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Amanda Tepski

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writing a book to help lawyers choose good technologies for their work (coming soon) teaching how intellectual property, cyberlaw, professional responsibility + privacy mess w technology @georgetownlaw.bsky.social art and more @ tepski.tech
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🔥 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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Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds 404media.co
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  • Meta filed the patent in December 2025 and it was published July 2, 2026, describing a wearable that infers emotional state from voice and behavior.
  • The system would ingest sighs, laughter, vocal tone, location, surrounding objects, and medication timing, aligned on synchronized timelines for accuracy.
  • Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton said patents 'may or may not be implemented,' the standard hedge on filings that are not guaranteed to ship.
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I wish we could hold two truths at once: some uses of copyrighted works as AI training data may be fair use—getting this right has tremendous implications for other things we like, like reporting and scholarship and education—and it’s tough to name a corporation doing it that doesn’t suck.

View on Bluesky · ♥ 9 ↻ 6 ↩ 0 · 20d ago

AI-generated slides bum me out. I put so my effort into beautiful slides, from illustrating people I cite or perfume bottles to collaborating with human designers, and I think people appreciate their content and aesthetics! (My colleagues can tell me if I’m wrong.)

View on Bluesky · ♥ 3 ↻ 0 ↩ 1 · 18d ago

When lawyers claim that AI is as good as their firm’s first years, I’d humbly suggest that perhaps that is a (hiring) skill issue.

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Scholars often cite the Matthew Broderick classic War Games as the catalyst for the controversial Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. But the film is more pointedly about the role of humans in governing AI systems. In this essay I will

View on Bluesky · ♥ 3 ↻ 0 ↩ 0 · 42d ago

It’s worth remembering that McCarthy & co. only got half their requested funding amount for their AI convening 🙏

View on Bluesky · ♥ 2 ↻ 0 ↩ 0 · 7d ago

When people tout AI as an access to justice issue, I look up their work to see if they’ve been critical of the Wexis duopoly. You’ll be shocked what I’ve found over and over!!

View on Bluesky · ♥ 2 ↻ 0 ↩ 0 · 43d ago

Can’t wait for the AI encyclical to drop. Antiqua et Nova started a conversation that I’m just dyin to have.

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