Research Programs
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
-
Digital Identity Symposium: Towards User-Owned Identity
April 6, 2026
What if there were a better way to prove your identity online, one that gives you greater control over the information you share in a…
-
Institutional Disruption and the Longer View
April 6, 2026
Most AI policy conversations start from the assumption that we’re in unprecedented territory. But are we? This conversation brings together three scholars, all of whom…
-
Who Watches the Warfighters? Oversight of AI in the DOD
April 6, 2026
Who watches the warfighters? As defense instituations race to integrate AI into national security operations, the mechanisms designed to catch failures and protection those who…
-
Agents, Consciousness, and the Future of AI
March 31, 2026
AI is moving from autocomplete to autopilot. These systems are no longer just suggesting courses of action; they’re acting on our behalf, trading in markets,…
-
The same capabilities that make AI valuable for cybersecurity, including autonomous operation, rapid decision-making at scale, and minimal human oversight, are also the ones most…
-
AI Surveillance, Privacy and Civil Liberties
March 24, 2026
Artificial intelligence has made it possible for governments to aggregate, analyze, and act on data about individuals at a scale and speed that existing legal…
-
AI content (and algorithms) is coming for your kids
March 24, 2026
New laws are urgently needed to address “brain rot” content aimed at minors, argues Harvard Law expert Leah Plunkett
-
Impact Litigation for Safe AI
March 11, 2026
How can we use the courts to hold AI labs accountable? From chatbot suicides to autonomous AI agents, the legal questions surrounding artificial intelligence are…
-
Join BKC for a lunch talk with Julie Brill and Professor James Tierney on the evolving role of state attorneys general in technology enforcement and…
-
East Asian Legal Studies Talk
Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society Haochen Sun LLM… -
Making the Fine Print Visible: Introducing ASML’s Transparency Hub
February 25, 2026
Have you ever received a notice online that a privacy policy has changed, but you weren’t really sure how? Wouldn’t it be helpful if there…
-
Tort Law as a Tool for Mitigating Catastrophic AI Risk
February 19, 2026
Professor Gabriel Weil will discuss the role that tort law can play in compelling AI companies to internalize the risks generated by training and deploying…
-
Copyright’s Afterlife: Law, Legacy, and Ownership
February 6, 2026
This expert roundtable will address important aspects of the post-mortem afterlife of copyright and explore tools and remedies for identifying and rectifying misuses of authors’…
-
Data Privacy and the Future of AI Governance: A Conversation with Former FTC Commissioner Julie Brill
February 5, 2026
Join the Berkman Klein Center for a fireside chat and Q&A with Julie Brill, one of the world’s foremost thought leaders on technology, governance, and…
-
HLS Beyond and LIL present: Funders and Founders
January 28, 2026
What does it take to build a legal tech startup? How are lawyers using AI now, and how will they use it five and ten years from now? Join Pablo Arredondo, Co-Founder of CaseText and now Vice President at Thomson Reuters following the company's 2023 acquisition, in conversation with Jon Choi, visiting faculty at HLS and James Carr Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis and Co-Founder of Solomon AI, as they discuss entrepreneurship, AI, and the future of the legal profession.
-
Under the Hood of AI Policymaking: A Conversation with Rebecca Kagan
January 21, 2026
AI policy is moving fast in Washington — new executive orders, shifting export controls, debates over federal versus state regulation. But how do these decisions…
-
A Conversation with Ben Buchanan on National Security and AI Policy
January 21, 2026
National security has become a dominant lens for AI policy in Washington. But what does that framing clarify, and what does it obscure? What role…
-
How technology supports and undermines democracy
December 16, 2025
At a recent event, experts urged collaboration between technologists and policymakers to protect the rule of law.