
Because AI
is only half the answer
This isn’t science fiction. It’s what we’re seeing right now. AI agents, what I’ve come to call Agentic AI, are becoming a new form of digital open talent. They are reshaping how work gets done.
John Winsor John Winsor , D^3 Executive Fellow, Founder and CEO, Open Assembly
Because AI
is a superpower

D^3 Associates Spotlight Series: Raymond Kluender
This series introduces D^3 Associates Program projects which aim to answer important questions at the intersection of artificial intelligence and digital technologies in business and society. This article shares insights from Raymond Kluender, Assistant Professor and Berol Corporation Fellow at Harvard Business School who is pursing research on the topics of artificial intelligence and finance. 1.What drew […]


- AI & Future of Business Technology
- Data, Privacy, Security, and Regulation
- Human-Centered Technology
Unifying AI Attribution: A New Frontier in Understanding Complex Systems
As artificial intelligence systems become increasingly complex, understanding their behavior has become a critical challenge for businesses and researchers alike. In a recent preprint paper, “Towards Unified Attribution in Explainable AI, Data-Centric AI, and Mechanistic Interpretability,” authors Shichang Zhang, a postdoctoral fellow in the Trustworthy AI Lab at the Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute at […]

Leading with AI 2024
Taking place on-campus and online May 7, 2024, Leading with AI: Exploring Business and Technology Frontiers explored AI’s profound impact on the world and how it is reshaping the future of business and society. This full-day conference examined the business implications, ethical considerations, and regulatory practices related to AI, and offered frameworks for encouraging an […]


D^3 Associates Spotlight Series: Elisabeth Paulson
This series introduces D^3 Associates Program projects which aim to answer important questions at the intersection of artificial intelligence and digital technologies in business and society. This article shares insights from Elisabeth Paulson, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School who is pursing research on the topics of artificial intelligence and refugee resettlement. 1.What drew you […]

Because AI
transforms productivity
“AI is being built to automate jobs – but not the ones workers want automated.”
Azeem Azhar Azeem Azhar , D^3 Executive Fellow, Founder, Exponential View

Bridging Innovation and Equity: Insights from the Ethical Tech Showcase
How can technology be harnessed to create more equity, inclusivity, and empowerment in historically marginalized spaces? Recently Dr. James W. Riley, principal investigator of the blackbox Lab at the Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard Business School, in collaboration with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, Professor Aymar […]


- AI & Future of Business Technology
- Data, Privacy, Security, and Regulation
- Human-Centered Technology
- New Operating Models and Business Models
- Performance and Metrics
Teaching Trust: How Small AI Models Can Make Larger Systems More Reliable
As Gen AI technology continues to rapidly evolve and LLMs are integrated into more and more applications, questions of trustworthiness and ethical alignment become increasingly crucial. In the recent study “Generalizing Trust: Weak-to-Strong Trustworthiness in Language Models,” authors Martin Pawelczyk, postdoctoral researcher at Harvard working on trustworthy AI; Lillian Sun, undergraduate student at Harvard studying […]
Because AI
changes everything

Harvard University Generative AI Symposium
Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) is partnering with the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University Information Technology and the Harvard Library to offer […] Continue reading Harvard University Generative AI Symposium


Our digital future is being invented today
Our work at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard focuses our 14 labs around six communities of practice to produce and share research-rooted knowledge on how society and business are interacting with artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies.