Author: nick

[ad_1] In response to my two-part series (1, 2) on what to do with AI-generated scholarship, my good friend and former colleague Daniel Solove writes in with a question/comment: What’s the difference between you here and a judge?  A judge directs legal opinions and puts their name on them, so aren’t they doing the same thing, just with a human writer vs. AI? Claude is just a law clerk. Fair questions.  I disagree, because I think the norms of authorship for legal opinions and scholarship are different. Judicial opinions are exercises of formal government power, and the fact that one…

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[ad_1] When Trump ordered the first wave of strikes in this ongoing war with Iran last month, he did so while his administration was engaged in active negotiations with the Iranian government. That echoed the situation last June when Israel launched a bombing campaign days after Trump scheduled new talks with Iran—a move Trump later claimed was a deliberate deception to help make the Israeli strikes more effective. This time around, in that first wave of strikes on February 28, American cruise missiles targeted and destroyed a building that ended up being a girls’ school—killing more than 168 young children who had just started their…

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