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Tech Policy Press

The World Is Already Resisting AI. Now, There is a List to Prove It.

Petra Molnar spotlights the launch of the AI Resist List, documenting global challenges to AI expansion.

May 21, 2026
Knight First Amendment Institute

Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention?

Faculty Associate Arvind Narayanan and Affiliate Sayash Kapoor lay out the downsides of extraordinary government intervention in response to new technology.

May 21, 2026
Auditing AI

Auditing AI

How tech companies, journalists, and policymakers can prevent AI decision-making from going wrong.

Auditing AI is a first-of-its-kind exploration of why and how to audit artificial intelligence systems.

May 21, 2026
Tech Policy Press

The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People

Faculty Associate Jonathan Zong and Frank Elavsky note that web developers are accommodating AI 'readers.'

May 20, 2026
EU Reporter

Europe’s New War on Corruption

Can AI Succeed Where Politicians Failed?

Faculty Associate Mark Esposito and Bruno S. Sergi have a new analysis on AI, politics, and corruption which argues that Europe has become "the world's largest live experiment" in…

May 14, 2026
the new york times

Dozens of Polymarket Bets Show Signs of Insider Trading, The Times Finds

References conversation with Jonathan Zittrain and Polymarket's Shayne Coplan

The New York Times' Stuart A. Thompson and David Yaffe-Bellany catalogue likely indications of insider trading in Polymarket bets. The article references and links to an in-depth…

May 14, 2026
Transforming Society

After lockdown streaming, disabled audiences were shut out again

Faculty Associate Magda Romanska reflects on the return to in-person arts programming after COVID-spurred digitization.

May 12, 2026
USA Today

UK kids bypass age checks with fake facial hair, new survey finds

"Plunkett believes parents can educate themselves about harmful online content and how easy it is for their children to access it ‒ whether intentionally or not."

May 10, 2026
Oxford Internet Institute

The efficiency paradox in EU data centre policy

Daria Onitiu, Faculty Associate Sandra Wachter, and Brent Mittelstadt consider the implications of the recast Energy Efficiency Directive.

May 8, 2026
The Guardian

How dangerous is Anthropic’s Mythos AI?

The vulnerability-finding capabilities of technologies like Mythos have important ramifications for cybersecurity, argues Bruce Schneier in The Guardian. Though Mythos doesn't…

May 8, 2026
Tech Policy Press

Surveillance Technology is Silencing Journalists in Kashmir

Faculty Associate Petra Molnar details the surveillance culture of Kashmir.

May 7, 2026
arXiv

"Security vs. Interoperability" Arguments

An Analytical Framework

Daji Landis, Faculty Associate Elettra Bietti, and alum Sunoo Park address security vs. interoperability arguments in antitrust and regulatory proceedings against Big Tech.

May 6, 2026
Android Authority

This app from Harvard could reshape how identity works beyond Google Wallet

ASML's Keyring empowers users to track how their data is collected, stored, and used online.

May 5, 2026
RAND

Open-Weight AI Models Require Proportional Evaluation Approaches

Fellow Stephen Casper and coauthors propose proportional evaluation approaches to open-weight AI models.

May 4, 2026
Internet Society

Measuring Internet Censorship

Challenges, Trends, and Impact

Affiliate Maria Xynou's latest blog post discusses the challenges of measuring Internet censorship, emerging censorship trends, and how Internet measurement powers advocacy for…

May 4, 2026
FAS Current

Interloper or interlocutor?

Debating AI’s impact on social interactions

“If you did have something cheering you on, that you really could tune to your preferences, and it was helping keep you on the path...would you turn that down?”

May 4, 2026
The Harvard Gazette

Applied Social Media Lab Debuts Keyring Wallet

The app debuted at a digital identity symposium in April.

Worried about how online firms use data they get from you?Berkman Klein researchers based out of the Applied Social Media Lab unveil a new tool to verify identity, let users limit…

May 1, 2026
Knight First Amendment Institute

The Right to Access Foreign Communicative Infrastructure

Foreign social media platforms are unique associational and speech infrastructures that should be treated differently from other foreign infrastructure, challenging the Supreme…

May 1, 2026
The Indian Express

Message from Claude Mythos

Regulation and oversight are of little use if they are always playing a chasing game. AI companies have turned regulation into the last line of redress when it should have been the first line of defence.

Large language models have destabilized a three-tiered view of the digital commons.

May 1, 2026
Technology and Culture

A Long History

From Universal Language to Artificial Intelligence

Emerging language technologies are historically contingent interventions rather than radical ruptures.

Apr 30, 2026