Research Programs
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
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Algorithmic Collusion by Large Language Models
March 24, 2025
BKC Spring Speaker Series Sara Fish’s research focuses on topics at the intersection of economics and artificial intelligence. Join her at BKC as she…
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Denoising and Discretion: AI Support for Normative Decisions
March 24, 2025
Spring Speaker Series Many decisions require some kind of personal discretion: Was a workplace accident due to negligence? Should a particular person be deported?…
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AI and Personhood
March 24, 2025
Join us in the MPR on Tuesday, March 25 from 12:15pm-1:15pm to hear from Duke Law Professor James Boyle, author of The Line: AI and the Future…
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Cyberlaw Clinic 25th Anniversary
March 20, 2025
The Cyberlaw Clinic is Harvard Law School’s technology law and policy clinical program. The Clinic was founded at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet &…
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AI’s Impact on Science, Law, and Society
March 20, 2025
BKC Spring Speaker Series Event The promise of AI agents has led to claims of imminent and rapid adoption across fields. Companies have even promised to…
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The Moving Image: A User’s Manual
March 17, 2025
How did we come to believe so many lies that we voted into the most powerful political and military post in the world a reality…
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Join the Berkman Klein Center and the AI Safety Student Team for a speaker series on AI governance! Free lunch will be provided, RSVP here 🙂…
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Consumer Agents with Professor Rory Van Loo (BKC / AISST AI Governance Speaker Series)
March 6, 2025
Join the Berkman Klein Center and the AI Safety Student Team for a speaker series on AI governance! Free lunch will be provided, RSVP…
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Part of BKC’s Spring Speaker Series: State Attorneys General have been increasing active in antitrust enforcement – both in focusing on the impact of challenges…
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Open Source Lawfare: AI Regulation After DeepSeek
March 6, 2025
BKC Spring Speaker Series Event BKC Fellow Ben Brooks dives beyond behind the splashy AI headlines to the important policy forces shaping our regulatory landscape now and…
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How do AI chatbots see us? (BKC Speaker Series)
March 3, 2025
When you talk with a chatbot, what does it “think” about you? Recent work in AI interpretability, based on high-dimensional geometry, is beginning to provide…
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HLS Beyond Presents: Vibes Matter – What Makes us Trust the News?
February 18, 2025
The news industry has two primary tasks: Accurately report what’s going on and present that info in a way that reaches people. It’s been failing at the latter — as of 2024, more people say they deeply distrust the media than trust it, and audiences are moving from traditional outlets to social platforms and individual creators. Ben Reininga, former Head of Editorial at Snapchat and 2024/5 Nieman & Berkman-Klein fellow is researching what makes users trust news videos — with the hope of providing more insight and tools to news publishers to help them connect with users.
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On the bookshelves, fall 2024
December 18, 2024
Harvard Law Today features a selection of the book events that took place on campus during the fall semester.
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Applied Social Media Lab Community Demo Day
December 6, 2024
The Applied Social Media Lab (ASML) at the Berkman Klein Center is excited to invite you to a special showcase event where you can learn…
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Artificial Intelligence and The Future of Privacy: A Conversation with Microsoft Chief Privacy Officer and Former FTC Commissioner Julie Brill
December 2, 2024
Hosted by BKC, moderated by Professor Aileen Nielsen, and sponsored by the Orrick Fund for the Colloquium on Cybersecurity/Cyberlaw – Microsoft’s Chief Privacy Officer Julie…
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At Berkman Klein event, experts say ‘facts can’t fix’ social media’s most urgent problems
November 25, 2024
Empathy, understanding, and less algorithmic amplification on social media platforms are the best ways to combat conspiracy theories, experts say at Berkman Klein Center event.
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Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: Mapping the Politics of Falsehood
November 15, 2024
How can we effectively talk about truth? How are misinformation campaigns being addressed across the globe? The Institute for Rebooting Social Media welcomes Johan Farkas to discuss…
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The Impact of Conspiracy Theories: At Home and Online
November 14, 2024
From “Pizzagate” in 2016 to recent claims of the government controlling the weather in the wake of Hurricane Helene, conspiracy theories…