In a new piece for PeerJ Computer Science, Faculty Associate Samer Hassan and coauthors chronicle the history of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) as a non-finance application for ...

Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society welcomes applications for its 2026 and 2026-2027 fellowships.

Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders argue that the future of AI's impacts on democratic processes is unwritten, and whether the technology is used to liberate or to oppress depends largely on ...

Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman casts a critical eye on OpenAI's Sora, an AI video generator. Owing to public backlash, OpenAI has opened itself up to requests from public figures to restrict the ...

Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders offer an optimistic outlook: AI-generated harms are neither natural nor inevitable, and beneficial uses of the technology are possible.

Mailyn Fidler details the recent UN Cybercrime Convention, arguing that most analyses have overlooked the Convention's implications for global mutual legal assistance, regardless of whether the crime ...

The Harvard Crimson's Jen L. Phan recaps a recent conversation between Meg Marco, Jordi Weinstock, and Kashmir Hill surrounding the psychological effects of humans forming close 'personal' ...

The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society is thrilled to announce the Fall Speaker Series! Building on the success of the Spring Speaker Series, these topical events will feature a wide range of ...

Jack Cushman joins the Pioneers and Pathfinders podcast, reflecting on his journey from programming to law school and on the skills that today's lawyers ought to hone to meet the moment.

Or you can download each chapter individually: (the "paper-friendly" versions have been reformatted for 8.5 x 11" paper and require approximately one-third fewer pages) Chapter 1. Introduction: A ...

From BKC Affiliate Luke Stark: "By analogizing facial recognition to plutonium, I want to add two broad points to an increasingly lively debate about the risks of facial recognition technologies.

In a paper for the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Discussion Paper Series Sabelo Mhlambi uses the relational Sub-Saharan African philosophy of Ubuntu to show that the harms caused by artificial ...