Ethics and Governance of AI

Dr. AJ Escoffery created a comic workbook and guide based on his forthcoming Reparative Media (MIT Press, 2025). 

Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier liken rapid AI development to the social media boom of the past two decades.

"Governments must grapple with artificial intelligence (AI) and not simply consign its development and application to corporate entities," argue Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders…

"Epistemicide—the killing, silencing, annihilation, or devaluing of a knowledge system—occurs when epistemic injustices become persistent and systematic, operating collectively as…

Affiliates Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier suggest that, though the technology undoubtedly has its risks, AI presents opportunities "to make democracy better, stronger, and more…

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

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 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.

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…

George Chalhoub weighs in on the integration of AI into web browsers amid the unveiling of ChatGPT Atlas.

In a new piece for ImpactAlpha, Paul Fehlinger urges investors to disentangle investing in AI from investing with AI.

"Technology isn't neutral; it's ambivalent."

Bruce Schneier and coauthor Barath Raghavan argue that the OODA (observe, orient, decide, act) loop poses problems for agentic AI.

AI's influence on the 2026 electoral cycle will be greater than what many feared leading to 2024, warn Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders. In a new piece for The American Prospect,…

Bruce Schneier and coauthors caution that cyber attackers are now using AI agents to automate some parts of the hacking process, meaning that future attacks may supersede our…

Faculty Associate David Nemer and coauthor André Sobal draw attention to the human labor powering purportedly autonomous AI systems. AI systems are, they argue, "heteromated": …

A year out from the 2026 midterm elections, Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier expect that AI use will differ along party lines, with Republicans "poised to exploit the technology"…

Jasmine McNealy and coauthor Yewande O. Addie summarize the results of their recent Oxford-published study in which they found that AI-generated health messaging (and traditional…

Forbes contributor Lance Eliot recaps the first event of the Fall 2025 Speaker Series: "Belief, Uncertainty, and Truth in Language Models" featuring Jacob Andreas and moderated by…

Faculty Associate Trebor Scholz and Stefano Tortorici ask whether AI can be wielded as tools of solidarity and collective power, despite the technology's extant environmental…

Chief AI Scientist Joshua Joseph and coauthor Kevin Frazier discuss some of the policy questions raised by AI agents' 'memories' of the users interacting with them.

George Chalhoub argues for transparent and enforceable guidelines for regulating the use of AI in scientific peer review.

The Harvard Gazette shared a writeup of the inaugural Speaker Series event of the 2025-2026 academic year.

Chief AI Scientist Josh Joseph and BKC RA Seán Boddy address the risks that misalignment and loss of control pose to increasingly complex LLM-based agents.

Mark Esposito and coauthor Ava Fitoussy caution that, despite the potential for increased efficiency amid record numbers of job applicants, AI-powered recruitment makes the need…

Affiliate Backtosch Mustafa asks whether agentic AI - AI systems that are nearly or fully autonomous - could solve some patients' difficulties with accessing maternal health care…

Armando Guio Español reflects on Colombia's national AI strategy, its reception, and what a more aggressive and adaptive AI agenda for Latin America might look like.

Faculty Associate Allison Stanger argues that technology firms (particularly AI companies) are demonstrating an accelerated replication of past colonization.

Anupam Chander considers regulations governing AI training in the US, EU, Japan, and China.

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…

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

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

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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

In a symposium post for Opinio Juris, Lubin examines how AI-driven private security contractors are pushing beyond the limits of the International Code of Conduct for Private…

Jonathan Zittrain and Aleksander Mądry discuss the challenges (and potential benefits) of living alongside increasingly autonomous AI as the technology approaches AGI.

Sahana Udupa sits down with Germany's DW News to discuss Elon Musk's Grok, including the chatbot's tendency to generate hateful extremist content under the guise of 'fun'…

Northeastern's Khoury College shares the news of Upol Ehsan's BKC Fellowship.

Jonathan Zittrain sits down with Jon Favreau to discuss how and why human-AI interactions can go wrong.

Affiliate Bao Kham Chau and coauthor George He argue that the U.S., EU, and China all fail to hold the "landlords of creativity" accountable for AI misuse and abuse.

Manon Revel and coauthor Théophile Pénigaud provide insight into AI-driven democratic transformations intended to optimize collective decision-making processes. "We do not claim…

The Data | Art Symposium co-organized by Kim Albrecht and Jeffrey Schnapp brought together artists and technologists to explore the interplay of algorithms and the aesthetic.

