Ethics and Governance of AI

Ben Brooks warns that the AI search industry threatens to disrupt the digital economy.

Larry Lessig calls for more direct governmental regulation of AI companies.

Tom Zick weighs in on the utility of personhood credentials for combatting AI in higher education.

How should privacy law protect consumers from AI?

Dasha Pruss, Petra Molnar, and Marissa Gerchick critique carceral uses of AI and offer suggestions for mitigating this technology's use.

The future of AI-powered search engines is at stake in an emerging suit against Perplexity AI.

When does students' A.I. use constitute a violation of existing plagiarism policies?

Ulises Mejías and Nick Couldry propose data colonialism as a paradigm for understanding Big Tech's data practices.

Marissa Gerchick and Olga Askelrod detail the ACLU's complaints against Aon, a hiring technology company.

Ethan Zuckerman calls for a revaluation of the Luddite ethos.

Paola Ricaurte Quijano explores how AI development tracks and reinforces gaps in social capital.

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders warn that AI will complicate the SEC's financially cutting in whistleblowers.

Nathan Sanders weighs in on a debate between two Virginia congressional candidates and an AI bot.

BKC director Jonathan Zittrain explains what AI agents are, and why we need to regain control of them.

Chinmayi Arun studies the impact of AI tools on the Majority World, arguing that it constitutes a form of global imperialism.

Urs Gasser and Mark Esposito contributed to a white paper giving policymakers and regulators implementable strategies for AI governance.

Teens' use of AI may be cause for concern.

Ifeoma Ajunwa argues that we can apply Afrofuturist principles to ensure that AI is being harnessed for the collective good.

We could soon see the fallout from a hands-off approach to AI regulation.

"As developers and stewards of AI technology, we have a critical responsibility. We must advance AI capabilities and simultaneously develop robust safeguards to protect users,…

Concrete recommendations for how the EU's AI Act can be fortified.

How could global citizen deliberation shape the future of artificial intelligence?

Is the way the internet has been regulated over the last three decades a cautionary tale?

"It’s like saying that a bill addressing wildfire risks should be rejected because it doesn’t address flooding risks."

The Cyberlaw Clinic aided the Public Interest Patent Law Institute in filing comments stressing the importance of human inventorship and urging the USPTO to remain vigilant about…

What mistakes have AI companies made, and what challenges should they anticipate?

SJ Klein and colleagues call for AI infrastructure built for the public good.

Joseph B. Walther and colleagues find that AI doctors are most effective when they draw from patients' social information, and enable privacy controls.

Ruth Okediji notes that the EU's AI Act codifies value differences between the EU and the US.

Lawrence Lessig argues highlights important differences between AI models and other sorts of software more amenable to open-source principles.

David Weinberger examines the business world's engagement with AI through four key examples: strategy, talent management, leadership roles, and supply chain management.

Bridget Todd highlights the harms that AI-written, automatically-generated obituaries do to grievers.

Dasha Pruss and co-author Marta Ziosi discuss their paper, "“Evidence of What, for Whom? The Socially Contested Role of Algorithmic Bias in a Predictive Policing Tool."

Bruce Schneier co-writes that the increased prominance of data and algorithms have shifted power and culture from nations to corporations. 

Ethan Zuckerman writes about the relationship between human-generated content and AI models on the internet.

BKC Faculty Associate Seiji Isotani has been elected president of the International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society (IAIED).

Woodrow Hartzog argues "if lawmakers do not address the dynamics of dangerous extraction, harmful normalization, and adversarial self-dealing, then AI systems will likely be used…

BKC Senior Director of Programs and Strategy Lis Sylvan and former BKC Research Assistant Niharika Vattikonda summarize the Global Network of Internet and Society Research Center…

Jabari Evans writes about AI's role in music and lyric generation.

Bruce Schneier writes about data and technology in human society.

Petra Molnar discusses AI surveillance at the border.

Nadah Feteih discusses tech ethics and activism from within the tech industry, particularly from trust and safety team members.

