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On October 7, 2020, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that it had awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Unit for…
Applications are open for the 2025…
Carr Center Discussion Paper 2025-01
During the Cold-War-era, intelligence agencies in both the Eastern and Western blocs set up secret experiments to devise methods of mind control and brainwashing in order to gain…
Carr Center Discussion Paper 2024–06
There is something new under the sun. Many of our beliefs and certainties may be coming to an end. Like the ancient navigators contemplating the immensity of the oceans, full of…
This fall, Danai Nhando (MC/MPA '25) joined the Carr Center as one of its Student Ambassadors. Danai is a human rights lawyer and social impact programs specialist with…
Applications are now open for the Carr Center's 2025–2026 fellowship cohorts! We invite individuals dedicated to advancing human rights through scholarship or practice to…
From left: Margrethe Vestager, Beeban Kidron, Maria Ressa, and Shoshana Zuboff | SCREENSHOT BY HARVARD MAGAZINE
The Carr Center recently hosted an event at the JFK Jr.…
2024-06
This paper explores the phenomenon of algorithmic discrimination within the digital welfare states of Latin America. It examines how automated decision-making processes, driven by…
Advanced AI systems capable of generating humanlike text and multimodal content are now widely available. In this paper, we discuss the impacts that generative artificial…
Carr Center Discussion Paper | 2024-03
"The ethical impacts of technology can be understood, in part, by examining how it bears on human rights."
In this discussion paper by Matthew MacDonald, Technology & Human…