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Rumman Chowdhury writes about her time at Twitter as the engineering director of the META team...
This exhibit asks the audience to consider and evaluate the human cost of an increasingly automated world.
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How AI could write our laws
BKC Affiliates Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier write about the potential influence of ChatGPT and generative AI on…
Stories on racial justice give power of memory to the slain
BKC affiliate Leonard Cortana was profiled by United Nations Human Rights for his work in human rights.
The Amendment the Court Forgot in Twitter v. Taamneh
BKC Faculty Associate Evelyn Douek co-writes about the importance of Twitter v Taamneh and its free speech ramification…
On AI-Generated Works, Artists, and Intellectual Property
BKC Affiliate Ryan Merkley writes about the relationship between generative AI, art, and intellectual property law.
Platforms Are Fighting Online Abuse—but Not the Right Kind
BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury co-writes a piece on the shortfalls of platforms fighting online abuse.
Teaching the legacy of Dulcie September and other assassinated anti-racist figures of resistance as poetry for collective liberation
"They erased Dulcie September, who remained a name in schools, streets, and cultural centers but nothing about her…
I Watched Elon Musk Kill Twitter’s Culture From the Inside
Rumman Chowdhury writes about her time at Twitter as the engineering director of the META team...
Can ‘we the people’ keep AI in check?
"Emad [CEO] at Stability [AI, the open-source AI company,] says he’s ‘democratizing AI.’ Well, wouldn’t it be…
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This panel discussion will explore tools the EU’s new Digital Services Act will offer to international researchers to…
Join us for a discussion among leaders in civic tech, ethics, advocacy, and journalism about how to reimagine the…
Dr. Chao Mbogho will come speak with us about the future of responsible computing in Kenya by talking us through the…
Technology and the Public Interest
An introduction to the book Technology and the Public Interest by Haochen Sun followed by comments from several…
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 & ToolsDigital Identity in Times of Crisis
Global cohort of early-career scholars and practitioners explores the ethical and human rights considerations of…
Harvard 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…
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…