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### Consumer Agents
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### BKC x AISST Event Series - Spring 2025
BKC x AI Student Safety Team (AISST) are collaborating to present a speaker series featuring a lineup of experts in AI…
March 14, 2025
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### The Moving Image: A User's Manual
How did we come to believe so many lies that we voted into the most powerful political and military post in the world a…
March 27, 2025
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### Deregulating AI Labor: Deportation by Any Other Name
Antonio Casilli, professor of sociology at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris and by-fellow at Cambridge's Churchill…
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### [Did the TikTok ban go too far?](/story/2025-02/did-tiktok-ban-go-too-far)
BKC co-founder Jonathan Zittrain moderated a debate between Anupam Chander and Alan Rozenshtein about the possible…
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Feb 28, 2025
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Nieman
### [The Washington Post’s TikTok guy will publish a Post-produced news series on his personal channel](/story/2025-02/washington-posts-tiktok-guy-will-publish-post-produced-news-series-his-personal)
Fellow Ryan Kellett comments on Dave Jorgenson's new weekly news skit show.
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Feb 27, 2025
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arXiv
### [A Law of One’s Own: The Inefficacy of the DMCA for Non-Consensual Intimate Media](/story/2025-02/law-ones-own-inefficacy-dmca-non-consensual-intimate-media)
RSM Visiting Scholar Eric Gilbert and coauthors argue that we need new laws to expedite the takedown of non-consensual…
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Feb 26, 2025
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Marketplace
### [AI data centers burn tons of energy. Can consumers and the grid adapt?](/story/2025-02/ai-data-centers-burn-tons-energy-can-consumers-and-grid-adapt)
Lauren Bridges weighs in on the environmental impact of AI data centers.
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Feb 25, 2025
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Foreign Policy
### [What the U.K. Wants from Apple Will Make Our Phones Less Safe](/story/2025-02/what-uk-wants-apple-will-make-our-phones-less-safe)
Bruce Schneier observes that the UK's demands that Apple weaken its security worldwide will exacerbate threats to users.
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Feb 25, 2025
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The Anti-Dystopians
### [Public, Private and DOGE: Hybrid Sovereignty with Swati Srivastava](/story/2025-02/public-private-and-doge-hybrid-sovereignty-swati-srivastava)
Faculty Associate Swati Srivastava shares her thoughts on public versus private power, “how discussions of sovereignty…
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Feb 24, 2025
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Open Global Rights
### [Carceral technology and the normalization of psychological torture](/story/2025-02/carceral-technology-and-normalization-psychological-torture-0)
Faculty Associate Dasha Pruss and Nedah Nemati argue that technological “alternatives” to incarceration extend…
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Feb 20, 2025
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Tech Policy Press
### [Data Colonialism Comes Home To The US: Resistance Must Too](/story/2025-02/data-colonialism-comes-home-us-resistance-must-too-0)
Nick Couldry and Ulises MejĂas warn against “data colonialism” and call for grassroots resistance to Musk's interferenc…
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Feb 19, 2025
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