TOMORROW: Join Institutional Antiracism & Accountability Project and the Institute of Politics for an event featuring Ava DuVernay and Khalil Gibran Muhammad to explore the relationship between film and advancing racial equity

⏰ April 24 at 7:00 PM
📍JFK Jr. Forum

iara.hks.harvard.edu/event/conversa…

Tens of millions of Americans will head to the polls in November, but only a handful of swing states are likely to determine the results of this consequential presidential election. So what's to be done?

Read more from the Ash Center's recent convening⤵️
ash.harvard.edu/articles/movin…

.Institutional Antiracism & Accountability Project is looking for a Research Associate to support a multi-year research project.

In this role, you will investigate the archives of the American Medical Association (AMA) for race-related historical harms.

Read more on the role and apply here ⤵️
sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search…

Happy Earth Day 🌏🌳🌱 the Ash Center participated in a Harvard Votes Challenge event last week to connect with young voters in anticipation of Earth Day

Follow the link below to check your voter registration status and register today!
iop.turbovote.org/?r=vote

Join us for 'Large Language Models as Cultural Technologies' with Henry Farrell (Henry Farrell):
🗓️ 5/02 ⏰ 4pm | Register: bit.ly/3W3J8w4
Co-sponsored by Harvard Ash Center

A #TikTok ban is being fast-tracked through Congress, highlighting the pressures Chinese tech firms are under in the U.S.

Wenchi Yu 余文琦 (@HarvardAsh) joins us to discuss the challenges facing Chinese tech firms aiming to succeed in U.S. markets.

📲Watch: bit.ly/3U7IoDB

“One of the biggest challenges of tackling the Electoral College is the fact that we’re doing so at a point in time when it’s broken. It’s dysfunctional because the size of the House of Representatives was capped a hundred years ago,' notes Danielle Allen⤵️

ash.harvard.edu/articles/the-e…

During a panel at an Ash Center symposium on the future of the Electoral College, scholars examined the history behind how the US adopted the Electoral College – and what should be done to reform or even abolish the practice today.

Read more here ⤵️
ash.harvard.edu/articles/the-e…

Upcoming: Join Institutional Antiracism & Accountability Project and the Institute of Politics for an event featuring Ava DuVernay and Khalil Gibran Muhammad to explore the relationship between film and advancing racial equity

⏰ April 24 at 7:00 PM
📍JFK Jr. Forum

iara.hks.harvard.edu/event/conversa…

'The security of the global internet depends on countless obscure pieces of software written by even more obscure unpaid, distractible, and vulnerable volunteers. It’s an untenable situation...and gets exploited by bad actors,' says Bruce Schneier

lawfaremedia.org/article/backdo…

What a fantastic morning! My School of Public & International Affairs | UGA UGA Department of International Affairs UGA Graduate School Ph.D. student & coauthor, LIAN Jie/Jason, will be a Democracy Visiting Fellow Harvard Kennedy School Harvard Ash Center this fall! Jason finished 2 master’s degrees while getting his Ph.D., AI & Statistics. lianjiejason.com/home

In his most recent article, Ash Center's Bruce Schneier discusses how an avoided cybersecurity attack that went under the radar points to a larger national problem that the software supply chain is vulnerable to foreign attacks

Read more here ⤵️
lawfaremedia.org/article/backdo…

'This is a tradeoff that is so often presented in different contexts from the US, post-9/11 to countries facing high levels of criminal violence — that you have to give up some amount of freedom, human rights in order to have safety,' said Yanilda González

ash.harvard.edu/articles/the-f…

To discuss the implication of Bukele’s reelection and what it means for the fate of democracy in El Salvador, Yanilda González hosted a discussion with José Miguel Cruz and Mneesha Gellman

Check out the highlights in this quote roundup here ⤵️
ash.harvard.edu/articles/the-f…

'If AGI is better at executing the tasks that we give it than humans, there will be a strong temptation to have it identify and select which tasks to pursue and have it set our priorities, not just make and enforce our rules in particular domains' ⤵️

ash.harvard.edu/resources/agi-…

When explaining how she categorizes US spending on the Afghanistan and Iran wars, Linda Bilmes notes 'I coined the phrase, the “ghost budget,” to sort of capture the fact that it was sort of there but not there in the public consciousness.'

🎧 Listen here ⤵️
hks.harvard.edu/faculty-resear…

If we are a long way short of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), why worry about it now? In a new Ash Center policy brief, Seth Lazar and Alex Pascal argue that those building advanced AI systems are aggressively working to bring AGI about ⤵️

ash.harvard.edu/resources/agi-…

During Institutional Antiracism & Accountability Project's recent IOP forum event, artist Hank Willis Thomas discussed several of his works including The Embrace: 'I wish more artists saw themselves as political operatives, and I wish more political operatives saw themselves as artist.' ⤵️

thecrimson.com/article/2024/4…

During a recent webinar with Institutional Antiracism & Accountability Project & The Journalist's Resource, speakers note how to strengthen news coverage of DEI efforts

5. Journalists need to ask more probing questions about DEI efforts and higher education history.

journalistsresource.org/home/dei-highe…

Unable to attend last week's conversation between Ash Center's Alex Keyssar and Rep. Jamie Raskin? Check out photos from the event below and take a look at the recording here ⤵️

youtube.com/watch?v=em5bxZ…