Zahra Takhshid argues that personal data should be protected by the privacy tort of appropriation.

Rebecca Tushnet spoke to Bloomberg about the training of Adobe's AI tool Firefly

Maitreya Shah spoke about his work centering experiences of people with disabilities. 

Petra Molnar writes about the AI technology incorporated at the southern border and the human rights implications.

BKC Affiliate Rumman Chowdhury emphasizes the importance of community engagement while engaging a conversation on responsible integration of AI.

Jonnie Penn argues that the increased incorporation of AI into our lives may harm our basic hygiene.

BKC Affiliates Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier argue that the unregulated evolution of social media over the past few decades provides lessons for the AI revolution.

BKC Faculty Associate Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor argue that current safety efforts are limited because AI safety is not a model property.

Nathaniel Lubin writes about internet "junkification."

Susan Benesch writes about how online debate should not be outsourced to AI

Sameer Hinduja, Nighat Dad, and coauthors detail the troubling proliferation of deepfakes and the various legal, technological, and even user-education-focused interventions…

Can AI errors help users?

Nathan Sanders, Bruce Schneier, and Norman Eisen advocate for a public AI to counterbalance private AI and promote tech that benefits all people, not just corporate interests.

BKC Affiliate Maroussia Lévesque facilitated a conversation between Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella and BKC Director Martha Minow on equity, equality, and fairness in the time of…

BKC Alumnus Ellery Roberts Biddle ruminates on social media companies' past mistakes and the potential to continue making such mistakes with the AI revolution.

BKC Affiliates Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier argue that big tech uses the conception of AI as a new "frontier" to excuse exploitation and a lack of oversight or accountability.

BKC Affiliate Hilary Ross, Jason Pielemeier, and Ramsha Jahangir critique the EU DSA audits.

David Weinberger views machine learning through a feminist ethical framework.

Professors Finale Doshi-Velez and Elena Glassman, with assistance from the Cyberlaw Clinic, submitted an administrative comment on AI to the National Institute of Standards and…

BKC Affiliate Kathy Pham draws on her own experience enrolling her children in summer camp to shed light on AI's current shortcomings: despite the hype, AI is not well equipped to…

BKC Faculty Associate Alicia Solow-Niederman analyzes real world examples of standards to show an inconvenient truth: that standards are neither objective nor neutral.

BKC Affiliate Kathy Pham argues that Large Language Models and other AI systems will only reach their full potential when a broader set of people build them.

BKC Affiliate Ashley Lee and Victoria Hsieh discuss the future of ethics as a component of education on AI.

Aviv Ovadya speaks to The Washington Post about AI and the 2024 elections across the country. 

Bruce Schneier co-authors a piece in The Atlantic discussing human interactions and the impacts of AI on them.

BKC Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman argues that the power struggle between AI “doomers” and AI “accelerationists” will define the way this world-changing technology evolves.

Bruce Schneier explains the need for a rethinking of trust and governance to prepare for the future of AI.

“It just makes the generation and dissemination of very realistic deepfakes and realistic-seeming deepfakes much, much easier,” Rumman Chowdhury told Foreign Policy when…

Bruce Schneier writes about the potential for AI to remove bottlenecks.

Andres Lombana-Bermudez, Faculty Associate at BKC, discusses the issue of lack of diversity and representation in technology fields.

Andres Lombana-Bermudez spoke to CNN about how more diversity can help to combat bias in AI

BKC Affiliate Kim Albrecht discusses his project to map ChatGPT's knowledge base. Albrecht chose to focus on ChatGPT's outputs to learn about the chatbot's worldview.

Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury discusses the worry that we are giving the keys to our society to a small group of companies that have shown they cannot be fully trusted.

On the Law and Political Economy Project blog, Salomé Viljoen, Ifeoma Ajunwa, and Elettra Bietti are among a group of scholars who provide initial reactions to President Biden's…

BKC Affiliate Maroussia Lévesque connects the recent OpenAI boardroom drama to a larger lurking problem: the tremendous concentration of power in the artificial…

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier discusses the complicated relationship between trust and AI and the need for building trustworthy AI.

Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury explores technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) in an era of generative AI.

BKC Affiliate Alexa Hasse examines how they might change trust in our human social relationships.

RSM Employee Fellow Nadah Feteih argues that reactive measures to address biased AI features and the spread of misinformation on social media platforms are not enough.

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier explores beyond AI generated disinformation to detail other novel ways in which AI might alter how democracy functions.

BKC Faculty Associate Petra Molnar challenges us to consider the potential impact of generative AI on the surveillance of borders and of migrants.

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury discusses how to act responsibly with AI development.

BKC Director Jonathan Zittrain and BKC Alumnus Kashmir Hill discuss Hill's new book, "Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It."

BKC Affiliate Micaela Mantegna joins a World Economic Forum discussion on the new world of work brought on by digitalization and the development of AI.

BKC Faculty Associate Jasmine McNealy explains why rural communities must be included in the development of policies related to artificial intelligence. 

BKC Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders explore the patchwork of organizations charged with regulating AI usage in political campaign ads.

With the European Sex Workers Rights Alliance, BKC Faculty Associate Elissa M. Redmiles provides recommendations for tech platforms to reduce image based sexual abuse. 

Russell Newman, Nick Couldry, Velislava Hillman, Mitzi László and Gregory Narr discuss the comments to the US Federal Trade Commission's Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on…

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury comments on the EU’s Digital Services Act.

BKC Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders opine on the great power that AI will have once it is capable of using real-world tools and urge that companies and regulators…

BKC Faculty Associate Beatriz Botero Arcila examines the question of how to regulate large language models to minimize risks while still allowing for potential benefits to be…

BKC Affiliate Rumman Chowdhury explains how embedded harms and biases complicate AI system red teaming efforts.

BKC Faculty Associates Desmond Patton and Siva Mathiyazhagan, and Aviv Landau describe the potential use of ChatGPT in social work science.

BKC Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders propose six milestones that will bring in a new era of AI driven democratic politics.

BKC Affiliate Aviv Ovadya comments on a new report exposing holes in the guardrails of AI chatbots.

BKC Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders write about the potential risks and biases of AI.

BKC Affiliate Aviv Ovadya writes about Meta's approach to governance of generative AI.

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury shares thoughts about her hopes and fears for AI.

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury answers questions about technology and the future.

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan argue that the American people should receive compensation for their data, the very data that AI companies rely on to innovate.

BKC Directors Rebecca Tushnet and Jonathan Zittrain comment on legal and ethical challenges that are associated with the development of AI.

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury comments on how the AI systems in banking are biased against marginalized communities.

BKC Affiliate Juan Ortiz Freuler asserts that the adoption of AI is fueling a probabilistic shift in worldview.

BKC Affiliate Nathan Sanders writes about the drawbacks and the opportunities AI can provide to strengthen democracy.

BKC Assistant Director of the Cyberlaw Clinic Jessica Fjeld writes about the challenges that arise in the realm of copyright law due to the increased use of generative AI. 

Sue Hendrickson and BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury write about the role of global governance alongside the development of AI.

BKC Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders write about the need for AI investment to be taken out of the hands of private companies.

BKC Affiliate Micaela Mantegna discusses Apple's AI philosophy and approach to the Vision Pro which largely ignored generative AI applications.

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier writes about the open-source future of generative AI.

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury is interviewed about bridging the gap between people and technology.

BKC Affiliate Joseph Bak-Coleman, BKC Director James Mickens, and BKC Faculty Associate Zeynep Tufekci write to advocate for an intergovernmental panel to synthesize the evidence…

BKC Affiliate Siva Mathiyazhagan writes about the need to eradicate caste and to build a safe, inclusive, just digital India.

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier delivers a keynote speech during the RSA Conference in San Francisco on April 25, 2023 about the risks and promise of AI for democracy.

BKC Faculty Associate Sameer Hinduja warns about the myriad ways generative AI can be used to harass and harm others. 

