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Standing on a historic stage that has hosted renowned works of art and humanity–from Dizzy Gillespie and the National Theater, to Jay Leto and Margret Atwood–Harvard professor and co-founder of the ...
How do the algorithms that populate our social media feeds actually work? In a piece for Time Magazine excerpted from his recent book Robin Hood Math, Noah Giansiracusa sheds light on the algorithms ...
Noah Giansiracusa shares five key insights from his new book with the Next Big Idea Club. "Math is too powerful a tool to leave in the hands of the elites. It’s time to take math back from the rich ...
Alongside two coauthors, Bruce Schneier argues that the US government and semiconductor firms alike must enforce (and comply with the enforcement of) regulations.
Ryan Kellett explores resistance to the "labels, markers, and/or pedigree of traditional journalism," suggesting that "code-switching" toward and away from the journalist label can be strategically ...
Jasmine McNealy and coauthor Yewande Addie explore the ways that AI is shaping public health communications in Africa, focusing on vaccine hesitancy and maternal health.
With Sacha Alanoca and Kevin Klyman, Affiliates Shira Gur-Arieh and Tom Zick “present a taxonomy to map the global landscape of AI regulation.” ...
"The fear that women already experience on the street, at the beach, inside a store or on social media is being transformed to constant paranoia under the ever-watchful eyes of AI surveillance." ...
Our contemporary debates about cybersecurity, surveillance and the law are steeped in 21st century technology, but the problem of interception is not new. Surveillance and information warfare played ...
Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor challenge notions of AI as an existential threat. They view AI as a “normal” technology, akin to electricity: "To view AI as normal is not to understate its ...