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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

Aparna Balagopalan

Aparna Balagopalan is a Research Scientist at WRITER in New York City.

Tim G. J. Rudner

Tim G. J. Rudner is an Assistant Professor of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto, a Faculty Member at the Vector Institute of…

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
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