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders speak to fears about AI replacing humans' jobs, opining that this will only happen when it outperforms us in terms of speed, scale, scope, and/or…

Ifeoma Ajunwa and two coauthors caution that clinicians have reason to be wary of AI models trained on their data, warning that such model might come to be tools of surveillance.

Greg Leppert weighs in on AI developers' use of written texts, rather than simply digital ones, to train LLMs.

Rumman Chowdhury cautions that, no matter how useful AI can be, users shouldn't have it do their thinking for them.

Faculty Associate Ben Green exposes some of the challenges to Elon Musk's purported goal of using AI to reduce government spending.

Faculty Director Jonathan Zittrain probes policy questions raised by the “assumptions” large language models make about users.

"Trump’s push to 'eliminate silos' is being sold as a modernization drive against fraud and waste, but it is building the architecture of a digital dictatorship." Cyberlaw Clinic…

With Sacha Alanoca and Kevin Klyman, Affiliates Shira Gur-Arieh and Tom Zick “present a taxonomy to map the global landscape of AI regulation.”

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders offer some optimistic reflections on the rise of AI-written legislation, though they concede that such AI use should be disclosed.

Scott Brennen and BKC Affiliate Zeve Sanderson warn about Congressional attempts to undermine states' ability to close the AI regulatory gap.

Deb Roy, Larry Lessig, and Audrey Tang coauthored an essay highlighting the need for AI tools that support meaningful civic discourse in the face of rampant polarization and…

Ben Brooks joins Lawfare's Kevin Frazier to discuss the domestic and international ramifications of open-sourcing AI models.

Camille Stewart Gloster and Afua Bruce argue that large companies should consider dedicating training and support resources to aid small businesses in adopting AI responsibly and…

Can artificial intelligence supplant friendship by providing quality communication?

Read Affiliate Joe Bak-Coleman's contribution to the UN Human Development Report 2025, with advisory input from Faculty Associate Arvind Narayanan and alums J. Nathan Matias and…

"Treating AGI as a milestone for the development of transformative AI is seductive but misguided." Faculty Associate Arvind Narayanan and Affiliate Sayash Kapoor argue that AGI is…

“A piece of performance art, or simply marketing, that involved using a pen name.” Director and Faculty Chair, Jonathan Zittrain comments on Andrea Colmedici's AI generated book…

Faculty Associate Elissa Redmiles and coauthors conducted an empirical study evaluating non-experts' intuitions about AI-generated art and copyright law.

Dia Kayyali spoke to Petra Molnar and other experts to ascertain how the Trump administration is using AI for immigration enforcement.

BKC Director James Mickens, along with Sarah Radway and Ravi Netravali, treat advanced AI as potentially rogue actors.

The blending of generative AI with strategic foresight practices means that algorithms can predict trends with uncanny accuracy, writes Mark Esposito.

Virgilio Almeida and coauthors explore the (false) tension between regulation and innovation, arguing that democratic regulation can ensure that citizens have a role in shaping…

Faculty Associate Arvind Narayanan joined the New York Times podcast Hard Fork to unpack his paper coauthored with Sayash Kapoor, "AI as Normal Technology," which challenges…

In a paper drafted in 2023-4, Chinmayi Arun argues that the most influential AI companies are shaping AI’s transnational legal order and regulatory discourse to protect their…

Magda Romanska argues that we're nearing a frightening form of technological totalitarianism.

Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor challenge notions of AI as an existential threat.

In a new paper, Maroussia Lévesque asks who controls AI regulation - and whether they're who we want in the driver's seat.

In a Harvard Law Review note, Affiliate Dylan Moses explores how generative AI challenges legal frameworks long relied on to manage platform liability, arguing that we can’t…

Faculty Associate Zahra Takhshid explores how large language models will impact authority in Shia Islam.

Rumman Chowdhury joins Science Friday to discuss the state of artificial general intelligence.

Affiliate Nathan Sanders and Alex Pascal argue that better AI futures are possible, particularly if the technology is responsibly deployed by states.

In a new report for Mozilla, Beatriz Botera Arcila explores how liability law can help make sense of the complex nature of responsibility with respect to AI.

