Berkman Klein Center

Crutch or Catalyst? How AI Is Changing the Ways We Relate

As AI becomes increasingly embedded in our lives, it has taken on roles as a therapist, a friend, even a lover. When we allow ...
Berkman Klein Center

What Remains: AI, Death, and Loss

Our online lives increasingly outlast us, leaving our likeness with loved ones grappling with challenging but eternal ...
Berkman Klein Center

How to Tell an AI What to Do: Rules, Cases, and Interpretation

What can the law teach us about where AI systems should exercise judgment when their instructions leave room for interpretation?
Harvard Medical School

The OpenAI Hack Shows the Genie Is Out of the Bottle

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier reflects on OpenAI's recently-uncovered Hugging Face hack. This is not exclusive to the 'big' AI models - OpenAI's and Anthropic's - to be sure. Schneier writes that any ...
Harvard Medical School

The fight against AI datacenters is important – but it’s just a starting point

Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders worry that the AI datacenter debate has overshadowed broader questions about AI's impact on our lives. Opposing datacenter expansion, the pair argues, ...
Harvard Medical School

If an AI chatbot misleads you, who is to blame?

Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders detail a German court case finding Google liable for its AI search summaries, citing the precedent set by an earlier suit against Air Canada. This is an ...
Harvard Medical School

Mapping Emerging Climate Misinformation Playbooks in the Global South

With a team of coauthors including Meeyoung Cha, Marcelo Sartori, and Wenchao Dong, Virgilio Almeida examines how information systems lead to the spread of climate misinformation. "Algorithms, ...
Harvard Medical School

A Wikipedia Founder Is Barred From Editing Articles on the Site

Faculty Associate Dariusz Jemielniak weighs in on Wikipedia's restricting founder Larry Sanger's access to the site's editing platform. Jemielniak notes that Sanger "has been very against anonymity," ...
Harvard Medical School

The Anthropic ‘Fable’ saga proves: we have opened the AI Pandora’s box. What now?

Anthropic shut off access to its generative AI model Fable (a more constrained version of Mythos) just days after its release, when the US government classified it as a dangerous weapon. Affiliate ...
Harvard Medical School

AI use by the US government is ballooning. And the lack of transparency is troubling.

Nathan E. Sanders and Bruce Schneier call attention to the staggering number of use cases that the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget has planned to automate government processing ...
Harvard Medical School

White Paper: Mapping the Burden: Toward Survivor-Centered Reporting Systems and Policies for Non-Consensual Intimate Images

Advances in generative AI have dramatically lowered the barriers to creating and distributing sexual “deepfakes” or non-consensual intimate images (NCII) — a form of technology-facilitated ...
Harvard Medical School

The World Is Already Resisting AI. Now, There is a List to Prove It.

Petra Molnar spotlights the launch of the AI Resist List, documenting global challenges to AI expansion. "The core claim of the AI Resist List project is simple: the "scale at all costs" approach to ...