"By excluding the overwhelming majority of language production on the planet – people talking, fully and naturally, to each other – these models are being trained to mirror everything but us at our ...

Today’s U.S.-China AI race is often framed as the defining technological competition of our era. It is marked by a surge of ...

Faculty Associate Mark Esposito and Bruno S. Sergi chronicle the shifting legislative landscape about technology.

Dr. Nur Laiq is an Emerging Technology & Geopolitics Fellow and an Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is writing a political history of tech and AI that treats ...

I work on law and technology, with the hope those together might show us justice.

Camille François, J. Nathan Matias, and coauthors suggest that model cards could help AI companies catch up to industry transparency policies on child safety.

Noah Giansiracusa asks: How nutritious is your social media diet? Containing too much social media 'junk food,' he notes for Science News Explores, can have deleterious effects, and so individuals ...

Google offers interested users a version of its search engine restricted by a service it calls SafeSearch, intended to omit references to sites with "pornography and explicit sexual content." However, ...

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is an increasingly common Internet phenomenon capable of silencing Internet speech, usually for a brief interval but occasionally for longer. In this paper, we ...

In this study, we analyze both mainstream and social media coverage of the 2016 United States presidential election. We document that the majority of mainstream media coverage was negative for both ...

Each country in the world has its own set of copyright laws. However, the flexibility that most countries enjoy in adjusting and enforcing their own laws is limited by a set of international treaties.

After two decades of little direct legislation of the internet, national laws and related court decisions meant to govern cyberspace are rapidly proliferating worldwide. They are becoming building ...