“AI-generated books have flooded Amazon’s self-publishing offerings, especially, with books containing dangerous misinformation and messy errors taking over the platform. AI-generated books are also making librarians’ jobs hell.” www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
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Frank Pasquale
Law professor; author (The Black Box Society; New Laws of Robotics).
Interested in law & technology, AI, political economy, art, and social theory.
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Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why 404media.co
She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals. businessinsider.com
The World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes nytimes.com
Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
Opinion | Bernie Sanders: A.I. Is a Public Resource. You Should Own Half of It. nytimes.com
reuters.com
Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era nytimes.com
programmablemutter.com
Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers the-decoder.com
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com
The Black Box Myth: What the Industry Pretends Not to Know About AI | TechPolicy.Press techpolicy.press
ft.com
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“Erin Maus secured something of a miracle from her employer: a religious exemption. Maus, a Unitarian Universalist, said she proposed the special treatment in April, citing environmental & ethical objections to AI that don't align with her religious beliefs.” www.businessinsid…
“Every time there’s a big news event, we are just drowning in slop” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...
“It necessary to begin a shared discernment process for identifying the spiritual and cultural roots of ongoing transformations. If we focus only on contingencies, we risk letting the succession of emergencies dictate the direction of our path.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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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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“OpenAI recently proposed creating a public wealth fund that provides every citizen with a stake in A.I.-driven economic growth. Anthropic similarly proposed the creation of national sovereign wealth funds with stakes in A.I.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/o...
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“Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a negative impact on learning, the country's prime minister said on Friday." @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
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- Norway bans generative AI for students ages 6-13 starting August 2026, with supervised use permitted for ages 14-16.
- Prime Minister Støre cited excessive AI reliance as a risk to essential skills; the government is also increasing book funding over tablets.
- Norway's 2024 smartphone ban saw reduced bullying and rising grades per the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
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“Her impression was that outright A.I. cheating was rare at Harvard, in part because professors have responded to chatbots by more heavily weighting oral and pen-and-paper exams in final grades.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
“Drucker views management as a specific mode of realizing human potential. This is sweeping, romantic and occasionally a little corny. It also makes Drucker an enormously attractive writer and thinker in ways that many of his epigones are not” www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-i…
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- Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince laid off more than 20% of his workforce while citing Peter Drucker's 1954 management framework to explain the cuts.
- Prince labeled laid-off workers 'measurers' — a Drucker category he applied to middle management, finance, legal, and internal auditing.
- Henry Farrell argues Prince inverted Drucker's intent: Drucker used measurement to develop managers, not to identify who to eliminate.
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Frank Pasquale reposted
"Landmark German ruling declares Google's #AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers": the-decoder.com/landmark-ger... #ethics #law #internet #tech #business h/t @garymarcus.bsky.social
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- Munich's Regional Court declared Google's AI Overviews its own speech, rejecting traditional search-engine hosting liability protections.
- Google's AI Overviews answered correctly around 91% of queries, but 56% of those correct answers couldn't be verified through the linked sources.
- Google confirmed it will appeal the ruling, which could set precedent for AI answer engines including ChatGPT and Perplexity across Europe.
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“The term deepfake traditionally refers to photos, audio, and video, but when it comes to discussions of consciousness, we need to regard text as a deepfake medium as well.” www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
“Those of us outside of the AI industry don’t know what rules they are following. That’s not a black box. It’s just a policy decision.” techpolicy.press/the-black-bo... Or: it’s a remediable black box.
“All systems used in a war setting must guarantee the possibility of retracing and reconstructing decision-making processes, so that accountability and blame are not collapsed into ‘the machine’” www.ft.com/content/1231...
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