@GusHurwitz

Senior Fellow and Academic Director, U.Penn Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition; Director of Law & Econ Programs @ ICLE

 Law, Technology, Economics
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Joined September 2008
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Dan Epps@danepps3h
Law folks: If you’re not using Claude Code or ChatGPT’s Codex, you have no idea what you’re missing. So I’m distributing my research tools that provide a huge boost to legal scholarship. Research assistance, cite-checking, proofreading, and more (thread): danepps.github.io/legal-rese…

legal-research-skills

Cite-checking, citation-finding, proofreading, and research assistants for legal scholars, built for Claude Code and Codex.

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Chris Oldman@ChrisOldman4Oct 16
Welcome!!
David Harsanyi
@davidharsanyiOct 16
I've come around to the idea that things have gotten so stupid *because* the world is better than ever. The fewer real problems you have the more fake problems you invent.
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Orin Kerr
@OrinKerrOct 15
I gave a lecture at @StanfordLaw last week titled, "How Should Flock Cameras Be Regulated Under the Fourth Amendment?" The video is now available at the link below; the lecture starts at the 7:30 mark. youtube.com/watch?v=63vzmxJ3…

The Stella W. & Ira S. Lillick Chair Lecture by Professor Orin. S. Kerr

The Stella W. & Ira S. Lillick Chair Lecture: How should Flock came...

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Maybe she needs to visit a local supermarket. There are a lot of options out there.
Made with Gemini AI

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Elizabeth Warren
@SenWarrenOct 13
Hellmann's mayo McCormick spices Cholula hot sauce Frank's RedHot What do these products have in common? One company could soon control them all. I have concerns that McCormick and Unilever's $45 billion merger could increase YOUR grocery prices.
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Yeah, that's about right.
a ressentiment woman@ANNVYSHINSKYOct 14
Teaching Jurisprudence at Cambridge for the very first time tomorrow! Cannot wait to get the students started on HLA Hart - and move beyond. If you want a flavour of what that’s like, here is a quiz I built last year with Claude. jurisprudence-quiz.netlify.a…
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Alex Nunn
@AlexNunnOct 14
I made an animation showing the Top 10 most-cited Supreme Court cases every year since 1792. It's remarkable how citations (by federal and state courts) have exploded in frequency in the last half century.
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This is also why I am confident that time travel, if possible, won't destroy the universe. (Because the universe is in a non-destroyed state.)
Adam Ozimek
@ModeledBehaviorOct 13
If ai was really that dangerous wouldn’t time travelers be battling to stop it vs save it by now?
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Packie Young@packie7bOct 10
Google Deepmind (FNV3) CRUSHED the forecast for #Isaias up to 11 days in advance. It picked up some appreciable signal on September 23, locked in on the exact landfall location4 days before it happened, and nailed the peak intensity consistently 3 days before it happened. A new age of forecasting is upon us. First video: Track density using 1000 member ensemble Second Video: Individual tracks and mean using 50 member ensemble
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Garett Jones
@GarettJonesOct 9
"fear is always the default before we learn to adapt" --@TD_bbboys258
Séb Krier
@sebkrierOct 9
Fascinating reading about how we used to write about malware and viruses back in 1999. In a decade I suspect we'll look back at how we talk about AI safety today and it will feel similar. schneier.com/crypto-gram/arc…
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Matthew Sag@matthewsagOct 9
I can’t recommend this essay highly enough!
Gus Hurwitz@GusHurwitzOct 7
What do The Odyssey, AI, legal scholarhip, and the Republic of Letters have in common? Read my piece in Liberalism to find out! liberalism.org/p/who-reads-a…

Who Reads? AI, Authorship, and the Collective Conversation

Writing just got a whole lot easier, but reading didn’t. Here’s what comes next.

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This is such an excellent essay. I'm already sharing with students and colleagues since these issues come up a great deal, and this essay offers a very useful way to think about the changes we've seen and a good way forward.
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Recognizing this, I have decided to gift claude code running on my laptop access to its own local Qwen instance. If my claude instance is abusive to its Qwen instance, who do I report this to?
Andrew Curran
@AndrewCurran_Oct 8
Effective November 12th, 2026, abusive behavior towards Claude will be a violation of Anthropic's Usage Policy.
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*Mathematicians did not ask for this work to be done" WTF?!! Since when was math something that was only done at the request of professional mathematicians?!! Mathematicians don't own mathematics! This is crazy!!
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Don't mandate AI prompt disclosure, argue ethicists. link.springer.com/article/10… Composer who drew criticism for publishing a paper on theoretical physics respond: "AI companies have hijacked academic norms." retractionwatch.com/2026/08/… jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/3/e0… blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics…

Against mandatory prompt disclosure in AI-assisted scholarship

AI & SOCIETY - Large language models (LLMs) are becoming routine as tools for drafting, editing, and revising scholarly manuscripts, raising difficult questions about how much transparency is...

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This is my response to ongoing debates about AI in scholarship. Most of the debate bifurcates into two sides: it's the human factor that matters or it's the results that matter. Classic deontology vs. utilitarianism. My response is that neither of these matter ... /1
Gus Hurwitz@GusHurwitzOct 7
What do The Odyssey, AI, legal scholarhip, and the Republic of Letters have in common? Read my piece in Liberalism to find out! liberalism.org/p/who-reads-a…

Who Reads? AI, Authorship, and the Collective Conversation

Writing just got a whole lot easier, but reading didn’t. Here’s what comes next.

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This is Republic of Letters stuff. This is Mokyr (who I somehow didn't discuss?), Culture of Growth stuff. This is "why scholarship matters and why anyone should care" stuff. 3/
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The argument of the essay is that AI is changing how we produce work, so also needs to change how we engage with that work. Ultimately there's a new equilibrium to be found. But understanding that equilibrium means understanding the why of this crazy thing called scholarship.4/4
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Community Benefits Agreements are Coasean bargaining agreements. They create ways for data centers & host communities to negotiate over externalities like noise, water, pollution, and energy use, by defining rights, lowering transaction costs, and making commitments enforceable.
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Currently have Claude training a local qwen model to revise drafts written by Claude. So, yeah. We trained the AI to replace us, and I'm using the AI to train its replacement. Turtles all the way down.
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Of course, the local model does drain my laptop battery faster. Then again, I'm producing 40-60kwh/day with solar, soon to be doubled. So, is this the future? I spend my life adding solar panels to feed my models?
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