Dissecting the digital utopia.
Not sure what to get the tech oligarch who has (literally) everything this holiday? Why not his very own Presidential Executive Order titled Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence? It’s the latest thing in political theater coming out of the Trump White House—a plan so detrimental in principle to the American public that Read More The post Big Tech Gets AI Executive Order…
Unregulated artificial intelligence is a new pandemic. Parents know it. Consumers know it. Educators know it. State lawmakers know it. And Members of Congress know it. Blame who you will for COVID-19 or the price of eggs, but there is no question that the harms of AI, like surveillance pricing for those eggs, are being Read More The post Americans Won’t Thank Washington for Protecting Big Tech in…
On October 30, counsel for Dr. Stephen Thaler requested that the U.S. Supreme Court hold its Petition for Certiorari in Thaler v. Perlmutter until after the Court rules on the matter of the dismissal of Copyright Office Director Shira Perlmutter by the White House in May. As the letter states, “The Blanche and Slaughter cases Read More The post Thaler Asks the Court to Make Copyright Policy…
On October 9th, Dr. Stephen Thaler, a computer scientist and owner of the generative AI “Creativity Machine,” filed a petition for cert with the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to overturn the DC Circuit opinion in Thaler v. Perlmutter. As discussed in several posts, Dr. Thaler’s machine independently and autonomously produced an image he titled “A Read More The post Dr. Thaler Asks SCOTUS to Decide…
Over the weekend, I had the privilege of participating in the 11th annual Mosaic Conference, organized by the Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice (IIPSJ) and hosted by Suffolk University Law School IP Center. Founded by Professor Lateef Mtima at Howard University, IPSJ’s mission is to “…examine intellectual property law and policy—as well as Read More The post Rescuing Democracy…