Jonathan Zittrain

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.

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.

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.

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.

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YouTube video by Before AGI Jonathan Zittrain: AI Agents and Trust

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

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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.

"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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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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What AI Thinks It Knows About You What happens when people can see what assumptions a large language model is making about them?

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

@oddletters.bsky.social TIL!

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

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

What AI Thinks It Knows About You What happens when people can see what assumptions a large language model is making about them?

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?

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. (!)

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

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

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 ...

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.

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

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/

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...

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-...

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.

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!

YouTube video by Harvard Law School Harvard Law School Rappaport Forum: TikTok and Free Speech

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...