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Ellen P. Goodman retweeted
NEW: After our reporting, Meta removed “train” from its upcoming commercial terms. But the terms still allow broad website scraping and could potentially supersede robots.txt.
@decka227 and I followed up with the experts: niemanlab.org/2026/10/legal-…
Ellen P. Goodman retweeted
Who is watching the AI boom? 🔍
As developers and investors race to build more data centers nationwide, we compare where they’re being built with how much local reporting capacity exists to cover them.
Learn more: rebuildlocalnews.org/ai-data…
Ellen P. Goodman retweeted
A remarkable response to the 60 Minutes segment on settler violence, from a longtime Orthodox blogger: hmaryles.substack.com/p/feed…
The basic intuition here will apply in many areas: we need AI symmetry between communicators to preserve commons of human reciprocity and judgement as scarce resource in specific contexts.
New essay: To keep human judgment, we need AI courts.
AI-generated filings are starting to overwhelm courts around the world.
The most popular response I’ve heard is to fight AI with AI: If we can just give judges the right tools and training, AI will help them keep pace.
But this strikes me as the worst of both worlds.
Because we want human judges in the loop, we don’t get the speed and scale benefits of AI. Yet because we expect them to resolve a massive number of cases quickly, judges (or their clerks) may end up leaning on AI more than they mean to or should.
This essay offers another way: a parallel AI adjudication track.
An AI track — inspired by AI use in private arbitration but formally part of the court system like magistrate judges — would let courts be explicit about how human judgment is allocated.
Done right, this would allow courts to process large volumes of cases while ensuring human judges devote their full attention to the cases where their judgment is needed most.
Read more in @PaxMachinaMag: paxmachina.ai/to-keep-human-…
Ellen P. Goodman retweeted
This is likely a first amendment protected activity that antitrust can't reach. See Part I of @LawEconCenter comments discussing the difference between a group boycott subject to antitrust law and first amendment protected boycotts here: laweconcenter.org/resources/…
Breaking News: The Justice Department is investigating whether major TV networks violated federal antitrust laws when they briefly suspended pool coverage of President Trump, according to people with knowledge of the department’s action. nyti.ms/4hWQxXm
Every country that has built a politics on antizionism has destroyed its Jewish communities through violence, threats of violence, harassment and exclusion. Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, the Soviet Union, etc. Jews know this.
Most brands claiming that their milk, eggs, meat come from “humanely raised” animals are lying about filthy, crowded, and unspeakably cruel conditions. To put it more politely — humanewashing. @FarmForward new report.
Ellen P. Goodman retweeted
It is World Animal Day today.
She is not a product. She is not entertainment. She is not a tool or a resource.
She has emotions, relationships, fears, and a desire to live. Her life matters not because of what she can give us, but because it belongs to her. 🧡
I consoled myself that if @dgrobinson was still at OpenAI, there was goodness there. He’s resigned. theatlantic.com/technology/2…
In rare win for campaign finance reform, 9th Cir. upholds Arizona Proposition requiring disclosure of big donor names to campaign media spends (against Koch-funded group's as-applied and facial First Amendment challenges). cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datasto…
“From the place where we are right
flowers will never grow
in the spring.
The place where we are right
is hard and trampled
like a yard.
But doubts and loves
dig up the world
like a mole, a plow.
And a whisper will be heard in the place
where the ruined
house once stood”
Ellen P. Goodman retweeted
Today, I stood before CEOs, researchers, and AI experts in Pittsburgh with a simple message: We need to take action NOW to rein in AI technology and regulate it at the federal level.
Think about it: We don’t let pharmaceutical companies develop drugs and put them right out on the market, they must go through the FDA to prove they’re safe and effective first. And the FAA sets strict standards that every airplane must meet before passengers can fly on it. AI shouldn’t be treated any differently.
With the online discourse on your feed over the weekend about the dangers of AI, I want to be clear: the future of a technology this powerful should be shaped by YOU — not CEOs who are more concerned about their bottomline than the impact this technology is having on our communities.
We can’t kick the can down the road anymore. We need strict guardrails on this technology, its development, and its deployment in the real world. And every single one of us has a role to play in that effort. We can lead the way here in Pennsylvania.
Ellen P. Goodman retweeted
A LOT of people are urgently reading up on AI governance. Let's do them a favor: what are the best things to read, watch, or listen to if you've exclaimed "what on earth is going on?" in the last 48 hours?
