While LLMs should be kept well clear of formal democratic decision-making processes, we think they can instead strengthen the informal public sphere—the arena that mediates between democratic governments and the polities that they serve, in which political communities seek information, form civic publics, and hold their leaders to account.

The 1995 Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPS) increased the likelihood of strong patent protection in India, and drugs under the TRIPS regime face significantly less competition.

The “Fourth Settlement” framework of administrative law escapes the capability-accountability trap by preserving capability while restoring comprehensible oversight of administration.

How can legal rules, principles, and methods can be leveraged to address problems of alignment and inform the design of AI systems that operate safely and ethically?

For most parameter values, the test is optimal subject to some arguably plausible desiderata; also, we illustrate why some such desiderata are necessary.

A particular maximally contextually private protocol for k-item Vickrey auctions — the ascending-join protocol — and show that it achieves maximal contextual privacy by delaying queries to bidders whose privacy it protects.