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Penn Prof (Chair of Legal Studies & Business Ethics @ Wharton). Pescatarian. Panentheist Jew. Parent. Philadelphian. Poconos Airbnb host. Perhaps Retired Restoration Shaman. Primarily focused on Accountable AI & crypto regulation. https://accountableai.net
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What happens when copyright law meets generative AI? Is there a workable path forward? On this week’s episode of The Road to Accountable AI, I spoke with leading IP litigator Dale Cendali of Kirkland & Ellis. Full episode out today on your favorite podcast platform, or visit accountableai.net.

How can lawyers advise companies about AI when the law hasn't caught up with rapid technological developments? This week on The Road to Accountable AI, I spoke with Zwillgen's Brenda Leong about the practice of AI law. Tune in at apple.co/accountable or your favorite podcast platform.

Amazon's $20 billion investment is great new for PA, but the fact that only translates to 1,250 jobs is a strong indication of how AI is changing the nature of work. technical.ly/civic-news/a...

Testing is the missing link for truly effective AI governance. This week on The Road to Accountable AI, I spoke with Shameek Kundu of Singapore-based AI Verify, about its pioneering work on real-world testing of AI systems. Tune in at apple.co/accountable, or your favorite podcast platform!

*Shakes head*

Having just spent a week in Beijing, many Chinese, including those who love their country, believe in the idea of America more than those now running America.

Honored to be selected to speak at the SEC's roundtable on decentralized finance (DeFi) on June 9, along with a top notch group of panelists. www.sec.gov/newsroom/pre...

Some thougths about about Chinese AI developments after spending a week in Beijing meeting with startups, big platforms, academics, and VCs. www.linkedin.com/posts/kevinw...

Back from an amazing week in Beijing with 40 Wharton MBA/EMBA students, for a deep dive on tech and AI in China. Fascinating learnings from businesses, VCs, and academics, including visits with startups, tech giants, and AI applications in healthcare. Plus a side trip to the Great Wall.

This by @matteowong.bsky.social is an important coda to the sliver of Silicon Valley embracing Trump. The bigger contingent dismissing the danger of his policies because (1) everything but AGI is irrelevant, (2) we have people are in the Administration. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

@economist.com on crypto's embrce of Trumpian corruption. "[There is still penty of speculation. But crypto is slowly being taken more seriously by mainstream financial firms and tech companies.... [However] this is an opportunity that crypto firms risk blowing." www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Thoughtful of LinkedIn to let me know that a guy who was just sentenced to 12 years in prison is a follower of random brands running ads there.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

Here's a new report from the Bank for International Settlements, showing the reality of digital assets with actual data. Yes, most activity is pure speculation. BUT, there is legitimate transactional cross-border usage of stablecoins. www.bis.org/publ/work126...

Our American new normal: you need to make $2.5 million per year to be "rich", and a 40% marginal rate is "high taxes." And suggeting something like that is asking too much. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...

The battle over stablecoin legislation now puts the choice sqaurely: Do crypto proponents care more about bringing dramatic benefits to payments and banking, or protecting the ability of a President to raise billions of dark influence money from foreigners? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

My guest this week on The Road to Accountable AI is Kelly Trindel, Chief Responsible AI Officer at Workday. Tune in through your favorite podcast platform to hear about to infuse AI governance effective throughout an organization. apple.co/accountable accountableai.net

What if AI is changing not just business and our lives, but the very way we understand the world? Renowned author and internet thinker @weinberger.org joins me on the Road to Accountable AI to discuss the deeper human implications of AI. apple.co/accountable or your favorite podcast platform.

Get ready for a whole lotta crypto tokens in iOS apps.

I love that Satoshi made something to attempt to quell government and bank corruption, which ultimately led to politicians and bankers getting involved in crypto and using it exclusively for government and banking corruption

Our doctoral student (and author of the new book Marketcrafters) @c-hughes.bsky.social has a well-argued op-ed in the NY Times today about whe we should be concerned about Trump's efforts to push out the Federal Reserve chair. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/o...

Can corporate actions, driven by market forces, effectively address the need for AI governance? Lauren Wagner, my guest on this week’s episode of The Road to Accountable AI, has been working for years to align incentives for more trustworthy AI. apple.co/accountable accountableai.net

I agee w Patrick. (We lived in China at same time, diff on many things, agree here.) Chinese leaders always reckoned with the vast *depth* of US strength. Institutions, networks, expertise. Now, in cold-blooded rather than triumphalist mode, they recognize they're dealing with nuts and clowns.

If I wanted to help the Chinese economy, arguably the best thing I could do was decouple the US economy from the rest of the world, put up crippling US trade barriers, destroy the US reputation for business sense and cooperation, and force US allies to do more trade with China.

As a refugee from The Bad Place, I find this trend heartening. But something will be lost if the academics and businesses/cultural/policy communities no longer hang out in the same space. That was the magic of Web 2.0.

PWH and @mchorowitz.bsky.social were thrilled to cohost a workshop with @kwerb.com, the Wharton Accountable AI Lab, @pennengineering.bsky.social, & @penncareylaw.bsky.social's Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition on AI governance. Read more here: perryworldhouse.upenn.edu/news-and-ins...

this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to *certain items cease to be available at any price*

Full house for today's Penn AI Governance Workshop that the Wharton Accountable AI Lab organized with co-sponsors from Penn Engineering, Penn Carey Law, Perry World House, and Wharton AI & Analytics.

Season 3 of The Road to Accountable AI launches today with Eric Bradlow, Wharton Vice Dean for AI & Analytics initiative. Listen or watch on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and other major podcast platforms! accountableai.net

Proud not only that Wharton is leading the way with a new AI major, but also that ethics and impact are a core element, with my course "Big Data Big Responsibilities: Toward Accountable AI" as a requirement. ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/for-students

I'm hiring a postdoc at the Wharton Accountable AI Lab to work on AI governance, legal, and/or ethical issues. This is a unique opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary research on AI risks in a business school. Deadline May 9. Application info at: ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/wharton-acco...