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Library Innovation Lab

Launching the Agent Protocols Tech Tree

Affiliate and Library Innovation Lab director Jack Cushman shares the Agent Protocols Tech Tree, a visual, videogame-style tech tree of the evolving protocols supporting AI agents.

Feb 23, 2026
The Renovator

Rewiring Democracy Now: Switzerland shows us an alternative to corporate AI

Public AI must counterbalance corporate AI

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders argue that many of the harms 'of' AI are actually generated not by the technology, but by capitalism.

Feb 21, 2026
Virginia Journal of Law & Technology

VJOLT Symposium: Chilling Effects

A number of BKC community members gathered for a symposium on Faculty Associate Jon Penney's new book, Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age.

Feb 20, 2026
OONI

Gabon blocked social media

Maria Xynou documents the blocking of WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube in Gabon based on OONI data.

Feb 19, 2026
Tech Policy Press

Why Global Majority Leadership Matters for Tech and Migration Policy Today

Petra Molnar notes the ways that migration is reshaped by surveillance technologies, artificial intelligence, and data-driven governance.

Feb 19, 2026
Nature

How sky-high AI pay warps science

Young, successful AI researchers are increasingly choosing to leave academia for industry.

In a new piece for Nature, Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier argue that scientific institutions (including technology firms) should stop offering exorbitant salaries to secure the…

Feb 19, 2026
Lawfare

The Promptware Kill Chain

Affiliate Bruce Schneier and coauthors argue that prompt injection attacks are the first step of a seven-step promptware kill chain.

Feb 13, 2026
Communication and the Public

What is a digital author?

Generative AI, concealment, and notes for the emergent moment

Nishant Shah argues that generative AI changes the author function to one defined by concealment.

Feb 13, 2026
Bristol University Press

Digital Access to the Performing Arts

How can we make digital performing arts truly accessible?

Feb 13, 2026
Impact Alpha

Beyond the hype

How investors are rethinking alpha, risk, and demand in the AI stack

Affiliate Paul Fehlinger observes that investors are moving beyond headline AI hype to assess where true value (alpha) is created, how the risks in the AI stack are managed, and…

Feb 12, 2026
Lawfare

AI Won’t Automatically Make Legal Services Cheaper

BKC community members Justin Curl, Sayash Kapoor, and Arvind Narayanan identify three bottlenecks between AI capability advances and access to legal resources. These bottlenecks…

Feb 12, 2026
Inquest

Carceral AI is here. It’s time to fight back.

Dasha Pruss warns that facial recognition systems are only the tip of the carceral AI iceberg.

Feb 10, 2026
The Harvard Gazette

Worried about how AI may affect foreign policy? You should be.

At a recent panel convened by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier spoke on the threats and opportunities presented by governments…

Feb 10, 2026
Rolling Stone

The Super Bowl was Overrun by AI Ads - And There's a Reason Viewers Weren't Buying It

Rumman Chowdhury weighs in on this year's 'AI optimism' ads.

Feb 10, 2026
arXiv

We Should Separate Memorization from Copyright

Faculty Associate Niva Elkin-Koren and coauthors argue against the conflation of memorization and copying, so a model's memorizing another doesn't necessarily indicate copyright…

Feb 9, 2026
Stanford Social Innovation Review

Building a Solidarity Ecosystem for AI

Trebor Scholz and Mark Esposito provide guidance for building community-owned alternatives to extractive AI systems.

Feb 5, 2026
Working Knowledge

People Are Mostly OK With AI Taking Over Many Jobs—Up to a Point

Research by Faculty Associate James Riley suggests that resistance to AI automating jobs arises not from ethical objections about devaluing human labor, but from concerns about…

Feb 5, 2026
The Conversation

AI-generated text is overwhelming institutions – setting off a no-win ‘arms race’ with AI detector

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders discuss media outlets being inundated with a high volume of AI-generated text, swamping traditional editorial models.

Feb 5, 2026
Tech Policy Press

Governing AI Agents with Democratic ‘Algorithmic Institutions’

Faculty Associate Virgilio Almeida and coauthors explore governance structures and forms of institutional oversight to maintain human control over agentic AI.

Feb 4, 2026
arXiv

The Trigger in the Haystack: Extracting and Reconstructing LLM Backdoor Triggers

Affiliate Ram Shankar Siva Kumar and coauthors "present a practical scanner for identifying sleeper agent-style backdoors in causal language models."

Feb 3, 2026