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Jessica Silbey

@jessicasilbey.bsky.social

Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law, Associate Dean, Boston University School of Law https://www.bu.edu/law/profile/jessica-silbey/

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Rachit Dubey@rachitdubey.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

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Carys Craig@caryscraig.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My PhD supervisee, Xiang Zhang, did a lovely job writing up this year’s thought-provoking Grafstein Lecture by Jessica Silbey @jessicasilbey.bsky.social: “Copyright’s Edges and the Ethics of Expression in the Digital Age”. Read about it on the #IPOsgoode #IPilogue: www.yorku.ca/osgoode/ipos...

Copyright’s Edges and the Ethics of Expression in the Digital Age - IPOsgoode

Silbey’s central thesis is that contemporary copyright law is undergoing a gradual but profound transformation. Doctrines historically designed to facilitate the circulation of ideas and preserve the ...

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❤️OccupyOneLove❤️@occupyonelove.bsky.social · 5mo ago

👁️👂51m A must listen / watch podcast. Civic Institutions and AI Thank you @alanrozenshtein.com @jessicasilbey.bsky.social @hartzog.bsky.social @lawfaremedia.org & @scalinglaws.bsky.social #resist #AI #Vote #elections #epstein #iceout #nowars #datacenters #LoveOverHate #WWE

Scaling Laws@scalinglaws.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Are AI systems "a death sentence for civic institutions"? @alanrozenshtein.com talks with @hartzog.bsky.social and @jessicasilbey.bsky.social, who argue that AI's core design features threaten the rule of law, higher education, journalism, and democracy. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Walz: Minnesotans are witnessing, and we're creating a log of evidence for the future prosecution of ice agents and officials responsible for this.

Boston University School of Law@bulaw.bsky.social · last yr.

#BULawProf @jessicasilbey.bsky.social, @robertltsai.bsky.social, and @jedshug.bsky.social discuss SCOTUS' ruling limiting nationwide injunctions and its deferred decision on the constitutionality of the effort to end birthright citizenship. Read more ➡️ www.bu.edu/articles/202...

BU Legal Scholars Assess Supreme Court Ruling Limiting Nationwide Injunctions

Justices defer decision on the constitutionality of effort to end birthright citizenship

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Boston University School of Law@bulaw.bsky.social · last yr.

A sweet moment gone viral or an invasion of privacy #BULawProf @jessicasilbey.bsky.social & @hartzog.bsky.social join @comatbu.bsky.social Prof. Kathryn Coduto to discuss a public marriage proposal shared online and the privacy questions it raises in the social media age. www.bu.edu/articles/202...

A Viral Marriage Proposal Raises Privacy Questions in the Social Media Age

BU professors from COM and LAW on the debate sparked by a bystander-captured video of a private moment along the Charles River

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Sam Bagenstos@sbagen.bsky.social · last yr.

As someone who has been on the business end of nationwide injunctions that I thought were improper, I find the question of what rules we should adopt for them to be genuinely hard. But yesterday's decision deserves massive criticism, for at least two reasons. (Thread.)

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m. r. sauter@oddletters.bsky.social · 2y ago

update: here is the AI policy i wrote for my doc seminar this term (i have already located the typo and fixed it, which tbh is like 60% of the point of posting it in public)

I have adopted the following policy on the use of generative Al systems, which is adapted from one originally written by Prof. Susannah Paletz. There are two primary goals of this doctoral seminar. The first is to familiarize you with Science and Technology Studies as a literature, through its intellectual history and breadth of critical considerations. The second goal is to train you in the scholarly practices of reading large amounts of textual material quickly and effectively, synthesizing and discussing that material accurately and in detail, and then using the insights, methods, theories, and approaches of those texts in your own intellectual work. My expectation is that you will not use any generative artificial intelligence systems (like ChatGPT, Claude, etc) to complete your work in this class. Any use of Al-generated work to brainstorm, outline, write, edit, etc, your work will be considered an academic integrity violation. These systems are often inaccurate, are bad at summarizing complex materials, and relying on them will make your work worse and less interesting. The use of these programs does not serve your development as a thinker, writer, and scholar. To quote Professor Andrew Perfors, "As a teacher, what I want to teach, and what I want people to practice doing, is the process of creation itself. I don't give a single goddamn flying fuck what ChatGPT thinks about the essay prompt. The purpose of having students write an essay is not to fill the world with yet more words on the topic of the essay: the point is to find out what my students think about the topic. Actually, the point is even deeper - it is to make them go through the process of figuring out for themselves what they think, and to wrestle with putting those thoughts into words so that they can clarify things to themselves and improve their ability to share those thoughts clearly. This process cannot be short-circuited by outsourcing it to Al; to do so removes the entire fucking point." …
m. r. sauter@oddletters.bsky.social · 2y ago

i need to write a genAI rider for my doc seminar so if you have one you like can you link me bc otherwise im going to say something like "if you want to spend your graduate career doing little more than permanently supressing your earning potential & starting forest fires i guess i cant stop you"