Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

We are seeking to hire a small group of interns to focus exclusively on research

related to artificial intelligence and how to shape its development in a way that
advances the public good. Machine learning and related computational techniques
present a new set of challenges for not only engineers and computer scientists, but
also for social scientists, ethicists and philosophers, legal scholars, economists, and
policymakers. Throughout the summer, the interns will work closely with a team of
researchers and faculty members at Berkman Klein to conduct research that helps
conceptualize the challenges and implications of AI (broadly defined), and works
toward identifying practical solutions and tools. Tasks may include (a) writing
research memos, op-eds, and articles, and contributing to tool and database
development; (b) researching and synthesizing a variety of AI-focused articles,
books, and other publications; and (c) supporting the Center’s work across a range
of topics relating to AI, algorithms, and machine learning, including the use of
algorithms in the judiciary, media and information quality, and global governance
and inclusion. This position requires high degrees of flexibility, strong writing and
communication skills, as well as the ability to find, absorb, critically analyze, and
debate large amounts of materials from various sources and across disciplines. No
technical background is required. For more information on the Ethics and
Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative, check out our webpage
at https://cyber.harvard.edu/research/ai.

Communications
The Berkman Klein communications team is looking for a creative, motivated
candidate to work on variety of editorial, administration, and digital media tasks
that help tell the Berkman Klein story to the public and target audiences. The
comms intern may be asked to assist with any aspect of the Center’s
communications activities, including editing and writing website and social media
content, designing materials, pitching in with multimedia production, assisting with
events and outreach, and developing new and creative ways to share and amplify
the research and other activities undertaken by the Center and its projects. It is a
great position for someone looking to familiarize her/himself with the Berkman
Klein Center community, its activities and interests, and the Internet and society
issues of the day. The right candidate will be sharp, flexible, and reliable and will
possess strong organizational skills to help juggle multiple tasks, people, and
projects. An understanding of both traditional and social media is key for this
position. Interest across the broad areas of Berkman Klein research is big plus.
Familiarity with website content management systems, Mailchimp, InDesign, audio
editing, and media monitoring software is helpful, but not required.

Cyberlaw Clinic
The Cyberlaw Clinic provides pro bono legal services to individuals, startups, non-
profit and other mission-driven organizations, and government entities. Every
summer, Clinic interns contribute to a range of real-world projects related to the
Internet and technology. Interns may assist the Clinic team in providing guidance
on copyright and trademark issues; support advocacy efforts to protect civil
liberties; consider domestic and global human rights impacts of technology on
privacy and free expression; and work with agencies and organizations that
promote innovation in the delivery of government services. Interns in the Cyberlaw
Clinic can expect direct hands-on experience working with clients under the
supervision of the Clinic's staff attorneys. More information about the Cyberlaw
Clinic can be found at http://clinic.cyber.harvard.edu.

Berklett Cybersecurity
The Internet and the devices attached to it are, in important ways, broken. They
are not secure. And yet we depend on them – and treasure the openness that in
some ways is at the root of some vulnerability. Solutions to this problem are not
only difficult to develop, but also exquisitely hard to implement. The Internet
environment is a distinctly shared space: it comprises many interdependencies and
perspectives among the public and private sectors. But the actions taken by
government and corporate actors has been highly fragmented. Further
complicating matters, trust in government -- particularly in the intelligence
community -- to help address the mounting concerns around cybersecurity is low.
The Berklett Cybersecurity project is a unique forum for discussing true and
important, and often novel, facts, and perspectives, and achieving surprising
consensus on enduring questions of cybersecurity that are core to government,
foreign intelligence, law enforcement, and industry. Our aim is to achieve a depth
of trusted and honest discussion between experts across a broad range of issues,
and to significantly advance our collective understanding of the problems and their
potential solutions. More information about the project can be found
at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/cybersecurity.

Digital Communication, Politics, and Collective Action

We are seeking a research assistant who will contribute to ongoing work around
two projects, one focused on media manipulation and the other on harmful speech
online more broadly. Our media manipulation work centers on empirical scholarship
that seeks to address the most important issues and challenges in the public
interest at the intersection of political communication and digital media. The goals
of our work on harmful speech online are to map the complex sphere within which
it operates, convene and connect people working on these issues, and translate
academic findings into useful information for policy makers. Summer interns may
help review and synthesize relevant literature across fields; gather, analyze and
visualize data; analyze digital, social, and other forms of online media and
discourse; and write and edit essays, publications, and translational
communications. More information can be found
at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/99203 and https://cyber.harvard.edu/resear
ch/mediacloud.

Freedom of Expression
The Berkman Klein Center's suite of freedom of expression-related projects,
including Internet Monitor, is seeking an intern to conduct research on Internet
filtering, monitoring, and control efforts around the globe; engage in related data
gathering efforts using online sources; contribute to report writing; blog regularly
about issues concerning online freedom of expression; and manage various
projects' social media accounts. In the past, interns have also supported research
on blogospheres and other online communities around the world, contributed to
literature reviews, and hand coded online content. Basic HTML skills and a
familiarity with content management systems are helpful. Foreign language skills,
particularly in Persian, Arabic, Russian, and Chinese, are useful. More information
about some of the Berkman Klein Center’s work on freedom of expression can be
found at the following link: https://thenetmonitor.org.

