In a Senate Commerce Committee Hearing on Social Media Algorithms, Senator Chris Coons asked witnesses to comment on a proposal first developed by Ellen P. Goodman to deploy circuit breakers to disrupt the virality of social media posts, so as to subject the fastest spreading content to human review.
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Professor Ellen P. Goodman to speak at National Academies on Section 230 Reform April 27, 2021
Professor Ellen P. Goodman to Co-Lead Workshop on Algorithmic Auditing
On April 27, 2021, RIIPL and Carnegie UK Trust will host a workshop, co-led by Ellen P. Goodman and Professor Lorna Woods, Essex University, with dozens of policymakers, researchers, and civil society members in the US and UK to address algorithmic auditing. What are the harms algorithms can impose? How should algorithms e audited? How … Continue reading Professor Ellen P. Goodman to Co-Lead Workshop on Algorithmic Auditing…
Professor Ellen P. Goodman speaks at Georgetown Tech Law and Yale ISP #AIGovernance Symposium
https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/yale-law-school-events/ai-governance-virtual-symposium-ai-municipalities
5th Circuit takes position Prof. Michael Carrier suggested in amicus brief
The Fifth Circuit today gave the FTC (and U.S. consumers) a huge win today in finding that Endo and Impax entered into a pay-for-delay settlement that delayed the entry of opioid Opana ER. The opinion reached the result suggested by Prof. Michael Carrier in his brief on behalf of 82 professors. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3504773 Link to opinion…