The Institute for Rebooting Social Media welcomes Nieman Fellow Jesselyn Cook and Berkman Klein Center-Nieman Fellow Ben ...

Ben Brooks warns that the AI search threatens to disrupt the digital economy, urging the industry to get ahead of the problems this could pose for creators. “By shielding the web behind an all-knowing ...

Woodrow Hartzog suggests that privacy law recenter baseline protections, rather than individual consent, to best protect users from AI-specific threats. "The societal structure model that Dan [Solove] ...

Ben Green and colleagues note disciplinary divides in the ways that computer scientists and legal experts translate law into code.

Tom Zick weighs in on the utility of personhood credentials, a way of verifying personhood without specifying individual identity, for combatting AI in higher education. "Creating a personhood ...

Dasha Pruss, Petra Molnar, and Marissa Gerchick critique carceral uses of AI and offer suggestions for mitigating this technology's use. "Despite their high price tag and rhetoric of reform, in ...

Larry Lessig calls for more direct governmental regulation of AI companies, arguing that companies are ill-equipped to self-govern.

Judith Donath likens AI 'decision-making' to a coin flip, averring that seeing generative AI systems as too-human may obfuscate their corporate natures. “It starts to replace the need to have friends, ...

Marshall Van Alstyne raises concerns about platforms enabling election conspiracies. "I'm hoping it's nothing of the same scale as what we observed on January 6, but we may be seeing some bad behavior ...