How harmful is GenAI around elections? Will it trigger a misinformation apocalypse and upend elections? I am happy to finally be able to share Sacha Altay’s & my answers to these and other questions on which we have been working for a year and which is out via Knight First Amendment Institute.

Technical Requirements for Halting Dangerous AI Activities Work done with Aaron Scher and David Abecassis We list technical interventions relevant for halting dangerous AI development and deployment, and how these form the basis of various plans. arxiv.org/abs/2507.09801

Muting tweets is one of the simplest joys of this site.

Some right-wing judges (and antitrust law profs) think Supreme Court decisions they dislike can be ignored b/c they have been "effectively" overruled. Judge AliKhan recognizes these precedents are binding on lower courts until the Supreme Court *actually* overrules them.

The first rule of public policy commentary is “do not comment on public policy whose primary source you have not read.”

In "Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Economy: Multilateral and Regional Legal Challenges from the Perspective of the Indo-Pacific" (2025) 26 JWIT (Adv Access), Rostam J Neuwirth explores the Indo-Pacific’s potential to shape global AI governance. 🔗shorturl.at/0Xmja

Exciting to see The White House talk about [unobjectionable high-level goal] in the AI Action Plan, which really underscores why [my preferred policy idea] is so important!

My OA article “Palliative Presentism & its Alternatives: International Legal Emergencies via Digital Interfaces” has been published in the European Journal of International Law. It is about time, technology, humanitarian emergencies & international law. academic.oup.com/ejil/advance-a…

Environment Agency Conservation Projects Database data.gov.uk/dataset/a49c5e… + environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/75df2e… new data release from Environment Agency (England) 5.1 MB Excel workbook; project locations are geocoded, suitable for mapping and geospatial analysis. #wildlife #biodiversity #opendata

I would faint if The Economist--or any business journal really--ever condemned a merger. Whether explaining price hikes or tie-ups, the business press can be counted on to peddle an industry’s talking points. Short🧵

Read the latest 𝐈𝐈𝐈-𝟏𝟏 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐟: abseagle.info/III11 🌐 The IMO Sub-Committee on the Implementation of IMO Instruments (III) held its 11th session from July 20 to 25, 2025. This Brief highlights key issues addressed during this session: • Revision of the 2023 Survey

It is happening. Many of us are now spending many hours writing a rebuttal to an LLM, because clearly some of the reviews we got at NeurIPS were generated by an LLM.

Be wary of people who spew AI hype and screenshot their army of agents but don't seem to be shipping anything but demos. I'm a big fan of AI assistance and use agents and chat everyday, but there's a ton of engagement farming happening out there.

Applies beyond law. Given the interconnectedness of things, it's unlikely you're advancing an idea nobody has ever thought about before. But given the complexity of intellectual work, it's unlikely anybody has made the *exact* point you're making, in the way you're making it. 1/

We unite critiques of anthropomorphism in LLM research, and examples of alternatives, across the development & deployment pipeline:

New blog post: "Smooth Pursuit, and how Screens Don't Mimic Reality" Your brain makes clever use of smooth eye movements. This works in the real world, but it fails on screens.

Read the latest issue from Cambridge Forum on AI: Law and Governance Individual Safeguards & Fairness in Regulating AI 13 cutting-edge studies explore how tailored safeguards can prevent and address unfairness in AI systems. Interdisciplinary insights from law, tech & policy,

Axios claude code running on kali linux would be kinda scary

New on the SLR Forum: Anshul Dalmia anshul dalmia empirically analyses 34 recent constitution bench judgments for their level of accessibility, on metrics of the availability of transcripts, translations into vernacular languages, clarity and brevity. sociolegalreview.com/post/who-can-h…