Nate Persily
@persily.bsky.social
James B. McClatchy Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
The opposition to data centers in the election was remarkably bipartisan. Here is a graph of the voteshare in opposition to data centers and the Kamala Harris share of the two party vote in 2024. r=.18. Basically no relationship between party and data center opposition.
Join me on Thursday at 6 pm at the Commonwealth Club to discuss the upcoming elections. www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2026-...
Assessing the Threats to Voting Rights in the Midterm Elections
America’s election system faces unprecedented challenges as we approach the midterms. An electoral environment already upended by mid-decade gerrymandering and Supreme Court decisions undermining the ...
commonwealthclub.org
NY friends: please come to the NY launch of the Stanford AI Initiative on Monday. web.cvent.com/event/3eedbe...
The Draft Volume of the APSA AI Task Force, cochaired by Josh Tucker and me, is now available. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, POLITICS, AND POLITICAL SCIENCE will be published by Cambridge Press later this year, but the draft chapters are available today: apsanet.org/wp-content/u...
Join me on Tuesday at the Menlo School to discuss AI and democracy.... www.commongroundspeakerseries.org/current-seas...
AI & Democracy | Common Ground Speaker Series
Professor Nate Persily will share his thoughts on how AI will impact democracy. AI literacy curriculums teach students how to decipher hallucinations & deep fakes, how to distinguish fact from fiction...
commongroundspeakerseries.org
Did a short explainer on the Supreme Court's mail balloting case for the Newshour yesterday: www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Supreme Court hears mail-in ballot case that could impact the midterms
The Supreme Court heard a case that could reshape how millions of mail-in ballots are counted in this fall's elections. Some states count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day as long as they...
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For those interested in my office zoom background, the Stanford Report has done a story of the political (and other) memorabilia that I have collected: news.stanford.edu/stories/2024...
Nate Persily’s mini museum of election history
The legal scholar’s office is a trove of artifacts of the democratic process, from the cartoon that inspired the term “Gerry-mandering” to the machine responsible for the infamous hanging chads.
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Join us today in DC — global.georgetown.edu/events/artif...
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy
In this panel discussion, leading academic experts and senior professionals will discuss the level of peril, highlight the role of AI, and consider how it may affect the upcoming U.S. presidential ele...
global.georgetown.edu
The one and only @persily.bsky.social from Stanford joins me on this week's Impossible Tradeoffs podcast to talk social media, artificial intelligence, the recent Supreme Court cases, and election administration. anchorchange.substack.com/p/nate-persi...
Nate Persily on Elections, Social Media and AI
Don’t forget you can also watch these on YouTube! This week we welcome Stanford Law Professor Nate Persily to the podcast. I’ve known Nate since 2013/2014 when he held a gathering at Stanford with fol...
anchorchange.substack.com
Open AI just announced its policies for the 2024 elections: openai.com/blog/how-ope...
Tuesday, noon pacific we kick off our Winter Seminar Series. First up Anu Bradford of Columbia Law School joins @persily.bsky.social to talk about her book Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology. Register to join us: cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/events/digit...
In an effort to maintain the positive vibe on Bluesky, I will, for the first time, post a cat picture.
