Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders speak to fears about AI replacing humans' jobs, opining that this will only happen when it outperforms us in terms of speed, scale, scope, and/or sophistication.

Greg Leppert weighs in on AI developers' use of written texts, rather than simply digital ones, to train LLMs.

Affiliate Bruce Schneier testifies before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform concerning DOGE's access to and use of Americans' data, reminding congresspersons that "data is power." ...

BKC Affiliate Kathy Pham introduces The United States Digital Service Origins, an oral history of the USDS featuring nearly 50 interviews telling the story of technology and government.

Rumman Chowdhury cautions that, no matter how useful AI can be, users shouldn't have it do their thinking for them.

Sahana Udupa explores the dark side of encrypted messaging apps, exploring how hateful messages (which she dubs "extreme speech") can flourish in such apps because smaller-scale communications make ...

Faculty Associate Ben Green exposes some of the challenges to Elon Musk's purported goal of using AI to reduce government spending.

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The Student Salon Series is a student-led event series bringing Harvard students into dialogue about tech topics, hosted by the Berkman Klein Center. Explore past salons below.

With Sacha Alanoca and Kevin Klyman, Affiliates Shira Gur-Arieh and Tom Zick “present a taxonomy to map the global landscape of AI regulation.” “[T]his taxonomy serves as a tool which can resist time ...

In The Atlantic, Faculty Director Jonathan Zittrain probes policy questions raised by the “assumptions” large language models make about users. “Gleaning a model’s assumptions is just the beginning.

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, my fellowship has ...