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I teach law at Duke and write articles, books, graphic novels, & opeds. New book, The Line:AI & the Future of Personhood

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Love music? Copyright nerd? Want to know why Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, and Dua Lipa all recently won (C) cases? Or how someone is claiming to own the basic beat of reggaeton? Then download Jennifer Jenkins’ free, open access, full color book! https://t.co/Zh0hLZgMVs

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DATE:
01/28/2025
TIME:
5:30pm, signing. 6pm talk
PLACE:
Flyleaf Books
752 MLK Jr. Blvd.
Chapel Hill, NC 27514

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North Carolina friends! — please join me tonight at 6pm at the wonderful @FlyleafBooks in Chapel Hill for a reading and talk about my new book — The Line: AI & the Future of Personhood. https://t.co/UsV49mjvf3

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What do you call a car-maker billionaire who cynically embraces authoritarianism?
An “Autocrat.”

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No, I am *not* making elaborate dishes instead of writing my exam! Why do you ask?

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Public Domain Day is less than a month away! What’s entering the US public domain in 2025? Here’s a sneak peek from Duke’s CSPD! https://t.co/r107A0qWyn

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Further proof that @doctorow is the man of the hour! (He says it guarantees that he will get 💩on his tombstone) https://t.co/cjXoTFPxlZ

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The Internet Archive & Author’s Alliance are hosting a virtual talk on my new book, The Line: AI & the Future of Personhood — 11/19 Tuesday, 1pm Eastern. Best part? the interviewer will be the fabulous Kate Darling @grok_ Register here — it is free! https://t.co/0MU0Y1uPkq

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Join the Internet Archive and Authors Alliance for an insightful book talk on THE LINE: AI AND THE FUTURE OF PERSONHOOD with acclaimed author JAMES BOYLE (@thepublicdomain) in conversation with KATE DARLING (@grok_).

📅 Nov 19 @ 10am PT/1pm ET
🎟️ https://t.co/RHwBIFIkJC

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In retrospect, it was probably a warning sign when the WaPo changed its motto from “Democracy Dies in Darkness” to “Hello Darkness My Old Friend.”

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@lexlanham I love them all equally. Each of you is special in your own way. “Nonobvious” is a *gift* of patent law to those striving to explain their friends’ romances. And TM dilution? Political capture theorists send their thanks. [Secretly? It is copyright. Sorry folks. But that’s it.]

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@lessig In my “defense,” the book is Creative Commons licensed! You can read it for free here https://t.co/3xy4QxwY8n

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@lessig The devil made me do it!

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And if you can’t do that, celebrate by reading the book for free! https://t.co/3xy4QxxvXV

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It is International Open Access Week and we are celebrating it at Duke Library! I’ll be speaking in the Rubenstein Library Holsti Room at 4:30pm today to explain why open access is important and why I released my new MIT book The Line under a CC license. https://t.co/CHhUNE5htT

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@David_Gunkel Thank you! (For those who don’t know, David is the author most recently of Person, Thing, Robot — highly recommended! https://t.co/AHRnaKulIl

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My new book, The Line: AI & the Future of Personhood, was published today by MIT Press. It is under a CC license so you can read it for free. https://t.co/3xy4QxwY8n

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Engaging with empathy and anthropomorphism, courtroom battles on behalf of chimps, and doom-laden projections about the threat of AI, The Line offers fascinating answers to questions about our future that are arriving sooner than we think. https://t.co/jwpz6DFyVZ

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Chatbots like ChatGPT have challenged human exceptionalism: we are no longer the only beings capable of generating language and ideas fluently. Chatbots are not conscious. But what happens in the future if the claims to consciousness are more credible?

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He discusses moral philosophy and science fiction, transgenic species, nonhuman animals, the surprising history of corporate personality, and AI itself.