The MIT Media Lab and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University will serve as founding academic institutions for the initiative, which will be named the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund. The Fund will support a cross-section of AI ethics and governance projects and activities, both in the United States and internationally.

Source: Knight Foundation, Omidyar Network and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman create $27 million fund to research artificial intelligence for the public interest

MIT Media Lab and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University will act as anchor institutions for the fund. A governing board will be formed with representatives from both institutions.

Source: LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, Omidyar Network create $27 million fund for AI in the public interest | VentureBeat | Bots | by Khari Johnson

Awards will be made from the fund to support a global cross-section of research aimed at applying the humanities, social sciences and other disciplines to the development of AI for the public interest. The MIT Media Lab and Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society will serve as the initiative’s founding academic institutions.

Source: New $27 million fund backs research into artificial intelligence for the public interest

Jon Penney was nearing the end of a fellowship at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society in 2013, and he realized that Snowden’s disclosures presented an opportunity to study their effect on Americans’ online behavior.

Source: How surveillance changes people’s behavior | Harvard Magazine

The Berkman Klein Center, with key input from senior researcher David O’Brien, an attorney, and fellow Alexandra Wood, plays an important role in this part of the project together with Sweeney, IQSS chief data science and technology officer Mercè Crosas, fellow Michael Bar-Sinai, data scientist Micah Altman of MIT, Chong, and three of Chong’s students: Ph.D. candidate Aaron Bembenek, Obasi Shaw ’17, and Kevin Wang ’18.

Source: Deploying Differential Privacy to Protect Human Research Data | Harvard Magazine

The deportation force envisioned by Trump, targeted with court-released Facebook data, is a legal possibility. “We’ve built the mechanism to enable a police state,” says Bruce Schneier, a cybersecurity expert from Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Source: We already have a Muslim registry. It’s called Facebook (FB), Google (Goog), and every major technology company that tracks its users — Quartz

Joining the show to remember some of the top cybersecurity issues in the news this year, including the Democratic National Committee hack, the “Internet Of Things” malware attack and more, is Harvard Berkman fellow and security expert Bruce Schneier.

Source: Reflecting On 2016: The Year In Cybersecurity | Radio Boston

Twitter and Facebook will continue to survive for a few more years. We will see new players emerging in the future. Live streaming of videos is an emerging trend that will be an interesting thing to watch out for. – Noopur Raval, Affiliate at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

Source: Throwing light on 2016 in social media – The Hindu

Earlier this year, John Palfrey ’01, head of school at Phillips Academy and co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, and Urs Gasser LL.M. ’03, Harvard Law School professor of practice and executive director of the Berkman Klein Center, published “Born Digital: How Children Grow Up in a Digital Age,” an expansion of their celebrated 2008 book “Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives.”

Source: ‘Born Digital’ Redux – Harvard Law Today

The wide-ranging Freedom of Information Act lawsuit was filed Tuesday morning in conjunction with Ryan Shapiro, a doctoral candidate at MIT and research affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

Source: VICE News sues FBI for info on Trump, the Clintons, and Breitbart News – VICE News