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The Silicon Valley Effect
Chinmayi Arun lays out AI's emerging legal order and shows how relying solely on domestic regulations is shortsighted.
Why regulating AI is so hard — and necessary
RSM Visiting Scholar Allison Stanger advocates for regulatory guardrails in the AI landscape.
The TikTok ban is already dead in the water
Faculty Associate Jon Penny argues that the law banning TikTok has failed.
America Is No Longer the Home of the Free Internet
Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman discusses the widening opinion gap between the country's politicians and its public.
Threads of Wisdom
Meta's recent overhaul of its content moderation approach marks a significant shift in platform governance. To explore…
The Dumbest Timeline
Faculty Associate Kate Klonick discusses the Supreme Court's ruling on TikTok.
The bright side of TikTok’s downfall
Rebecca Rinkevich offers insight into the shifting media landscape in the wake of TikTok's short-lived ban.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble and the risks of privatising digital public spaces
Nishant Shah warns that Meta's doing away with content moderation represents a dangerous lack of oversight.
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Professional Learning and Engagement (PLE) at the Berkman Klein Center offers transformative experiences for…
Fellowship Program
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society welcomes an interdisciplinary and diverse community of academics and…
Applied Social Media Lab
A new home for technologists and practitioners to reimagine, rebuild, and reboot social media to serve the public good…
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media is a three-year "pop-up" initiative that will address the biggest questions in…
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A collaborative initiative focused on interdisciplinary research on the development, social impact, policy implications…
metaLAB (at) Harvard
Explores the digital arts and humanities through research, teaching, publications, and exhibitions
Lumen
Lumen collects and studies online content removal requests, providing transparency and supporting research and analysis…
Artificial Intelligence and the Law
This initiative focuses on new challenges and opportunities for the law created by the rise of AI.
Featured Topics
See all TopicsEthics and Governance of AI
The rapidly growing capabilities and increasing presence of AI-based systems in our lives raise pressing questions about the impact, governance, ethics, and accountability of these technologies around the…
Media, Democracy, & Public Discourse
The way we communicate online evolves and changes shape rapidly. Through research, the building of tools, and bringing together diverse viewpoints and underrepresented voices, we seek to examine, analyze,…
Technology & the Law
Software, hardware, platforms, and networks are regulated by sometimes conflicting and overlapping sets of laws, policies, and norms. New technologies are constantly creating new frontiers for policymaker…
Governance of Technology & the Internet
Networked technologies are complex, multi-layered, interdependent, and subject to multiple competing interests. Through original research and by creating connections between stakeholders, we work to build…