Scaling Laws: Eugene Volokh on Libel and AI

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🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In this Scaling Laws Academy "class," Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at Texas Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, speaks with Eugene Volokh, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and long-time professor of law at UCLA, on libel in the AI context. The two dive into Volokh's paper, “Large Libel Models? Liability for AI Output.”

Extra credit for those who give it a full read and explore some of the "homework" below:
“Beyond Section 230: Principles for AI Governance,” 138 Harv. L. Rev. 1657 (2025)
“When Artificial Agents Lie, Defame, and Defraud, Who Is to Blame?,” Stanford HAI (2021)

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