“AI Outputs are Not Protected Speech” with Professor Peter Salib (Berkman Klein Center x AISST AI Governance Speaker Series)

Join the Berkman Klein Center and the AI Safety Student Team for a speaker series on AI governance! Free lunch will be provided, RSVP here 🙂

About the Event

Law may soon regulate the outputs of generative AI systems, forbidding, for example, false or dangerous outputs. Some scholars have argued that such regulations would raise dire First Amendment issues, because the outputs of generative AI systems are someone’s First Amendment protected speech—AI creators, users, or AIs themselves. Professor Salib argues that AI outputs are not anyone’s protected speech, and thus that AI regulations should face lower constitutional hurdles than widely assumed.

Free lunch will be provided.

About the Speaker

Professor Peter N. Salib is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center and Associated Faculty in Public Affairs. He also serves as Law and Policy Advisor to the Center for AI Safety in San Francisco and is co-Director of the Center for Law & AI Risk. His research applies substantive constitutional doctrine and economic analysis to questions of AI governance.

Professor Salib’s scholarship has been published in, among others, the University of Chicago Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Texas Law Review, and Washington University Law Review. Prior to joining the University of Houston Law Center, Professor Salib was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Before that, he practiced law at Sidley Austin LLP and served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Frank H. Easterbrook.