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Digital Dollar: Privacy And Transparency Dilemma, Jiaying Jiang Jan 2024

Digital Dollar: Privacy And Transparency Dilemma, Jiaying Jiang

UF Law Faculty Publications

Many have voiced concerns that a digital dollar, a digital form of central bank money, will facilitate government surveillance, thus depriving users of privacy. Contrary to popular belief, this Article investigates critical technical designs proposed by leading think tanks, central banks, and scholars from interdisciplinary fields, it reaches a surprising conclusion: a digital dollar can offer better privacy protection than existing digital payment systems. The Article argues that those expressing concerns have made two flawed assumptions: (1) that the digital dollar data is fully transparent regarding personal information and transaction details, and (2) that the government or the Federal Reserve …


Do Ais Dream Of Electric Boards?, Robert J. Rhee Jan 2024

Do Ais Dream Of Electric Boards?, Robert J. Rhee

UF Law Faculty Publications

When artificial intelligence (“AI”) acquires self-awareness, agency, and unique intelligence, it will attain ontological personhood. Management of firms by AI would be technologically and economically feasible. The law could confer AI with the status of legal personhood, as it did with the personhood of traditional business firms in the past, thus dispensing with the need for inserting AI as property within the legal boundary of a firm. As a separate and distinct entity, AI could function independently as a manager in the way that legal or natural persons do today: i.e., AI as director, officer, partner, member, or manager. Such …