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury discusses ideas for regulating AI with KQED. 

BKC Affiliates Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier write about the trustworthiness of AI technologies and their corporate owners.

BKC Affiliate Afua Bruce writes about the intersection of data science, AI, and public interest technology.

BKC Faculty Associate Yong Jin Park writes about how global regulation of generative AI can be modeled on climate justice.

BKC Affiliates Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier write about how AI will change the nature of campaigning.

BKC Affiliate Maroussia Lévesque and BKC Faculty Associate Florian Martin-Bariteau write about Canada’s federal regulation of AI and data.

BKC Affiliates Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier write about AI's potential to advance the public good by helping democracy.

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury advocates for global oversight of AI. 

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier predicts a future wave of email scams that will take advantage of generative AI.

BKC Affiliate Aviv Ovadya comments on the need for cross-cutting, international regulation of AI.

BKC Affiliate Aviv Ovadya speaks about the need for more robust testing for GPT-4. 

BKC Faculty Associate Greg Gondwe writes about the use of ChatGPT3 in sub-Saharan Africa. 

BKC Rebooting Social Media Visiting Scholar Yong Jin Park cautions against hype around generative AI, warning that celebrations and fears around the technology are both overblown.

BKC Affiliates Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier write about the potential influence of ChatGPT and generative AI on lobbying.

BKC Fellow Juliana Castro-Varon writes as a graphic designer about the effect AI image generators will have on a potentially unsuspecting public who might not understand how the…

BKC Affiliate Ryan Merkley writes about the relationship between generative AI, art, and intellectual property law.

"Emad [CEO] at Stability [AI, the open-source AI company,] says he’s ‘democratizing AI.’ Well, wouldn’t it be nice to actually be using democratic processes to figure out…

"...what are the kinds of harms and stereotypes that exist in society that these machines can pick up on? These models are simply reflecting the data that is being put into them,…

"Democracy is fundamentally a human way of organizing ourselves, and where an AI, whether it's a ChatGPT that is writing human text or another AI that is figuring out human…

"My observation would be that the serious legislation that's been successfully passed for regulating machine learning in general has been painfully slow and insufficient to keep…

Jessica Fjeld is quoted discussing the viability of lawsuits involving generative AI alleged to infringe upon artists' copyright claims. "It’s a little hard to predict how…

"So while it’s impossible to predict what a future filled with A.I. lobbyists will look like, it will probably make the already influential and powerful even more so." BKC…

"A group of researchers, builders and activists came together to discuss platform cooperativism and the intersection with the web3 movement. We touched on some of the key…

BKC Faculty Associate Zeynep Tufekci writes about conversational AI ChatGPT’s role in an evolving society.  “As Plato was wrong to fear the written word as the enemy, we…

Aviv Ovadya, BKC Affiliate, speaks about ChatGPT, its potential, and related concerns. It’s writing podcast scripts, finishing students’ homework and correcting mistakes in…

Sandra Wachter, BKC Faculty Associate, discusses ChatGPT and its concerns for academics and education.  “The situation both worries and excites Sandra Wachter, who studies…

BKC Faculty Associate Judith Donath speaks about Twitter’s demise and the potential of any possible replacements. Whatever rises up to become the new major widespread…

BKC Fellow Sandra Cortesi discusses generative AI storytelling. “Sandra Cortesi, a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, says…

In a new paper, RSM Visiting Scholar Yong Jin Park and co-author S. Mo Jones-Jang explore the response of human users to AI failures, and how those failures impact the…

BKC Fellow Florian Martin-Bariteau assembled a report to the Council of Europe on blockchain opportunities. "The impact of the blockchains for Human Rights, Democracy…

Yong Jin Park, RSM Visiting Scholar, analyzes the digital inequality in AI.  "This study focuses on digital divide in the context of access, use, and perceptual…

BKC Fellow Florian Martin-Bariteau speaks about the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act on the Law Bytes podcast.  “Bill C-27, Canada’s privacy reform bill introduced in…

Virgílio Almeida takes a look at the relationship between algorithms and institutions. “Societies are experiencing a transition in which automation increases its role in daily…

Nathan Matias and Lucas Wright provide useful tools to understand how adaptive algorithms can make an impact on individuals and society.

