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Foreign Policy

A Realist Perspective on AI Regulation

Experimentation is the right strategy—as long as regulators can learn from one another.

Is the way the internet has been regulated over the last three decades a cautionary tale?

Sep 16, 2024
Citation Needed

Big publishers think libraries are the enemy

The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the war on libraries and the freedom to read.

Molly White links a recent Second Circuit decision to a larger pattern of publishers' interference with libraries and, more generally, with reading practices.

Sep 12, 2024
Cyberlaw Clinic

Massachusetts High Court Issues Ruling in Online Racial Profiling Case

The Cyberlaw Clinic welcomes the SJC's holding that the BPD violated the law by refusing to turn over evidence of potential online racial profiling.

Sep 6, 2024
Nieman Lab

Want to fight misinformation? Teach people how algorithms work

Sociodemographic data bears on algorithmic literacy.

Sep 4, 2024
Common Knowledge

Reimagining Democracy

Bruce Schneier reflects on a series of 2022-23 HKS workshops, which he writes "underscore[d] the importance of imagining discontinuous political innovations that might be suited…

Sep 1, 2024
The New York Times

Why Brazil Banned X

Have the country's efforts to combat fake news gone too far?

Aug 31, 2024
The Nation

Big Tech Is Very Afraid of a Very Modest AI Safety Bill

Despite claiming to support AI safety, powerful tech interests are trying to kill SB1047.

"It’s like saying that a bill addressing wildfire risks should be rejected because it doesn’t address flooding risks."

Aug 30, 2024
Harvard Kennedy School

A Hacker's Mind

HKS's Behind the Book series covers Bruce Schneier's latest work.

Aug 30, 2024
LiveNOW

French authorities charge Telegram's CEO

Juan Ortiz Freuler breaks down the latest information on the case against Pavel Durov.

Aug 29, 2024
MIT Science Policy Review

Mapping the space of social media regulation

Nathaniel Lubin, Kalie Mayberry, Dylan Moses, Manon Revel, Luke Thorburn, and Andrew West identify two modes of mapping the space of social media regulation and discuss the trade…

Aug 27, 2024
Fast Company

Why France’s arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has divided tech regulation experts

There’s debate over whether Durov’s arrest is a good way to keep tech execs in check or sets a dangerous precedent.

Juan Ortiz Freuler and Apunam Chander weigh in on the arrest of Pavel Durov.

Aug 27, 2024
British Vogue

Forces for Change

The Cyberlaw Clinic's Alejandra Caraballo was nominated as a British Vogue Force for Change.

Aug 26, 2024

Personhood Credentials

Artificial intelligence and the value of privacy-preserving tools to distinguish who is real online

Wendy Seltzer and Tom Zick consider the efficacy of implementing "personhood credentials" as means to deter bad actors online while maintaining users' anonymity.

Aug 26, 2024
Tech Policy Press

The Future is Analog (if You Can Afford It)

"Analog is back," writes Maroussia Lévesque, arguing that the ability to bypass digital technology reflects an inherent privilege akin to a sort of exceptionalism.

Aug 23, 2024

Cyberlaw Clinic Supports Public Interest Patent Law Institute w/Comment to USPTO re: Patents and Artificial Intelligence

The Cyberlaw Clinic aided the Public Interest Patent Law Institute in filing comments stressing the importance of human inventorship and urging the USPTO to remain vigilant about…

Aug 22, 2024
Prospect Magazine

When monoculture leads to monofailure

In computing, as in farming, the pursuit of efficiency can leave us vulnerable. Just look at CrowdStrike.

Ethan Zuckerman explores how the Crowdstrike outage makes computing farm more vulnerable than it ought to be.

Aug 21, 2024
Salon

"Deliberately designed to deceive": Experts say Taylor Swift could sue Trump over fake endorsement

"I accept!" Trump declared on Truth Social after sharing AI-generated "Swifties for Trump" images

Rebecca Tushnet details some of the complex legal landscape of doctored celebrity endorsements.

Aug 20, 2024
MIT Press

Blockchain Governance

A new book co-authored by Primavera De Filippi analyzes the reciprocal relationship between blockchain communities and politico-legal thought.

Aug 20, 2024
The New York Times

How a Law That Shields Big Tech Is Now Being Used Against It

A Massachusetts professor has filed a lawsuit against Meta using a novel interpretation of Section 230, a law known primarily for shielding social media companies from liability.

The New York Times chronicles the latest in Ethan Zuckerman’s lawsuit against Meta.

Aug 20, 2024
AI Snake Oil

AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good.

Turning models into products runs into five challenges.

What mistakes have AI companies made, and what challenges should they anticipate?

Aug 19, 2024