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Anticipating the consequences of filibuster reforms

“Added insights from models more precisely illustrate just what kind of balance between minority rights and majority rule the reform would strike, but in others, they show that the reform could backfire on members of the majority or on the reformers who want the Senate to spend less time wrangling with obstruction.”

Nicholas Caputo, Gillian K. Hadfield, & Seth Lazar

Legal alignment for safe and ethical AI

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?
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  1. Anticipating the Consequences of Filibuster Reforms

    Anticipating the Consequences of Filibuster Reforms

    Added insights from models more precisely illustrate just what kind of balance between minority rights and majority rule the reform would strike, but in others, they show that the reform could backfire on members of the majority or on the reformers who want the Senate to spend less time wrangling with obstruction.

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  2. Social cognition and interpersonal violence

    Social cognition and interpersonal violence

    Social cognitions could play an important role in violence and may be modifiable through intervention.

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  3. Lost in Transition: How Trade Adjustment Assistance came up short (and where it succeeded)

    Lost in Transition: How Trade Adjustment Assistance came up short (and where it succeeded)

    By prioritizing robust reforms to our existing unemployment and workforce systems that benefit all workers — not just those who can prove that their jobs were eliminated due to AI — Congress can help the U.S. workforce retool without repeating the mistakes of TAA.

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  4. Using LLMs to Enhance Democracy

    Using LLMs to Enhance Democracy

    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.

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  5. Problem Solving Criminal Justice

    Problem Solving Criminal Justice

    The period of problem solving in criminal justice appears to be over, driven by increasing public concern about crime and repolarization in response to social movement activism.

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  6. Engaging economics researchers to improve regulatory analysis

    Engaging economics researchers to improve regulatory analysis

    The report recommends that agencies continue to publicise research needs, find additional ways to break down barriers between researchers and analysts, and incentivise policy-informative research by highlighting when research is cited in agency analyses.

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  7. TRIPS, Pharmaceutical Patents, and Generic Competition in India

    TRIPS, Pharmaceutical Patents, and Generic Competition in India

    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.

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  8. Racial Preferences Under Adminissions Constraints: Evidence from the U.S. Naval Academy

    Racial Preferences Under Adminissions Constraints: Evidence from the U.S. Naval Academy

    Racial preferences were found in parts of the admissions process where the use of race is specifically prohibited under Federal law.

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  9. Administrative Law’s Fourth Settlement: AI and the Capability-Accountability Trap

    Administrative Law’s Fourth Settlement: AI and the Capability-Accountability Trap

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

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