AI, Society, and Democracy: Just Relax | Vol. 30, No. 2
The author argues that law and regulation have never diagnosed and prevented social, political, and economic ills of new technology. AI is no different. AI regulation poses a greater threat…
Democracy 2.0 | Vol. 30, No. 2
The author highlights the potential for AI to power rather than usurp human intelligence, showing how AI can improve decision-making in government and scale the practice of democracy itself.
AI Meets the Cascade of Rigidity | Vol. 30, No. 2
Diminished state capacity leads to civic disengagement as governments remain risk-averse and fail to meet public service expectations. The author advocates for understanding bureaucratic constraints and using AI to build…
The Potential for AI to Restore Local Community Connectedness, The Bedrock of a Healthy Democracy | Vol. 30, No. 2
Digitally-mediated engagement serves as a foundation for larger societal goals, with AIenabled platforms accelerating the creation, curation, and consumption of information, reshaping public discourse. The authors emphasize the importance of…
Rediscovering the Pleasures of Pluralism: The Potential of Digitally Mediated Civic Participation | Vol. 30, No. 2
The authors explore how AI can foster new forms of civic engagement and direct democracy at both local and national levels. They propose designing digital infrastructure to enable collective decision-making…
A Vision of Democratic AI | Vol. 30, No. 2
The authors describe a set of scalable “alignment assemblies” that can be used to enable progress, safety, and participation in democracy in an AI-enabled future. They describe how the lessons…
Protected Democracy | Vol. 30, No. 2
The author explores the vulnerabilities in our democratic system that AI will affect. He advocates for “protected democratic deliberation,” akin to citizen assemblies, as a strategy to safeguard democracy in…
The Digitalist Papers—Introduction | Vol. 30, No. 2
The UCLA Journal of Law and Technology is proud to publish a reprinting of THE DIGITALIST PAPERS. Inspired by the Federalist Papers, THE DIGITALIST PAPERS series bridges domains and disciplines…
Patent Assertion Entities, Antitrust and Sham Litigation: Creating an Exception to the Noerr-Pennington Doctrine for PAEs | Vol. 30, No. 1
Patent assertion entities (PAEs) are major players in the contemporary patent litigation world. PAE patent litigation, which is defined by a high volume of lawsuits against the same or similar…