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Knight Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury warns that “AI for Good” initiatives can exploit under-resourced communities as test grounds for unproven tech.

"Social media networks have amplified the reach of social and political movements, but most research focuses on mainstream platforms such as X, Reddit, and Facebook, overlooking…

"Instead of pulling up the drawbridge, the U.S. should commit to ensuring that powerful models remain openly available."

"One upside of fact-checking is that it's almost like a speed bump—it makes people pause and think. Now, bad actors know that this safeguard has been removed, and they have the…

Technologies impact every aspect of migration, Petra Molnar writes, and are often used without proper regulation or regard for human rights.

Moira Weigel discusses the roles of algorithms and chatbots in understanding the past, present, and future of dating.

“Firms have set out to quantify or reduce all elements of workers’ experience to data.”

Jim Cowie and colleagues identify four primary threats to internet resiliency, and propose nine initiatives that balance immediate needs with long-term resiliency measures.

Bruce Schneier and Davi Ottenheimer argue that “the U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history.”

RSM Visiting Scholar Allison Stanger believes that Elon Musk’s new involvement with government is unlikely to be altruistic.

Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders warn of the risks posed by DOGE’s extreme approach to AI implementation.

Mark Esposito and coauthor Eduardo Araral explore how blockchain technology can enhance the governance of digital commons by providing transparent, secure, and decentralized…

Fellow Ben Brooks comments on responses to DeepSeek’s open-source R1 model.

Mike Ananny's research on how media unions - e.g., WGAE - respond to AI is cited.

Faculty Associate Virgilio Almeida and coauthors analyzed over 30 million political messages on Discord during the 2024 US election.

“Can the interest in record publicity coexist with the growing ease of de-anonymizing and revealing sensitive information about individuals?”

“Too accurate AI could imminently create substantial particularized harms to individuals as well as widely dispersed costs to society,” argues Faculty Associate Aileen Nielsen.

ASML Fellow Fay Johnson discusses the ins and outs of Meta’s decision to cut back on fact checking with the True Thirty podcast.

Ben Reininga weighs in on how media outlets can responsibly use AI.

Florian Martin-Bariteau and colleagues are releasing a global policy brief to provide policymakers with actionable globally-oriented policy guidance on the impact of AI on…