Which is I think why politics is an attractive option for some people; why toil for years on ameliorating X when you can fund the colored blob of your choice and feel like you got the package you signed up for, which you’re mostly onboard with when it achieves a win.
POLICY
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AI Hallucinations and Professional Accountability in Legal Practice
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Surely, such behavior is grounds for being disbarred? Unless that becomes the default response, the hallucinations will continue.
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Tech Companies’ Legal Accountability and Whistleblower Culture
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The absence of people who seek immolation is the primary reason why Approximately Every Tech Company That Matters hasn’t had a flagrantly illegal project plan published in the Wall Street Journal.
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Government Transparency and Whistleblower Protection in Public Records
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Broadly agree but for those discoverable documents to also be public either there needs to be a public records law and a well-resourced team operating it or there needs to be an internal whistleblower who wants to immolate their career and social status.
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Employment lawyers struggle implementing tech labor laws at major platforms
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Employment lawyers did not have 100% success in getting those laws successfully implemented, as has been *gestures vaguely* widely publicly reported about e.g. YouTube recruiting organization, etc etc.
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Tech Industry Culture Faces Legal Compliance Pressure
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That culture metastaticized to the tech industry, by the way, which led to some amount of internal pressure, as employment lawyers tried to communicate with usual suspects that no, really, there are laws in this country.
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Social Norms and Implicit Compliance in Organizational Culture
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Can I suggest a superposition of these two beliefs, where a) everyone has been recited the non-discrimination line, b) for received cultural reasons, that is assumed to have an escape clause c) people who say that out loud get a *private* talking to d) they say “Got you. *wink*”
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Immigration status and AI policy perspectives
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I have no opinion on this, as I have an immigration status, which may answer the question.
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DOJ proposes banning Google from using first-party data
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Yep! One of the DOJ’s proposed remedies is banning Google from using first-party data from Google products — including YouTube and Chrome — to prevent it from advantaging its own ad tools.
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Policy Patchwork Quilts: Complex Systems in Food Assistance
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For a longer discussion on how we end up with patchwork quilts in policy, see Complex Systems with Dave Guarino. He used to work on CalFresh, and got a brisk tour of let’s-feed-the-people ecosystems, and where the cracks are between them.