Frank Pasquale
@frankpasquale.bsky.social
Law professor; author (The Black Box Society; New Laws of Robotics).
Interested in law & technology, AI, political economy, art, and social theory.
Interested in law & technology, AI, political economy, art, and social theory.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
“The 21st-century algorithmic gaze dissolves both patient and doctor alike into never-ending streams of automated data.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
“The 21st-century algorithmic gaze dissolves both patient and doctor alike into never-ending streams of automated data.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
“Governments are saying 'well, we don't want to step in too soon and regulate AI'. That's exactly what they said about the internet - and look at the harm it's done to so many kids.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“Governments are saying 'well, we don't want to step in too soon and regulate AI'. That's exactly what they said about the internet - and look at the harm it's done to so many kids.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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First time holding my book 🥹 Thanks UCLA!
November 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
First time holding my book 🥹 Thanks UCLA!
“AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.”
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www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.”
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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AI summaries has got to be one of the biggest concerns about professional AI use:
1) people love summaries and will assume accuracy;
2) AI summaries often look authoritative (even citing sources);
3) if you take time to check the sources, they often don’t say what AI says in the summary
1) people love summaries and will assume accuracy;
2) AI summaries often look authoritative (even citing sources);
3) if you take time to check the sources, they often don’t say what AI says in the summary
@williamlidc.bsky.social and I were JUST TALKING ABOUT THIS
#LegalEthics Tidbit: OK, #AI is not reliable for legal research. But it’s really good at accurately summarizing documents, right? RIGHT!?
In response to a summary judgement motion, a TX plaintiff’s lawyer wanted to submit a witness affidavit that compared ... (cont.)
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#lawsky #law
In response to a summary judgement motion, a TX plaintiff’s lawyer wanted to submit a witness affidavit that compared ... (cont.)
lnkd.in/ePra8vFB
#lawsky #law
November 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
AI summaries has got to be one of the biggest concerns about professional AI use:
1) people love summaries and will assume accuracy;
2) AI summaries often look authoritative (even citing sources);
3) if you take time to check the sources, they often don’t say what AI says in the summary
1) people love summaries and will assume accuracy;
2) AI summaries often look authoritative (even citing sources);
3) if you take time to check the sources, they often don’t say what AI says in the summary
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“You’re a winner, baby!” 🥳😜
Honored to have won the best “Food Issues” book from the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP).
Honored to have won the best “Food Issues” book from the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP).
November 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
“You’re a winner, baby!” 🥳😜
Honored to have won the best “Food Issues” book from the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP).
Honored to have won the best “Food Issues” book from the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP).
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This from Ted is also usefully read in conjunction with the just-released statement from the MLA advocating for faculty representation on ed tech policy-making committees: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This from Ted is also usefully read in conjunction with the just-released statement from the MLA advocating for faculty representation on ed tech policy-making committees: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...
“Writing is the process of discovery through language…[exploring] what we know & what we feel about what we know through language. It is the process of using language to learn about our world, to evaluate what we learn about our world, to communicate what we learn”
thepalindrome.org/p/coding-on-...
thepalindrome.org/p/coding-on-...
Coding on Paper
Coding as a process, not a product
thepalindrome.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
“Writing is the process of discovery through language…[exploring] what we know & what we feel about what we know through language. It is the process of using language to learn about our world, to evaluate what we learn about our world, to communicate what we learn”
thepalindrome.org/p/coding-on-...
thepalindrome.org/p/coding-on-...
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New paper just out on how changing sociotechnical systems of knowledge production and access - platforms, the cloud, AI - pose profound challenges to educational practice and research doi.org/10.1080/0305...
Knowledge infrastructure crisis: digital democratic deficits and alternative designs for education
The production and circulation of knowledge in education increasingly depends on large-scale digital infrastructures. In this article we provide a critical review of the transformation of the conte...
doi.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New paper just out on how changing sociotechnical systems of knowledge production and access - platforms, the cloud, AI - pose profound challenges to educational practice and research doi.org/10.1080/0305...
“In…my advice to…other digital historians—I generally think that human beings are among the least promising topics of statistical analysis; I choose to visualize ships, books, and land but try to avoid visualizing the person whenever possible”
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November 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“In…my advice to…other digital historians—I generally think that human beings are among the least promising topics of statistical analysis; I choose to visualize ships, books, and land but try to avoid visualizing the person whenever possible”
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/computa...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/computa...
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Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵
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There's no mystery about the likely impact of these cuts.
For comparison, the Fed's post mortem on the Silicon Valley Bank failure noted that the headcount decline of 3% during the first Trump administration-a tenth of what's proposed now-strained the Fed's ability to address emerging risks.
For comparison, the Fed's post mortem on the Silicon Valley Bank failure noted that the headcount decline of 3% during the first Trump administration-a tenth of what's proposed now-strained the Fed's ability to address emerging risks.
October 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
There's no mystery about the likely impact of these cuts.
For comparison, the Fed's post mortem on the Silicon Valley Bank failure noted that the headcount decline of 3% during the first Trump administration-a tenth of what's proposed now-strained the Fed's ability to address emerging risks.
For comparison, the Fed's post mortem on the Silicon Valley Bank failure noted that the headcount decline of 3% during the first Trump administration-a tenth of what's proposed now-strained the Fed's ability to address emerging risks.
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The paper I co-authored with Hui Yun Chan has just been published in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences. In this paper, we compare Singaporean and Swiss data privacy and human research regulations, and how these may act as a barrier to cross border data sharing: academic.oup.com/jlb/article/...
Cross-border health data sharing between Singapore and Switzerland: controlling for competing regulatory requirements
Abstract. Research in biomedical and health sciences using data-intensive methods increasingly involve multi-party cross-border institutional collaboration
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October 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The paper I co-authored with Hui Yun Chan has just been published in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences. In this paper, we compare Singaporean and Swiss data privacy and human research regulations, and how these may act as a barrier to cross border data sharing: academic.oup.com/jlb/article/...
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On one wall: A constantly updating dashboard with students' lesson completion rates and other metrics
On the other: A shop of toys (at 6x markup) they can buy with Alpha bucks, earned by hitting learning quotas
In the middle: 6 yos tapping silently away at laptops
www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...
On the other: A shop of toys (at 6x markup) they can buy with Alpha bucks, earned by hitting learning quotas
In the middle: 6 yos tapping silently away at laptops
www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...
Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out
In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
On one wall: A constantly updating dashboard with students' lesson completion rates and other metrics
On the other: A shop of toys (at 6x markup) they can buy with Alpha bucks, earned by hitting learning quotas
In the middle: 6 yos tapping silently away at laptops
www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...
On the other: A shop of toys (at 6x markup) they can buy with Alpha bucks, earned by hitting learning quotas
In the middle: 6 yos tapping silently away at laptops
www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...
“One South Carolina DoorDash driver told me he recently chauffeured a single serving of ice cream five miles; he was paid $3.50 before taxes for about 20 minutes’ work, and estimates that the customer paid about $15 for it.”
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
The Innovation That’s Killing Restaurant Culture
Delivery has turned America into a nation of order-inners.
www.theatlantic.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
“One South Carolina DoorDash driver told me he recently chauffeured a single serving of ice cream five miles; he was paid $3.50 before taxes for about 20 minutes’ work, and estimates that the customer paid about $15 for it.”
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
One more step toward a posthuman internet: “Winners get cloned, not repeated. Take proven content and spawn variation. Different hooks, formats, lengths. Each unique enough to avoid suppression”
www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.
www.404media.co
October 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
One more step toward a posthuman internet: “Winners get cloned, not repeated. Take proven content and spawn variation. Different hooks, formats, lengths. Each unique enough to avoid suppression”
www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
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This is actually the thing that worries me most about AI. It's "there is no such thing as society" implemented as software solution. Needing to ask people for help, advice, or information is part of how we build and maintain social and professional bonds.
