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Tech Policy Press

Ask the Experts

AI Surveillance and US Immigration Enforcement

Dia Kayyali spoke to Petra Molnar and other experts to ascertain how the Trump administration is using AI for immigration enforcement.

Apr 22, 2025
arXiv

Guillotine

Hypervisors for Isolating Malicious AIs

BKC Director James Mickens, along with Sarah Radway and Ravi Netravali, treat advanced AI as potentially rogue actors.

Apr 22, 2025
Tech Policy Press

The Future is Coded

How AI is Rewriting the Rules of Decision Theaters

The blending of generative AI with strategic foresight practices means that algorithms can predict trends with uncanny accuracy, writes Mark Esposito.

Apr 22, 2025
Tech Policy Press

Trump's Social Media Surveillance

Social Scoring by Another Name

Faculty Associate Petra Molnar warns that AI-driven visa revocation programs chill discourse and weaken civil society at large.

Apr 21, 2025
BKC Medium

Reporting from “The Battle for Our Attention” Workshop @ Northeastern, April 11, 2025

At a workshop organized by Faculty Associates Elettra Bietti and Aileen Nielsen, along with Laura Aade, participants—including many members of the BKC community—examined how…

Apr 19, 2025
Tech Policy Press

AI Regulation Versus AI Innovation

A Fake Dichotomy

Virgilio Almeida and coauthors explore the (false) tension between regulation and innovation, arguing that democratic regulation can ensure that citizens have a role in shaping…

Apr 18, 2025
The New York Times

Meta on Trial + Is A.I. a 'Normal' Technology?

Faculty Associate Arvind Narayanan joined the New York Times podcast Hard Fork to unpack his paper coauthored with Sayash Kapoor, "AI as Normal Technology," which challenges…

Apr 18, 2025
The Humanist

Artificial Intelligence, Totalitarianism, and the Future of Cognitive Liberty

Magda Romanska argues that we're nearing a frightening form of technological totalitarianism.

Apr 16, 2025
AI Snake Oil

AI as Normal Technology

Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor challenge notions of AI as an existential threat.

Apr 15, 2025
University of Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy

Smoke and Mirrors?

AI Regulation and Corporate Power

In a new paper, Maroussia Lévesque asks who controls AI regulation - and whether they're who we want in the driver's seat.

Apr 15, 2025

ASML Fellow Launches CLR:SKY

Introducing A New AI-Powered Civility Overlay for Bluesky

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…

Apr 15, 2025
Harvard Law Review

Beyond Section 230

Principles for AI Governance

In a Harvard Law Review note, Affiliate Dylan Moses explores how generative AI challenges legal frameworks long relied on to manage platform liability, arguing that we can’t…

Apr 10, 2025
Islamic Law Blog

::Roundtable:: ChatGPT and the Marjaʿ

Faculty Associate Zahra Takhshid explores how large language models will impact authority in Shia Islam.

Apr 10, 2025
SC Media

An Inside look at Microsoft's AI Red Team

Ram Shankar Siva Kumar reflects on his time on Microsoft's AI Red Team, a group of technical experts who emulate real-world cyberattacks to allow companies to strengthen their…

Apr 10, 2025
Vöelkerrechtsblog

On the Fragmentation of International Law and Global Health Law

A Comment before the INB/13 Negotiating Round of the WHO Pandemic Agreement

Magdalena Greco examines how the fragmentation of international law affects global health law, particularly in the context of the WHO's Pandemic Agreement negotiations. Greco…

Apr 9, 2025
Science Friday

What Artificial General Intelligence Could Mean For Our Future

Rumman Chowdhury joins Science Friday to discuss the state of artificial general intelligence.

Apr 4, 2025
Politico

A split screen for tech on 'Liberation Day'

BKC Director Mark Wu weighs in on the tensions between the US and Europe in the face of Trump's tariffs.

Apr 3, 2025
the new York Times

Quiz: How Healthy is Your Social Life?

The New York Times features a quiz based on Faculty Associate Jeffrey Hall's recent book.

Apr 2, 2025
Mozilla

AI Liability Along the Value Chain

In a new report for Mozilla, Beatriz Botera Arcila explores how liability law can help make sense of the complex nature of responsibility with respect to AI.

Apr 1, 2025
Foreign Policy

How the Signal Chat Leak Makes the NSA’s Job Harder

Now that everyone uses the same communications technologies, security vulnerabilities are amplified.

Should the NSA be concerned about security flaws in Signal?

Mar 28, 2025