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A new bill would prevent tech companies from knowingly doing harm to their users.

There are good reasons to believe that deepfakes will not be a threat in the near future, and that they, in fact, may never pose a significant threat.

"By 2030, most social situations will be facilitated by bots"

Three dangerous properties of AI that could be setting us up for another painful process of self-correction

Harvard students participating in Harvard's inaugural Techtopia group on human rights, ethics, and artificial intelligence.

Technology and Development in an Anti-Black world for a better world require an inquiry into the nature of power.

This paper makes a case for comprehensive digital industrial policies that are differentiated and rooted in the broader reality of development and globalization in the fourth…

Hear from students participating in Harvard's inaugural Techtopia group on human rights, ethics, and artificial intelligence.

A new bill "leverages federal purchasing power to create pro-security market pressure and … serves as a model for the implementation of similar standards elsewhere."

Guaranteeing people’s confidentiality has become more of a challenge, but some scholars worry that the new system will impede research.

Professor Jonathan Zittrain discusses the social media giant’s ‘long year’ with Facebook's head of global policy management Monika Bickert.

What we learned about social innovation in Norway, how to map local innovation ecosystems and the challenges and opportunities that Norwegian social entrepreneurs confront.

The problem with “I’m just an engineer” isn’t the engineer’s inability to identify all relevant ethical implications — it’s that they don’t think it’s their job to do so.

After Tumblr’s recent announcement that it will no longer allow “adult content” many have been asking where fan creators, LGBTQ people, and support communities will go.

Hassan thinks of the blockchain within the context of how we use it to manage trust in large, decentralized communities.

Brittan Heller joins the Atlantic to explore the debate about free speech — on campuses, on tech platforms, and in our political life.

Her research focuses on how algorithms can be applied to health, education, and housing.

The HTML comments that create this layer of the Space Jam website vary in function, from guides to a digital space to declarative statements, distributed from its main navigation…

Should there be a public archive or public record of a politician's social media as soon as they become a public official?

Greater diversity within research communities can control for bias in this process.