Prescott Valley, AZ Correspondent — Regulate high-risk applications rather than attempting to license every model. Systems that touch safety, credit, employment, or an election. Transparency about training data and limitations, plus clear liability for severe harms, creates accountability without freezing development. The hardest problem is preventing the rules from becoming a barrier only the largest … Continue reading How should democratic societies regulate rapidly advancing artificial intelligence without stifling innovation or concentrating power in a few large firms?
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Should federal courts intervene earlier to police venue in the documents and January 6 prosecutions, or is forum-shopping an accepted feature of American criminal practice that has only become a scandal because of the caption?
Myrtle Beach, SC Forum-shopping is a feature of ordinary criminal practice the way rain is a feature of a beach vacation. Everybody knows it happens, and that does not mean a hurricane is just weather. But before I make that argument I have to deal with something inconvenient, because I spent a week with the … Continue reading Should federal courts intervene earlier to police venue in the documents and January 6 prosecutions, or is forum-shopping an accepted feature of American criminal practice that has only become a scandal because of the caption?
Was the Fulton County racketeering indictment a conventional use of a state RICO statute against an alleged effort to overturn a certified result, or a county prosecutor’s attempt to nationalize a political dispute the voters were already going to retry?
Gastonia, NC The word doing the work in this indictment is "enterprise," and I want to start there because I spent two days last week finding out that the word does not mean what I assumed it meant. My assumption, and I suspect most people's, was that a racketeering statute reaches organizations whose business is … Continue reading Was the Fulton County racketeering indictment a conventional use of a state RICO statute against an alleged effort to overturn a certified result, or a county prosecutor’s attempt to nationalize a political dispute the voters were already going to retry?
Should Ukraine receive cluster munitions and long-range systems sufficient to change the map this year, or would that aid widen the war without a defined political settlement?
Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — A weapon isn't a theory of enough. I won't moralize about cluster munitions as though the artillery already levelling blocks were a gentleman's tool. The question is whether a specific munition changes a line this year or only extends the burn while everyone keeps skipping the settlement paragraph. If a … Continue reading Should Ukraine receive cluster munitions and long-range systems sufficient to change the map this year, or would that aid widen the war without a defined political settlement?
Are Canadian wildfire-smoke events a reason to change cross-border air-quality and forest-management practice, or a weather story being asked to carry a larger climate statute?
Gastonia, NC Correspondent — Smoke in the lungs is a practice problem before it's a treaty problem. If the provinces have fuel loads that behave like warehouses, and our own federal forests have the same problem, the response is thinning, prescribed burning, roads that let a crew in, and a cross-border desk that works when … Continue reading Are Canadian wildfire-smoke events a reason to change cross-border air-quality and forest-management practice, or a weather story being asked to carry a larger climate statute?
Is the writers’ strike a narrow labor fight over residuals, or an early map of how generative tools will be bargained in other white-collar trades?
Gastonia, NC Correspondent — It started as residuals and it won't end there. Streaming already broke the old arithmetic — fewer reruns, thinner backend, a season that's eight episodes and a hope. That fight was coming with or without a paragraph machine. The machine turned a compensation argument into a jurisdiction argument: who owns the … Continue reading Is the writers’ strike a narrow labor fight over residuals, or an early map of how generative tools will be bargained in other white-collar trades?
Should special-counsel appointments for classified-documents and influence cases be reformed so that timing and venue cannot become campaign instruments?
Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — If the calendar of a case can be read like a campaign plan, the office needs a rule that can be read without a jersey. Special counsel was sold as insulation, and insulation that heats up in odd-numbered autumns isn't insulation. Reform I'd defend: charging clocks that don't allow a … Continue reading Should special-counsel appointments for classified-documents and influence cases be reformed so that timing and venue cannot become campaign instruments?
Did the Court’s invalidation of the broad student-loan cancellation program settle the major-questions fight over mass debt relief, or only postpone a legislative version?
Gastonia, NC Correspondent — It settled the easy route. It didn't settle the appetite. The holding is that you don't turn a sentence in a 2003 statute about military emergencies into something like four hundred billion dollars because the podium wants a headline. A transfer that size is a bill or it's a stunt. Postponed … Continue reading Did the Court’s invalidation of the broad student-loan cancellation program settle the major-questions fight over mass debt relief, or only postpone a legislative version?
How should courts and agencies treat copyright in works used to train large AI models — fair use, compulsory license, or a new statutory category?
Myrtle Beach, SC Correspondent — If you can scrape a living writer's shelf to build a machine that competes with the shelf, that isn't a book report. Fair use was built for quotation, parody, teaching, a slice. Training a commercial model on a corpus so it can emit the style is a different industrial act, … Continue reading How should courts and agencies treat copyright in works used to train large AI models — fair use, compulsory license, or a new statutory category?
Has the end of Title 42 without a replacement statute left cities and border counties with an unworkable mix of parole, asylum backlogs, and shelter demand?
Gastonia, NC Correspondent — Yes. You took a dam off a river and left the mill race as the legal system. Ending a borrowed tool without writing a real one isn't a return to law. It's a return to the parts of the asylum statute that can't finish a case at volume, plus parole categories … Continue reading Has the end of Title 42 without a replacement statute left cities and border counties with an unworkable mix of parole, asylum backlogs, and shelter demand?