In a Science article outlining the risks surrounding software that can identify anonymous chess players, Alexandra Wood says that it's part of a bigger issue: “Privacy threats are…

James Mickens and Hilary Ross discuss the drawbacks and potential solutions of social media algorithms.

Jad Esber and Scott Kominers offer a framework for designing reputation-based systems to encourage quality contributions and participation on platforms.

Baobao Zheng and colleagues explore how researchers view topics in artificial intelligence

Nani Jansen Reventlow explains the dangers of automating government services

Jessica Fjeld describes the increasing relevance of AI in our lives and reflects on the importance of self-compassion.

Woodrow Hartzog shares his "theory of fault" for autonomous system failures

Elizabeth Renieris is interviewed about her work in AI ethics.

Sandra Wachter weighs in on the ethical implications of a computer tracking workers’ emotions.

Ben Green opines that people may put too much faith in human oversight of AI.

Jessica Fjeld offers legal insights on art created by artificial intelligence.

Bruce Schneier is interviewed about the future of AI hacking.

Nani Jansen Reventlow writes about the impact of AI on marginalized groups.

Bruce Schneier and colleague argue AI software can easily pass for real public comments

Mutale Nkonde discusses techno-racism and facial recognition software with CNN.

Laura Montoya featured by HBS Digital Initiative

Shreya Tewari on facial recognition technology

Nani Jansen Reventlow warns of the limitations of facial recognition technology

Bruce Schneier says that AIs will grant our wishes, and then hack them, exploiting our social, political, and economic systems

Tom Zick considers the near-term societal risks of reinforcement learning

Paper from Bruce Schneier explores the implications of AI hackers

2020-2021 affiliate discusses AI copyright and trademark law

Politico speaks with Nani Jansen Reventlow about algorithmic harms and governance

Nani Jansen Reventlow says the Dutch benefits scandal highlights need for EU scrutiny

Mutale Nkonde talks with NPR about facial recognition technology.

Sabelo Mhlambi speaks with BUToday

Doaa Abu Elyounes argues for high standards of transparency and supervision for algorithms

Sandra Wachter describes issues with technology that claims to help with mental health.

David O’Brien discusses open source intelligence

Shagun Jhaver discusses challenges with using AI for content moderation with Digital Privacy News.

Jonathan Zittrain compares AI to asbestos

MIT Technology Review cites “Principled AI” Report

Woodrow Hartzog and Neil Richards argue that Clearview AI is wrongfully trying to use the First Amendment to ensure a freedom to surveil at will.

Sandra Wachter shares concerns about Amazon’s new device

VentureBeat cites paper from Elettra Bietti

"We are living through the tech-enabled unraveling of full-time employment itself”

Sabelo Mhlambi uses ubuntu as a frame to examine artificial intelligence

Mutale Nkonde speaks with Vox about facial recognition technology

BKC’s Ethics & Governance of AI Initiative works with government officials, stakeholders

Improving Risk Management, Building Strong Governance, Accelerating Education and Research

Mutale Nkonde talks to NPR about facial recognition

Mutale Nkonde a guest on LawBytes Podcast

Mutale Nkonde discusses IBM’s letter to the Congressional Black Caucus

Are we ready to have a conversation about racial and social justice in relation to technology? Asks Nani Jansen Reventlow

Mutale Nkonde discusses the impact of surveillance technology on minority communities

Mutale Nkonde weighs in on IBM’s decision

Statement supports the proposed Ordinance Banning Facial Recognition Technology in Boston

An essay by Mutale Nkonde

Mutale Nkonde discusses AI, algorithmic bias, and why we need humans on Notre Dame’s With a Side of Knowledge Podcast

David Weinberger interviews Sabelo Mhlambi

Weinberger joins “Voices in AI” to discuss his views on AI

BKC’s Ram Shankar Siva Kumar joins Frank Nagle to explore Adversarial Machine Learning's impact on businesses.  “Most major companies, including Google, Amazon, Microsoft,…

The pandemic has demonstrated the risks of relying on algorithms to remove harmful content.

