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 sophistication.

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

BKC Affiliate Kathy Pham introduces The United States Digital Service Origins, an oral history of the USDS featuring nearly 50 interviews telling the story of technology and government.

Affiliate Bruce Schneier testifies before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform concerning DOGE's access to and use of Americans' data, reminding congresspersons that "data is power." ...

Sahana Udupa explores the dark side of encrypted messaging apps, exploring how hateful messages (which she dubs "extreme speech") can flourish in such apps because smaller-scale communications make ...

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

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

Gretchen Krueger is an AI policy researcher focused on increasing accountability in AI development. At the Berkman Klein Center, she will study and map the wider AI and human systems that surround and ...

Roughly half of this course will examine and assess the legal rules in the United States and other countries governing patents. The other half will explore policy issues pertaining to patents. Those ...

Myojung Chung is an assistant professor of journalism and media innovation at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on the intersection of digital media, mis/disinformation, and policymaking.

Tweets by Rebooting Social Media Visiting Scholar Kate Klonick are referenced in a discussion of Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh. "As Kate Klonick...explained brilliantly here, the narrative ...