BKC Affiliate Nana Mgbechikwere Nwachukwu argues that the AI-creator relationship as it exists is exploitative -- but it need not be.

Affiliate Sean Harvey examines the troubling rise of deepfakes, calling for stronger detection tools to curb their growing impact.

Mason Kortz weighs in on whether the Arizona Supreme Court's experimental AI avatars will resonate with the Court's audience.

Faculty Associate Ben Green critiques DOGE’s AI-driven overhaul of the federal government, warning of misinterpretations, accountability failures, and harmful consequences.

RSM Visiting Scholar Allison Stanger examines the dangers of DOGE’s access to government data and its implications for AI development and democracy.

Faculty Associates Arvind Narayanan and Elissa Redmiles, along with Affiliates Aviv Ovadya and Nathaniel Lubin, contribute to a roadmap for designing recommender systems that…

Wendy Chun, Christian Sandvig, and Christo Wilson participated in a panel to determine what makes an AI audit effective and trustworthy.

BKC Affiliate Jenn Louie weighs in on how AI might inform our understandings of humanity, morality, and meaning-making.

Lauren Bridges weighs in on the environmental impact of AI data centers.

Nick Couldry and Paola Ricaurte, members of the Non-Allied Tech Movement, signed onto a letter advocating for a more inclusive and democratic approach to digital governance. "We…

"This phenomenon can no longer be explained through the rubric of ‘surveillance capitalism’ since the point is not merely to make money by tracking what users do."

"Without the appropriate safeguards, AI for Good initiatives can be easily manipulated to serve as a new method of innovation arbitrage."

"The history of love and the history of technology have always been intertwined."

"Absent legal intervention, we are on a path toward a scientific approach to management that prioritizes efficiency and deploys AI technologies to maximize output through the…

"The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, but…

"The question facing Americans isn’t whether government needs modernization – it’s whether they’re willing to sacrifice democracy in pursuit of Musk’s version of efficiency."

"The idea of replacing dedicated and principled civil servants with AI agents, however, is new—and complicated."

Knight Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury warns that “AI for Good” initiatives can exploit under-resourced communities as test grounds for unproven tech.

"Instead of pulling up the drawbridge, the U.S. should commit to ensuring that powerful models remain openly available."

“Firms have set out to quantify or reduce all elements of workers’ experience to data.”

Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders warn of the risks posed by DOGE’s extreme approach to AI implementation.

Fellow Ben Brooks comments on responses to DeepSeek’s open-source R1 model.

Mike Ananny's research on how media unions - e.g., WGAE - respond to AI is cited.

“Too accurate AI could imminently create substantial particularized harms to individuals as well as widely dispersed costs to society,” argues Faculty Associate Aileen Nielsen.

Ben Reininga weighs in on how media outlets can responsibly use AI.

Florian Martin-Bariteau and colleagues are releasing a global policy brief to provide policymakers with actionable globally-oriented policy guidance on the impact of AI on…

Ethan Zuckerman and coauthors raise concerns about AI companies using user-generated social media data to train their LLMs.

Fellow Upol Ehsan discusses his own academic background and surveys the challenges of defining AI and setting the parameters for its application in the Global South.

Chinmayi Arun lays out AI's emerging legal order and shows how relying solely on domestic regulations is shortsighted.

RSM Visiting Scholar Allison Stanger advocates for regulatory guardrails in the AI landscape.

We've gotten the hang of correcting and preventing human actors' mistakes, but how ought we to prepare for new kinds of mistakes wrought by AI, ask Bruce Schneier and Nathan…

Affiliate Ram Shankar Siva Kumar and coauthors suggest ways that Microsoft and other tech giants can mitigate the security risks inherent in emerging AI technologies.

BKC faculty associate and Campus AI board member, Dariusz Jemielniak, argues, we need a clear rule, a Fourth Law of Robotics—as an addition to Asimov’s classic code.

Ben Brooks and Michelle Fang argue that legislators ought to be more concerned about other nations openly sharing AI models that could undercut the US's dominance in the field.

With a group of coauthors, RSM Visiting Scholar Marshall Van Alstyne asks when AI is the right tool for the job.

Virgilio Almeida and coauthors, argue that recommendation algorithms can and should be governed democratically.

BKC Director and co-founder Jonathan Zittrain breaks ChatGPT.

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders join Jennifer Smith to discuss ways to wield AI toward pro-democratic ends.

