No they themselves cannot directly jail people. The concern is that an authoritarian US gov w/control over them could leverage them to jail/silence (etc) people. Not taking this concern seriously is the "counterfactual universe" I'm calling on law/policy scholars to abandon. See:
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Protectionism and Tech Regulation: China US Policy Comparison
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You're taking a v specific comparison out of context to claim I believe China and the US are the same across the board. I never make this claim. Further, you're doing it to defend protectionist policy that 10 years ago at Google you'd have called "the authoritarian splinternet"
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Public Reaction to Proposed Bill Generates Significant Debate
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Thank you Sanjukta!!! This means a lot and I'm so glad it resonated. I was genuinely surprised to see the number of people defending this bill given…
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TikTok Ban Speech Defense Platform Regulation Policy
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NEW FROM ME! On the TikTok ban, the danger of abandoning defense of speech to extremists, & how the liberal tendency to assume a just state "outside the scope of this paper" leads to confused law/policy that can exacerbate the problems platforms pose.
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AI Algorithms Creating Personalized Bubbles Fragmenting Society
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Great (depressing) talk by Jack Conte about the death of the follower. https://
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40% of French Employees Unaware of GenAI Usage
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[#Article] Nearly 40% of French employees in the dark about GenAI usage within their company https://actuia.com/actualite/pres-de-40-des-salaries-francais-dans-le-flou-quant-a-lutilisation-de-la-genai-au-sein-de-leur-entreprise/
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AI Liability in Hospitals: Managing Healthcare Tool Risks
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Hospitals are increasingly adopting AI tools for patient care. But who’s liable when the tool makes mistakes? @StanfordHAI faculty affiliate @MichelleM_Mello offers recommendations on how hospitals should approach risks.
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AI in Scientific Research: Defining Good Practices
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The presence of AI writing is not itself an indication that a scientific paper is good, bad, or fraudulent. If we want AI to help accelerate science, we won’t do that without AI work “contaminating” journals. We should be doing more to say what good AI use in science looks like.
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Government Account Political Fundraising Raises Hatch Act Ethics Concerns
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Process point: using a gov-affiliated account for political fundraising and mudslinging is, if my FTC ethics training memory serves, a Hatch Act violation. https://
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AI Decelerationists and Existential Risk Concerns Spark Debate
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This is nuts. The doomers and decels really do want to shut it all down. Like a really sick humanity death cult.