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Jeffrey Vagle

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Law professor | Privacy, AI*, Cybersecurity, Technology and Society | Veteran | There is music yet to play | https://tractatus.org
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"Disinformation did not begin with AI, yet today it finds a powerful amplifier in AI...Only the shared pursuit of the veracity of facts, perceived as a common good, can provide a solid foundation for just communication." -- Pope Leo XIV www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
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  • Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word Magnifica Humanitas, signed May 15 and published May 25, addresses AI as the central challenge to human dignity.
  • The encyclical states AI systems are 'cultivated' not 'built' and explicitly denies they possess experience, a body, or the capacity to feel pain.
  • Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah spoke at the Vatican's May 25 presentation alongside theologians and three cardinals.
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It's not a failure of leadership or strategic thinking--it's a test of our service members' "grit" and "resilience." www.cnn.com/2026/08/17/a...

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Protecting Privacy in an AI Era Daniel Solove argues in the Wall Street Journal (alternate link) that giving people control of their personal data is not an effective way to regulate privacy in this era.... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/protecting-privacy-in-a…

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  • Daniel Solove argues in the WSJ that consumer-control privacy laws are failing because digital technologies have become too complicated for individuals to manage.
  • His fix shifts responsibility to companies whenever they create an unreasonable risk of harm through uses of data or through AI algorithms.
  • Proposed measures include rigorous data minimization, fiduciary duties, liability for negligent design, liability for harmful algorithms, and multi-stakeholder review.
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Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.

How to talk about buttondown.com
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  • The guide covers six language categories: cognition, emotion, communication, agency, human-role analogies, and biological metaphors.
  • Proposed substitutions include 'probabilistic automation' for 'artificial intelligence' and 'conversation simulator' for 'chatbot.'
  • Rephrasing 'ChatGPT assisted students' as 'the students used ChatGPT' is given as an example of restoring human accountability.
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@davekarpf.bsky.social

Ell oh ell. 200 economists have signed a joint statement on AI disruption, titled “we must act now.” The “action” they recommend is “hey we should, like, work to understand what might happen if AI really takes off?” This isn’t a call to arms. It’s a research funding request. w…

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@annmlipton.bsky.social

hey a living, breathing example i can use for the proposition that, in fact, not all shareholders want wealth maximization: "considerable financial portfolio—which...includes some 200 shares in Meta.... [I]f she met Mark Zuckerberg, she would 'kick him in both shins.'" www.wsj…

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Putting together syllabus and materials for this fall's AI Law & Policy course, and the first two classes will be introducing the (very) basic math behind ML models, and I'm trying to find a way to get law students not to immediately tune out when the see things like x, y, and \Sigma.

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At a campground and the folks in the neighboring site (with the $500k+ RV) are loudly playing an AI* booster podcast.

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Made the mistake at taking a peek at LinkedIn and was almost instantly assaulted by sweaty AI* sales pitches desperately trying to find use cases for their increasingly expensive infrastructure.

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OpenAI commercial using the “faster/harder typing == super productive” trope that shows up so often in bad hacker movies.

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I just looked at a music festival's website and except for the very top billed acts, the rest of the cards could have been generated by AI* as far as I could tell.

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