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Frank Pasquale

156 trust researcher @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 2,644 followers
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Researcher with public evidence across AI research, Agents & robotics, Culture, work & education.

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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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“Make-money-fast influencers and passive-income enthusiasts on Reddit have been spreading the word for some time: Use A.I. to write a book. If it sells, it’s free money. Amazon does not mind if people hawk A.I.-generated books on its platform” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...

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  • Two business school professors gathered data on 10 million Amazon books over five years, tracking a surge in AI-assisted publishing.
  • Monthly e-book publishing tripled since ChatGPT's release, rising from around 100,000 in 2022 to more than 300,000 by the end of last year.
  • A 70-year-old retired cybersecurity consultant, Bill Johns, has 445 books on Amazon, with AI-generated portraits of himself in a dark suit as cover art.
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“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-...

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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“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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“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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“We’re not far from the day when one state’s autonomous weapons will be capable of shooting at its adversary’s autonomous weapons. And once that possibility exists, there is a very real risk that it could happen by mistake, or by misunderstanding.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/o...

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"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

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers the-decoder.com
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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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“Always-on devices could violate data privacy or biometric data laws. It is also unclear whether the company or the wearer will be responsible for any breach of wiretapping laws, as it is illegal in multiple states to record audio of a third party without consent.” www.ft.com/…

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