“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
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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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com
programmablemutter.com
The Black Box Myth: What the Industry Pretends Not to Know About AI | TechPolicy.Press techpolicy.press
ft.com
nytimes.com
The AI tools shaping patient care may be operating outside regulatory oversight. MIT researchers say it's time to change that. | MIT CSAIL csail.mit.edu
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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-...
“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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"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
“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...
“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…
“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...
“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...
“A $4 billion market of clinical decision support tools operates largely beyond public accountability, leaving patients and providers often unable to know whether tools influencing care have been validated, by whom, or for which populations they work as intended.” www.csail.mi…
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