Out 7/7: An essay collection on the challenges, risks, and opportunities of this historic moment in American law and governance. Featuring essays by more than 50 Harvard Law School faculty members, including Stephen Breyer, Jill Lepore, & Annette Gordon-Reed. mitpress.mit.edu/978026206043...

I had a public conversation with Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan, and found it fascinating. I asked him about market manipulation and insider information; how to definitively resolve bets; and the broader implications of turning uncertainty into a tradable product. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pU4...

2026 Harvard Entrepreneurship Summit: Jonathan Zittrain Interviews Polymarket's Shayne Coplan

YouTube video by The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

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Great crowd, great conversation at Cindy Cohn’s “Privacy’s Defender” talk with @zittrain.bsky.social last night at the Harvard Book Store!

Article by @zittrain.bsky.social from nearly 2 yrs ago w/ smart ideas about embedding AI agent metadata at the level of Internet architecture, as a means of control. Since then, more of us can imagine a world w/ many AI agents. Read at least the last 7 paragraphs. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

We Need to Control AI Agents Now

Automated bots are about to be everywhere, with potentially devastating consequences.

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"We Need to Control AI Agents Now" Like @iajunwa.bsky.social, I'm very intrigued by @zittrain.bsky.social's idea for a "new, special blank on a packet’s digital form." tweet: x.com/iajunwa/stat... article: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

🚨 New paper from an awesome group led by Noam Kolt and @nickacaputo . We hear a lot about what important concepts and methods from AI research that lawyers need to understand. But it's really a two-way street... 🧵🧵🧵

1/ Trump's War Powers Report to Congress on the #Venezuela strikes and seizure of #Maduro is in. I've read/coded every WPR report and used to work on them in the White House. (See this searchable database & graphics warpowers.lawandsecurity.org/%F0%9F%91%87) Here's what stands out about this one🧵:

Tess Bridgeman@tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Reminder for Congress: The War Powers Resolution's 60 day clock is ticking today, & the WPR report to Congress is due. Note: - There's no "we're calling this law enforcement" exception to the WPR - Bombing another country and forcibly abducting its president in a military raid is "hostilities"

Study with us!

Elena Glassman@elglassman.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We're admitting PhD students! (Possible co-PIs include @zittrain.bsky.social or @ianarawjo.bsky.social if interests align.) We're excited about: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Interested? Fill out the linked form & apply to Harvard SEAS (listing me as faculty of interest) by Dec 15th!

What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow? Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it) resonantcomputing.org

The Resonant Computing Manifesto

Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.

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Must read by @marknevitt.bsky.social on why killing survivors at sea is a moral & strategic disaster for all of us: "If America chooses a path where killing defenseless survivors becomes acceptable, American servicemembers will pay the price for that choice." www.justsecurity.org/125998/boat-...

Killing Shipwrecked Survivors is Not Just Illegal—It Endangers U.S. Servicemembers

If the United States chooses a path where killing defenseless survivors becomes acceptable, American servicemembers will pay the price for that choice.

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Mary McCord, former Acting Assistant AG for National Security, and I teamed up on Qs Senators should ask #Bondi at her Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, on strikes that have killed 17 people to date. The implications are serious. Consider a few of the Qs: www.justsecurity.org/121862/ask-b...

What the Senate Judiciary Committee Should Ask A.G. Bondi on Drug Cartel Strikes

Annotated questions the Senate Judiciary Committee could ask Attorney General Pam Bondi on lethal strikes against drug cartels.

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Working on a new book, “The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government.” Drawing from my experience as a prosecutor, the book offers ideas to take back our democracy and a vision for the future. Available June 9, 2026. Here’s the cover. What do you think?

My dear friend JZ @zittrain.bsky.social is starting a podcast (still not named) about AI, technology and society as he launches his next book. I was thrilled to be his first guest. Stay tuned.

I spoke with @aleksmadry.bsky.social on his podcasts about all things AI -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeoG...

Jonathan Zittrain: AI Agents and Trust

YouTube video by Before AGI

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Join our team! LIL is looking for a Product and Research Manager to help create, shape, and execute on our portfolio of open knowledge projects. PRMs work across every piece of the LIL ecosystem, from software experimentation to convening of events. Learn more at careers.harvard.edu/job/product-...