Mary Gray proposes several ways that technology can aid in the fight against COVID-19 that help rather than replace healthcare workers.

BKC fellow Baobao Zhang appeared in the PBS documentary series "Great Decisions" on the possibilities and dangers of AI

Zeynep Tufekci says to rebuild trust in the internet, we need to entirely restructure how it operates.

BKC faculty associate Francine Berman on the question that keeps her up at night: Is the Internet of Things a future utopia, or is it a future dystopia?

An overview of smart cities and whether they can be forces for good.

Jessica Fjeld, lead author of Principled AI, answered questions about the report and its implications

Ifeoma Ajunwa testifies in front of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor

Mutale Nkonde joined Slate's technology podcast What Next: TBD to discuss Alphabet and inherent bias.

Jessica Fjeld warns that giving too much credence to Big Tech is like “asking the fox for guidance on henhouse security procedures.”

Ben Green joins Jasmine McNealy on the New Books in Technology podcast

A team of researchers from BKC recently released a white paper and visualization that mapped AI principles and guidelines to find consensus. 

Lead author Jessica Fjeld discusses new paper "Principled Artificial Intelligence: Mapping Consensus in Ethical and Rights-based Approaches to Principles for AI"

Chinmayi Arun in conversation about the applications of AI and the ethical debates surrounding its use on the podcast Interpreting India.

How public opinion will likely shape the regulation of three applications of AI in the US

Mary Gray on the need for a better social contract when it comes to the rights of informal workers

Mutale Nkonde warns of companies using biometric data

Urs Gasser makes the case for including young people in our conversations about artificial intelligence.

Landlords are using artificial intelligence to vet prospective renters

Researchers argue the dangers of deepfakes are overblown, but they will still require journalists to give thought to how they handle unconfirmed information.

Ryan Budish discusses a report from the National Security Commission on AI

Ariel Herbert-Voss on attacking machine learning systems

Improving algorithms isn’t just good for your company, Mutale Nkonde says

Ifeoma Ajunwa joins WBUR to discuss the use of AI in hiring processes

Meeri Haataja outlines motivations for companies to address AI

Mutale Nkonde discusses the need to regulate deepfakes

How the design of sociotechnical systems can be one means of dismantling or transforming systems of oppression

How can teams prevent structural inequalities and their unconscious biases from affecting AI systems?

The comment concerns proposed revisions to the so-called “disparate impact” rule

Mutale Nkonde discusses how algorithmic decisionmaking systems reproduce structural racism

Mutale Nkonde contributed to courtroom algorithm game from MIT Tech Review

The benefits do not come close to outweighing the risks, writes Woodrow Hartzog

Testimony shared with the Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight of the Massachusetts Legislature

How do we make sure that automated hiring platforms do not worsen employment discrimination?

Facebook says its cryptocurrency will be managed by an independent group, but an analysis finds more than half of the members have links back to the social media giant.

Mutale Nkonde says a federal ban is unlikely

HubWeek discussion looks at the ethics of individuals and an industry

What machine learning has to teach the experts in business strategy, and more

While the social media platform’s latest approach to facial recognition appears to respect user’s choices, the offer is so tainted we can’t truly agree to it

BKC fellow Mutale Nkonde shares suggestions for making A.I. a force for good

Kathy Pham reflects on the importance of asking societal and ethical questions in product organizations

Threat of Automation Does Not Change Policy Preferences, finds Baobao Zhang

Mutale Nkonde discusses potential federal restrictions on the use of facial recognition technology

Assembly Student Fellowship convenes students to tackle the biggest issues in tech today.

Armies of workers help power the technological wizardry that is reshaping our lives – but they are invisible and their jobs are precarious.

Domain experts from MIT, Harvard, and RightsCon offer insight into the intersection of emerging tech and human rights.

