Research Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
Katy Glenn Bass
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Seems like a good morning to re-up @randomwalker.bsky.social @sayash.bsky.social 's recent piece for us: knightcolumbia.org/blog/do-ai-r...
AI as social technology - I gave the Astor Lecture at Oxford's Blavatnik School last week.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
@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."
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:
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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...
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 companies are writing their own constitutions. Meanwhile, a shared vocabulary for contesting algorithmic power has been traveling across red and blue states, from legislatures to civil society.
New from me in @science.org: "A Civic Grammar for AI Rights" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵
Seems like a good morning to re-up @randomwalker.bsky.social @sayash.bsky.social 's recent piece for us: knightcolumbia.org/blog/do-ai-r...
Seems like a good morning to re-up @randomwalker.bsky.social @sayash.bsky.social 's recent piece for us: knightcolumbia.org/blog/do-ai-r...
Earlier this year, the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, developer of the large language model Claude, published a document it calls “Claude’s Constitution,” described by the company as ...
