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I might have lost funding but at least I can do what I want. :) And I want to teach people about AI ethics in 90 second increments! bit.ly/ai-ethics-sy...

If you're looking to keep your finger on the pulse of AI & the Law, let me suggest two venues worth checking out: (1) this custom feed on AI & the Law;¹ and (2) @icymilaw.org's daily digest section AI & the Law.²

¹ bsky.app/profile/davi...
² icymilaw.org#ailaw

It emanates from the penumbra.

Essential reading for AI law - @margotkaminski.bsky.social and @aselbst.bsky.social - "An American's Guide to the EU AI Act"
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2019 – 2024 – Repeated denials and discovery stonewalling Through years of communications with the police, the plaintiffs and the court through the investigation and later the discovery process for the lawsuit, Tesla never mentioned that it had all the data that explained how Autopilot saw the crash, which everyone was seeking, sitting on its servers for years. The facts are: Tesla had the data on its servers within minutes of the crash When the police sought the data, Tesla redirected them toward other data When the police sought Tesla’s help in extracting it from the computer, Tesla falsely claimed it was “corrupted” Tesla invented an “auto-delete” feature that didn’t exist to try explain why it couldn’t originally find the data in the computer When the plaintiffs asked for the data, Tesla said that it didn’t exist Tesla only admitted to the existence of the data once presented with forensic evidence that it was created and transfered to its servers.

This whole story is insane. Tesla apparently did everything it could to avoid providing the data it had about its Autopilot crash. This is just a snippet and there's a lot more. electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...

Dear law review editors: Please don’t kick out my submission because I have a penchant for em dashes. I can guarantee you I know far too little about ChatGPT to trust it to do anything.

Folks really should curate their own RSS "newspaper." If after reading this piece by @molly.wiki you want to give it a try, consider myrssalgo.org It's an open source client-side algorithmically-driven RSS reader built @suffolklitlab.org. Make your own algo. promote & mute content w/ regex, etc.

Trump AI Action Plan Raises Legal Questions, Potentially Violates Constitution | TechPolicy.Press ACLU senior policy counsel Cody Venzke says Congress should conduct oversight to ensure agencies stay within legal and constitutional boundaries.

Trump is attempting to forestall state AI regulation. Just like the moratorium that was stricken from the reconciliation package, this attempt threatens significant harm, raises legal questions, and potentially violates the Constitution, writes ACLU senior policy counsel Cody Venzke.

Oral Argument Transcripts are Now on CourtListener! With our new Transcripts feature for Oral Arguments, you can search and monitor anything said in a circuit court case.

New! CourtListener now has AI-generated transcripts of more than three million minutes of circuit court oral argument recordings. You can:
✅ Search the full text of the recordings
✅ Set custom alerts and make custom podcasts
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Learn more here:
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Good luck to everyone who is taking the bar this week!

And a reminder: no matter whether you pass or not, it doesn't change your value as human being. kendraalbert.com/2018/02/20/5...

In Case You Missed It (Law) A daily digest of the most-popular links from law-like folks, including news articles, blogs, newsletters, and SSRN papers.

You're friend might also want to browse @icymilaw.org's daily digest to get a feel for what sort of things people share on here. It includes section for popular:

- News-like Links
- Blog-like Links
- AI & The Law Links
- Law Review-like Links
- AI Paper-like Links

DELIGHTFUL! Read this!

Developing our position on AI - Blog - Recurse Center This post is about how we've tried to develop a position on AI in the context of learning and growth at RC.

This, from @nicholasbs.bsky.social , is a really thoughtful survey of attitudes on AI in the field right now. As they say, read the whole thing, but a finding that resonates: “You should use AI-powered tools to complement or increase your agency, not replace it.“

www.recurse.com/blog/191-dev...

DOGE builds AI tool to cut 50 percent of federal regulations The U.S. DOGE Service is using a new AI tool to eliminate federal regulations, aiming to cut 50 percent of rules by the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

DOGE "is using a new artificial intelligence tool to slash federal regulations, with the goal of eliminating half of Washington’s regulatory mandates by the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post" and four govt officials.

Opinion | AI Is Reshaping Student Writing, Not Replacing It Jeanne Beatrix Law writes on the ways in which students can use AI as a useful tool to enhance, rather than hamper, the writing process.

