Ellen P. Goodman

For CAFO reform/AI governance peeps. If sentience mattered… #animalrights

In rare win for campaign finance reform, 9th Cir. (2-1) upholds Arizona Proposition requiring disclosure of big donors to campaign media spends (against Koch-funded group's as-applied and facial First Amendment challenges). cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

OpenAI chief scientist’s post is giving Little Shop of Horrors. Labs have lost control of AI. 1. It’s alien and metastatic; 2. We’re fast losing alignment, monitoring; 3. But still have to progress AI for “defense” because no one is stopping; 4. Need internationally coordinated pacing to brake.

In an episode of Legal Face-Off on WGN Radio, #RutgersLaw Professor @ellgood.bsky.social discusses the lawsuit concerning the API service providing early access to the President’s Truth Social posts: https://bit.ly/4hU5M4W #lawsky

Anthropic shared usage data with Stanford's SALT Lab. The Lab's study found "productive friction" when users knew & cared enough to push Claude. Good illustration for students re utility of expertise. #friction @neilturkewitz.bsky.social @brettfrischmann.bsky.social www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2608.hum...

Because I too needed to comment on Zuck’s “AI for all” manifesto … open weight models are not free so long as oligarchs control compute. Nods to Ithiel de Sola Pool @asad09.bsky.social @smw.bsky.social @davidthewid.bsky.social @justinhendrix.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/zuckerbergs-...

I wrote this piece on @markwarner.bsky.social AI AGENT Act a few weeks ago. @datasociety.bsky.social critique of "human oversight fallacy" + reward hacking incidents demonstrate need for agentic monitoring and freedom to deploy faithful agents.

Hochul pauses data center builds in bid to get better legislation using un-preemptable local power mainstays (land use, utility reg.). Gov Abbott on similar course. But hyperscalers can route around without all states/feds adopting same policy. open.substack.com/pub/kevinlee...

Crystalline waters in Rittenhouse Square. #philly

@joshuabenton.com nails it: Australia has revised its news "bargaining" initiative to add a tax to its platform-news bargaining nudge. But it continues the fiction that this is about IP theft and not advertising monopoly. Better get serious fast about new taxes. www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/aust...

Disgusted that House passed Farm Bill with pork industry provision to preempt state law protections against pig torture and promotion of ethical animal husbandry. Good that Rep. Fitzpatrick (R. PA-1) voted against.

If you believe states should be able regulate against animal cruelty and that pigs should be able to turn around while being grown for bacon — Demand YES vote this week on the Luna Amendment to remove Save Our Bacon from the Farm Bill.

Synthetic data solves some problems; creates more. "When an AI agent makes a consequential decision... tracing [it] through layers of synthetic data to determine whether it reflects a legitimate pattern or fabricated artifacts is currently impossible." www.techpolicy.press/the-urgency-...

This essay is a beautiful explication of this truth: building a cognitive trade is time under tension. For the one who offloads to the machine “The year happened around him but not inside him. He shipped a product, but he didn't learn a trade.”

Pleased to have signed this letter laying out why it’s illegal what FCC Chair Carr is doing to broadcasters.

Oy gevult…painful important read.

Meta changes ad disclosure from “sponsored” to “ad”. Less noticeable, though FTC research suggests more effective in communicating commercial intent (contrary to implication of this piece). www.socialmediatoday.com/news/meta-is...

Philly first city to create AI "enforcement package" on trolley routes: detection of illegally parked cars + recording of infraction. A good case for automated enforcement. Boosts public transit by forcing cars to internalize costs of road blockage. nationaltoday.com/us/pa/philad...

Trump’s AI EO 14365 requires Commerce Dept to identify state AI laws they want to preempt and FTC to address Sec. 5 authorities for AI. Deadline was yesterday. Haven’t seen either.

Working on the long game for press and speech freedoms… a 2nd amendment strategy for the Press Clause that gives journalism enforceable rights… someday…and a Roe-strategy for campaign finance: passing state trigger laws to take effect when Citizens United is overruled.

I appreciate @newsguard.bsky.social fact checking claim about Bad Bunny giving away Grammy to five-year old child ICE detained as bait. I believed the false claim.

Love that this AI policy plan focuses on enabling authentication tools rather than labeling for deepfakes www.alexbores.nyc/files/Bores_...

