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Tech Policy Press

Lessons from Nigeria and Kenya on Digital Colonialism in AI Health Messaging

Jasmine McNealy and coauthor Yewande O. Addie summarize the results of their recent Oxford-published study in which they found that AI-generated health messaging (and traditional…

Oct 3, 2025
Forbes

Valiantly Looking For Truth And Certainty In AI And LLMs Gets Earnest Airtime At Harvard’s BKC

Forbes contributor Lance Eliot recaps the first event of the Fall 2025 Speaker Series: "Belief, Uncertainty, and Truth in Language Models" featuring Jacob Andreas and moderated by…

Oct 2, 2025
Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy

Cooperative AI?

Faculty Associate Trebor Scholz and Stefano Tortorici ask whether AI can be wielded as tools of solidarity and collective power, despite the technology's extant environmental…

Oct 1, 2025
Tech Policy Press

With AI Agents, 'Memory' Raises Policy and Privacy Questions

Chief AI Scientist Joshua Joseph and coauthor Kevin Frazier discuss some of the policy questions raised by AI agents' 'memories' of the users interacting with them.

Sep 29, 2025
Times Higher Education

We must set the rules for AI use in scientific writing and peer review

George Chalhoub argues for transparent and enforceable guidelines for regulating the use of AI in scientific peer review.

Sep 29, 2025
The Harvard Gazette

Artificial intelligence may not be artificial

Researcher traces evolution of computation power of human brains, parallels to AI, argues key to increasing complexity is cooperation

The Harvard Gazette shared a writeup of the inaugural Speaker Series event of the 2025-2026 academic year.

Sep 29, 2025
arXiv

Regulating the Agency of LLM-based Agents

Chief AI Scientist Josh Joseph and BKC RA Seán Boddy address the risks that misalignment and loss of control pose to increasingly complex LLM-based agents.

Sep 25, 2025
The Washington Post

Trump signs order advancing TikTok deal

Anupam Chander critiques the Administration's executive order propelling the sale of (some of) TikTok to a conglomerate of corporate interests.

Sep 25, 2025
Tech Policy Press

Technology is Turning Immigration Detention into an Invisible Leash

Petra Molnar and coauthors consider la cuerda invisible - the invisible leash - created by technologies used to surveil migrants.

Sep 23, 2025
Lawfare

Digital Threat Modeling Under Authoritarianism

Affiliate Bruce Schneier notes how the average person's personal threat model has shifted from concerns about corporate overreach to ones about government surveillance.

Sep 22, 2025
World Economic Forum

How AI-powered recruitment defies expectations about inclusion and transparency

Mark Esposito and coauthor Ava Fitoussy caution that, despite the potential for increased efficiency amid record numbers of job applicants, AI-powered recruitment makes the need…

Sep 22, 2025
Health Affairs

Could Agentic AI Improve Access To Maternal Health Care?

Affiliate Backtosch Mustafa asks whether agentic AI - AI systems that are nearly or fully autonomous - could solve some patients' difficulties with accessing maternal health care…

Sep 19, 2025
ReVista

Against the Odds

Latin America's Quiet Leadership in the Age of AI

Armando Guio Español reflects on Colombia's national AI strategy, its reception, and what a more aggressive and adaptive AI agenda for Latin America might look like.

Sep 17, 2025
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The AI Raj

How tech giants are recolonizing power

Faculty Associate Allison Stanger argues that technology firms (particularly AI companies) are demonstrating an accelerated replication of past colonization.

Sep 15, 2025
Foundation for American Innovation

Global Copyright Risks for AI Training

Anupam Chander considers regulations governing AI training in the US, EU, Japan, and China.

Sep 12, 2025
Internet Society

A New Chapter in Internet Fragmentation

Mailyn Fidler proposes an expanded understanding of Internet fragmentation, suggesting that the traditional view of fragmentation as isolationist is becoming outmoded.

Sep 11, 2025
Harvard Law Today

The ‘Zillow ban’ makes searching for homes more complicated. But is it illegal?

A Harvard Law affiliate breaks down an antitrust lawsuit brought by real estate brokerage Compass

Elettra Bietti weighs in on real estate brokerage Compass's suit alleging that Zillow's newly-implemented policy violates laws against anticompetitive behavior.

Sep 10, 2025
Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics

From Dashboard to Data Acquisition

Charting the Social Media Monitoring Market

Brandon Silverman is a contributor to a report examining social media monitoring (SMM) companies' practices, finding that data sourcing for SMMs is often opaque and inconsistent.

Sep 8, 2025
Princeton University Press

On Bullshit in AI

Arvind Narayanan joins the Ideas Podcast to discuss how insights from Harry Frankfurt's On Bullshit can be brought to bear on AI, given the (often overblown) hype sounding AI…

Sep 8, 2025
Computer Says Maybe

Building Blacksky

Rudy Fraser joins Computer Says Maybe's Nodestar series to talk about Blacksky, the decentralized community for Black folks that Fraser built using the AT protocol. Listen to the…

Sep 5, 2025