Mark Esposito examines how governments around the world are beginning to deploy AI.

Nick Couldry offers his vision of the future, and of AI's role in it.

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders suggest that AI's history is not its destiny.

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders observe that AI's role in 2024 elections wasn't as disastrous as some had feared.

Juan Carlos De Martin proposes "the computerization of the world" as a new way of capturing the sentiment of "the Digital Revolution," and suggests three goals that today's…

Paola Ricaurte Quijano, expert committee member, and colleagues at the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence launch the report "Towards Substantive Equality in Artificial…

Petra Molnar highlights how surveillance technology firms profit from harsh anti-immigration policies in the US, Canada, and the EU.

Ben Brooks cautions that the risks of AI systems depend on more than models themselves.

SEO wizards are quietly reshaping AI's digital playground, warns Sean Harvey.

Ben Brooks weighs in on Meta's decision to allow the U.S. government to use its Llama LLM for national security purposes.

Faculty Associate Aileen Nielsen and coauthors explore human-machine cooperation in legal practice, running an experiment "on the causal impact of machine assistance on the…

Ben Brooks warns that the AI search industry threatens to disrupt the digital economy.

Jay Beck weighs in on Curious GeorgePT, an AI model developed to allow for more targeted responses to prompts.

Larry Lessig calls for more direct governmental regulation of AI companies.

Tom Zick weighs in on the utility of personhood credentials for combatting AI in higher education.

Can American politics reckon with the age of AI? Larry Lessig raises a warning flag.

Larry Lessig cautions that our political systems aren't well-equipped for AI integration.

How should privacy law protect consumers from AI?

Dasha Pruss and Petra Molnar critique carceral uses of AI and offer suggestions for mitigating this technology's use.

The future of AI-powered search engines is at stake in an emerging suit against Perplexity AI.

When does students' A.I. use constitute a violation of existing plagiarism policies?

Ulises Mejías and Nick Couldry propose data colonialism as a paradigm for understanding Big Tech's data practices.

Marissa Gerchick and Olga Askelrod detail the ACLU's complaints against Aon, a hiring technology company.

Ethan Zuckerman calls for a revaluation of the Luddite ethos.

Paola Ricaurte Quijano explores how AI development tracks and reinforces gaps in social capital.

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders warn that AI will complicate the SEC's financially cutting in whistleblowers.

Nathan Sanders weighs in on a debate between two Virginia congressional candidates and an AI bot.

BKC director Jonathan Zittrain explains what AI agents are, and why we need to regain control of them.

Chinmayi Arun studies the impact of AI tools on the Majority World, arguing that it constitutes a form of global imperialism.

Urs Gasser and Mark Esposito contributed to a white paper giving policymakers and regulators implementable strategies for AI governance.

Teens' use of AI may be cause for concern.

Ifeoma Ajunwa argues that we can apply Afrofuturist principles to ensure that AI is being harnessed for the collective good.

We could soon see the fallout from a hands-off approach to AI regulation.

"As developers and stewards of AI technology, we have a critical responsibility. We must advance AI capabilities and simultaneously develop robust safeguards to protect users,…

Concrete recommendations for how the EU's AI Act can be fortified.

How could global citizen deliberation shape the future of artificial intelligence?

Is the way the internet has been regulated over the last three decades a cautionary tale?

"It’s like saying that a bill addressing wildfire risks should be rejected because it doesn’t address flooding risks."

The Cyberlaw Clinic aided the Public Interest Patent Law Institute in filing comments stressing the importance of human inventorship and urging the USPTO to remain vigilant about…

What mistakes have AI companies made, and what challenges should they anticipate?

SJ Klein and colleagues call for AI infrastructure built for the public good.

Joseph B. Walther and colleagues find that AI doctors are most effective when they draw from patients' social information, and enable privacy controls.

Ruth Okediji notes that the EU's AI Act codifies value differences between the EU and the US.

Lawrence Lessig argues highlights important differences between AI models and other sorts of software more amenable to open-source principles.

David Weinberger examines the business world's engagement with AI through four key examples: strategy, talent management, leadership roles, and supply chain management.

Bridget Todd highlights the harms that AI-written, automatically-generated obituaries do to grievers.

Dasha Pruss and co-author Marta Ziosi discuss their paper, "“Evidence of What, for Whom? The Socially Contested Role of Algorithmic Bias in a Predictive Policing Tool."

