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Siri-Ously 2.0: What Artificial Intelligence Reveals About The First Amendment, Toni M. Massaro, Helen Norton, Margot E. Kaminski
Siri-Ously 2.0: What Artificial Intelligence Reveals About The First Amendment, Toni M. Massaro, Helen Norton, Margot E. Kaminski
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The First Amendment may protect speech by strong Artificial Intelligence (AI). In this Article, we support this provocative claim by expanding on earlier work, addressing significant concerns and challenges, and suggesting potential paths forward.
This is not a claim about the state of technology. Whether strong AI — as-yet-hypothetical machines that can actually think — will ever come to exist remains far from clear. It is instead a claim that discussing AI speech sheds light on key features of prevailing First Amendment doctrine and theory, including the surprising lack of humanness at its core.
Courts and commentators wrestling with free …
Siri-Ously? Free Speech Rights And Artificial Intelligence, Toni M. Massaro, Helen Norton
Siri-Ously? Free Speech Rights And Artificial Intelligence, Toni M. Massaro, Helen Norton
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Computers with communicative artificial intelligence (AI) are pushing First Amendment theory and doctrine in profound and novel ways. They are becoming increasingly self-directed and corporal in ways that may one day make it difficult to call the communication ours versus theirs. This, in turn, invites questions about whether the First Amendment ever will (or ever should) cover AI speech or speakers even absent a locatable and accountable human creator. In this Article, we explain why current free speech theory and doctrine pose surprisingly few barriers to this counterintuitive result; their elasticity suggests that speaker humanness no longer may be …
A Few Thoughts On Free Speech Constitutionalism, Helen Norton
A Few Thoughts On Free Speech Constitutionalism, Helen Norton
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State Constitutional Interpretation And Methodology, Rachel A. Van Cleave
State Constitutional Interpretation And Methodology, Rachel A. Van Cleave
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The question of constitutional theory in state courts often results in a comparative analysis of the state and federal constitutions. Typically where a comparative analysis is used, the purpose is to support the authority of the state court to interpret the state document independently and to justify an interpretation and result that diverge from federal precedent. While this approach may add to the persuasiveness of the opinion, it does little to advance the role of state courts in the dialogue of constitutionalism. The critical tension in state constitutionalism is between the need to persuade critics that the state court is …
Cases Versus Theory, Richard B. Collins
Authorizing Interpretation, Pierre Schlag
Progress And Constitutionalism, Robert F. Nagel
What's Quality Got To Do With It?: Constitutional Theory, Politics, And Education Reform, Phil Weiser
What's Quality Got To Do With It?: Constitutional Theory, Politics, And Education Reform, Phil Weiser
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A Heterodox Catechism, Paul Campos
Three Mistakes About Interpretation, Paul Campos
A Mirror For The Magistrate, Paul Campos
Against Constitutional Theory, Paul Campos
Cannibal Moves: An Essay On The Metamorphoses Of The Legal Distinction, Pierre Schlag
Cannibal Moves: An Essay On The Metamorphoses Of The Legal Distinction, Pierre Schlag
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