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Derechos Fundamentales E Inteligencia Artificial Constitutional Rights And Artificial Intelligence, Carlos L. Bernal Dec 2022

Derechos Fundamentales E Inteligencia Artificial Constitutional Rights And Artificial Intelligence, Carlos L. Bernal

School of Law Faculty Publications

En su artículo Computing Machinery and Intelligence, publicado en la revista Mind en 1950,1 Alan M. Turing se preguntó si, como los seres humanos, las máquinas podían pensar y comunicarse mediante lenguaje natural. Seis años después, John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Oliver Selfridge, Ray Solomonoff y Trenchard More celebraron un congreso en el Dartmouth College.2 Allí discutieron si las máquinas tenían capacidad de pensamiento, aprendizaje, razonamiento, y de búsqueda y adquisición de conocimiento. En aquel congreso se acuñó el término “inteligencia artificial” para referirse al despliegue de estas capacidades por parte de las máquinas.


First Amendment Contradictions And Pathologies In Discourse, Erica Goldberg Mar 2022

First Amendment Contradictions And Pathologies In Discourse, Erica Goldberg

School of Law Faculty Publications

A robust, principled application of the First Amendment produces contradictions that undermine the very justifications for free speech protections. Strong free speech protections are justified by the idea that rational, informed deliberation leads to peaceful decision-making, yet our marketplace of ideas is crowded with lies, reductive narratives, emotional appeals, and speech that leads to violence. Our current First Amendment model creates pathologies in discourse, which I term problems in speech quality and problems of speaker identity, that are exacerbated in our modern age of easy communication. The reason for these pathologies lies in the relationship between reason and emotion, both …


Deporting Jane Doe: When Immigrant Crime Victims Fall Through The Cracks Of The Law Designed To Protect Them, Ericka Curran Mar 2022

Deporting Jane Doe: When Immigrant Crime Victims Fall Through The Cracks Of The Law Designed To Protect Them, Ericka Curran

School of Law Faculty Publications

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Slavery And The History Of Congress’S Enumerated Powers, Jeffrey Schmitt Jan 2022

Slavery And The History Of Congress’S Enumerated Powers, Jeffrey Schmitt

School of Law Faculty Publications

In his first inaugural address, President Abraham Lincoln declared, “I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.” Like virtually all Americans before the Civil War, Lincoln believed in what historians call the “national consensus” on slavery. According to this consensus, Congress’s enumerated powers were not broad enough to justify any regulation of slavery within the states. Legal scholars who support the modern reach of federal powers have thus conventionally argued …