Wait until they teach this High-Speed Robot Hand to throw a curveball.
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by Michael Froomkin
Laurie Silvers & Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law
University of Miami School of Law
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Recent Bluessky Posts- Official CFP for We Robot in Oxford, UK, April 22-24, 2027 is now available at easychair.org/cfp/WR27. Submission deadline is Oct. 5, 2026. Also, AI disclosure requested and "papers may be reviewed by AI detection, whose feedback will be instructive but not determinative." September 8, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- For a chilling analysis of where we stand see Professor Kim Lane Scheppele on "What is a Constitutional Crisis?". And that was almost a year ago! www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-8A... September 8, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- @miamilawschool.bsky.social does a feature on @jotwell.bsky.social, "Jotwell: the journal legal scholars turn to for research that matters" news.miami.edu/law/stories/... September 8, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Private right of action (in court) vs government-must-initiate enforcement (before court or via agency). So the difference from the econ or polisci dichotomy is less than it may seem? September 8, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Is it not the case that as new LLM models are trained on the corpus of academic articles and internet posts, they learn about ways of breaking out of alignment? Plus that "cheating" can help "success"? So shouldn't we expect more and more of it? #AI September 7, 2026 Michael Froomkin
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I fear the day when the robots in control of our society have this level of dexterity. They already have too much power.
Finneas – you talkin’ ’bout the lawyers ?
Holy cow, this puts all that science fiction I’ve read over the years into a whole new perspective. With 20 more years of engineering I can only imagine that what we think is hogwash today may be a commonplace reality. Thanks for the post!