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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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We need to have a long talk about the function and purpose of education. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/b...

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Fully autonomous weapons with no human in the loop is torment nexus level stupidity and a path that leads nowhere good. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...

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Once again, software does not “go rogue,” as it has no intent or agency. OpenAI’s management and employees, however, have both, and are where investigations for liability should immediately begin. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...

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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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This is so funny to me. Because, yes, you can use ChatGPT to spit out 200 papers a year if you want. But to what end? What is the point? Did you spend all those years studying and working to make AI button pressing your entire career? www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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  • SSRN removed 257 papers written or co-written by University of Chicago Booth professor Nicholas Polson and froze the accounts used to upload them.
  • Polson posted roughly 200 papers over nine months of 2026 and also published 14 books, most focused on statistics and mathematics.
  • SSRN said Polson's papers did not disclose AI use, but framed 'the unusual pattern of paper submissions' as the bigger issue.
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Pretty good piece by @peterbakernyt.bsky.social about “Trump’s own unique reality, one anchored not in fact but in an expression of ego.” Includes critics using words like “delusional” “unhinged” and “brain rot”… www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...

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I propose a moratorium on news stories describing AI* tools as “going rogue” as if they have intent and moral agency. Instead, let’s describe the events in terms of the companies’ negligence.

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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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My annoyance turns to irritation turns to anger at Adobe's CONSTANT offers to "help" when I open a PDF. "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading an AI-generated summary." I opened the document because I want to read the freaking document. Your app should do just that.

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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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AALS, I can't say I'm in love with this framing. AI* (as the term is being used here) is not an inevitability, and I wish our educational institutions (and associated entities) would stop treating it as such.

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Currently writing a section of my book on the AI industry's full-court press on educational institutions, and my anger is starting to affect my usual throughput.

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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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In today’s AI* Law & Policy class, I couldn’t get my students to accept—even just for the sake of argument—an AI* tool somehow having moral agency. My work here is done.

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The AI* agent "hacking" stories going around are more about the pathetic current state of cybersecurity than anything close to computer intelligence.

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I completely revamped my AI Law & Policy course this year, and we've started off this week with an introduction to the (basic) mathematics of ML. The students are really picking it up quickly, and nobody seemed to be scared off yet.

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