Algorithms as Institutions of Online Gender Violence
In a recent article, Yasmin Curzi, DTD Lab postdoc, discusses how algorithmic systems can amplify and monetize online gender-based violence, and analyze what due diligence obligations arise from international human rights law for companies and the Brazilian state.
The State of Data Center Policy in the United States
The regulatory landscape for data centers in the U.S. has shifted in recent years from a period of aggressive economic incentives to a phase of intense scrutiny, restriction, and community-led resistance. To track these changes, the data center policy database aims to bring transparency around zoning, permitting, and regulating data centers and their impacts on communities.
Students, Power, and Technology
In a new article, DTD Lab faculty co-lead Mona Sloane, alumna Ella Duus, and previous faculty co-lead Bertrall Ross, propose Student Technology Councils - elected student bodies with a formal role in technology innovation, governance, and policy - as a new model for addressing risks of declining technology procurement, innovation, and regulatory outcomes.
The Need for Transnational Perspectives on the Social, Legal and Environmental Impact of Artificial Intelligence
A new outcome report of the UN Internet Governance Forum Data and Artificial Intelligence Governance Coalition features a contribution co-authored by Jess Reia, DTD Lab faculty co-lead, highlighting perspectives of the Global South, diverse regional solutions, and impact on human rights, labor, and global power asymmetries.
When Influencers Delegate Replies: How Social AI Agents Shape User Engagement
A new paper co-authored by DTD Lab faculty co-lead, Steven Johnson, introduces the concept of "Social AI Agents" — LLM-powered proxies that respond on behalf of an individual, serving as a delegated extension of a real person's social identity.
It’s Been Centuries Since Haiti’s Revolution. It’s Still Paying for It.
In a recent essay, DTD Lab director, Laurent Dubois, reflects broadly on how contemporary media representations that circulate in digital form are anchored in much longer histories.
Context Collapse: Barriers to Adoption for Generative AI in Workplace Settings
A new pre-print, co-authored by Mona Sloane, DTD Lab faculty co-lead, shows how the more-is-better approach to hoarding context data in AI systems falls short for those who use AI tools in their areas of expertise.
Fundamental Rights in Brazil from a Women’s Perspective – Contemporary Reflections
Yasmin Curzi, DTD Lab postdoc, contributed a chapter to a new book analyzing fundamental rights from a female perspective focusing on gender equality, democracy, and contemporary legal challenges in Brazil.
A Better Burst
Mona Sloane, DTD Lab faculty co-lead, argues in a new co-authored pre-print, that today’s AI landscape looks a lot like past infrastructure booms—and that this moment is an opportunity to realign it with the public interest.
When Influencers Delegate Replies: How Social AI Agents Shape User Engagement
Steven Johnson, DTD Lab faculty co-lead, co-authored a new paper that he hopes will contribute to the emerging scholarship on the understanding of platform-enabled delegation of social relationship management to AI agents — which we refer to as Social AI Agents.
