In The Atlantic, Faculty Director Jonathan Zittrain probes policy questions raised by the “assumptions” large language models make about users. “Gleaning a model’s assumptions is just the beginning.

I am grateful to have been part of the first cohort of fellows at the Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Over the past six months, my fellowship has ...

"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 Instructor Alejandra ...

Scott Brennen and BKC Affiliate Zeve Sanderson warn about Congressional attempts to undermine states' ability to close the AI regulatory gap. They focus in particular on attempts to instate a ...

MuckRock hosted an online discussion among experts fighting for more meaningful transparency in the face of DOGE, including Clinical Instructor Mason Kortz. DOGE's "wall of receipts is not published ...

Jon Penney and Nathan Matias offer commentary on a 2023 lawsuit filed against Meta which alleged that its social media platforms harm young users' mental health. They provide tools for concretely ...

"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." Berkman Affiliate Allison ...

Rudy Fraser is a technologist and community organizer with over a decade of experience architecting IT systems and leading diverse technical teams. As a Fellow in the Applied Social Media Lab, Rudy is ...

In a newly-published report from Common Sense Media, Alexa Hasse — alongside co-authors Mary Madden, Angela Calvin, and Amanda Lenhart — illustrates the complex roles that rapidly-evolving generative ...

The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University proudly welcomes an extraordinary cohort of fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year. The cohort will embrace the three pillars of ...

"Training on AI-generated content probably wouldn’t make Adobe’s Firefly image generator less commercially safe, and the company isn’t required to say what it’s training on as long as it isn’t ...

The Cyberlaw Clinic supported a brief filed Monday on behalf of the art collective MSCHF and others to stage MetaBirkin NFTs as a part of a broad expressive tradition of appropriative references ...