Bruce Schneier and coauthors argue that even attempted cyberattacks on election infrastructure can erode public trust in elections' integrity across party lines.

Petra Molnar details a disturbing new artificial intelligence platform - ICERAID.us - which "offers cryptocurrency rewards to users who upload photos of 'suspicious activity' along the border." ...

The Berkman Klein Center is thrilled to announce two leadership appointments that will propel the Center forward as it ...

Greg Leppert weighs in on AI developers' use of written texts, rather than simply digital ones, to train LLMs. "A book collection steeped in 19th century thought could also be 'immensely critical' for ...

In the first weekly issue of Platformocracy, Jonathan Bellack argues that Bluesky is nearing the end of the timeframe in which it can build a truly participatory content moderation process. Among ...

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 ...

Rumman Chowdhury cautions that, no matter how useful AI can be, users shouldn't have it do their thinking for them, a timely warning amid technology companies' race to develop artificial general ...

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 ...

Our contemporary debates about cybersecurity, surveillance and the law are steeped in 21st century technology, but the problem of interception is not new. Surveillance and information warfare played ...

Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor challenge notions of AI as an existential threat. They view AI as a “normal” technology, akin to electricity: "To view AI as normal is not to understate its ...

"Social media networks have amplified the reach of social and political movements, but most research focuses on mainstream platforms such as X, Reddit, and Facebook, overlooking Discord." Faculty ...