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

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…

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

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

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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.

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

Noah Giansiracusa shares five key insights from his new book.

Alongside two coauthors, Bruce Schneier argues that the US government and semiconductor firms alike must enforce (and comply with the enforcement of) regulations.

RSM Visiting Scholar Noah Giansiracusa's new book explores how non-mathematicians can wield algorithmic tools to reclaim their agency.

Jasmine McNealy and coauthor Yewande Addie explore the ways that AI is shaping public health communications in Africa, focusing on vaccine hesitancy and maternal health.

Amanda Watson, Assistant Dean for Library and Information Sciences at HLS, credits early conversations with BKC's Jonathan Zittrain and Greg Leppert with helping her understand…

Mark Esposito focuses on the data center as a new "battleground" as countries fear that cross-national data processing and storage could put their citizens' digital and economic…

Ryan Kellett explores resistance to the "labels, markers, and/or pedigree of traditional journalism."

Elettra Bietti argues that data plays an infrastructural role in the AI and digital platform economy.