Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland
Center Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and Professor Post Tenure, MIT Media Lab
4 publications since 2022Official page
Publications in the Network Law Review
Newest first- 29 June 2023
Competition Between AI Foundation Models
Thibault Schrepel and Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland
This short article serves as an introduction to Thibault Schrepel and Sandy Pentland’s latest working paper, “Competition between AI Foundation Models: Dynamics and Policy Recommendations” (open-access)…
- 25 May 2023
Transparency by Design for Large Language Models
Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland, Robert Mahari and Tobin South
Large Language Models – like ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude – are akin to modern day oracles: they provide impressively useful outputs without revealing their reasoning.
- 8 February 2023
Justice in a Vacuum?
Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland, Robert Mahari and Tobin South
From the Palaeolithic era until the mid-1800s, tally sticks represented an international system for recording debts. Debtors and creditors would break a piece of wood or bone in half, and the unique fracture memorialized the…
- 27 September 2022
Legal Dynamism
Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland and Robert Mahari
Shortly after the start of the French Revolution, Thomas Jefferson wrote a now famous letter to James Madison. He argued that no society could make a perpetual constitution, or indeed a perpetual law, that binds future…