Law professor; author (The Black Box Society; New Laws of Robotics).
Interested in law & technology, AI, political economy, art, and social theory.
Frank Pasquale
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“We want machines to take over the dirty work, the heavy work, the exhausting work”
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Today, @frankpasquale.bsky.social contrasts Magnifica Humanitas, a vision of AI in service of peace and human flourishing, with an American administration governing AI by memes, chaos, and willful self-destruction.
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Companies rush to develop products and services for rapidly ageing population
From new Indian Supreme Court rules on AI: "no judicial outcome (including any judgment, order, or finding of fact orlaw) shall be reached through Algorithmic Decision-Making alone or solely on the basis of AI-generated information"
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“While previous efforts to fight data centers focused on residents’ concerns about electricity costs, this time broader concerns about the overall state of the regional economy hard hit by the DOGE cuts have ratcheted up residents’ anger”
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Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas offers a vision of AI guided by peace, dignity, and moral renewal. It stands in stark contrast to an American administration governing by meme, chaos…
“Those living near certain data centers have reported noise levels approaching 100dB, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”
www.techradar.com/pro/dizzines...
“They would fund a new right-wing media venture…if she would use it to pump a cryptocurrency they were planning to launch. The idea, she recalls, was, ‘basically, we’re going to create a European-nationalist outlet to fleece all these idiots for money.’”
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“Narayanan and Kapoor document a world awash in snake oil. Opportunistic tech hucksters sell overhyped services to nontechnical procurement experts at underresourced and vulnerable institutions, contributing to inequity, unfairness, and human misery.”
cyber.jotwell.com/the-new-norm...
Tech's biggest political spenders so far this cycle:
• Andreessen Horowitz: $93.5M
• Elon Musk: $85.2M
• Jeff Yass: $83.8M
• Coinbase: $59.3M
• Ripple: $55.1M
• Crypto.com: $38.7M
• OpenAI: $37.6M
• Anthropic: $20M
via influence.citationneeded.news
cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in
Americans ain’t puttin’ up with these things no more. Welcome to Virginia, ground zero for data center defiance.
“Books open our minds and keep them open. They improve our communication, critical thought and intelligence. But, most importantly, novels boost our empathy. They help us to navigate the world with kindness, with compassion.”
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The death of text is absolutely maddening for me! Speaking is around 50-60 words per minute slower than the average reading speed. Video production is also so complicated and slow compared to writing. The information density can never match text. Gah!
LPE Blog
The noise emitted by data centers is causing local residents to fall sick, and the science backs up their claims.
Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor, AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell The Difference (2024). Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor, AI as Normal Technology, a...
In less than a decade, surrounded by screens, I lost my ability to read some of the best books ever written. But, inspired by the Guardian’s 100 best novels list, I was determined to get it back
the main problem with video as a format is that it's too slow at dispensing information. I can read much faster than you can talk and there's no way you can address this without becoming incomprehensible to most of the audience.
