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Faculty Associate Jon Penney's new book explores the weaponization of surveillance, censorship, and new technologies to repress and control us. Chilling Effects is available now…

Dariusz Jemielniak satirizes academics' hyperfixation on metrics.

Myojung Chung remarks on a recent study that complicates her previous work on young adults' algorithmic literacy.

Greg Gondwe studies the role of encrypted messaging apps (primarily WhatsApp) in spreading disinformation during South Africa's 2024 general elections.

Faculty Associate Kate Klonick and Alan Rozenshtein talk to Columbia law professor Tim Wu about Wu's new book, “The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and…

"Even with the support of new emerging regulations, independent researchers still face major barriers to accessing even basic social media data essential for studying everything…

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders look to examples from around the globe to anticipate how the 2026 midterm elections might be shaped by AI.

A new piece for CNET engages with Faculty Associate Leah Plunkett's work on "sharenthood."

Affiliate and former fellow Johanna Wild details her efforts to make it simpler for journalists to find and use open-source research tools.

In a new piece for PeerJ Computer Science, Faculty Associate Samer Hassan and coauthors chronicle the history of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) as a non-finance…

Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders argue that the future of AI's impacts on democratic processes is unwritten, and whether the technology is used to liberate or to…

Faculty Associates Larry Lessig and Bulelani Jili are among the amici curiae of a brief submitted to the US Supreme Court in Thaler v. Perlmutter, concerning an AI-generated work…

Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman casts a critical eye on OpenAI's Sora, an AI video generator. Owing to public backlash, OpenAI has opened itself up to requests from public…

Harvard Law Today's coverage of "Friend, Flatterer, or Foe?" highlights the ominous side of AI chatbots.

Jack Cushman joins the Pioneers and Pathfinders podcast, reflecting on his journey from programming to law school and on the skills that today's lawyers ought to hone to meet the…

Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders offer an optimistic outlook: AI-generated harms are neither natural nor inevitable, and beneficial uses of the technology are possible.

Mailyn Fidler details the recent UN Cybercrime Convention, arguing that most analyses have overlooked the Convention's implications for global mutual legal assistance, regardless…

The Harvard Crimson's Jen L. Phan recaps a recent conversation between Meg Marco, Jordi Weinstock, and Kashmir Hill surrounding the psychological effects of humans forming close …

Maroussia Lévesque and coauthor Sacha Alanoca argue that, despite its espousing free market ideals, the deregulatory narrative is a misconception.

Bruce Schneier and coauthor Gadi Evron discuss AI summarization optimization (AISO), the process by which meeting attendees adapt their speech to make it more rife for uptake by…