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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 5d

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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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 8d

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?

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Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem.bsky.social · Sep 7

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.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · Aug 8

university presidents think they're cutting deals to restore their funding. i get their pressures. but this is what's happening: ramping up the extortion, creating homogeneous zones of government-directed curricula, shutting down campus speech.

UC says Trump demand for $1-billion fine would 'completely devastate' university system

The Trump administration has proposed the University of California pay more than $1 billion to settle antisemitism charges and restore frozen grant funding at UCLA.

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Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social · Jul 27

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Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social · Jul 15

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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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · Jul 3

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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Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social · Jun 22

Thank you! I’m eager to dig into your piece.

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Richard Reisman @rreisman.bsky.social · Jun 20

"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!
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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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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Jun 13

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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Glenn O. Brown @go-brown.bsky.social · Jun 14

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/

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Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social · Jun 12

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

IDI @institutional.org · Jun 12

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

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Centre for Society, Technology and Values @uofwaterloo @cstv-uw.bsky.social · Jun 3

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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Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social · May 22

@oddletters.bsky.social TIL!

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Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social · May 21

I put "beliefs" in quotes to mark that very controversy.

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Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social · May 21

The essay focuses on the pioneering work of @viegas.bsky.social and @wattenberg.bsky.social and their Insight + Interaction Lab, insight.seas.harvard.edu

Insight and Interaction Lab | Harvard SEAS

We seek to understand the inner workings of AI systems, and use these insights to enable better human-AI interaction. Key approaches in our research include data visualization, mechanistic interpr...

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Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social · May 21

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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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · May 21

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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Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social · May 19

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. (!)

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 15

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

ALT: A large, framed, yellowing document. Text reads: "Harvard Law Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original." Photo credit: Lorin Granger/Harvard Law School

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · Apr 17

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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Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social · Mar 19

@rose.bsky.team delighted for you to visit BKC!

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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · Mar 17

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/

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Greg Leppert @leppert.me · Mar 12

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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Greg Leppert @leppert.me · Mar 5

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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