AI as “Normal technology” perspective on future of law: good and bad frictions to converting “intelligence” into legal service. @sayash @randomwalker @justincurl arvindhttps://open.substack.com/pub/aisnakeoil/p/ai-wont-automatically-make-legal?r=8soxw&utm_medium=ios

Rabbi Eli Schlanger was just murdered in the Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre. He was interviewed about rising Jew hate in Australia last year: “My car—emblazoned with mitzvah symbols—is a living example of pride and resilience….Be more Jewish, act more Jewish and appear more Jewish.” Amen. Z’l.

Local libraries may be the last trusted institution. As part of public information infrastructure stack, makes sense for them to play at edge by reviving local news. But it’s dangerous for trust. Hope Ann Arbor can pull it off and model it aadl.org/node/647334

First philly council hearing on public agency AI — Wed. @Councilwoman Rue Landau, @TechTonics phillytechjustice.org/hearing/

“There could be barriers to gaining information about [ai] inner workings, …or prove a poor outcome was caused by the AI system.” This is one reason developers and deployers don’t want xAI/transparency and why law should require it. As an input to accountability.

שהחיינו וקיימנו והגיענו לזמן הזה 🌻

Who is staying up all night to see every last living hostage returned home, please God? זמן שמחתנו!

Wonderful to see this out!

#philly

Toronto Film Festival cancels film about dad rescuing his daughters from Nova Festival in 10/7/23. Reason #1: filmaker didn’t get copyright license from Hamas to use GoPro footage of massacre! Reason #2: something something word salad fear of protests. Incoherent and craven.

Gotta love it. Why Is Martha’s Vineyard Going Vegan? It’s All About Tick Bites. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/d...

A hugely important verdict. The victims were pedestrians, so Tesla can't argue they knew/accepted Autopilot's risks. People walking, biking, and inside other cars didn't consent to be Elon Musk's guinea pigs.

Better link: balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...

Trump’s AI Action Plan has some good points (see also Biden EO). But they’re totally at odds with the rest of his agenda. Grid abundance (but not renewables?); surge AI labor force (but nix immigration?); grow AI diplomacy (but fire diplomatic corp?); grow deepfake forensics (but kill research?)

Love this right near Washington’s Crossing park where Washington crossed the Delaware to fight the British … inviting walkers to adorn the tree with hopes and blessings for America. Lots of “peace” “no kings” “rule of law.”

No doubt we need AI incident reporting structure. OECD is trying but too remote. EU has for high risk. If the feds cared, NTIA AI Accountability Policy report recommends it along lines of FDA. In absence, up to states + universities hai.stanford.edu/assets/files...

New from @nicole-alvarez.bsky.social and I, a new @americanprogress.bsky.social analysis of the Senate Commerce reconciliation bill’s rebranded “AI Pause,” & how contrary to the claim it’s optional for the new $500M in funding, the text implicates the entire $42.45B in BEAD broadband funding.

A moratorium on enforcement of state AI laws would presumably cover Louisiana's new rule of civil procedure to require disclosure of AI manipulation of evidence? Laws of general applicability are safe, but many like this specify AI. legiscan.com/LA/text/HB17...

See you Harvard.

Ban on state AI lawmaking survives for now in budget bill (as a condition of broadband funding), but Hawley, Blackburn and other Rs seeking to ax it in amendments. Where is utah?https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/22/moratorium-on-state-ai-regulation-clears-senate-hurdle/

www.thefp.com/p/matti-frie.... The “he” is Israeli film director of Reading Lolita in Tehran. This Matti Friedman piece imagines new horizons for Mideast peace. לו יהי

Portland OR tries personalized pricing and discounts for water by algorithmically setting rates based on credit, SNAP data etc. Social license for this kind of thing requires an algorithmic impact assessment and transparency about relative payments. redtailmedia.org/2025/06/09/l...

Cities and counties need to know water needs and set water use limits for #AI data centers. govai.substack.com/p/endless-th...

The flip side of this is an actual power-company employee could visit someone’s house to, say, check on a gas leak, and the frightened people inside won’t answer the doorbell.

Impressed with @cityofsanjose.bsky.social AI governance handbook. It jives with the NIST AI RMF, but also provides a scoring framework for responsible AI elements. Hope cities/counties will release scores also of tech they rejected. www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showpub...

Working on collaborative local govt procurement of responsible AI products and services —- and struck by how many amazing city/county leaders across the country are immigrants.