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Jordi Weinstock

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Jordi Weinstock is a Senior Advisor to Harvard’s Institute for Rebooting Social Media. He has served as a Lecturer at Harvard Law School in Internet & Society: the Technologies and Politics of Control, Medical Artificial Intelligence: Ethics, Law, & Policy, Autonomous Vehicles and the Law, and Programming For Lawyers. He has also appeared as a guest lecturer for Anatomy of a Copyright Case, Torts, Contemporary Issues in Foreign Intelligence Gathering, Digital Platforms, Cyberlaw and Intellectual Property: Advanced Problem Solving Workshop, and MIT's the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence. Along with Jonathan Zittrain, Jordi is the co-author of Torts!, a tort law casebook published by MIT Press. 

Outside of legal academia, Jordi has offered guidance and advice to a wide array of projects at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, and the Law School at large. Most prominently, he was the founder of and subsequent advisor to the Assembly program at the Berkman Klein Center. He also has served as an advisor for the H2O digital casebook platform, the Webby award-winning Perma.cc citation archiving project, and the Caselaw Access Project.

Jordi has also appeared as a guest lecturer at the Harvard Medical School on patient perspectives on neurological illness and is an advocate for the Multiple Sclerosis community.

Projects & Tools

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media is a three-year "pop-up" initiative that will address the biggest questions in social media and beyond...

Past

Assembly: Disinformation

The Assembly: Disinformation Program brings together participants from academia, industry, government, and civil society from across disciplines to explore and make progress on…

Community

Harvard Law Today

Your chatbot may be the friend that isn't

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

Oct 30, 2025
The Harvard Crimson

NYT Journalist Kashmir Hill Warns Emotional Reliance on AI Could Blur Boundaries Between Help and Harm

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 …

Oct 24, 2025

Events

Event
Oct 23, 2025 @ 4:00 PM

Friend, Flatterer, or Foe? The Psychology and Liability of Chatbots

PUBLIC EVENT

As AI systems become more conversational, the lines between tool, companion, and manipulator are blurring. What happens when machines start telling us what we want to hear—and…

Event
Sep 10, 2025 @ 12:20 PM

BKC 2025-2026 Student Launch

Welcome, Harvard Students!

You're Invited: Berkman Klein Center Student LaunchThe Berkman Klein Center looks forward to welcoming students into our orbit for the 2025-2026 academic year. Join us for one or…