Jessica Silbey
Professor of Law and Honorable Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law at Boston University School of Law, focused on institutions, technology, and the law and co-author of the paper 'How AI Destroys Institutions.'
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Mar 22, 2026 • 43min
Considering How AI Destroys Democratic Institutions
Jessica Silbey, law professor and associate dean studying institutional impacts of AI. Woodrow Hartzog, law and technology scholar focused on AI design and governance. They describe how AI erodes institutional expertise, accountability, and civic functions. They trace risks to law, journalism, military chains of command, and argue for local, sectoral responses and institutional repair.
Mar 17, 2026 • 53min
Is AI a Death Sentence for Civic Institutions?, with Jessica Silbey and Woodrow Hartzog
Woodrow Hartzog, a law professor specializing in privacy and tech, and Jessica Silbey, a law professor focused on institutions and technology, discuss how AI reshapes civic institutions. They explore institutional theory, technological affordances, AI’s effects on expertise and skill atrophy, legitimacy and reason-giving in law, and argue for bespoke, institution-specific AI and precautionary governance.
