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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
New Private Markets

LPs are grappling with AI and data risks, but incentives are misaligned

BKC Affiliate Paul Fehlinger and coauthor Johannes Lenhard detail extant conflicts between institutional Limited Partners (LPs) and the emerging AI data economy.

Sep 4, 2025
Lawfare

Contrasting and Conflicting Efforts to Regulate Big Tech

EU vs. U.S.

Faculty Associate Kate Klonick discusses how the EU and the U.S. regulate Big Tech in differing and sometimes conflicting ways.

Sep 4, 2025
AI Frontiers

Precaution Shouldn't Keep Open-Source AI Behind the Frontier

Invoking speculative risks to keep our most capable models behind paywalls could create a new form of digital feudalism.

Ben Brooks makes the case that frontier AI models should be open source, critiquing recent moves by companies like OpenAI and Meta.

Aug 31, 2025
Six Pixels of Separation

Noah Giansiracusa On The Algorithms That Run Your Life

Noah Giansiracusa discusses how users can reclaim control over their tech-mediated lives by garnering a stronger understanding of how algorithms work, and how they are used to…

Aug 31, 2025
Time

TIME100 AI 2025

Two BKC community members - Paola Ricaurte and Latanya Sweeney - were named to Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in AI.

Aug 28, 2025
NOEMA

We Failed The Misinformation Fight. Now What?

Defending democracy in the digital age will require moving beyond the focus of fighting online misinformation.

Zeve Sanderson and Scott Babwah Brennen write that the persistence of misinformation despite several years' worth of countering efforts begets three novel critiques of the…

Aug 26, 2025
Purewow

Why Do People Watch Reality TV?

AJ Escoffery shares reality TV memories and weighs in on the genre's sociocultural importance.

Aug 26, 2025
Tech Policy Press

Policy Directions on Encrypted Messaging and Extreme Speech

Sahana Udupa and coauthors explore regulatory efforts toward curtailing extreme speech on encrypted messaging platforms such WhatsApp.

Aug 22, 2025
arXiv

Democratic AI is Possible. The Democracy Levels Framework Shows How It Might Work.

Aviv Ovadya, Manon Revel, and Amy X. Zhang provide a map of what meaningful democratic AI governance and alignment look like.

Aug 21, 2025
IEEE Spectrum

The AI Agents of Tomorrow Need Data Integrity

Affiliate Bruce Schneier and coauthor Davi Ottenheimer argue that the emergence of AI agents in the (near) Web 3.0 future necessitates data integrity, in the sense that users…

Aug 18, 2025
Harvard Law Today

The algorithm thinks you’re rich. Prepare to pay more for that flight.

Airlines and other companies are increasingly using data to determine pricing, says a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

In an interview with Harvard Law Today, Noah Giansiracusa explains how companies deploy what some call "dynamic" or “surveillance pricing,” using individual customers' data as a…

Aug 15, 2025
Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

How to reconcile technology and justice in the circular economy

The innovation of open-source mid-tech solutions

Vasilis Kostakis and coauthor Dimitris Dalakoglou explore the ways that open-sourcing can help to reconcile the demands of technological advancement and social justice. "While…

Aug 13, 2025
SSRN

Law is vulnerable to AI influence; interface design can help

Faculty Associate Aileen Nielsen and coauthors push against the legal community's "uncritical acceptance of the chat interface for LLM-assisted work," arguing that improved…

Aug 12, 2025
NPR

Boston Public Library aims to increase access to a vast historic archive using AI

BKC's Chief Technologist Greg Leppert details the collaboration between the Boston Public Library, HLS, and OpenAI.

Aug 11, 2025
Nieman

With Cuts to Federal Funding, How Will Public Media in the U.S. Survive?

The closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will hurt NPR and PBS, but the most immediate and devastating blow will be to the communities that rely on public broadcasting.

BKC Director Martha Minow reflects on how community news outlets have been impacted by the Trump administration's cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Aug 8, 2025
Time

How the Secret Algorithms Behind Social Media Actually Work

How do the algorithms that populate our social media feeds actually work?

Aug 7, 2025