Category: Gordon Hull
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In a recent piece on Lawfare, Simon Goldstein and Peter N. Salib make the case that AI with cooperation is better than attempting some sort of AI race, unlike what virtually all of the relevant policymakers in the US advocate. Thus, in response to the Chinese DeepSeek model, US policymakers are doubling down on the…
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By Gordon Hull I’ve been pursuing (first, second) what it means for standing law – basically, the determination that someone has a case that can be addressed by an Article III court – to require that plaintiffs show an “injury in fact,” a requirement that emerged suddenly in the Supreme Court’s Data Processing decision in…
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By Gordon Hull Privacy plaintiffs have a hard time getting their cases heard in court for a variety of reasons. One of them is that courts lack a coherent and workable understanding of what privacy harms actually are, and how one might articulate them judicially. This problem bleeds into one of standing, which is what…
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Here's the current draft of a new paper – "Translating Privacy for Data Subjects." And here's the abstract: This essay offers a theoretical account of one reason that current privacy regulation fails. I argue that existing privacy laws inherit a focus on judicial subjects, using language about torts and abstract rights. Current threats to privacy,…
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In the past few weeks, I’ve gotten more than the usual number of data breach notifications. Especially from entities that I’d never heard of before the notification. This points to a specific incentives gap in privacy policy. In most places, when there’s a data breach, you have to be notified. This creates an incentive structure…
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Several folks have explored how algorithmic systems can perpetuate epistemic injustice (my contribution is here). Those accounts have also generally been specific to supervised systems, as for example those involved in object or image recognition. For example, I heavily relied on ImageNet and related systems in my paper. At the same time, I’ve vaguely thought…
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This is my paper from SPEP 2023; it's an effort to get my head around my sense that epistemic injustice and Foucault can be productively used in similar contexts, despite Fricker's dismissal of Foucault. The paper is here; here's the abstract: Relatively little work brings together Foucault and epistemic injustice. This article works through Miranda…
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By Gordon Hull In a fascinating new paper up on arxiv.org, Fabian Offert, Paul Kim, Qiaoyu Cai start with the observation that both AlphaFold and ChatGPT are transformer architectures, and that for proponents there is frequently a significant sense in which “it is the language-ness of proteins (and of language) … that renders the transformer…
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By Gordon Hull There’s a fascinating new paper by Thilo Hagendorff that addresses this question. The basic setup is that there’s research indicating LLMs are getting better at attributing unobserved mental states to people – such as, for example, that an interlocutor possesses a false belief. Could LLMs use this awareness that others can have…
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By Gordon Hull Last time, I looked at the Lawrence Tribe article that was the original source of the blue bus thought experiment. Tribe’s article is notable for its defense of legal reasoning and processes against the introduction of statistical evidence in trials. He particularly emphasizes the need for legal proceedings to advance causal accounts,…
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