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Artificial Intelligence

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  • ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 6

    Safe Social Spaces

    Technologies that mediate social interaction can put our privacy and our safety at risk. Harassment, intimate partner violence and surveillance, data insecurity, and revenge…

  • ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 6

    The Consent Myth: Improving Choice for Patients of The Future

    Consent has enjoyed a prominent position in the American privacy system since at least 1970, though historically, consent emerged from traditional notions of tort…

  • CommentaryVol. 96 · Iss. 5

    Who Wrote This?: Modern Forensic Authorship Analysis as a Model for Valid Forensic Science

    Law needs forensic science in order to assist judges and juries in accurate fact-finding. But law also needs a dependable way to distinguish between…

  • CommentaryVol. 96 · Iss. 3

    Algorithmic Risk Assessments and the Double-Edged Sword of Youth

    Risk assessment algorithms—statistical formulas that predict the likelihood a person will commit crime in the future—are used across the country to help make life-altering…

  • NoteVol. 92 · Iss. 5

    The Black Box Solution to Autonomous Liability

    Autonomous vehicles, or self-driving cars, have the potential to revolutionize modern transportation through increased productivity and safety. Today, industry leaders in both automotive manufacturing…

  • CommentaryVol. 97 · Iss. 3

    Robotic Collective Memory

    The various ways in which robots and AI will affect our future society are at the center of scholarly attention. This Commentary, conversely, concentrates…

  • ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 2

    Technologically Distorted Conceptions of Punishment

    Much recent work in academic literature and policy discussions suggests that the proliferation of actuarial—meaning statistical—assessments of a defendant’s recidivism risk in state sentencing…

  • ArticleVol. 98 · Iss. 2

    Sex, Causation, and Algorithms: How Equal Protection Prohibits Compounding Prior Injustice

    U.S. constitutional law prohibits the use of sex as a proxy for other traits in most instances. For example, the Virginia Military Institute (VMI)…