Here’s a cartoon on AI predictions. With Hideyuki Matsumi, I have written quite critically of the use of AI algorithmic predictions for human behavior: The Prediction Society: Algorithms and the Problems of Forecasting the Future 2025 University of Illinois Law Review (forthcoming 2025) (with Hideyuki Matsumi)
Remember back in 2023, when AI company CEOs called for AI regulation? This cartoon is based on that call and what happened thereafter. In 2023, Open AI CEO Sam Altman testified before Congress about the need for AI regulation. A group of AI company leaders encouraged AI regulation in a closed-door Senate meeting. Elon Musk […]
We live today increasingly under the tyranny of algorithms. They rule over us. They shape what we say and how we interact with each other. They shape behavior. They affect whether people get jobs and other essential things in life. And algorithms kill people. Algorithms work behind the curtains, cloaked in secrecy, often unaccountable. Algorithmic […]
This year is the 20th anniversary of my first book, The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy In the Information Age (NYU Press 2004) (Amazon) (free digital copy on SSRN). I thought that it would be a great opportunity to engage in a reflection on some of the points I discussed in the book. Apologies for […]
Here’s a new cartoon on AI for Halloween.
My latest cartoon – about the AI craze these days. Want More Cartoons? Subscribe to Solove’s Free Newsletter * * * * Professor Daniel J. Solove is a law professor at George Washington University Law School. Through his company, TeachPrivacy, he has created the largest library of computer-based privacy and data security training, with more […]
I am excited to announce that my forthcoming book, ON PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY (Oxford University Press) is now available for pre-order. It will be in print in January 2025. From the book jacket: Succinct and eloquent, On Privacy and Technology is an essential primer on how to face the threats to privacy in today’s age of […]
In case you missed my recent webinar with Calli Schroeder and Brenda Leong, you can watch the replay here. We discussed the EU AI Act. What are the law’s strengths and weaknesses? Is it the best general approach to regulate AI?
One can learn a lot about AI from fish. The 1990s were a terrible time for the toothfish. An ugly fish inhabiting the deep seas, the toothfish (pictured above) was long considered a “trash fish,” undesirable to eat, a worthless catch. The toothfish’s fate was fine until overfishing decimated the stocks of the long-popular fish, […]
I’m posting a new article draft with Professor Woodrow Hartzog (BU Law), The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy. We argue that “scraping” – the automated extraction of large amounts of data from the internet – is in fundamental tension with privacy. Scraping is generally anathema to the core principles of privacy that […]