An interview with David Weinberger

BKC fellow proposes guidelines to build better tools that can safeguard society

Ben Green offers insights into why technology is not an end in itself

Inside the labor-intensive process that enables AI’s creation.

Tech, policy, and ethics training should begin in undergraduate studies, Zuckerman says

Women are far less enthusiastic about the prospect of driverless cars than men, recent studies show.

BKC Faculty Associate Desmond Patton shares his perspective

Predictive AI is too flawed — both technically and ethically — to prevent another El Paso or Dayton.

BKC’s Gretchen Greene talks about the controversy surrounding facial recognition technology

Embedded EthiCS employs a distributed pedagogy that makes ethical reasoning an integral component of courses throughout the standard computer science curriculum.

The rapid adoption of the technology by the government has triggered a debate about the algorithms’ trustworthiness and how they are being used.

What Technical Debt Can Teach Us About the Dangers of AI Working Too Well

Jonathan Zittrain argues that overreliance on artificial intelligence may put us in intellectual debt

Twenty-seven prominent researchers from MIT, Harvard, Princeton, NYU, UC Berkeley and Columbia have signed an open statement of concern regarding the use of actuarial risk…

What could an industry standard for socially responsible, ethically-attuned technologies look like?

Jonathan Zittrain delivers an energetic presentation on the ethical responsibilities of tech companies toward consumers in the era of artificial intelligence.

Exploring AI’s role in the medical field

Ifeoma Ajunwa discusses the interplay of law and technology in the multiple stages of an employee’s journey

An AI fake text generator that can write paragraphs in a style based on just a sentence has raised concerns about its potential to spread false information

Moral Labyrinth is an art installation, workshop, and website inspired by the Value Alignment Problem in AI

BKC affiliate Rediet Abebe uses algorithms and AI to improve access to opportunity for historically marginalized communities.

A Q&A with BKC’s David Weinberger, author of “Everyday Chaos”

Separating fact from fiction in the new Wild West of technology

Artificial intelligence is often hailed as a great catalyst of medical innovation, a way to find cures to diseases that have confounded doctors and make health care more efficient…

BKC Executive Director Urs Gasser comments on Singapore’s Framework for AI

BKC’s Judith Donath lends insight into the role of AI in parenting

Chinmayi Arun hosts a discussion with Microsoft President during 2019 Verify Conference

Sarah Newman discusses her Moral Labyrinth installation

Sabelo Mhlambi discusses why technology cannot be neutral

Chinmayi Arun on how AI affects, and will continue to affect, the Global South

The AI industry runs on the invisible labor of humans working in isolated and often terrible conditions—and the model is spreading to more and more businesses.

When people learn to code, they should also learn about ethics, humanities, and equity. Then perhaps they’ll be more prepared to predict the unintended consequences of their work,…

A BKC team tasked hackathon participants with developing a new resource for policymakers

As San Francisco halts city use of facial recognition technology, CIOs could see more regulatory actions against surveillance technology -- and more limits on their use of data.

Gretchen Greene lends insight into the adoption of facial recognition technology in police departments across the U.S.

Ad tracking services are disturbingly effective.

Yochai Benkler shares concerns about industry’s influence on AI governance and research

10 steps to protect Human Rights

Tech companies often fail to tell users how their data will be employed. Sometimes, the firms can’t even anticipate it themselves.

Siddharth Suri and BKC’s Mary Gray discuss their book “Ghost Work” with GeekWire

The invisible labor that makes our technology run

Advances in robotics, hardware, and artificial intelligence have combined to make a new vision possible for how infrastructure maintenance and repair is carried out.

There is a lot of hype about “smart cities,” but Ben Green argues the tools may have darker potential.

Maintaining agency in a human augmented health system

Frameworks like Ethical OS are a step in the right direction, but are they enough?

Do predictive tools reflect and reinforce punitive practices that drive disparate outcomes? How do data regimes interact with the penal ideology to naturalize these practices?

The short answer is, “yes, but it doesn’t really matter when compared to the choice to use machine learning.”