Kevin Frazier is the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and co-host of the Scaling Laws podcast.
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‘Law Proofing the Future,’ by Gregory M. Dickinson
Calls to “future-proof the law” are everywhere these days. Politicians promise it. Regulators organize panels around it. Scholars fill symposium volumes with it. The phrase resonates—who wouldn’t want the law to stand steady against the tide of AI, deepfakes, and algorithmic manipulation? But Gregory Dickinson’s forthcoming piece, “Law Proofing the Future” (Harvard Journal on Legislation, 2026), flips the intuition: it is not the law that needs protection from the future, but the future that needs protection from the law.