Jonathan Zittrain writes about the potentially devastating consequences of automated bots.

Bruce Schneier co-writes that the increased prominance of data and algorithms have shifted power and culture from nations to corporations. 

Ethan Zuckerman writes about the relationship between human-generated content and AI models on the internet.

BKC Faculty Associate Seiji Isotani has been elected president of the International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society (IAIED).

Woodrow Hartzog argues "if lawmakers do not address the dynamics of dangerous extraction, harmful normalization, and adversarial self-dealing, then AI systems will likely be used…

BKC Senior Director of Programs and Strategy Lis Sylvan and former BKC Research Assistant Niharika Vattikonda summarize the Global Network of Internet and Society Research Center…

Jabari Evans writes about AI's role in music and lyric generation.

Bruce Schneier writes about data and technology in human society.

Petra Molnar discusses AI surveillance at the border.

Nadah Feteih discusses tech ethics and activism from within the tech industry, particularly from trust and safety team members.

Zahra Takhshid argues that personal data should be protected by the privacy tort of appropriation.

Rebecca Tushnet spoke to Bloomberg about the training of Adobe's AI tool Firefly

Maitreya Shah spoke about his work centering experiences of people with disabilities. 

Petra Molnar writes about the AI technology incorporated at the southern border and the human rights implications.

BKC Affiliate Rumman Chowdhury emphasizes the importance of community engagement while engaging a conversation on responsible integration of AI.

Jonnie Penn argues that the increased incorporation of AI into our lives may harm our basic hygiene.

BKC Affiliates Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier argue that the unregulated evolution of social media over the past few decades provides lessons for the AI revolution.

BKC Faculty Associate Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor argue that current safety efforts are limited because AI safety is not a model property.

Nathaniel Lubin writes about internet "junkification."

Susan Benesch writes about how online debate should not be outsourced to AI

Sameer Hinduja, Nighat Dad, and coauthors detail the troubling proliferation of deepfakes and the various legal, technological, and even user-education-focused interventions…

Can AI errors help users?

Nathan Sanders, Bruce Schneier, and Norman Eisen advocate for a public AI to counterbalance private AI and promote tech that benefits all people, not just corporate interests.

BKC Affiliate Maroussia Lévesque facilitated a conversation between Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella and BKC Director Martha Minow on equity, equality, and fairness in the time of…

BKC Alumnus Ellery Roberts Biddle ruminates on social media companies' past mistakes and the potential to continue making such mistakes with the AI revolution.

BKC Affiliates Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier argue that big tech uses the conception of AI as a new "frontier" to excuse exploitation and a lack of oversight or accountability.

BKC Affiliate Hilary Ross, Jason Pielemeier, and Ramsha Jahangir critique the EU DSA audits.

David Weinberger views machine learning through a feminist ethical framework.

Professors Finale Doshi-Velez and Elena Glassman, with assistance from the Cyberlaw Clinic, submitted an administrative comment on AI to the National Institute of Standards and…

BKC Affiliate Kathy Pham draws on her own experience enrolling her children in summer camp to shed light on AI's current shortcomings: despite the hype, AI is not well equipped to…

BKC Faculty Associate Alicia Solow-Niederman analyzes real world examples of standards to show an inconvenient truth: that standards are neither objective nor neutral.

BKC Affiliate Kathy Pham argues that Large Language Models and other AI systems will only reach their full potential when a broader set of people build them.

BKC Affiliate Ashley Lee and Victoria Hsieh discuss the future of ethics as a component of education on AI.

Aviv Ovadya speaks to The Washington Post about AI and the 2024 elections across the country. 

Bruce Schneier co-authors a piece in The Atlantic discussing human interactions and the impacts of AI on them.

BKC Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman argues that the power struggle between AI “doomers” and AI “accelerationists” will define the way this world-changing technology evolves.

Bruce Schneier explains the need for a rethinking of trust and governance to prepare for the future of AI.

“It just makes the generation and dissemination of very realistic deepfakes and realistic-seeming deepfakes much, much easier,” Rumman Chowdhury told Foreign Policy when…

Bruce Schneier writes about the potential for AI to remove bottlenecks.

Andres Lombana-Bermudez, Faculty Associate at BKC, discusses the issue of lack of diversity and representation in technology fields.

