Ignacio Cofone
@ignaciocofone.bsky.social
Prof of Law & Regulation of AI at @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk. Fellow @reubencollege.bsky.social. Book: "The Privacy Fallacy" (2023). Likes tech, dogs, and sustainable industrial policy
Some implications: privacy risks include both leakage and group-based inferences; data quality depends on valid assumptions; competition effects vary by type. Regulators should check the ground-truth claims that synthetic data encodes when differentiating among types
October 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Some implications: privacy risks include both leakage and group-based inferences; data quality depends on valid assumptions; competition effects vary by type. Regulators should check the ground-truth claims that synthetic data encodes when differentiating among types
Ground-truth taxonomy based on G&L: (1) transformed data modifies collected data for an end use; (2) augmented data adds to collected data from modeled structure often to improve fidelity; (3) simulated data is generated from background models rather than records
October 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Ground-truth taxonomy based on G&L: (1) transformed data modifies collected data for an end use; (2) augmented data adds to collected data from modeled structure often to improve fidelity; (3) simulated data is generated from background models rather than records
As other recent news of death by suicide, this shows CSR in AI requires building products that avoid fostering addiction and are less parasocial. Reducing sycophancy and downplaying the illusion of personality mitigates risks of unhealthy AI reliance
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Opinion: Don’t hate ChatGPT-5. Your chatbot is not your friend
The reaction to OpenAI’s new GPT-5 system shows the risks of making a chatbot too humanlike
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August 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
As other recent news of death by suicide, this shows CSR in AI requires building products that avoid fostering addiction and are less parasocial. Reducing sycophancy and downplaying the illusion of personality mitigates risks of unhealthy AI reliance
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Reposted by Ignacio Cofone
I often think of this intentional stylistic choice as the opposite of Madeleine Elish’s “moral crumple zone” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Moral Crumple Zones: Cautionary Tales in Human-Robot Interaction (pre-print)
As debates about the policy and ethical implications of AI systems grow, it will be increasingly important to accurately locate who is responsible when agency i
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July 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I often think of this intentional stylistic choice as the opposite of Madeleine Elish’s “moral crumple zone” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
D’Souza highlights something key: AI makes new inferences that amplify harms we can’t meaningfully consent to or control. So “navigating the artificially intelligent world of the near future”, as he puts it, is a call for new forms of accountability digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/cjlt/vol22/i...
<i>The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy</i> by Ignacio Cofone
‘‘Our privacy is besieged by tech companies,”1 laments Ignacio Cofone, Law Professor and privacy aficionado, in The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy. In an enlightening yet h...
digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca
July 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
D’Souza highlights something key: AI makes new inferences that amplify harms we can’t meaningfully consent to or control. So “navigating the artificially intelligent world of the near future”, as he puts it, is a call for new forms of accountability digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/cjlt/vol22/i...
CDS highlights something crucial: AI makes new types of inferences that amplify harms we can’t meaningfully consent to or control. “Navigating the artificially intelligent world of the near future”, as he puts it, is a call for data accountability digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/cjlt/vol22/i...
<i>The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy</i> by Ignacio Cofone
‘‘Our privacy is besieged by tech companies,”1 laments Ignacio Cofone, Law Professor and privacy aficionado, in The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy. In an enlightening yet h...
digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca
July 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
CDS highlights something crucial: AI makes new types of inferences that amplify harms we can’t meaningfully consent to or control. “Navigating the artificially intelligent world of the near future”, as he puts it, is a call for data accountability digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/cjlt/vol22/i...