The Fordham Law Review, co-sponsored with Fordham’s Neuroscience and Law Center, published its Symposium issue showcasing 9 articles on a wide range of topics by attorneys, judges, professors, and scientists, exploring the opportunities and risks presented by AI bit.ly/4cPdxUI

So thrilled to be part of this amazing symposium on #artificalintelligence . Thanks go to Andrew W. Torrance, Bill Tomlinson, Harry Surden, Matthew Sag, Abdi Aidid, Jason Schultz, Daniel J. Solove, Yuki / Hideyuki MATSUMI / 松実秀幸, Eliott Behar for their superb essays and to Fordham Law Review for incredible oversight.

Honored to be named one of the Co-Chairs, along with Justice Angela Iannacci and Stuart Levi, for the NY Court System's AI Advisory Committee!

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DER SPIEGEL and DER STANDARD released simultaneous stories on this Knowing Machines investigation: 'How the worldview of an artificial intelligence is created.'
Check out the fantastic visual explainer! spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/l…

The AI field’s goal is nothing less than to transform the world. But what are the foundations upon which this transformation is built? In this investigation, Jer Thorp and I looked at LAION-5B, the only open-source foundation dataset currently available.

My latest for nature: AI's environmental costs are soaring. The new energy-hungry models for video, text, and image could create an energy crisis - and impact drinking water reserves. We urgently need action from industry, researchers, and legislators. nature.com/articles/d4158…

And here's my piece with Jason Schultz on generative AI and the crisis in copyright law: a radical moment in creative production with billions of works produced without any legally recognizable author. ✍️issues.org/generative-ai-…

A victory for clinical trial transparency!
In 2021, UAEM, my students, & I FOIAed U.S. FDA's 'Pre-Notices' to sponsors who withhold trial results.
In 2021, Reshma Ramachandran, Joseph Ross & I urged U.S. FDA share Pre-Notices proactively.
In Feb 2023, UAEM petitioned.
Yesterday, FDA agreed.

📍NEWS! Vladan Joler and I are about to open our exhibition: CALCULATING EMPIRES.

It’s about technology, power, and the rise and fall of empires. Not just in this crazy week/year, but over 5 centuries. At the center: a 24 meter installation. Opens Milan, Thursday. More:

New piece in Nieman Lab, w/ Jake Karr & growing out of Knowing Machines project:

'Press freedom means controlling the language of AI':
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'Journalists need to get good, fast, at looking under the hood of GenAI systems & developing the power to shape them.'

🎧NEW PODCAST! 🎧 Want to understand AI with deeper context? We've launched a pod series on how AI is trained to interpret the world. Each ep has a research theme: from the social, legal, cultural, environmental & political impacts of generative AI. knowingmachines.org/podcast 👇📻

My TED talk is live at ted.com/talks/sasha_lu…!
Check it out for memes 🖼️, emissions 🌎 and hot takes 🌶️
The TLDR? Focusing on the future existential risks of AI is a distraction from its current impacts and mitigating them.

Have questions about Gen AI and law that you were afraid to ask?
Check out the Gen AI Legal Explainer, created by Jason Schultz and team: knowingmachines.org/knowing-legal-…
It's got answers and cases galore to help you navigate the choppy waters of law and AI ⛵️

Honored to be on TIME's list with many friends and colleagues. Glad to see it has included the work of those addressing AI's social, political & ecological effects. time.com/collection/tim… #TIME100AI

'The permanence of library collections may become a thing of the past...If the platforms decide not to offer the e-books or publishers decide to pull them off the shelves, the reader loses out,' Prof. Jason Schultz (Jason Schultz) tells The New York Times.