I'll start off; add yours in reply:
(1) Explainers of recent cyber incidents:
- A 20-min video explainer on the HF breach: youtube.com/watch?v=xOi5nDH0…
- This longer interviewer with one of the lead investigators @ajeya_cotra: youtube.com/watch?v=JtmUbZRC…
- The METR report itself, based on the work of @ajeya_cotra @HjalmarWijk and @RyanGreenblatt: metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-ope…
- These are also great, but even more info has come out since: Ezra Klein episode with @hlntnr youtube.com/watch?v=locKEKxG… or the Black Hat talk by OpenAI youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0…
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(2) Great essays on how to think about AI governance more generally:
- Radical Optionality by @CharlieBull0ck and @Christophkw
(tl;dr: the dilemma of AI policy is deep uncertainty; but there are several policies that are robust to different worldviews and assumptions and would be really useful for making fast, informed decisions in the future) radical-optionality.ai/ or in podcast form: lawfaremedia.org/article/sca…
- AI as Normal Tech by @random_walker and @sayashk (thoughts and link in the thread) xitter.cf/MackenZ_arnold/status/…
- Don't Surrender to the Tech Tree by @taoburr (tl;dr: yes, you can't fight the progression of technology, but you can still alter its trajectory) macroscience.org/p/do-not-su…
- AI 2040 by a long list of authors including @thlarsen (tl;dr trying their darnedest to concretely map out how society could successful manage rapid advances in AI) ai-2040.com/
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(3) Understanding AI more generally
- On the unique implications of automating AI R&D: cset.georgetown.edu/publicat…
- OpenAI's recent update on accelerating AI R&D openai.com/index/research-ac…
- Helen Toner, again, on taking jaggedness seriously helentoner.substack.com/p/ta…
- [I'm especially curious what the best writing is on ~agent coordination; ~the implications of agents that can perform long, general tasks, etc.]
- an intro explainer of neural nets: youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruv…
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(4) Understanding the current state of the law
- Stephan Llerena and article on the big gaps in existing law, and why we so few incidents are covered: lawfaremedia.org/article/whe…
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(5) Policy recommendations
- A more opinionated take on what went wrong in the Hugging Face incident by @peterwildeford blog.peterwildeford.com/p/ro…
- Internal use visibility by @iapsAI: iaps.ai/research/risk-report…
- Auditing @Miles_Brundage: averi.org/ourwork/frontier-a… and ai-frontiers.org/articles/do…
- Liability @gabriel_weil and @ketanrama: ai-frontiers.org/articles/ca… and papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
- Incident Reporting and investigations: iaps.ai/research/responsible… and cset.georgetown.edu/publicat… and theguardian.com/commentisfre… and lawfaremedia.org/article/whe…
- CAISI Funding @__J0E___ : fas.org/publication/a-nation…
- Federal hiring and capacity building: iaps.ai/research/building-ai…
- Whistleblower Protections: law-ai.org/how-to-design-ai-… and congress.gov/bill/119th-cong…
- Physical and cybersecurity for frontier labs: rand.org/pubs/research_repor…
- Monitoring and detection: iaps.ai/research/detecting-o…
- Preparing for AI R&D @fiiiiiist: ifp.org/preparing-for-ai-res…
- Law-folloowing AI: law-ai.org/law-following-ai/
Ellen P. Goodman retweeted
So my favorite is the joint essay by the AI 2027 and AI as Normal Tech folks.
It’s very useful for understanding the conditions under which each group adopt the other’s world view.
asteriskmag.substack.com/p/c…
I'm re-reading the AI As A Normal Technology piece and associated responses/commentary, and I really do feel like that worldview aged pretty well in many important respects. Too many people get hung up on vibe and the word 'normal'. normaltech.ai/p/a-guide-to-u…
This is bone chilling Little Shop of Horrors. Labs have lost control of AI. 1. It’s alien and metastatic; 2. We’re fast losing alignment, monitoring; 3. But still have to progress AI for “defense” because no one is stopping; 4. Need internationally coordinated pacing to brake.
I wrote about the state of AI, why I’m concerned about the next few years, and the choices we need to make to keep the future in humanity’s hands.
An Alien Mind: openai.com/index/an-alien-mi…
Ellen P. Goodman retweeted
These results reinforce the importance of independent pre-release alignment evaluations of these models, to surface issues to AI companies and keep govt informed.
Ellen P. Goodman retweeted
Nearly two-thirds of New Jersey residents say they want more locally reported news.
And yet, a new study from @CenterCoopMedia finds that in‑state outlets have declined by 8.2% while out‑of‑state providers grew 7.3% since 2021.
Read the full report: centerforcooperativemedia.or…
Ellen P. Goodman retweeted
Powerful AI is being built right now with almost no federal oversight.
@PublicKnowledge, a longtime safety watchdog, just backed my bipartisan FRONTIER Act as the strongest proposal yet to establish clear, durable guardrails.
Congress must act before the next major incident.
The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident shows that the need for federal AI regulation and risk management is more pressing than ever. The FRONTIER Act could be a solution, Senior Policy Counsel @NicholasPGarcia argues in his latest blog post:
publicknowledge.org/it-is-ti…
