Jonathan Zittrain

The HLS Library Innovation Lab just released 360 years' worth of all US case law to the public -- a ten-year project with a ton of moving pieces. Can't quite believe it's done! https://vimeo.com/922493882

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AI is often thought of as a black box -- there's no ready way to figure out what's going on inside. That's changing a little, in some eye-opening ways. In this essay I discuss how some researchers are gleaning what "beliefs" models are forming about their human interlocutors as they converse, and how those beliefs correlate to what the models say and how they say it. There are lots of policy implications!

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/inside-the-ai-black-box/682853/?gift=GFVsesv7yr2B_e8FpoMTZ1YHTxzxzpBN6k87fsIFHxw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Some ruminations on the weird phenomenon where my name crashes ChatGPT (!) https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/12/chatgpt-wont-say-my-name/681028/?gift=iWa_iB9lkw4UuiWbIbrWGc4qbnPc5fxHhdt-Xqt9ess&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Hello! The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society @ Harvard Univ. is hiring. We are looking for a capacity-building Managing Director to join a flourishing, intellectually robust community of faculty, students, fellows and affiliates from multiple disciplines and backgrounds, committed to studying and improving the digital space by building in it.

More info here --

https://cyber.harvard.edu/story/2023-07/hiring-managing-director

I spoke with my old friend Jim Sciutto about the discovery that a copy of the Magna Carta at the Harvard Law School Library purchased for $26.50 in 1956 turns out to be a real one from AD 1300. (!)

I spoke with Aleks Madry for his podcast about all things AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeoGZLlfMig

I wrote a short piece about agent-based AI, its risks, and what we might do about them. It also serves as a preview of a new book, where I try to offer a picture of how humanity is both gaining power and losing control with the rise of the next wave of technology. More soon -- and thoughts welcome!

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/07/ai-agents-safety-risks/678864/

If you’re just tuning in to the flurry of AI agent releases, here’s last summer’s short essay meant both as an explainer and a sketch of some real challenges for us all to take up. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/07/ai-agents-safety-risks/678864/?gift=GFVsesv7yr2B_e8FpoMTZ3HZdGk7HxQRM9NGUsBu0p8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Some thoughts on the latest existential AI risk letter -- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1663623838943563776.html