Watch Daniel Solove’s discussion with Cory Doctorow about AI. Doctorow coined the term “enshittification” to describe how many tech services are deliberately degraded over time, providing less to the user and extracting more for companies. In his latest book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI, Doctorow argues that with tech and AI tools, we […]
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The Absurd Discourse of AI
Originally Posted on Substack Here are some darkly satirical snippets of discourse about AI, though these days the distinction between reality and satire has almost completely dissolved.
The FTC on Privacy and AI – Video
Watch Daniel Solove’s discussion with D. Reed Freeman (ArentFox Schiff) about the FTC’s current enforcement actions and future direction.
Privacy, AI, and Tech Works Worth Your Attention – August 2026 Edition
Originally posted on Substack I’ve curated a list of recent works on privacy, AI, and tech that will be worth your time checking out. Authors included: Orin Kerr David Sella-Villa Susan Tanner Tonja Jacobi Elyse Ackermann Cory Doctorow Christina Lee Nel Escher Nikola Banovic Ben Green Najarian Peters Danielle Keats Citron Spencer Overton Ari Ezra […]
AI’s Tax on Society
Originally Posted on Substack There is recent talk about taxing AI, which is probably a non-starter with policymakers adverse to doing anything to stand in the way of tech companies. But the tax idea isn’t totally crazy because AI these days is, for all practical purposes, a major tax on society. Although AI has many […]
Privacy, AI, and Tech Works Worth Your Attention
Originally posted on Substack I’ve curated a list of recent works on privacy, AI, and tech that will be worth your time checking out. Authors included: Graham Greenleaf Ella Corren Cindy Cohn Andrew Guthrie Ferguson Alicia Solow-Niederman Laura Moy Mark P. McKenna Woodrow Hartzog Maria P. Angel Christina Lee Zina Makar Elettra Bietti Peter Ormerod
Cartoon: AI Rebranding
Originally posted on Substack Here’s a new cartoon about the AI hype these days. It seems that everything involving data or an algorithm is being rebranded as AI. A while ago, I wrote about how AI is, in fact, a rebrand—one I analogized to the way fish were rebranded.
Cartoon: AI Soul Selling
Originally posted on Substack I created this cartoon about the profound ugliness of the AI race. Tech leaders are rushing to create AI and are unleashing it upon the world far too quickly with far too few guardrails and far too little responsibility.
AI Magazine Covers Throughout the Decades
Originally posted on Substack I previously posted my collection of privacy magazine covers. Here’s my collection of magazine covers involving AI, the internet, and related digital technologies. I collected more than 80 magazine covers from the 1950s to the present. I’m excited to share my collection with you. If you have any covers I’ve missed, please share […]
Privacy, AI, and Tech Works Worth Your Attention
Originally posted on Substack I’ve curated a list of recent works on privacy, AI, and tech that will be worth your time checking out. As I’m just launching this series, I have a backlog of recent works that I plan to include in future editions.