OPINION: "(Many students) are leveraging AI to free up more time to engage in deeper processes and metacognitive behaviors—deliberately organizing ideas, honing arguments and refining style," Jeanne Beatrix Law writes.

I’m not going to repost it here, but Andrew Yang is claiming on social media that a partner at a “prominent” law firm told him AI models are replacing 1st to 3rd year associates in litigation right now, and said this was true in briefing.

That is not true. /1

So, I've heard some scholars say they ask LLMs to make draft paragraphs better. I tried this today and it always made my writing worse. Is there some magic prompt I'm missing. I mentioned the paragraph should be in the style of a law review, but that just resulted in more run-on sentences.

Trump's new AI policies keep culture war focus on tech companies A new executive order instructs tech companies to address what the White House sees as "woke AI." Receiving future federal contracts could hinge on whether AI firms respond.

Combatting AI 'wokeness' has become official federal policy.

What does this mean for AI companies? Perhaps spinning out 'woke' versions of chatbots to land lucrative federal contracts.

"The AI industry is deeply concerned about this situation."

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Dammit, we are going to have to wade into free speech protections of AI, aren't we?

I would love if you all would give me suggestions for papers about AI well suited for TikTok style explainers! Stuff that’s important or interesting or just good for more people to know about. (It’s ok if it’s your own paper!)

Trump Says He's 'Getting Rid of Woke' and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speech The remarks, which came during a keynote speech at a summit hosted by the All-In Podcast, follow President Donald Trump's newly released AI Action Plan.

President Trump announced that the United States’ stance on intellectual property and AI would be a “common sense application” that does not force AI companies to pay for each piece of copyrighted material used in training frontier models, saying that approach is “not doable.”

Analysis | Trump’s ‘Artificial Intelligence Action Plan’ is already stirring debate Critics unveiled their own “People’s AI Action Plan” ahead of new executive orders expected to address energy and “woke” AI.

New: As Trump prepares to unveil his "AI Action Plan," more than 80 labor, environmental, consumer and tech watchdog groups have signed on to a "People's AI Action Plan" that calls for regulations that put ordinary people's interests over those of the industry. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The academics taking on ‘cheating’ students using AI to write their essays With 92 per cent of undergraduates relying on AI tools, institutions are bringing back in-person exams to safeguard independent thought

Our @laws.ucl.ac.uk paper on integrity in legal education & assessment amidst AI profiled in the Telegraph. We are training our students to be thinkers who can work with the lights off, not plausible content creators. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07... archive link: archive.is/202507221913...

It is genuinely infuriating that copyright is even the conversation we are having about it, and the reason that's even a question is because regulators just utterly suck at going through the *actually important* and *entirely not-about-copyright* issues at the heart of all of this

Great thread. 👇

This is why we should be striving to ensure that the First Amendment protects Generative AI outputs. Otherwise, partisans will freely censor the outputs to promote their team and consolidate their power

(See also my paper, "Generative AI Is Doomed" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... )

New Michigan Law Essay Prompt Asks Applicants to Use AI With nearly half of all large law firms using AI in some way, the leadership at Michigan Law wanted to give AI aficionados a chance to show their skills.

“For those applying this fall, the law school added a supplemental essay prompt that asks students about their AI usage and how they see that changing in law school—and requires them to use AI to develop their response.”

slide titled: "Image search tool: DesignVision" with timeline

slide titled "DesignVision example" with pictures of results and a blurred-out claim

The USPTO will be launching a new "AI" design-searching tool (for examiners) on October 1. #DesignPatents

Want Accountable AI in Government? Start with Procurement | TechPolicy.Press Procurement plays a powerful role in shaping critical decisions about artificial intelligence, Nari Johnson, Elise Silva, and Hoda Heidari write.

In the absence of federal regulation of AI vendors, procurement remains one of the few levers governments have to push for public values, such as safety, non-discrimination, privacy, and accountability, Nari Johnson, Elise Silva, and Hoda Heidari write.

My initial take on rulings on whether using in-copyright works as training data to build generative AI models. The judges agreed that training may be fair use, but differed about uses of pirated data and the risks that copyright markets will be diluted by AI outputs: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....