Chinmayi Sharma
@chinmayisharma.bsky.social
sometimes smart, always caffeinated.
Twenty-five years after the war on terror began, the United States still hasn’t grappled with its legacy of torture or the law that enabled it. @nkorpett.bsky.social explains why criminal and civil law (mostly) failed to hold torturers accountable and why that failure matters.
9/11’s Legacy of Torture
Twenty-five years after the war on terror began, the United States still hasn’t grappled with its legacy of torture—or the law that enabled it.
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Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social)—whose research focuses on artificial intelligence—weighs in on what high-profile researcher resignations reveal about AI safety concerns and market acceleration. via Fast Company (@fastcompany.com)
AI workers who publicly quit 'help to move the needle' with safety concerns, experts say
'People are beginning to actually listen' to the technology’s dangers as more AI leaders and researchers openly sound alarms.
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In this Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) article, Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) writes about what she feels current debate around open-weight models keeps missing.
Open-Weight Diplomacy: How China’s AI Models Are Rerunning the Digital Silk Road
China's “free” AI models are rerunning Huawei’s telecom playbook: Give the weights away, sell the stack around it, own the dependency.
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On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) examines the long-term consequences of post-tragedy national security policy. via Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org)
Ordinary Origins: How 9/11 Built Today's Immigration Enforcement Machine
Post-9/11 data-sharing systems built for security quietly became the infrastructure for today’s automated immigration enforcement.
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Sept. 11, 2001 recast immigration as a national security problem and a national security problem invites an intelligence solution: more data, more sources, and fewer barriers. @chinmayisharma.bsky.social traces how post-9/11 data-sharing policies have enabled today's immigration enforcement system.
Ordinary Origins: How 9/11 Built Today's Immigration Enforcement Machine
Post-9/11 data-sharing systems built for security quietly became the infrastructure for today’s automated immigration enforcement.
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For the 25th anniversary of 9/11, I wrote for @lawfaremedia.org about how ordinary post-9/11 choices—more data-sharing, surveillance, power—helped recast immigration as national security and built machinery that can now be used for things it was not meant for. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ordi...
Ordinary Origins: How 9/11 Built Today's Immigration Enforcement Machine
Post-9/11 data-sharing systems built for security quietly became the infrastructure for today’s automated immigration enforcement.
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Congrats to Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social), who’s been named to the National Law Review and Wickard’s Top 50 Legal Innovators in Academia for her work designing a law & tech competition. 📝 : https://natlawreview.com/article/2026-top-50-legal-innovators-academia
Despite the U.S.’s attempts to undercut its position, Huawei, China’s telecom giant, remains the world’s largest telecom equipment vendor. @chinmayisharma.bsky.social explains what the U.S. should do if it wants to avoid a similar result in the AI sphere.
Open-Weight Diplomacy: How China’s AI Models Are Rerunning the Digital Silk Road
China's “free” AI models are rerunning Huawei’s telecom playbook: Give the weights away, sell the stack around it, own the dependency.
lawfaremedia.org
Hear, hear! Appreciate the endorsement of my work with @chinmayisharma.bsky.social & @samadler.bsky.social in “Brokering Safety.”
Frank Pasquale@frankpasquale.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe need "a techno-legal system that would enable victims to obscure their information across all data brokers with a single request, redistributing the burden away from victims and onto brokers." static1.squarespace.com/static/640d6...
Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social)—whose research focuses on artificial intelligence—spoke with the Philadelphia Inquirer (@inquirer.com) about the diligence required to check AI-generated work.
How more than 3,000 Pennsylvania state government employees are using AI at work
In 2024, Pennsylvania became the first state in the nation to enter into an agreement with OpenAI. State officials stress that the AI tools improve efficiency without cutting jobs.
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We need "a techno-legal system that would enable victims to obscure their information across all data brokers with a single request, redistributing the burden away from victims and onto brokers." static1.squarespace.com/static/640d6...
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"Brokering Safety" by Chinmayi Sharma, Thomas E. Kadri and Sam Adler "Enable victims to obscure their information across all data brokers with a single request." Yes, yes. A thousand times yes! @chinmayisharma.bsky.social @thomaskadri.bsky.social @samadler.bsky.social
Frank Pasquale@frankpasquale.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe need "a techno-legal system that would enable victims to obscure their information across all data brokers with a single request, redistributing the burden away from victims and onto brokers." static1.squarespace.com/static/640d6...
AI harm, accountability, and cybersecurity with Professor @chinmayisharma.bsky.social of @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social | The Ballpark podcast blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
AI harm, accountability, and cybersecurity with Professor Chinmayi Sharma | The Ballpark podcast | LSE United States Politics and Policy
AI has become easily accessible, easy to use, and for many people, it’s a useful tool. This means that AI is being used by individuals and institutions to help solve a variety of challenges, from ever...
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Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) spoke with The Verge (@theverge.com) about open-weight AI models—including China's new models that "allegedly beat some of the best systems built by U.S. companies at a fraction of the cost."
The AI giants’ new problem: open AI
Chinese labs like Moonshot are forcing OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to rethink what they lock away.
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You opened a credit card. ICE now knows where you live. Here's how when you open a credit card your address leaves your bank, goes through middlemen companies, and ends up with ICE. ICE plans to use this data for immigration and 'voter fraud'. No warrant More: www.404media.co/you-opened-a...
