person
Frank Pasquale
Brooklyn Law; Black Box Society
Brooklyn Law professor whose 2015 Black Box Society foreshadowed modern debate about AI accountability. Advocates 'functional' laws of AI, humans must retain moral agency and accountability.
Profile
expertise
Policy / meta
Specialises in AI policy, regulation, governance, philanthropy, or movement strategy. Reads the technical literature but does not produce it.
Law professor. 'The Black Box Society'; 'New Laws of Robotics'. AI accountability and algorithmic regulation framing.
recognition
Field-leading
Widely known inside the AI and AI-safety community. Appears repeatedly in top venues, podcasts, or governance forums. Not a household name to outsiders.
Recognised in tech-law and academic circles.
vintage
Deep-learning rise
Came up post-AlexNet. ImageNet, AlphaGo, transformer paper. DeepMind, Google Brain, FAIR establish the modern lab template.
Black Box Society 2015. AI accountability and algorithmic regulation in deep-learning era.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Governance firstendorses
Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesProposed four 'New Laws of Robotics', robots should complement humans, not counterfeit them, and humans must retain accountability.
Robots should not counterfeit humanity; they should complement it.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.