With Sacha Alanoca and Kevin Klyman, Affiliates Shira Gur-Arieh and Tom Zick “present a taxonomy to map the global landscape of AI regulation.” “[T]his taxonomy serves as a tool which can resist time ...

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 ...

"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 ...

From “Pizzagate” in 2016 to recent claims of the government controlling the weather in the wake of Hurricane Helene, conspiracy theories have shown they have the power to spread online in ...

Greg Gondwe explores Zambian youth's sophisticated digital activism in the wake of the 2020 youth protests, "effectively challenging the so-called elite on their own digital turf." "Through ...

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 ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA, Nov 16, 2023 — Harvard's metaLAB, part of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, announces the AI Pedagogy Project (AIPP), a dynamic resource aimed at guiding educators in ...

In this study, we analyze both mainstream and social media coverage of the 2016 United States presidential election. We document that the majority of mainstream media coverage was negative for both ...

The Berkman Klein Center hosted a Research Sprint that convened a global cohort of approximately 40 student participants from 21 different countries spread over five continents, under a project led by ...

A data privacy playbook by Ben Green, Gabe Cunningham, Ariel Ekblaw, Paul Kominers, Andrew Linzer, and Susan Crawford. Cities today collect and store a wide range of data that may contain sensitive or ...