Andres Lombana-Bermudez spoke to CNN about how more diversity can help to combat bias in AI

BKC Affiliate Kim Albrecht discusses his project to map ChatGPT's knowledge base. Albrecht chose to focus on ChatGPT's outputs to learn about the chatbot's worldview.

Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury discusses the worry that we are giving the keys to our society to a small group of companies that have shown they cannot be fully trusted.

On the Law and Political Economy Project blog, Salomé Viljoen, Ifeoma Ajunwa, and Elettra Bietti are among a group of scholars who provide initial reactions to President Biden's…

BKC Affiliate Maroussia Lévesque connects the recent OpenAI boardroom drama to a larger lurking problem: the tremendous concentration of power in the artificial…

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier discusses the complicated relationship between trust and AI and the need for building trustworthy AI.

Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury explores technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) in an era of generative AI.

BKC Affiliate Alexa Hasse examines how they might change trust in our human social relationships.

RSM Employee Fellow Nadah Feteih argues that reactive measures to address biased AI features and the spread of misinformation on social media platforms are not enough.

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier explores beyond AI generated disinformation to detail other novel ways in which AI might alter how democracy functions.

BKC Faculty Associate Petra Molnar challenges us to consider the potential impact of generative AI on the surveillance of borders and of migrants.

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury discusses how to act responsibly with AI development.

BKC Director Jonathan Zittrain and BKC Alumnus Kashmir Hill discuss Hill's new book, "Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It."

BKC Affiliate Micaela Mantegna joins a World Economic Forum discussion on the new world of work brought on by digitalization and the development of AI.

BKC Faculty Associate Jasmine McNealy explains why rural communities must be included in the development of policies related to artificial intelligence. 

BKC Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders explore the patchwork of organizations charged with regulating AI usage in political campaign ads.

With the European Sex Workers Rights Alliance, BKC Faculty Associate Elissa M. Redmiles provides recommendations for tech platforms to reduce image based sexual abuse. 

Russell Newman, Nick Couldry, Velislava Hillman, Mitzi László and Gregory Narr discuss the comments to the US Federal Trade Commission's Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on…

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury comments on the EU’s Digital Services Act.

BKC Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders opine on the great power that AI will have once it is capable of using real-world tools and urge that companies and regulators…

BKC Faculty Associate Beatriz Botero Arcila examines the question of how to regulate large language models to minimize risks while still allowing for potential benefits to be…

BKC Affiliate Rumman Chowdhury explains how embedded harms and biases complicate AI system red teaming efforts.

BKC Faculty Associates Desmond Patton and Siva Mathiyazhagan, and Aviv Landau describe the potential use of ChatGPT in social work science.

BKC Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders propose six milestones that will bring in a new era of AI driven democratic politics.

BKC Affiliate Aviv Ovadya comments on a new report exposing holes in the guardrails of AI chatbots.

BKC Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders write about the potential risks and biases of AI.

BKC Affiliate Aviv Ovadya writes about Meta's approach to governance of generative AI.

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury shares thoughts about her hopes and fears for AI.

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury answers questions about technology and the future.

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan argue that the American people should receive compensation for their data, the very data that AI companies rely on to innovate.

BKC Directors Rebecca Tushnet and Jonathan Zittrain comment on legal and ethical challenges that are associated with the development of AI.

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury comments on how the AI systems in banking are biased against marginalized communities.

BKC Affiliate Juan Ortiz Freuler asserts that the adoption of AI is fueling a probabilistic shift in worldview.

BKC Affiliate Nathan Sanders writes about the drawbacks and the opportunities AI can provide to strengthen democracy.

BKC Assistant Director of the Cyberlaw Clinic Jessica Fjeld writes about the challenges that arise in the realm of copyright law due to the increased use of generative AI. 

Sue Hendrickson and BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury write about the role of global governance alongside the development of AI.

BKC Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders write about the need for AI investment to be taken out of the hands of private companies.

BKC Affiliate Micaela Mantegna discusses Apple's AI philosophy and approach to the Vision Pro which largely ignored generative AI applications.

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier writes about the open-source future of generative AI.

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury is interviewed about bridging the gap between people and technology.

BKC Affiliate Joseph Bak-Coleman, BKC Director James Mickens, and BKC Faculty Associate Zeynep Tufekci write to advocate for an intergovernmental panel to synthesize the evidence…