I had a great conversation with The Ballpark at LSE!

Please vote for our SXSW Panel: Thrive or Survive: Why Creativity is Key to an A.I. Future participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sx...

Please read @matthewbodie.bsky.social 's excellent review discussing my recent article published by the Yale Law Journal.

Hot off the press!: My new co-authored article in @NEJM with Glenn Cohen (Harvard Law) and Ravi Parikh (Emory Med) in which we discuss the risk of A.I. being used to surveil & "quantify" health care workers. nejm.org/doi/full/10.... #TheQuantifiedWorker @harvard.edu @emorylaw.bsky.social

Tired: required labeling of AI content that pretends to be real Wired: required labeling of real content that pretends to be AI arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/r...

Thanks for the shout-out! @womenknowlaw.bsky.social !

23andme recently filed for bankruptcy. What will happen to your genetic testing data?: www.npr.org/2025/03/24/n... I wrote about their genetic database in 2015: www.nytimes.com/roomfordebat... A 2018 case study: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... And paper on genetic testing at work: lnkd.in/gsb_-aj

Truly a pleasure presenting my book, The Quantified Worker, @uvalaw.bsky.social yesterday! An outstandingly engaged audience! Thank you to @daniellecitron.bsky.social for inviting me. Danielle, I cherish your mentorship and friendship. ❤️ And thanks also to Elizabeth Rowe for being so welcoming.

"AI technology appears to outperform humans. But a closer look reveals that these games are rigged. The competitions do not actually ask machines to perform human tasks; it’s more accurate to say that they ask humans to behave in machine-like ways as they perform lifeless simulacra of human tasks."

Twas the afternoon before the Thrower Symposium and all through the law school many creatures were scurrying to finalize preparations... As we settled in for a short winter nap (it'll be 70F in Atlanta today), we excitedly thought of "The Regulation of Digital Platforms and Addictive Technologies"

Happy MLK Day! Spent the day in service and community with others and it felt great. "Let us not be weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all..."

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Thursday was a recognized day of mourning @Emorylaw for President Carter who had a longstanding relationship with the law school including receiving an honorary degree. May he rest in perfect peace. 🙏

I recently saw someone write "A.i" and I want to deploy all scholars to adopt this stylization of the abbreviation for "artificial intelligence." I find it particularly apt (and accurately descriptive) at not making too much of the "intelligence" part....

Putting the final touches on my Law and Political Economy of A.I. syllabus for Spring 2025 - Please comment your articles that you think might be a good fit! Of course, @akapczynski.bsky.social et al's groundbreaking article, "Building a Law-and-Political-Economy Framework" tops the list!

Highly incisive: "More importantly, privacy essentialism often leads to law and policy that ignores important privacy problems and neglects serious privacy harms because they do not readily fit within the narrow boundaries of a particular conception of privacy."

I suspected this, as a non-expert on net neutrality. Sad to have it confirmed by the brilliant @genevievelakier.bsky.social !

An exciting symposium happening in February at @emorylaw.bsky.social

There is a LOT happening today BUT this...this is significant too. #netneutrality

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I enjoyed speaking with @luizajarovsky.bsky.social and a live audience about how business managers are deploying AI in the workplace and its effect on workers. Watch the video recording of our conversation below!

This entire thread by @jamellebouie.net is a perfect vindication of admin law scholars.

This ruling is wild: "Congress did not pass the Exchange Act for the purpose of maximizing shareholder wealth. It passed the Act to protect investors from fraud, manipulation, speculation, and anticompetitive exchange behavior. Firm performance has little to do with those objectives." Really?! 🤨

I think this comes dangerous close to nullifying the assumed priors necessary for the CDA Section 230 shield against liability for platforms...cc @daniellecitron.bsky.social

The definition of "employee" hinges on level of employer control. The contestants have their days planned for them, actions tightly controlled. They are not allowed communications with the outside world while in the pods. Also, they all have to drink from the same gold/brass wine cups...#loveisblind

Join me for an exciting chat today with @luizajarovsky.bsky.social at 12PM! We will chat about AI in the workplace and what business leaders need to know to empower worker creativity and well-being.

"Tis the Season....

Spotted this gorgeous Great Blue Heron at the Lullwater Preserve near Emory University during a walk there this weekend.

Question of the day! #AI and Bias.

Post four characters that describe your personality.

The #QuantifiedWorker IS the reality for many workers. #Boeing

➡️ My next live talk will happen next week (December 11, at 12pm ET/5pm UK)! I'll sit with @iajunwa.bsky.social and the topic is "AI in the Workplace: Protecting Workers." 🎬 Register and join us live: streamyard.com/watch/j79jFg...

I have a joke about caveat emptor but I'm not sure it works...

Speaking of which, we've already agreed that Die Hard is a Christmas movie, but what is a Thanksgiving move?? What did you watch this year (besides football or the Macy's day parade)?

If you see this, post a Knight. This is my favorite director Knight. I love all of M. Knight Shyamalan's cameos in his own movies. Also, Trapped, his latest movie was a fun, unpredictable ride.

Happy Thanksgiving y'all! Quick question: Did you make your Mac n' cheese with eggs? Do you only use one type of cheese or a combo?

When I signed the book contract for The Quantified Worker in 2018, AI was still considered fringe. Now, it's pervaded every sphere, not the least of which is the workplace. Join us on Dec 11 to talk about what workers should know about #Ai and the future of work and what the law should do to help.

Well said, @knightcolumbia.org !

Reason number 122 I like living in the south. #Boiledpeanuts This is controversial but I prefer my boiled peanuts WITHOUT the vinegar. All you need is water and salt set to a boil. This is a common street food in Africa but can only be found in the South in the U.S. Have you tried this snack?

Ai has a great potential to better medicine but we have to pay attention to the bias that may be baked into how we are training it. We have to get that right first! #nosacrificallambs

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Sociologist: First, we have to define what a cup is then, what is your positionality? Are you inside or outside the cup?

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Law professor: It depends....

LOL at people making starter packs labeled something like "people who I think are smart" or "experts on X" and there is not a single Black person on the list...👀

I was honored to receive a medal from @Emory last week in celebration of my endowed professorship! Many thanks to the Candler family for their philantrophy to @EmoryLaw!

My essay, AI, Afrofuturism, and Economic justice published by @GeorgetownLJin a symposium sponsored by @macfoundis a Top Ten download in two categories on ssrn.com (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) and is the result of a mentor's advice to pursue "tenure of the mind." I share these bars: 🧵1/

We, Julie Owono, myself, and Satwik Mishra of the Center for Trustworthy AI at @wef have proposed a panel discussing the "A.I. Arms Race" and global AI Governance for #SXSW2025 If you think we deserve to be heard at #SXSW, please vote for our panel here: panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/154559

Join me at Harvard Law School on Monday, Nov. 13th for a book talk of "The Quantified Worker" with Prof. Yochai Benkler & Prof. Sharon Block, hosted by Berkman Klein Center and The Petrie-Flom Center. The event is in person and on ZOOM. RSVP here: cyber.harvard.edu/events/quant...

Very excited to have co-organized with @BennettCapers and @EtienneT_Esq the first ever Afrofuturism and the Law symposium with @GeorgetownLJ on Nov. 10th, 2023. Thrilled that Prof. Patricia Williams accepted my invite to serve as our keynote speaker! We also have a wonderful line-up of panelists!

I'm excited to share this deeply insightful and eloquent review of my book, The Quantified Worker published in the International Labor Review! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

What a great honor to be the inaugural speaker for @digcivsociety lab @Stanford - I also got to sign copies of my book #TheQuantifiedWorker.