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BKC Faculty Associate Greg Gondwe writes about the use of ChatGPT3 in sub-Saharan Africa. 

BKC Rebooting Social Media Visiting Scholar Yong Jin Park cautions against hype around generative AI, warning that celebrations and fears around the technology are both overblown.

David Weinberger urges us to appreciate the inexplicability of machine learning.

BKC Affiliates Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier write about the potential influence of ChatGPT and generative AI on lobbying.

Urs Gasser contributed to a paper urging technologists to proceed and innovate responsibly. 

BKC Affiliate Jenny Korn sits down with GBH News to discuss whether the success of “Everything, Everywhere, All At Once” means that opportunities for Asian actors have paid off.

BKC affiliate Leonard Cortana was profiled by United Nations Human Rights for his work in human rights.

BKC Fellow Juliana Castro-Varon writes as a graphic designer about the effect AI image generators will have on a potentially unsuspecting public who might not understand how the…

BKC Affiliate Julie Owono discusses Facebook and Instagram content moderation via the Meta Oversight Board, of which Owono is an inaugural member, and freedom of expression.

Jonathan Zittrain is quoted discussing digital governance of social media platforms.

Evelyn Douek writes with Genevieve Lakier about the free speech ramifications of Twitter v Taamneh...

BKC Affiliate Ryan Merkley writes about the relationship between generative AI, art, and intellectual property law.

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury co-writes a piece on the shortfalls of platforms fighting online abuse.

"They erased Dulcie September, who remained a name in schools, streets, and cultural centers but nothing about her intellectual production and incredible life story as an anti…

BKC Affiliate Joe Bak-Coleman writes about TikTok’s new API designed to provide data access to qualified researchers.

Amid a mass movement of users from Twitter to other platforms, Ethan Zuckerman proposes a new way of taxonomizing social networks using two axes of governance: who owns a platform…

Rumman Chowdhury writes about her time at Twitter as the engineering director of the META team...

"Emad [CEO] at Stability [AI, the open-source AI company,] says he’s ‘democratizing AI.’ Well, wouldn’t it be nice to actually be using democratic processes to figure out…

"We were rightfully worried about what this leadership change would entail...There's a lot of ideology and misunderstanding about the kind of work ethics teams do as being part of…

BKC Research Assistant Pratika Katiyar writes about the effort to silence student voices and the need to codify protections for student journalists.