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Harvard Journal of Law and Technology

Ban Cookie Banners

A Case Study in Tech Regulation

At best, cookie banners implement a regime of performative compliance.

Mar 19, 2026
Tech Policy Press

Social Media Fuels Community Violence. Prevention Needs an Upgrade.

Most community violence organizations lack the expertise needed to monitor and address social media-fuele violence.

Mar 18, 2026
World Economic Forum

AI, energy and geopolitics

Leadership's triple transition challenge

"To deliver on the promises of AI, no leader from the public or private sector can afford to ignore the energy system or international politics."

Mar 18, 2026
Tech Policy Press

Japan's Team Mirai Uses Tech to Bolster Democracy, Not Undermine It

Japan's latest elections demonstrate technology's ability to strengthen democracy.

Mar 17, 2026
Issues

Reducing the Potential Harms of AI Companions

Jonathan Zittrain and Josh Joseph respond to J.B. Branch's "AI Companions Are Not Your Teen's Friend."

Mar 14, 2026
Big Data & Society

Data enclosure by digital platforms

Empirical evidence

Maayan Perel, Ohad Somech, and Faculty Associate Niva Elkin-Koren analyze 279 platforms' Terms of Use to study how platforms use contractual terms to enclose publicly available…

Mar 13, 2026
Tech Policy Press

The Public is Getting Fed Up With Data Centers. Politicians Need to Take Notice

Faculty Associate Ben Green tracks growing public discontent with the data centers fueling US AI companies.

Mar 13, 2026

Illuminating the Fine Print That Governs Your Digital Life

A story from the Transparency Hub

What can we do when the rules that shape our lives online become too complicated to keep track?Transparency Hub is a resource designed to help people explore, compare, and better…

Mar 13, 2026
The Washington Post

Ex-NFL players don't want Trump using them to sell the Iran war

Football players respond to the Administration juxtaposing clips of their best plays with footage of military strikes in Iran.

Mar 12, 2026
Philosophical Foundations and Practical Implications of Digital Humanism

A Mind of One's Own

Maroussia Lévesque uses the notion of analog privilege to examine elites' ability to shape their relationship with AI.

Mar 11, 2026
The New Yorker

Love in the Time of A.I. Companions

Some people now have an A.I. bestie. Some have a husband. Some have three.

Fellow Amelia Miller is featured in a New Yorker piece on A.I. companions, personalized chatbots fueled by the past decade's advances in machine learning.

Mar 9, 2026
arXiv

Characterizing the ability of LLMs to recapitulate Americans' distributional responses to public opinion polling questions across political issues

Eric Gong and BKC Affiliates Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier propose more accurate and lower-cost method of using LLMs to augment human population studies in polling contexts.

Mar 6, 2026
Seton Hall Law Review

Large Language Models as Products

Faculty Associate Zahra Takhshid argues that LLMs should be governed by products liability law. In a paper for the Seton Hall Law Review, Takhshid suggests that courts move beyond…

Mar 5, 2026
The Guardian

Don’t bet that the Pentagon – or Anthropic – is acting in the public interest

Affiliates Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier remark on the Department of Defense's transition from Anthropic to OpenAI technologies.

Mar 3, 2026
The Globe and Mail

OpenAI has shown it cannot be trusted. Canada needs nationalized, public AI.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, lobbied Ottawa for business. All the while it hid its knowledge of Tumbler Ridge shooter.

BKC Affiliates Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier highlight the hypocrisy of OpenAI's "OpenAI for Countries" initiative, noting the company's unwillingness to respond appropriately…

Mar 1, 2026
arXiv

No Last Mile

A Theory of the Human Data Market

Mark Esposito and coauthors model a structured human-data sector as a distinct input into production that accumulates a reusable AI capability stock. The authors, too, provide an…

Mar 1, 2026
Bloomberg

Founding Fathers Guarded Against ‘Show Me Your Papers’ ICE Raids

Affiliate Alan Raul argues that ICE's aggressive approach to approaching citizens and non-citizens alike is prohibited by the Fourth Amendment's provision against unreasonable…

Feb 27, 2026
Foreign Policy

Why Tehran’s Two-Tiered Internet Is So Dangerous

Authoritarian regimes elsewhere are taking note.

Affiliate Bruce Schneier reflects on the Iranian government's two-tiered communications shutdown.

Feb 24, 2026
Migration and Tech Monitor

Building a Different World - From The Ground Up!

Faculty Associate Petra Molnar is among the authors of a new report from the Migration + Tech Monitor and the Refugee Law Lab.

Feb 24, 2026
arXiv

Towards a Science of AI Agent Reliability

Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan are among the coauthors of a paper proposing a new holistic mode of evaluating AI agents.

Feb 23, 2026