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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

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...

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Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

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...

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

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 25/03/2026

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

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Cindy Cohn speaks into a mic next to Jonathan Zittrain at the Harvard Book Store.

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Simon King @currentform.com · 16/03/2026

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...

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We Need to Control AI Agents Now

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

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 11/07/2024

"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...

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Brilliant & eye-opening essay by @zittrain on AI Agents.
"There ought to be a new, special blank on a packet’s digital form to indicate that a packet has been generated by a bot or an agent..."

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Cas (Stephen Casper) @scasper.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

🚨 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... 🧵🧵🧵

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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

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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War Powers Resolution Reporting Project

A living resource on presidential reporting practice and the use of U.S. armed forces abroad.

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Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

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

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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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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

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-...

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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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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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...

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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 · 30/09/2025

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 · 08/09/2025

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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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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-...

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Product and Research Manager

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Richard Reisman @rreisman.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

"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...

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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 · 13/06/2025

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!

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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 · 14/06/2025

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 · 12/06/2025

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

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Centre for Society, Technology and Values @uofwaterloo @cstv-uw.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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

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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 · 21/05/2025

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...

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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 · 21/05/2025

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:

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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 · 19/05/2025

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 · 15/05/2025

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 · 17/04/2025

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.

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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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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 17/03/2025

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 · 12/03/2025

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-...

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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 · 05/03/2025

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...

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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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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

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!

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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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...

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Harvard Law School Rappaport Forum: TikTok and Free Speech

YouTube video by Harvard Law School

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Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

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...

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Harvard Law School Rappaport Forum - TikTok and Free Speech - Harvard Law School

Guest Speakers: Anupam Chander Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology Georgetown University Law Center Alan Rozenshtein Associate Professor of Law University of Minnesota Law School Moderat...

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

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.

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Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab

Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...

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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

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...

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Can the President Dissolve USAID by Executive Order?

Congress established USAID in statute, and the president may not unilaterally override a statute by executive order.

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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.

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Websites change. Perma Links don't.

Perma.cc helps scholars, journals, courts, and others create permanent records of the web sources they cite.

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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.

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Preserving Public U.S. Federal Data | Library Innovation Lab

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Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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...

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We Need to Control AI Agents Now

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

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Chris Kuang @chriskuang.com · 05/01/2025

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/

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Apply | U.S. Digital Corps

Want to use your tech skills for good? Join the United States Digital Corps!

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Nick @variousvarieties.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

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:

Screenshot from "The Internet Is Rotting" by Jonathan L. Zittrain:

"Here, courtesy of the law professor Alexandra Roberts, is how a district-court opinion pointed to a TikTok video: “A May 2020 TikTok video featuring the Reversible Octopus Plushies now has over 1.1 million likes and 7.8 million views. The video can be found at Girlfriends mood #teeturtle #octopus #cute #verycute #animalcrossing #cutie #girlfriend #mood #inamood #timeofmonth #chocolate #fyp #xyzcba #cbzzyz #t (tiktok.com).”"

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"Which brings us full circle to the fact that long-term writing, including official documents, might often need to point to short-term, noncanonical sources to establish what they mean to say—and the means of doing that is disintegrating before our eyes (or worse, entirely unnoticed). And even long-term, canonical sources such as books and scholarly journals are in fugacious configurations—usually to support digital subscription models that require scarcity—that preclude ready long-term linking, even as their physical counterparts evaporate."

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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

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...

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The Words That Stop ChatGPT in Its Tracks

Why won’t the bot say my name?

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

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

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Boley Law Library @lawlib.lclark.edu · 17/12/2024

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."

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Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

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

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The Words That Stop ChatGPT in Its Tracks

Why won’t the bot say my name?

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 11/12/2024

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/

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Century-Scale Storage

If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

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!

Image shows a stream of numbers 95 to 100 which are deteriorating. Text in the center reads "If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?"

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Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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

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Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 17/10/2024

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.

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Lawfare Daily: Jonathan Zittrain on Controlling AI Agents

What are AI agents?

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Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

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...

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We Need to Control AI Agents Now

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

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