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The Guardian

Don’t bet that the Pentagon – or Anthropic – is acting in the public interest

Affiliates Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier remark on the Department of Defense's transition from Anthropic to OpenAI technologies.

Mar 3, 2026
The Globe and Mail

OpenAI has shown it cannot be trusted. Canada needs nationalized, public AI.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, lobbied Ottawa for business. All the while it hid its knowledge of Tumbler Ridge shooter.

BKC Affiliates Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier highlight the hypocrisy of OpenAI's "OpenAI for Countries" initiative, noting the company's unwillingness to respond appropriately…

Mar 1, 2026
Bloomberg

Founding Fathers Guarded Against ‘Show Me Your Papers’ ICE Raids

Affiliate Alan Raul argues that ICE's aggressive approach to approaching citizens and non-citizens alike is prohibited by the Fourth Amendment's provision against unreasonable…

Feb 27, 2026
Foreign Policy

Why Tehran’s Two-Tiered Internet Is So Dangerous

Authoritarian regimes elsewhere are taking note.

Affiliate Bruce Schneier reflects on the Iranian government's two-tiered communications shutdown.

Feb 24, 2026
Migration and Tech Monitor

Building a Different World - From The Ground Up!

Faculty Associate Petra Molnar is among the authors of a new report from the Migration + Tech Monitor and the Refugee Law Lab.

Feb 24, 2026
arXiv

Towards a Science of AI Agent Reliability

Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan are among the coauthors of a paper proposing a new holistic mode of evaluating AI agents.

Feb 23, 2026
Library Innovation Lab

Launching the Agent Protocols Tech Tree

Affiliate and Library Innovation Lab director Jack Cushman shares the Agent Protocols Tech Tree, a visual, videogame-style tech tree of the evolving protocols supporting AI agents.

Feb 23, 2026
The Renovator

Rewiring Democracy Now: Switzerland shows us an alternative to corporate AI

Public AI must counterbalance corporate AI

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders argue that many of the harms 'of' AI are actually generated not by the technology, but by capitalism.

Feb 21, 2026
OONI

Gabon blocked social media

Maria Xynou documents the blocking of WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube in Gabon based on OONI data.

Feb 19, 2026
Tech Policy Press

Why Global Majority Leadership Matters for Tech and Migration Policy Today

Petra Molnar notes the ways that migration is reshaped by surveillance technologies, artificial intelligence, and data-driven governance.

Feb 19, 2026
Nature

How sky-high AI pay warps science

Young, successful AI researchers are increasingly choosing to leave academia for industry.

In a new piece for Nature, Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier argue that scientific institutions (including technology firms) should stop offering exorbitant salaries to secure the…

Feb 19, 2026
Lawfare

The Promptware Kill Chain

Affiliate Bruce Schneier and coauthors argue that prompt injection attacks are the first step of a seven-step promptware kill chain.

Feb 13, 2026
Communication and the Public

What is a digital author?

Generative AI, concealment, and notes for the emergent moment

Nishant Shah argues that generative AI changes the author function to one defined by concealment.

Feb 13, 2026
Impact Alpha

Beyond the hype

How investors are rethinking alpha, risk, and demand in the AI stack

Affiliate Paul Fehlinger observes that investors are moving beyond headline AI hype to assess where true value (alpha) is created, how the risks in the AI stack are managed, and…

Feb 12, 2026
Lawfare

AI Won’t Automatically Make Legal Services Cheaper

BKC community members Justin Curl, Sayash Kapoor, and Arvind Narayanan identify three bottlenecks between AI capability advances and access to legal resources. These bottlenecks…

Feb 12, 2026
Inquest

Carceral AI is here. It’s time to fight back.

Dasha Pruss warns that facial recognition systems are only the tip of the carceral AI iceberg.

Feb 10, 2026
The Harvard Gazette

Worried about how AI may affect foreign policy? You should be.

At a recent panel convened by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier spoke on the threats and opportunities presented by governments…

Feb 10, 2026
Rolling Stone

The Super Bowl was Overrun by AI Ads - And There's a Reason Viewers Weren't Buying It

Rumman Chowdhury weighs in on this year's 'AI optimism' ads.

Feb 10, 2026
Stanford Social Innovation Review

Building a Solidarity Ecosystem for AI

Trebor Scholz and Mark Esposito provide guidance for building community-owned alternatives to extractive AI systems.

Feb 5, 2026
Working Knowledge

People Are Mostly OK With AI Taking Over Many Jobs—Up to a Point

Research by Faculty Associate James Riley suggests that resistance to AI automating jobs arises not from ethical objections about devaluing human labor, but from concerns about…

Feb 5, 2026