change that.
BKC Affiliate Aviv Ovadya discusses social media algorithms that burst, otherwise known as bridging systems.
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Governance in Online Speech Leadership Series
Applications due February 24 for this interdisciplinary 3-day workshop connecting those currently working at speech…
The Student Salon Series is a student-led event series bringing Harvard…
Web3 Is Going Just Where?
January 12: a fireside chat with Molly White and Jonathan Zittrain
Culminating event for the BKC Fall 2022 Research Sprint on Digital Identity...
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…
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…
Initiative for a Representative First Amendment
IfRFA is a shared program between the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the Cyberlaw Clinic.
Featured Projects
See all Projects & ToolsHarvard Open Access Project
The Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP) fosters the growth of open access to research, within Harvard and beyond.
Youth and Media
Youth and Media (YaM) encompasses an array of research, advocacy, and development initiatives around youth (age 12-18)…
Network of Interdisciplinary Internet & Society Research Centers
A collaborative initiative focused on interdisciplinary research on the development, social impact, policy implications…
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…