AI companies are deploying autonomous AI agents that can plan and execute complex tasks with only limited human involvement. While existing legal frameworks offer insight into the safety and ethical ...

Social media platforms have become increasingly opaque at precisely the moment their influence on society has reached ...

The Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society is pleased to announce the ...

Can artificial intelligence supplant friendship by providing quality communication? No, argues Jeffrey Hall: "It may taste like friendship, but it lacks the fundamental ingredients." ...

Harvard Berkman Klein Center’s Applied Social Media Lab Invites Collaborators in Open Source Development of Groundbreaking ...

Jessica Fjeld calls for coalition between movement technologists and movement lawyers to push for structural changes in the face of advancing authoritarianism. "Movement technologists should reconnect ...

"It is time to stop treating disinformation as a user behavior problem and start seeing it for what it is: a structural, infrastructural, and systemic problem engineered by design." Faculty Associate ...

"Facebook has many faces—different teams working towards different goals, and engaging with different ministries, institutions, scholars, and civil society organizations." Affiliate Chinmayi Arun ...

"These cybercrime conventions were never just about cybercrime. The stakes are higher: these conventions are tools in contesting the broader political global order." Faculty Associate Mailyn Fidler ...

Read Affiliate Joe Bak-Coleman's contribution to the UN Human Development Report 2025, with advisory input from Faculty Associate Arvind Narayanan and alums J. Nathan Matias and Zeynep Tufekci. Learn ...

"As AI embeds itself more deeply in our society, we need a conversation about authenticity in culture, technology and politics." Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman explores the rise of AI-generated ...