Trump v. CASA: The Case of Universal Injunctions
On the last day of the 2024-25, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Trump v. CASA, involving the validity of universal injunctions. By a 6-3 vote, the Court granted the Trump administration’s request to limit the availability of such injunctions in a case in which the plaintiffs challenged th…
Conspicuous Consumers: Sustainability in the Eye of the Beholder
Maggie Chon, Seattle University School of Law
Aaron Perzanowski, University of Michigan Law School
Jessica Silbey, Boston University School of Law
Anna Tischner, Jagiellonian University in Krakow
Rochelle Dreyfuss, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, NYU School of Law (moderator)
How AI Is Quietly Destroying Democracy (New Research)
In this episode, I break down Woodrow Hartzog and Jessica Silbey's paper "How AI Destroys Institutions" and explain why anyone who cares about knowledge, power, and culture needs to get involved in AI governance NOW.
KEY POINTS:
How AI undermines expertise through skill atrophy
Why AI removes huma…
#11 – Myths in IP Law (Jessica Silbey – Season 2 – Episode 5)
In this episode of IP Talks, guest is Professor Jessica Silbey, a leading U.S. scholar of intellectual property law, talks about how creativity and innovation actually work – and why intellectual property law often gets it wrong.
Drawing on her interdisciplinary background in law, lit…
Is AI a Death Sentence for Civic Institutions?, with Jessica Silbey and Woodrow Hartzog
Alan Rozenshtein, research director at Lawfare, spoke with Woodrow Hartzog, the Andrew R. Randall Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law, and Jessica Silbey, Professor of Law and Honorable Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law at Boston University School of Law, about their ne…
Considering How AI Destroys Democratic Institutions
Across the world, governments and other institutions are racing to apply artificial intelligence in countless ways. In a draft paper forthcoming in the UC Law Journal titled "How AI Destroys Institutions," Boston University law professors Woodrow Hartzog and Jessica Silbey argue that the design of …
33,000 Downloads: AI Destroys Institutions (Interview with Jessica Silbey)
Her co-authored paper went viral.
Its thesis: AI isn't just disrupting institutions — it's structurally incompatible with them. "A death sentence". Whew. Buckle up.
Jessica Silbey (BU Law, Guggenheim Fellow, Berkman Klein) came on Womansplaining AI to explain why efficiency is the enemy of …
Is AI Just Spicy Autocorrect?
This week we sit down with Dr. Karina Alexanyan, Founding Executive Director of the Positive Technology Institute, co-architect of The Pledge, and a Gen X social scientist immune to the "learn AI now or get left behind" panic. We get into AI enfranchisement (women having a real say in how these too…
I Do Not Have a Body
AI agents want your bank account and your home address. Meta's Muse took a lowball offer on a seller's keyboard and sent the buyer to his door. OpenAI named its agents Dots, and dot.com goes to Grok. And Anthropic wants to know what you want from AI.
Logan is calling in from a villa in Tuscany,…
AI Slop
Daniel Solove chats with Jessica Silbey (BU Law) and Woodrow Hartzog (BU Law) about their thought-provoking article, AI Slop.
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