Product and Research Manager

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"It should impel us to demand commitments by model makers and operators that the models function as the harmless, helpful, and honest friends they are so diligently designed to appear to be." We need personal AIs that interact with other AIs to do that for us! www.techpolicy.press/new-perspect...

New Perspectives on AI Agentiality and Democracy: "Whom Does It Serve?" | TechPolicy.Press

Richard Reisman and Richard Whitt write that interoperability will enable agential relationships that serve individuals and communities faithfully.

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Imagine a world where: 💻 Your device is truly yours 📱 You speak freely without fear 🔐 Your privacy is protected That's the future we're fighting for at EFF. Stand with us for our 35th anniversary!

35 Years for Privacy, Free Speech, and a Brighter Future

Through July 10, new monthly or annual Sustaining Donors get an EFF35 Challenge Coin! With your help, EFF is here to stay.

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As you may have heard, there’s an important birthday this weekend. We can only hope that people across the nation — nay, the globe — engage in tribute and fanfare proportional to the occasion. 1/

1M public domain books now available digitally, through our Institutional Data Initiative at Harvard.

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Today we released Institutional Books 1.0, a 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections, refined for accuracy and usability. 🧵

Recent research reveals the stereotypes that inform the "thinking" of #chatbots, which it might be good to share with ppl during interactions and to keep the bots from being manipulative, argues @zittrain.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... #AI

What AI Thinks It Knows About You

What happens when people can see what assumptions a large language model is making about them?

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AI is often thought of as a black box -- no way to know what's going on inside. That's changing in eye-opening ways. Researchers are finding "beliefs" models are forming as they converse, and how those beliefs correlate to what the models say and how they say it. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

What AI Thinks It Knows About You

What happens when people can see what assumptions a large language model is making about them?

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When you peer inside a large language model’s black box, you can see what it tells you when it thinks you’re rich—and what it tells you when it thinks you’re not. @zittrain.bsky.social on the assumptions AI makes about people:

What AI Thinks It Knows About You

What happens when people can see what assumptions a large language model is making about them?

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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. (!)

Two British academics discovered that a "copy" of Magna Carta, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is one of seven originals dating from 1300. Read more: nyti.ms/4dkc3ma

He told us so: @zittrain.bsky.social ‘s Future of the Internet” (almost a decade ago) predicted that controlled, contained digital products like iPhone, Xbox, etc. would suppress the next generation’s tech tinkering.

Jonathan Zittrain (@zittrain.bsky.social)

A small creature who likes to run around in universities. Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. EFF Board. Director of the Berkman ...

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Like @coloradotravis.bsky.social I consumed this over the weekend, and I highly encourage everyone to read it. The coverage is treating the book as an expose of Meta culture and execs and while it is that, I think the more interesting parts are in between and focus on global power dynamics 1/

As the @institutionaldatainitiative.org expands its mission, we’re announcing a collaboration with @bpl.boston.gov to develop AI-driven tools capable of accelerating new digitization at libraries across the world, starting at the Boston Public Library. institutionaldatainitiative.org/posts/using-...

Using AI to Accelerate Digitization at Boston Public Librarys

Today, as part of our mission expansion, we’re announcing a collaboration with BPL to develop AI-driven tools capable of accelerating new digitization of large collections at libraries across the worl...

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I'm pleased to announce we're expanding our mission at the @institutionaldatainitiative.org with an open call for institutional collaborators, new digitization at Harvard Law School Library, and additional support to advance this work. institutionaldatainitiative.org/posts/open-c...

Expanding Our Mission: An Open Call for Collaborators

Today, we’re pleased to announce an open call for institutional collaborators as new support expands the research capacity of the Institutional Data Initiative.

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Just a tremendous honor to debate my friend @alanrozenshtein.com on the TikTok case, with @zittrain.bsky.social's expert moderation, with Justice Breyer in the front row. Even more special to have my kids there--and relieved that they (and Justice Breyer) sided with me!