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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.

Jan 28, 2025
Knowable Magazine

Why regulating AI is so hard — and necessary

Misinformation, market volatility and more: Faced with the need to mitigate risks that artificial intelligence presents, countries and regions are charting different paths.

RSM Visiting Scholar Allison Stanger advocates for regulatory guardrails in the AI landscape.

Jan 27, 2025
The Globe and Mail

The TikTok ban is already dead in the water

Faculty Associate Jon Penny argues that the law banning TikTok has failed.

Jan 24, 2025
The Atlantic

America Is No Longer the Home of the Free Internet

How the United States learned to love internet censorship

Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman discusses the widening opinion gap between the country's politicians and its public.

Jan 18, 2025
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media

Threads of Wisdom

Experts React to Meta’s Policy Changes

Meta's recent overhaul of its content moderation approach marks a significant shift in platform governance. To explore these implications, BKC's Institute for Rebooting Social…

Jan 17, 2025
Tech Policy Press

The Dumbest Timeline

The Supreme Court Rules on TikTok

Faculty Associate Kate Klonick discusses the Supreme Court's ruling on TikTok.

Jan 17, 2025
Vox

The bright side of TikTok’s downfall

The end of one wildly popular platform is a chance to overhaul the broken social media industry.

Rebecca Rinkevich offers insight into the shifting media landscape in the wake of TikTok's short-lived ban.

Jan 17, 2025
The Indian Express

Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble and the risks of privatising digital public spaces

Meta’s recent move of doing away with fact-checking and relying on a Community Notes model undermines the very nature of oversight and shows the need to have more accountability and governance structures for these big corporations.

Nishant Shah warns that Meta's doing away with content moderation represents a dangerous lack of oversight.

Jan 16, 2025
Lawfare

AI Will Write Complex Laws

AI is poised to help legislators write more intricate laws, exercising increasing control over the executive.

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders detail the different ways that evolving AI technologies will be used in drafting legislation.

Jan 16, 2025
404 Media

Meta Is Laying the Narrative Groundwork for Trump’s Mass Deportations

Susan Benesch weighs in on the political implications of Meta's recent change in speech policies.

Jan 16, 2025
IEEE Spectrum

AI Mistakes Are Very Different Than Human Mistakes

We need new security systems designed to deal with their weirdness

We've gotten the hang of correcting and preventing human actors' mistakes, but how ought we to prepare for new kinds of mistakes wrought by AI, ask Bruce Schneier and Nathan…

Jan 13, 2025
arXiv

Lessons From Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products

Affiliate Ram Shankar Siva Kumar and coauthors suggest ways that Microsoft and other tech giants can mitigate the security risks inherent in emerging AI technologies.

Jan 13, 2025
IEEE Spectrum

A Fourth Law of Robotics

BKC faculty associate and Campus AI board member, Dariusz Jemielniak, argues, we need a clear rule, a Fourth Law of Robotics—as an addition to Asimov’s classic code.

Jan 13, 2025
The Hill

US leadership in AI requires open-source diplomacy

Ben Brooks and Michelle Fang argue that legislators ought to be more concerned about other nations openly sharing AI models that could undercut the US's dominance in the field.

Jan 12, 2025
Boston Globe

Protecting child influencers: States rethink labor laws for digital age

Faculty Associate Leah Plunkett tackles the unregulated world of child influencers.

Jan 10, 2025
Dark Reading

New Docuseries Spotlights Hackers Who Shaped Cybersecurity

Biella Coleman and Matt Goerzen are among the collaborators on an upcoming interview series documenting the "rich cultural history of the hacking scene" and its influence on…

Jan 8, 2025
Harvard Law Today

Can Texas limit citizens’ access to online content?

In a Q&A with Harvard Law Today, Rebecca Tushnet weighs in on Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, a Texas case asking whether websites hosting sexual material can be required to…

Jan 8, 2025
Oxford University Press

We Tried to Tell Y'All

Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives

Through interviews, news analysis, and personal observation, Meredith D. Clark presents the first book about how Black Twitter users carved out a vital space for fast-paced,…

Jan 7, 2025
Just Security

How Border Technologies Impact Migration

Petra Molnar joins Just Security to discuss the impacts of emerging technologies on the US borders.

Jan 2, 2025
RIPE Labs

A Deep Dive Into the Baltic Sea Cable Cuts

James Cowie, Emile Aben, and Alun Davies analyze three recent cuts to Internet cables in the Baltic Sea.

Dec 19, 2024