Law Prof @AkronLaw | Computer Scientist | bot psychologist 🤖 | 1A 💬 / tech expert
Priors: Google, Twitter (no, not X), Chamber of Progress
[email protected] | Signal: j230.95
Currently writing about chatbots, speech, and suicide.
Jess Miers 🦝🦞
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Please Use AI
1/ I see my brief in Babylon Bee v. Bonta caught the California AG's attention
What his reply doesn't grasp: this is the very purpose of Section 230
By creating an exception for federal—but not state—criminal law, Congress established the body of law for online intermediaries
It's bar prep season. Here is the note I sent my students today. If you're studying for the bar exam this summer, I hope this helps: ctrlaltdissent.com/2026/05/27/s...
🌟 NEW PREPRINT 🌟
After six months of following people using chatbots for socioemotional health & 1 year of participatory engagements, we're proud to release a longitudinal qualitative study on how people use general-purpose LLMs and what it demands of AI governance: arxiv.org/abs/2605.23787
And now back to the desert to write my article...
Took a break from the desert to speak at Stanford Law School today about AI policy. 🤖
I get that plaintiffs' lawyers are supposed to be zealous advocates, but I've found much of the pleading in these suicide cases to be pretty icky.
Here's the complaint: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
The FL AG suit against OpenAI is legally, technologically, and philosophically flawed.
What bothered me most was the suggestion that Raine would still be alive but for ChatGPT. That framing is deeply problematic in suicide prevention. It erases agency, burdens families, and fuels stigma.
I teach a spring semester section of our Advanced Legal Applications (ALA) course at the University of Akron School of Law. ALA is a bar exam prep course. It has quickly become one of my favorite c…
General-purpose LLMs are increasingly functioning as mental health infrastructure due to gaps in care left by provider shortages, inadequate insurance coverage, social isolation, and stigma around for...
