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Everyone from Sam Altman to Abdul El-Sayed have called for treating AI as a public utility.
But what would this mean? One the country's leading experts in public utility regulation breaks it down. 👇
Today, @GaneshSitaraman offers a primer on how to think about public utility regulation and its tools—and how to apply them to different parts of the AI tech stack.
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Today, Zohra Ahmed and Brishen Rogers, co-chairs of the ALPE, share some exciting updates from the association.
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Today, @GaneshSitaraman offers a primer on how to think about public utility regulation and its tools—and how to apply them to different parts of the AI tech stack.
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People sometimes say AI is or should be governed as a public utility. What does that mean?
I've spent a lot of time over the last decade studying public utility regulation, historically and across sectors.
Here's my primer on how to think about it. vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.…
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Today, @GaneshSitaraman offers a primer on how to think about public utility regulation and its tools—and how to apply them to different parts of the AI tech stack.
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Weekly Roundup: Omer Ein-Habar on the original sewer socialists, Ioannis Kampourakis on law as a produce force, and Yochai Benkler on the legal transformation of capitalism.
Plus, a junior faculty forum, a call for book reviews, democracy's death by consultancy, and more!
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Today, Yochai Benkler continues our symposium on Katharina Pistor's *The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform it.*
To design the right program for capitalism’s legal transformation, he argues, we must begin with the right theory of capitalism.
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New from @asad09, a menu of how to think about taxing AI -- a must read!
From city councils to Congress, there’s a growing desire to tax AI, but policymakers don’t always know their options. My new paper outlines 34 ways to tax AI across data centers, chips, data, AI cos. & products, automation & general tax reforms. vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.…
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Always a good day when the Blog features rival interpretations of the enclosure of the English commons.
Today, Yochai Benkler continues our symposium on Katharina Pistor's *The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform it.*
To design the right program for capitalism’s legal transformation, he argues, we must begin with the right theory of capitalism.
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"placing hope in lawyers as agents of social change is to a significant extent misplaced, as it fails to account for how their agency is itself constituted and constrained by structures in which historically sedimented relations of production and power are already inscribed"
Today, Ioannis Kampourakis considers what follows, politically, from the idea that law is constitutive of capitalism.
What theories of social change does this view make available, where does it locate political agency, and what kinds of political energies might it unleash?
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Today, Ioannis Kampourakis considers what follows, politically, from the idea that law is constitutive of capitalism.
What theories of social change does this view make available, where does it locate political agency, and what kinds of political energies might it unleash?
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Today, Ioannis Kampourakis considers what follows, politically, from the idea that law is constitutive of capitalism.
What theories of social change does this view make available, where does it locate political agency, and what kinds of political energies might it unleash?
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The latest entry in our series on Katharina Pistor's recent book, *The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It.*
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