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The Agentic Liability Crisis: Who Sues a Hallucination?
AI has stopped generating text and started making decisions. The law has not caught up. When an autonomous agent causes harm, who pays?
Pakistan's National AI Policy 2025: Blueprint or Digital Mirage?
Pakistan's AI policy arrived with real ambition. This issue goes through what it actually commits to — and where the regulatory teeth are missing.
AI in the Courtroom: Promise or Peril?
Algorithms are already influencing bail decisions, sentencing recommendations, and case predictions. The courtroom hasn't figured out what to do about it yet.
Digital Rights in a Data-Driven World
Surveillance infrastructure built for security keeps getting repurposed. This issue traces where privacy law has held — and where it hasn't.
The Transatlantic Split
The EU wants to regulate AI like a product. The US treats it like speech. Both approaches have a logic — and both have a blind spot.
The "Four-Fifths" Audit: Using Python to Cross-Examine the Judiciary
I ran an employment discrimination test against judicial appointment data. The numbers raised questions I didn't expect.
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