It's not "simply" a trade issue given that these platforms happen to control our information ecosystem, within the US and beyond. It's a nice feeling to reach a strong conclusion and close the case and stop thinking about it. But here, doing so isn't appropriate given the stakes.
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Bill Misuse Risks in Authoritarian State Contexts
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Appreciate your time! I don't pay for twitter & am v swamed rn so, in brief: "the bill isn't meant to do that" isn't IMO a good rebuttal against args re how the bill could be leveraged otherwise + this ignores the v real dangers of an authoritarian state, which are core to my arg
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Government Warrants Threaten Speech Healthcare Dissent Rights
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The procedural specifics and their differences offer no comfort in practice. Particularly when we're talking about a state that would criminalize speech, healthcare, dissent, thus making these activities suitable targets for such warrants.
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Authoritarian AI Control: Policy Scholars Must Address Real Risks
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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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LLMs and Doctors: Collaboration Over Replacement in Medicine
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“It’s no longer a question of whether LLMs will replace doctors in the clinic — they won’t — but how humans and machines will work together to make medicine better for everyone,” says @Stanford CERC researcher Ethan Goh.
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Redefining Success: Living Your Values Over Goals
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“You don’t want to just define your success by achieving your goals. You should think about success as living your values.” –
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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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… I'd go further to say that the 2020s are increasingly about "Generating" a complete bubble custom for you, disconnecting everyone from everyone else. (Dead internet theory weaponized.)