Reconstructing Free Expression
The Trump administration is engaged in a full-scale assault on First Amendment rights and values, violating laws and using threats to create a climate of fear and self-censorship. Its attacks—often successful—have exposed significant, longstanding weaknesses in the laws, institutions, and norms that underwrite public discourse. The Institute’s “Reconstructing Free Expression” initiative is an effort to understand the precise nature of those weaknesses and to identify ways in which both public and private institutions can better protect the expressive and associational freedoms that are essential to democracy.
This blog channel highlights the Institute’s ongoing research and education efforts related to this initiative.
Research
Essays and Scholarship
AI as Social Technology
Artificial general intelligence does not hold out the promise of truly post-human bureaucracy.
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Deep Dive
Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention?
Let's not skip the hard work of AI governance
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Essays and Scholarship
The Right to Access Foreign Communicative Infrastructure
Foreign social media platforms are unique associational and speech infrastructures that should be treated differently from other foreign infrastructure, challenging the Supreme Court's view of these platforms in TikTok Inc. v. Garland
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Lawsuit
American Association of University Professors v. Rubio
A case challenging the Trump administration’s policy of ideological deportation.
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