1. Introduction In January 2025, just hours after taking office, President Trump revoked former President Biden’s Executive Order (EO) on Artificial Intelligence (AI) by issuing a new EO titled “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence”. [1] During his first term, Trump issued two EOs[2] that set out principles for the government’s use of […] The post Two Futures of AI Regulation under the Trump Administration first appeared on The Digital Constitution...| The Digital Constitutionalist
Introduction If conservative political pundits are to be believed, “fake news” is a new social media-based phenomenon that threatens our global democracies. Chief among such proponents is current US President Donald Trump, who even claims to have coined the term. While this evidently goes a step too far—whether misrepresenting the turnout for his January 2017 […] The post Restarting the Past: Fake News in the Digital Age first appeared on The Digital Constitutionalist.| The Digital Constitutionalist
The United States is not unfamiliar with the idea that a bunch of dead white men might inform the meaning and interpretation of the Constitution. Originalism is the very idea that constitutional meaning is derived from ‘the intentions of those who draft and debated the Constitution’. In a speculative turn that competes with the literary […] The post What Would the Founding Fathers Say? Digital Ghosts and Constituent Power first appeared on The Digital Constitutionalist.| The Digital Constitutionalist