Geek Cave Software Development

The Berkman Klein Geek Cave is a great place to dive into technical and software
development projects over the summer. Interns joining the Geek Cave will work to
extend open source development projects of various kinds. We have four fun,
talented, devoted, full-time developers on staff, which interns will work with to help
hone their 1337 skillz. Interns will also have opportunities to manage the complex
system of hamster wheels that keep the network moving. Our team also regularly
works with ruby, php, bash, javascript, elasticsearch, solr, postgresql, and a slew of
other tools. Geek Cave interns applying this summer should be familiar with one or
more of [ruby, php, javascript]. Experience with ubuntu linux, rails, meteor,
wordpress and drupal is a plus. More info about the projects that we work on can
be found on our github organization page: http://github.com/berkmancenter.

Global Access in Action

Global Access in Action (GAiA), a project of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet &
Society at Harvard University, is seeking a paid summer intern from June to August
2018. GAiA is a dynamic global health non-profit organization that focuses on
improving access to lifesaving medicines in low- and middle-income countries
through the implementation of legal, policy, and regulatory reform. GAiA seeks to
expand access to lifesaving medicines and combat the communicable disease
burden that disproportionately harms the world’s most vulnerable population. We
work with key domestic and international stakeholders. Interns will be responsible
for assisting with a variety of tasks including research, writing, event management,
project administration, and communications. In particular, interns will help with:
(1) communications and outreach for GAiA; (2) events and conferences with
stakeholders; (3) website management and (4) writing of blogs. We are looking for
candidates who are detail-oriented and committed to global public health.
Experience with global health, intellectual property, and communications are helpful
but not required. You may refer to our website for more information on our
projects: www.globalaccessinaction.org

Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP)

HOAP fosters open access (OA) to research, advises on OA policies and projects,
undertakes research on OA, and provides OA to timely and accurate information
about OA itself. HOAP interns may enlarge the Open Access Directory (OAD), a
wiki-based encyclopedia of OA, contribute to the Open Access Tracking Project
(OATP), a social-tagging project organizing knowledge about OA, and/or test and
promote TagTeam, a HOAP-directed open-source tagging platform built at the
Berkman Klein Center to support OATP. They may help with ongoing HOAP research
projects or use some of their time on an OA-related project of their own, with
support and feedback from the other members of HOAP. More information about
HOAP can be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap.

Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data

The Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project brings together expertise in
computer science, statistics, law, policy, and social science across five research
centers across Harvard and MIT. It seeks to develop methods, tools, and policies to
further the tremendous research potential of data containing information about
individuals while protecting privacy. The legal team, led by Prof. Urs Gasser at the
Berkman Klein Center, explores cross-disciplinary approaches to data privacy and
devises new privacy frameworks, legal instruments, and policy recommendations
that complement privacy-preserving technologies being developed in the project. To
support this work, the Berkman Klein team is looking for rising second and third-
year law students to conduct research and analysis on topics related to privacy law
and policy. Summer interns will write legal memoranda on selected topics in privacy
law and policy, draft data sharing agreements, survey the academic literature on
privacy, contribute to the development of new tools for privacy and data sharing,
and attend lectures and events with privacy experts from a wide range of
disciplines. More information about the project can be found on the Privacy Tools
project website at http://privacytools.seas.harvard.edu.

Special Projects with Executive Director Urs Gasser

We are seeking to hire a small team of summer interns to work on a variety of
projects undertaken by Berkman Klein's Executive Director Urs Gasser, including
but not limited to, a new project that explores the evolving role of law in the digital
age, engineering a “re-coding” of cyberlaw that better aligns the law with the
spheres of technological innovations such as artificial intelligence and the Internet
of Things, and new modes of blended, multimodal governance. Please read Urs’
article in the Harvard Law Review Forum, “Recoding Privacy Law: Reflections on the
Future Relationship Among Law, Technology, and Privacy,” for more information.
Additional research topics during the internship include privacy, cybersecurity,
comparative law, digital health, interoperability, and Internet governance. Tasks
include (a) research for presentations and events, op-eds, a book, and articles, (b)
editorial work, and (c) general support on a range of international initiatives. This
position requires high degrees of flexibility, strong communication skills, as well as
the ability to find, absorb, critically analyze, and debate large amounts of written
and other media materials from a various sources. This position is an ideal
opportunity for individuals interested in pursuing graduate or legal studies in the
future, as well as those individuals currently enrolled in graduate or law school.
Knowledge of foreign languages is a plus. More information about Urs’ research can
be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/ugasser.

Technology, Law and Library Innovation

The Library Innovation Lab explores intersections of technology, law and libraries.
Each summer we welcome 2-3 Berkman Klein Center interns to collaborate on
projects big and small with our band of developers, designers, lawyers and
librarians. This summer, as part of our Caselaw Access Project, we’ll be
experimenting with a huge new dataset of all US court decisions, working on an API
to promote public access and research use of the data, and pursuing small
discovery and demonstration projects to help illustrate the possible uses of this
important dataset. We’re also working to transform textbooks and expand open
educational resources through a major redesign and relaunch of our H2O platform.
And we’re building open source software called Perma.cc that helps scholars, courts
and many others preserve web citations against link rot. Those are some of our big
projects. We also have many other small sketches and explorations in motion all
the time. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and perspectives who share
our enthusiasm for this work. Technical expertise is great but not required. Please
join us!