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Sage Journals

Safety for Whom? Investigating How Platforms Frame and Perform Safety and Harm Interventions

Zahra Stardust and collaborators investigate how social media platforms frame and perform safety and harm interventions.

Dec 15, 2023
Harvard Law Today

On the bookshelves, fall 2023

Faculty Associate Ifeoma Ajunwa's book talk, The Quantified Worker: Law and Technology in the Modern Workplace, was discussed in Harvard Law School's Fall 2023 book event roundup.

Dec 15, 2023
CNN

Experts call for more diversity to combat bias in artificial intelligence

Andres Lombana-Bermudez, Faculty Associate at BKC, discusses the issue of lack of diversity and representation in technology fields.

Dec 15, 2023
CNN

Experts call for more diversity to combat bias in artificial intelligence

Andres Lombana-Bermudez spoke to CNN about how more diversity can help to combat bias in AI

Dec 15, 2023
Teen Vogue

"Right to Be Forgotten" Bill to Be Introduced in Maryland to Protect Children of Influencers

Leah Plunkett speaks to Teen Vogue about the new "Right to Be Forgotten" bill introduced in Maryland to protect child influencers. 

Dec 15, 2023
Harvard Magazine

“Artificial Worldviews”

BKC Affiliate Kim Albrecht discusses his project to map ChatGPT's knowledge base. Albrecht chose to focus on ChatGPT's outputs to learn about the chatbot's worldview.

Dec 13, 2023
Faith & Leadership

How to identify and counter dangerous speech

BKC Faculty Associate Susan Benesch provides recommendations for recognizing and countering hateful online speech.

Dec 12, 2023
MSNBC

How social media algorithms can lead users into temptation

Leah Plunkett writes about how algorithms can quickly become privacy violations.

Dec 12, 2023
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

Making a Movement: The History and Future of Human Rights

BKC Faculty Director Jonathan Zittrain and BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier contribute to the Carr Center's Making a Movement: The History and Future of Human Rights, a collection of…

Dec 11, 2023
Techtonic

Techtonic: AI’s inequality problem

Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury discusses the worry that we are giving the keys to our society to a small group of companies that have shown they cannot be fully trusted.

Dec 11, 2023
techdirt

Supporting Free Speech Means Supporting Victims Of SLAPP Suits, Even If You Disagree With The Speakers

Cyberlaw Clinical Instructor and Director of IfRFA Kendra Albert leads an amicus brief supporting free speech rights.

Dec 8, 2023
Slate

The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. A.I. Will Enable Mass Spying.

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier argues that AI is on track to reduce spying's current limiting factor: the need for human labor.

Dec 4, 2023
The Conversation

Online ‘likes’ for toxic social media posts prompt more − and more hateful − messages

RSM Visiting Scholar Joseph Walther explains the social approval theory of online hate: that posters of hateful messages are motivated by the approval of like-minded individuals.

Dec 4, 2023
LPE Project

Seven Reactions to Biden's Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence

On the Law and Political Economy Project blog, Salomé Viljoen, Ifeoma Ajunwa, and Elettra Bietti are among a group of scholars who provide initial reactions to President Biden's…

Dec 4, 2023
The Conversation

With the end of the Hollywood writers and actors strikes, the creator economy is the next frontier for organized labor

RSM Visiting Scholar David Craig writes about creators and the upcoming labor revolution

Dec 4, 2023
YouTube

Centering Disability in AI, One Year After the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights

Maitreya Shah joins a Center for Democracy and Technology Panel on centering disability rights in discussions of AI policy.

Dec 1, 2023
Library Innovation Lab

LLMs are universal translators: on building my own translation tools for a foreign language conference

BKC Affiliate Jack Cushman frames large language models (LLMs) as universal translators.

Nov 29, 2023
CIGI

Boardroom Drama at OpenAI Portends a Looming AI Monoculture

BKC Affiliate Maroussia Lévesque connects the recent OpenAI boardroom drama to a larger lurking problem: the tremendous concentration of power in the artificial…

Nov 29, 2023
Above the Law

Harvard Law School Professor Finds ChatGPT Invents Fake Law Less Than The Supreme Court

BKC Faculty Associate Larry Lessig interacts with ChatGPT, finding that it ChatGPT was both more forthright and more analytically astute about the tensions (and worse) in Supreme…

Nov 28, 2023
Library Innovation Lab

Conference talk: disruptive innovation in libraries

BKC Affiliate Jack Cushman discusses how libraries must innovate to emerging needs of the community.

Nov 28, 2023