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Tech Policy Press

A Better Approach to Privacy for Third-Party Social Media Tools

Chad Rajendra-Nicolucci and BKC Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman argue that fresh approaches to privacy will be necessary for the ecosystem of third-party tools that complement…

Aug 31, 2023
Science

Social media, extremism, and radicalization

BKC Faculty Associate Aaron Shaw discusses the connection between social media platforms and extremist movements. 

Aug 30, 2023
WIRED

Nervous About ChatGPT? Try ChatGPT With a Hammer

BKC Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders opine on the great power that AI will have once it is capable of using real-world tools and urge that companies and regulators…

Aug 29, 2023
Journal of Free Speech Law

Is it a Platform? Is it a Search Engine? It's Chat GPT! The European Liability Regime for Large Language Models

BKC Faculty Associate Beatriz Botero Arcila examines the question of how to regulate large language models to minimize risks while still allowing for potential benefits to be…

Aug 25, 2023
The Markup

Pyramid Schemes Are Illegal. MLMs Are Not. What About the Tech That Powers Them?

BKC Director Rebecca Tushnet comments on accountability for software companies servicing multi-level marketing companies accused of being pyramid schemes. “Regulators take the…

Aug 24, 2023
Journal of Legal Analysis

Algorithmic Harm in Consumer Markets

BKC Faculty Associate Oren Bar-Gill and co-director of Artificial Intelligence and Law Project Cass R. Sunstein, co-write with Inbal Talgam-Cohen on addressing the potential harms…

Aug 21, 2023
IEEE

A Categorization of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: The Case of the Aragon Platform

Andrea Peña-Calvin, Jorge Saldivar, Javier Arroyo, and Samer Hassan provide insights on decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs).

Aug 14, 2023
Lawfare

Regulating Commercial Spyware

BKC Faculty Associate Asaf Lubin argues that only a binding multistakeholder legal framework can effectively regulate a legitimate and efficiently controlled market for spyware.

Aug 9, 2023
The Washington Post

Meet the hackers who are trying to make AI go rogue

BKC Affiliate Rumman Chowdhury explains how embedded harms and biases complicate AI system red teaming efforts.

Aug 8, 2023
The Conversation

Re-imagining democracy for the 21st century, possibly without the trappings of the 18th century

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier reflects on his workshop that brought together a wide variety of people to discuss the reimagination of democracy for the twenty-first century.

Aug 7, 2023
Centro LatinoAmericano de Investigación Periodística

Clean Slate: how felons are erasing compromising news online

The Lumen database received a shoutout apropros the "back-dated article technique" whereby individuals, often using false credentials, are able to initiate takedown requests of…

Aug 4, 2023
Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research

ChatGPT for Social Work Science: Ethical Challenges and Opportunities

BKC Faculty Associates Desmond Patton and Siva Mathiyazhagan, and Aviv Landau describe the potential use of ChatGPT in social work science.

Aug 1, 2023
MIT Technology Review

Six ways that AI could change politics

BKC Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders propose six milestones that will bring in a new era of AI driven democratic politics.

Jul 28, 2023
New York Times

Researchers Poke Holes in Safety Controls of ChatGPT and Other Chatbots

BKC Affiliate Aviv Ovadya comments on a new report exposing holes in the guardrails of AI chatbots.

Jul 27, 2023
The Crimson

Harvard Law School and Berkman Klein Center Announce New AI and the Law Initiative

Harvard Law School and BKC announce a new initiative on AI and the law which will be directed by Harvard Law Professors Oren Bar-Gill and Cass R. Sunstein.

Jul 26, 2023
Government Technology

Can You Trust AI? Here’s Why You Shouldn’t

BKC Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders write about the potential risks and biases of AI.

Jul 20, 2023
Prospect Magazine

Want to stop harmful tech? Just say no

BKC Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman calls upon people to consider how technology is currently harming some groups and ways to end that harm. 

Jul 19, 2023
WIRED

Meta Ran a Giant Experiment in Governance. Now It’s Turning to AI

BKC Affiliate Aviv Ovadya writes about Meta's approach to governance of generative AI.

Jul 18, 2023
Slate

A.I. Microdirectives Could Soon Be Used for Law Enforcement

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier writes about the use of AI systems that is harming the most vulnerable society. 

Jul 17, 2023
POLITICO

Bias in AI is real. But it doesn’t have to exist.

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury shares thoughts about her hopes and fears for AI.

Jul 14, 2023