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WIRED

Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It's Not All Bad

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders offer a potentially optimistic outlook on AI and politics.

Nov 26, 2024
SSRN

The Next Phase of the Data Economy

Economic & Technological Perspectives

BKC affiliates and alumni are among the co-authors of a paper that envisions the future of the data economy.

Nov 25, 2024
Harvard Law Today

‘Facts can’t fix this’

Empathy, understanding, and less algorithmic amplification on social media platforms are the best ways to combat conspiracy theories, experts say at Berkman Klein Center event

BKC-Nieman Fellow Ben Reininga and Nieman Fellow Jesselyn Cook share their insights on how platforms navigate the spread of conspiracy theories, and the impact they have on…

Nov 24, 2024
The Hill

Democrats flee X for Bluesky amid Musk-Trump alliance

ASML's Jonathan Bellack weighs in on the uptick in Twitter/X users migrating to Bluesky.

Nov 23, 2024
Lumen

Lumen Researcher Interview Series: Phineas Rueckert - Forbidden Stories

Phineas Rueckert, a lead Project Coordinator at Forbidden Stories, discusses his organization's collaborations with Lumen.

Nov 21, 2024
New America

Benefits of Open-Source AI

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

Nov 21, 2024
New America

PIT in Action: Climate

Jasmine McNealy moderates a conversation exploring how technology can be a tool - though not a wholesale solution - in combatting the climate crisis.

Nov 21, 2024
Business Insider

People Want Old Twitter Back - so They're Flocking to Bluesky

Jonathan Bellack comments on momentum shifts as users flee Elon Musk's X.

Nov 18, 2024
The Roko Report

SEO for AI

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

Nov 17, 2024
IEEE Spectrum

Meta Opens Its AI Models for the (U.S.) Military

But will the second Trump administration see AI as a friend or foe?

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

Nov 17, 2024
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

Building a better lawyer

Experimental evidence that artificial intelligence can increase legal work efficiency

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…

Nov 17, 2024
Fortune

People are fleeing Elon Musk’s X for Threads and Bluesky. Welcome to the era of social media fragmentation

Bellack comments on the growing "X diaspora" as users flee to other platforms.

Nov 14, 2024
The Associated Press

Trump has promised to ‘save TikTok’. What happens next is less clear

Leah Plunkett analyzes a proposed statute banning the app in the United States.

Nov 12, 2024
Tech News World

AI Search Threatens Digital Economy, Warns Researcher

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

Nov 12, 2024
Technical.ly

How hackathon winner ‘Curious GeorgePT’ works to reduce AI bias

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

Nov 11, 2024
Association for Computing Machinery

Code-ifying the Law

How Disciplinary Divides Afflict the Development of Legal Software

Ben Green and colleagues note disciplinary divides in the ways that computer scientists and legal experts translate law into code.

Nov 8, 2024
Bloomberg Law

AI Workers Seek Whistleblower Cover to Expose Emerging Threats

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

Nov 4, 2024
NPR

Social media's lax rules around misinformation worry election watchers

Marshall Van Alstyne raises concerns about platforms enabling election conspiracies.

Nov 4, 2024
EdTech Magazine

How Personhood Credentials Could Impact Higher Education

This new type of identity verification aims to separate humans from artificial intelligence.

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

Nov 4, 2024
The New Yorker

The Artificial State

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

Nov 4, 2024