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New cohort joins current BKC fellows, progressing the Center’s AI research agenda
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BKC 2025 Action Report with features on the programs, people, and products driving the Center's momentum over the last…
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"Security vs. Interoperability" Arguments
Daji Landis, Faculty Associate Elettra Bietti, and alum Sunoo Park address security vs. interoperability arguments in…
Open-Weight AI Models Require Proportional Evaluation Approaches
Fellow Stephen Casper and coauthors propose proportional evaluation approaches to open-weight AI models.
Applied Social Media Lab Debuts Keyring Wallet
Worried about how online firms use data they get from you?Berkman Klein researchers based out of the Applied Social…
The Right to Access Foreign Communicative Infrastructure
Foreign social media platforms are unique associational and speech infrastructures that should be treated differently…
Message from Claude Mythos
Large language models have destabilized a three-tiered view of the digital commons.
‘If you’re boring, it’s good to know that you’re being boring.’
Co-Founder, Director, and Faculty Chair Jonathan Zittrain considers the ethical implications of how we communicate and…
Should You Be Posting Your Kids Online?
Are we sharing our kids online in ways that could come back to harm them later?
Children are in the crosshairs of artificial intelligence. Who will we blame?
"The question is not whether AI will harm ‘our’ children someday. The question is whose children are already being…
Featured Programs
See all ProgramsApplied Social Media Lab
The Applied Social Media Lab (ASML) is an applied engineering lab that brings together a team of technologists and…
Professional Learning and Engagement
Professional Learning and Engagement (PLE) at the Berkman Klein Center offers transformative experiences for…
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…
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…
Nymity
Nymity creates a “trustspace” where participants feel free to explore ideas without the pressures of personal…
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…