In a Washington University Law Review (@washulawreview.bsky.social) article, Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) argues that harmful artificial intelligence should be addressed by professionalizing AI engineering. via The Regulatory Review (@theregreview.bsky.social)
Regulating AI Companions | The Regulatory Review
Scholars examine how regulators should respond to risks posed by AI companions.
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Fordham Law Prof. Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) has joined UNESCO’s AI Ethics Experts without Borders Network, a global community of 152 professionals working to advance the ethical governance of AI. Her work focuses on open source, AI, cybersecurity, & tech regulation and liability.
Brokering Safety is really good. I'm grateful that I could get a chance to engage it so closely. Thanks @thomaskadri.bsky.social @chinmayisharma.bsky.social & @samadler.bsky.social for writing it.
Thomas Kadri@thomaskadri.bsky.social · 4mo agoThen, in “The One-Stop-Shop Is One Step in the Right Direction,” @oliviersylvain.bsky.social contends that our “timely and useful” proposal “would align legal responsibility with economic power” and “be an important step in the right direction.” www.californialawreview.org/online/one-s...
Honored and a little starstruck by three essays just published in the California Law Review (@califlrev.bsky.social), responding to “Brokering Safety” (my recent article with @chinmayisharma.bsky.social & @samadler.bsky.social). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Brokering Safety
For victims of abuse, safety means hiding. Not just hiding themselves, but also hiding their contact details, their address, their workplace, their roommates, a
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Palantir's ImmigrationOS poses serious threats to democratic governance & the rule of law, according to a new legal analysis by Fordham Law Prof. Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) & recent grad Sam Adler '26 JD (@samadler.bsky.social). via Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social)
Why Palantir's ImmigrationOS Endangers Democracy and the Rule of Law
A conversation with Fordham Law School's Chinmayi Sharma and Sam Adler, authors of a new law review article, "Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries."
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Headline-generating artificial intelligence (AI) hallucinations in the legal industry have some questioning whether carriers who insure lawyers may be looking to change future liability policies. Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) spoke with Law.com about the matter.
Rising AI Mistakes in Legal Pose Quandary for Law Firms' Insurance Policies | Law.com
Headline-generating AI hallucinations in the legal industry have some questioning whether carriers who insure lawyers may be looking to change future liability policies.
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A forthcoming law review article written by Fordham Law Prof. Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) & Sam Adler '26 (@samadler.bsky.social) was cited by the BC General Employees' Union. Read the proposal: https://investors.thomsonreuters.com/static-files/d347f0e8-ac45-4955-9efb-72d5572da769
@chinmayisharma.bsky.social , @thomaskadri.bsky.social, and @samadler.bsky.social propose a new system of regulating data brokers when it comes to their impacts on victims of abuse and stalking.
The Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP) has welcomed 12 new members to the Global Academic Network—including Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social). These members are leading experts in AI law and policy & will provide advice to CAIDP across its program activities.
Huge thanks to everyone who has reached out so far about the state court access map! I'm hoping to work through updates later today. Got an idea for another tool or data visualization of some kind that you wish existed? DM me or email tylermcbrien [at] protonmail [dot] to get in touch.
Tyler McBrien@tylermcbrien.com · 5mo ago🚨 NEW TOOL for U.S. legal journalists ⚖️ I turned @allyjar.bsky.social's incredible crowdsourced Google doc on accessing state court records into an interactive map. Check it out and let me know about any errors, missing information, or ways I can improve this thing (link below)
Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) sits down with Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) Managing Editor Tyler McBrien (@tylermcbrien.com) to discuss her forthcoming law review article and the U.S. federal government’s privatized and automated system of immigration enforcement.
Lawfare Daily: The Dangers of Privatized, Automated Immigration Enforcement
A discussion of the U.S. federal government’s increasingly privatized and automated system of immigration enforcement.
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Fordham Law Prof. Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) discusses her new Article, "Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries" (co-authored with student Sam Adler '26 JD, @samadler.bsky.social), with Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social)'s Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social).
Why Palantir's ImmigrationOS Endangers Democracy and the Rule of Law
A conversation with Fordham Law School's Chinmayi Sharma and Sam Adler, authors of a new law review article, "Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries."
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As adoption of AI becomes more widespread, Cullen O'Keefe, @alanrozenshtein.com, and Christopher Winter explore the risks to the rule of law from the use of frontier AI in the executive branch and to ensure any ExecAI safeguards foundational rights and liberties.
Executive Branch AI and the Rule of Law: An Emerging Research Agenda
Sooner or later, in this administration or a future one, AI will come for the federal workforce.
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This is a great convo w/ @chinmayisharma.bsky.social about how DHS’s vendor-mediated surveillance infrastructure threatens civil liberties and democratic accountability. Check out her insightful paper with @samadler.bsky.social for more, incl. how states can counter harms: ssrn.com/abstract=634...
Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries
Fingerprints, facial recognition scans, genetic data, social media content, benefits documentation and more fuel the federal government's new immigration enforc
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Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org · 5mo agoOn Lawfare Daily, @tylermcbrien.com spoke to @chinmayisharma.bsky.social about her forthcoming law review article, “Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries," which discusses the U.S. federal government’s increasingly privatized and automated system of immigration enforcement. youtu.be/WSM943XOcZ8
