As of June 2026, 22 states and the District of Columbia had adopted bell-to-bell cellphone bans, and 19 states had enacted more flexible laws, according to Harvard Kennedy School research. A Pew Resea…
Harvard Kennedy School professor warns students that using AI for writing assignments wastes tuition money, citing a distinction between work and the gym from AI researcher Daniel Meissler to explain …
Harvard Kennedy School on June 3 unveiled its HKS 2036 strategy, setting a decade-long goal to train 600 public-sector technologists and 6,000 technologically informed public leaders by the school's c…
Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) has unveiled a 10-year strategic plan that includes a robust new focus on artificial intelligence and technology, including a new tech policy concentration for master's in…
Harvard Kennedy School professor Bruce Schneier advises using the 'work vs. gym' distinction to decide whether to use AI for a task, arguing that AI should assist with output-focused work but not with…
Bruce Schneier, a public policy lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Toronto’s Munk School, proposed a framework for deciding when to use AI by treating tasks as either 'work' …
Bruce Schneier, a public policy lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Toronto's Munk School, argues that students who use AI to complete writing assignments are wasting their tuitio…
A study by researchers at Harvard Kennedy School and Meta found that the script, not the voice, is what makes AI voice phishing effective. The team tested six commercial voice systems and human caller…
Jonathan Rinaldi, a former New York City Council candidate, was arrested on misdemeanor forgery charges for using AI to create fake news stories and endorsements against his opponent, Lynn Schulman, i…
Three winners were announced in an essay contest on big questions about AI. Jassi Pannu of Johns Hopkins University proposed using an OpenAI Foundation to end airborne diseases, Ege Erdil of Mechanize…
AI strategist Sol Rashidi, chief strategy officer at Cyera and a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, told Business Insider she deactivated half of her autonomous agents because they were unreliab…
AI strategist Sol Rashidi fired half of her AI agents after spending more time supervising them than doing useful work, a phenomenon called 'botsitting' that a Glean report says costs white-collar wor…