In her essay Disclosure Dilemmas: AI Transparency is no Quick Fix https://ash.harvard.edu/disclosure-dilemmas-ai-transparency-no-quick-fix, Mary Graham argues that transparency measures can help curtail AI-related risks but not overnight - transparency efforts require sustained, long-term engagement and effort.

In early 2020, as the risks of exposure to the COVID virus were becoming clear, restaurants and other businesses responded in varied ways that gave more or less protection to customers and employees. But protection measures often remained hidden. We suggested in a 6/9/20 Los Angeles Times article that the government should quickly create a simple rating system to inform the public about which businesses offered excellent protection.

Secrets and good governance focus of panel at Harvard. Mary W. Graham, with Brookings Institution fellow Norman L. Eisen and Kennedy School Academic Dean Archon Fung, participated in a discussion entitled “Presidential Secrecy from Washington to Trump” at the Harvard Kennedy School. Read the article in the Harvard Gazette which provides details about the discussion.

The Secrets of the Oval Office. Peter Kann, a former CEO of Dow Jones and Pulitzer Prize winner, reviewed Mary Graham’s latest book in the Wall Street Journal. Read the article.

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Video of Roosevelt House event. Mary W. Graham, introduced by Jim Lehrer and interviewed by her son Will Wissler Graham at the Roosevelt House on 3/6/17. Watch the video below.

Ashcast: Listen to a conversation about Presidents' Secrets, with Mary W. Graham and Archon Fung, Academic Dean and Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship at the Harvard Kennedy School. (Both are co-directors of the Ash Center’s Transparency Policy Project.)

Mary W. Graham talked about her book with Think’s host Krys Boyd on Kera FM in Texas. Listen to the interview here.

PBS NewsHour segment. Mary W. Graham speaks about how presidential secrets have shaped U.S. history. Watch .

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“A Government Both More Secretive and More Open” A review by Mary W. Graham of two books that examine changing notions of government secrecy appeared in the Fall 2015 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Read it here.