Preliminary results show that the current framework of "AI" makes ppl less likely to help or seek help from other humans, or to seek to soothe conflict, and that people actively prefer that framework to any others, literally serving to make them more dependent on it.
Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolat...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This is actually the thing that worries me most about AI. It's "there is no such thing as society" implemented as software solution. Needing to ask people for help, advice, or information is part of how we build and maintain social and professional bonds.
“Our findings show that once this kind of ‘brain rot’ sets in, later clean training can’t fully undo it.”
www.wired.com/story/ai-mod...
www.wired.com/story/ai-mod...
AI Models Get Brain Rot, Too
A new study shows that feeding large language models low-quality, high-engagement content from social media lowers their cognitive abilities.
www.wired.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
“Our findings show that once this kind of ‘brain rot’ sets in, later clean training can’t fully undo it.”
www.wired.com/story/ai-mod...
www.wired.com/story/ai-mod...
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Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
The deal “functions as an elaborate mechanism for socializing risk while privatizing control and returns. Intel secures capital without conditions; taxpayers inherit risk without control.”
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lpeproject.org/blog/intel-a...
Intel and the New State Capitalism
While some have cast the U.S. government’s $8.9 billion equity stake in Intel as the first step on the road to socialism, upon closer examination it looks more like a distinctive form of American…
lpeproject.org
October 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The deal “functions as an elaborate mechanism for socializing risk while privatizing control and returns. Intel secures capital without conditions; taxpayers inherit risk without control.”
lpeproject.org/blog/intel-a...
lpeproject.org/blog/intel-a...
“My poetic aspiration is that whenever you read the words “YouTube Creator” you think instead of “Audience Creation.” Social media does not create powerful Influencers but rather powerless marionettes, dancing jerkily to quantified audience tugs.”
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www.cambridge.org/core/element...
The YouTube Apparatus
Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - The YouTube Apparatus
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October 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“My poetic aspiration is that whenever you read the words “YouTube Creator” you think instead of “Audience Creation.” Social media does not create powerful Influencers but rather powerless marionettes, dancing jerkily to quantified audience tugs.”
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
“A study published in The Lancet journal in June said the U.S. funding cuts could result in more than 14 million deaths, including more than 4.5 million children under age 5, by 2030.”
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
“A study published in The Lancet journal in June said the U.S. funding cuts could result in more than 14 million deaths, including more than 4.5 million children under age 5, by 2030.”
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OpenAI’s Sora opt-out for IP is clearly OpenAI trying to do a Google ContentID pivot to turn rightsholders of key trademarked characters into price-takers not price-setters.
October 8, 2025 at 7:28 AM
OpenAI’s Sora opt-out for IP is clearly OpenAI trying to do a Google ContentID pivot to turn rightsholders of key trademarked characters into price-takers not price-setters.
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Last week, a Dutch court ordered Meta to give Facebook & Instagram users the right to set a chronological feed by default - one of the first EU cases applying the DSA in civil proceedings.
To unpack what this means, I spoke with @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social:
www.techpolicy.press/what-a-dutch...
To unpack what this means, I spoke with @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social:
www.techpolicy.press/what-a-dutch...
What a Dutch Court Ruling Against Meta Signals for Private DSA Enforcement | TechPolicy.Press
Tech Policy Press spoke with Rejo Zenger, Policy and Advocacy Lead at Bits of Freedom, to better understand the significance of the ruling.
www.techpolicy.press
October 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Last week, a Dutch court ordered Meta to give Facebook & Instagram users the right to set a chronological feed by default - one of the first EU cases applying the DSA in civil proceedings.
To unpack what this means, I spoke with @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social:
www.techpolicy.press/what-a-dutch...
To unpack what this means, I spoke with @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social:
www.techpolicy.press/what-a-dutch...