🚨 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🧵:

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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

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-...

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...

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.

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.

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

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-...

"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...

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!

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.

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

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...

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:

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.

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-...

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...

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!

Confused about the TikTok case?--Watch @alanrozenshtein.com and me offer different perspectives, with expert moderation by @zittrain.bsky.social in this fun debate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjWf...

On Monday, I'll be at Harvard Law School debating @alanrozenshtein.com on constitutionality of TikTok sale-or-ban law, moderated by @zittrain.bsky.social. Alan may have 9 Justices, but I will have the 1st Amendment on my side. Come watch (in person or online)! 12EST. hls.harvard.edu/events/harva...

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

The #USAID website has just gone dark, amidst reporting #Trump may try to dissolve it completely. But #Congress established USAID in statute, and Trump can't unilaterally override a statute by executive order. Read my latest via @justsecurity.org: www.justsecurity.org/107267/can-p...

Why trust us? We’re the web archiving folks behind Perma.cc and the open data folks behind Case.law. Starting late last year we moved into collecting online government datasets, since it can be hard to get the datasets researchers need from web archives.

Last year we started a project to download and preserve public data. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01... Since saving public data is in the news today — but is always needed — let’s talk about what you can do to help.

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. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Applications for the 2025 cohort of the U.S. Digital Corps are opening this Tuesday (Jan 7)! I strongly encourage interested candidates to apply on Tuesday as there will be a 400 applicant cap per track. More info and RSVP for an upcoming info session: digitalcorps.gsa.gov/apply/

There was a very good article on this subject by @zittrain.bsky.social a few years ago: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... It included this example of the bizarre way that an URL-less TikTok video had to be cited in one court document:

Why does GPT break when you ask it about Jonathan Zittrain? Who better than @zittrain.bsky.social himself to find out: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

destiny's child JZ 🤝 why the sudden change/say my name, say my name

On the plus side, a helpful reminder of two key aspects of these AI models: 1. They are "profoundly unpredictable," and 2. "[M]odel makers still can and do effectively shape in all sorts of ways how their chatbots behave."

Some ruminations on the odd phenomenon where ChatGPT cannot say my name (!) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Incredible essay about the importance and challenges of digital archival by @maxy.bsky.social, as well as the various imperfect strategies to achieve “century-scale” digital archives. lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scal... 1/

The question is "simple". This essay starts at the birthplace of the IBM 305 RAMAC, looks at the cloud, clay tablets, tape drives, distributed storage...But technology alone will never be the whole answer. Maxwell Neely-Cohen is a writer, technologist & fellow at LIL. Link below!

I’m speaking with Craig Mundie at the Harvard Book Store tonight about his new book on AI - www.harvard.com/event/craig-...

Courtesy of @triketora.com, a starter pack for/of Berkman Klein Center folks go.bsky.app/nNdiLJ

On today's Lawfare Daily, Kevin Frazier spoke to @zittrain.bsky.social about his recent Atlantic article, “We Need to Control AI Agents Now," what distinguishes AI agents from current generative AI tools, and the sources of his concerns.

I wrote a short piece about agent-based AI. 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! www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Delighted to release two new books into the world! *Dilemmas in Digital Abuse* & *Cybercrime Scenarios* feature lots of “dilemmas” & “scenarios” exploring law/tech issues. Download for free on my website, where you’ll also find links for ~$14 paperbacks: thomaskadri.com/research/sch...

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! (And just in time for LLM training ...) vimeo.com/922493882

Whoa. @zittrain.bsky.social hosting a panel consisting of @yoyoel.com and @triketora.bsky.social is impressive and all, but who is this President Barack Obama guy, and what trust & safety experience does he have? 🤩 asml.cyber.harvard.edu/summit/

this new applied social media lab at harvard seems like a nice place for tech industry folks to spend time on projects advancing tech in the public interest. a bunch of job openings for engineers and pms! asml.cyber.harvard.edu/press-releas... @zittrain.bsky.social

Story time. Yesterday I was at an outdoor restaurant, and there was a young rooster walking around, begging for scraps. Apparently he'd been there for a few days. Somebody had dumped him, and the restaurant folks didn't know what to do with him. Nobody wants roosters. They're illegal in some places.