this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it
Episode 2 of "Lawyering Without Law" is out now.
@katygb.bsky.social and Madhav Khosla speak with @hls.harvard.edu's @lessig.bsky.social about institutional corruption, economic dependence, and what happens when courts, Congress, law firms, and corporations drift from their founding purpose.
Bribery is the corruption we prosecute. But according to Lawrence Lessig, it's institutional corruption that poses the most danger to American democracy. Hosts Katy Glenn Bass and Madhav Khosla speak ...
AI as social technology - I gave the Astor Lecture at Oxford's Blavatnik School last week.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSE6...
@alondra.bsky.social's work has been foundational to how I think about AI and democracy - her thread below ties a lot of things together, all worth reading! A key quote: "The Declaration of 1776 did not describe the country that existed. It named what was being demanded of the future."
Does rampant individualism make public media virtually impossible?
New from me in @knightcolumbia.org "Reconstructing Free Expression" series, with thanks to @katygb.bsky.social, @jameeljaffer.bsky.social.
knightcolumbia.org/blog/is-indi...
Three things said about AI and social science: it's a topic to study, a thing to critique, a tool to use. My new Daedalus essay argues these aren't three conversations; they're one. A 🧵 on "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object, and Tool."
www.amacad.org/publication/...
Uses of advanced artificial intelligence are changing how societies organize labor, govern, produce knowledge, and make meaning. In light of these developments, this essay argues that AI models, tools...
Writing for Columbia's Knight First Amendment Institute, political scientist Henry Farrell and statistician Cosma Rohilla Shalizi have produced the *definitive* account of how AI psychosis has infected our political classes:
knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...
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As part of this project, we've also launched a new podcast hosted by me and Prof. Madhav Khosla - first episode with @kimlanelaw.bsky.social is available at the link, and our second episode with @lessig.bsky.social will be out tomorrow: knightcolumbia.org/content/lawy...
New from @randomwalker.bsky.social and @sayash.bsky.social: Responding to AI risks requires building broad resilience to harms through normal policymaking, rather than allowing the executive branch to exert extraordinary power over AI access and development.
knightcolumbia.org/blog/do-ai-r...
US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”
