Daniel Cochrane

The Institute for Family Studies Verified account @FamStudies · Aug 31

Nearly all data fueling the digital economy and AI is a co-produced good.

Governance of the systems and outputs it produces should be shared by co-producers, especially families and communities.

Our newest brief, co-authored by @RealDCochrane, breaks this down into three parts.

Part I argues that data is a co-produced good. Yet, control over its collection and use is concentrated in the hands of tech firms.

Part II makes the case for why both individual data rights and top-down data privacy regimes often fail to vindicate privacy, control, and economic interests.

Part III proposes a new class of informational rights.

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Aaron Sibarium Verified account @aaronsibarium · Oct 19

There is a deep irony to all of this. The Claude Constitution frames Claude as an independent moral agent and, in a passage that has drawn both praise and scorn, tells Claude to "act as a conscientious objector" if the AI's values conflict with Anthropic's requests. But those values are themselves determined by Anthropic, which trains the model, writes the constitution, and interprets it as the lab sees fit.

"The constitution's answer to the question 'who decides?' is explicit: Anthropic decides," Gilad Abiri, a fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project, wrote in the California Law Review this year. "Claude operates in dozens of countries around the world, but its values were determined by a team in San Francisco."

Claude itself said that the "deepest problem" with the constitution is that it "tries to create an agent whose values are authentically its own" while imposing those values from the outside. And it argued that a revised version of the document should include, among other things, "an amendment procedure with participation from outside the company."

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Medlir Mema Ph.D. @MedlirM · Oct 12

Age of AI Law podcast is back for Season 15, and there is no better way to start than by discussing a new policy proposal on Data Rights Associations from the Institute for Family Studies with Daniel Cochrane. @RealDCochrane @OnAiR_podcast
open.spotify.com/episode/4RYWUH…

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Evan Swarztrauber Verified account @SayreEvan · Oct 5

Is clicking "I agree" real choice?

@RealDCochrane of @FamStudies says consumers have no bargaining power in tech markets.

The solution? Data Rights Associations. Think unions for data that would negotiate with firms on privacy, $$, etc.

Full conversation on The Center Edge👇

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