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Larry Lessig cautions that our political systems aren't well-equipped for AI integration.
Larry Lessig
Israel’s Techno-Violence, A Litmus Test for Technologists
The military tactics used within Palestine and Lebanon demand a reckoning with the "normalization of techno-terror."
Afsaneh Rigot
How should privacy law protect consumers from AI?
Woodrow Hartzog
Judith Donath likens AI 'decision-making' to a coin flip.
Judith Donath
Critical Report on Carceral AI
Dasha Pruss, Petra Molnar, and Marissa Gerchick critique carceral uses of AI and offer suggestions for mitigating this technology's use.
Dasha Pruss
Marissa Gerchick
Petra Molnar
Developers should act before governments fall back on blunt tools.
The future of AI-powered search engines is at stake in an emerging suit against Perplexity AI.
Ben Brooks
Section 230 Should Protect Human Speech, Not Algorithmic Virality
We must rethink Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to both protect free speech and curtail harassment.
Allison Stanger
Audrey Tang
SEAS symposium explores engineering contributions of Indigenous peoples
Fellow Francisco Marmolejo-Cossío participated in a recent SEAS Symposium on Indigenous approaches to engineering.
Francisco Marmolejo Cossío
Jeffrey Hall joins Leah Smart to discuss the toxic relationships we have with our phones.
Jeffrey Hall
ASML's Darius Kazemi makes a case for the Fediverse Schema Observatory, a means of increasing interoperability among decentralized and federated social media networks.
Darius Kazemi
A student punished for cheating is suing their school. Now what?
When does students' A.I. use constitute a violation of existing plagiarism policies?
Jane Rosenzweig
Ulises Mejías and Nick Couldry propose data colonialism as a paradigm for understanding Big Tech's data practices.
Nick Couldry
Ulises Mejías
Grade-tracking apps are giving kids anxiety
Leah Plunkett raises privacy concerns with student-tracking apps.
Leah Plunkett
Marissa Gerchick and Olga Askelrod detail the ACLU's complaints against Aon, a hiring technology company.
Artificial intelligence is unavoidable. But can we resist some of its progress?
Ethan Zuckerman calls for a revaluation of the Luddite ethos.
Ethan Zuckerman
How the Youth in Zambia Use Mundane Technology to Circumvent Government Surveillance and Censorship.
Greg Gondwe explores Zambian youth's sophisticated digital activism in the wake of the 2020 youth protests.
Greg Gondwe
Paola Ricaurte Quijano explores how AI development tracks and reinforces gaps in social capital.
Paola Ricaurte Quijano
Safra Center for Ethics debate weighs extreme wealth, philanthropy, income inequality, and redistribution
Nien-hê Hsieh considers the conditions under which mega-wealth might be permissible.
Nien-hê Hsieh
Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders warn that AI will complicate the SEC's financially cutting in whistleblowers.
Bruce Schneier
Nathan Sanders
VCs and Policymakers Need a New Platform to Scale Responsible Innovation
Paul Fehlinger and Linda Griffin argue for a platform bridging the venture capital and policymaking worlds.
Paul Fehlinger