person
Jonathan Zittrain
Harvard Law / Berkman Klein; 'The Future of the Internet'
Harvard Law George Bemis Professor of International Law and Berkman Klein Center co-founder. Author of 'The Future of the Internet, And How to Stop It' (2008); long-time public commentator on tech-and-law including AI governance.
current George Bemis Professor of International Law, Harvard Law School; Co-founder, Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
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Governance firstendorses
Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesArgues AI governance should focus on the open-vs-closed character of platforms (his older 'generative' framing applied to AI); generativity has costs but produces the conditions for downstream innovation.
The choices we make in AI governance are choices about whether the technology will be generative or sterile. Generativity invites tinkering, abuse, and the kinds of unexpected good things that come from open systems. Sterility makes the platform safer and the next decade smaller.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.