Nate Persily
@persily
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McClatchy Professor @StanfordLaw, Transparency bill: https://t.co/Vdu1BpzwQ0, Lectures: https://t.co/vHC6lPJVUb
Stanford Law School
Joined July 2009
Legal practice has seen a rise in products using AI. But large language models used in these tools are prone to “hallucinate,” or make up false information, making their use risky. Tomorrow, 1PM @StanfordLaw prof Daniel E. Ho joins @persily to discuss. https://t.co/EguvR1gW2Z
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For those interested in my office zoom background, ( ahem @ratemyskyperoom ) the Stanford Report has done a story of the political (and other) memorabilia that I have collected:
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The legal scholar’s office is a trove of artifacts of the democratic process, from the cartoon that inspired the term “Gerry-mandering” to the machine responsible for the infamous hanging chads.
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10/28, leading voices @flogsell, Senator @Scott_Wiener, @persily, @EUinSF and Janel Thamkul of Anthropic join us on campus to explore & debate various regulatory approaches to generative AI governance. Moderated by tech journalist @byjacobward. Join us! https://t.co/uP50yNQBj2
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Tomorrow, join host @persily w/ @HirokiHabuka_en & Tatsuhiko Inatani for a look at Japan's focus on enhancing human well-being through human-AI interaction. Register: https://t.co/rPrD973ClU
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Tomorrow at 1 PM Pacific, join @StanfordCyber and moderator @persily as we host @sbradshaww for her talk, Exporting Autocracy: How Foreign Influence Operations Shape Attitudes About Democracy. Join us: https://t.co/skRspTIymE
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Tomorrow, 1 PM Pacific, @daphnehk joins @persily to discuss major new rulings about platforms and online speech. Register to join us! 🔗 https://t.co/jJBxCNv5rF
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Join us tomorrow to hear @daphnehk discuss the recent Supreme Court decisions regarding Internet platforms. https://t.co/Ja8s58O8XO
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.@DigEconLab today launched The Digitalist Papers, a groundbreaking collection of essays exploring AI & digital technologies' impact on U.S. society and democracy, with work from experts in multiple fields—including @StanfordCyber co-director @persily. 🔗 https://t.co/m585tjUVl0
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If you're looking for another excellent @StanfordCSP course to take this fall, @persily is teaching "The Right to Vote and the Law of U.S. Democracy." ⚖️ Details and registration at the link in the post ↘️
I am teaching an online course this fall (Tuesday evenings) on "The Right to Vote and the Law of U.S. Democracy." Register here to enroll -- https://t.co/fj32QVribl
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I am teaching an online course this fall (Tuesday evenings) on "The Right to Vote and the Law of U.S. Democracy." Register here to enroll -- https://t.co/fj32QVribl
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Tomorrow we'll be joined by Professor @persily (@StanfordLaw) for a talk on "Misunderstanding AI’s Democracy Problem" Tuesday, September 10, 2024 - 12:10PM-1:30PM - SLB 128 DM for zoom details Cosponsored by @YJoLT
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2024 Supplement to The Law of Democracy Now Available
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The 2024 Supplement to our casebook contains new material on AI and democracy; the social-media cases the Court decided this Term; the cases implicating election-law issues involving former President...
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“AI panic is itself a democracy problem...But in the end, look, we’ve got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and God-like technology," notes @persily at a recent GETTING-Plurality conference Check out more takeaways from the convening ⤵️ https://t.co/kXqh16siq0
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From misinformation to AI panic, experts joined the Allen Lab’s GETTING-Plurality event to discuss the threats the burgeoning technology poses to democracy.
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“The basic rule for AI and democracy is that it amplifies the abilities of all good and bad actors in the system to achieve all the same goals they’ve always had." Read more from @persily on the affect AI could have on the 2024 elections. ↘️
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From misinformation to AI panic, experts joined the Allen Lab’s GETTING-Plurality event to discuss the threats the burgeoning technology poses to democracy.
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Today! Noon pacific, join @persily in conversation with @dswillner and @samidh for The Future of Content Moderation and its Implications for Governance. Details, and to register to join us by Zoom: https://t.co/g9zT2vF7oH
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When thinking about how AI technology will impact elections, @persily cautions that frameworks based on social media's effect on elections are not comparable to these new, emerging threats. Watch more of his conversation with @katieharbath ⏯️
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Join us in an hour.
Tomorrow noon pacific, member and co-rapporteur of the UN AI Advisory Body, @MarietjeSchaake will share highlights on the progress the body has made since last Fall, as well as the findings as shared in the Interim Report ‘Governing AI for Humanity’. 🔗 https://t.co/Dt4kWXuyYj
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The one and only Nathaniel Persily (@persily) from Stanford joins me on this week's Impossible Tradeoffs podcast to talk social media, artificial intelligence, the recent Supreme Court cases, and election administration. https://t.co/lcDOTeU7f9
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Our final Winter Seminar of 2024, with Spring Seminars beginning in April. Join us at noon pacific, with moderator @persily: https://t.co/9rnGAVJIgl
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