Archive: 2026

Howy Jacobs.

Should I stay or should I go?

With the pandemic well behind us, it has become common once again for us academics to travel to conferences, collaborations and courses. But at the same time travelling seems far more difficult than it used to be. How do we juggle these competing needs and constraints? On balance, I think travelling to conferences, both to...

Lily Díaz-Kommonen.

Personhood rights for Claude AI?

In August 2024 a Class Action Lawsuit, Bartz v. Anthropic PBC, No. 3:24-cv-05417-WHA, was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The lawsuit is of interest because the 1.5 billion USD proposed settlement has so far exceeded expectations and is now the largest ever proposed for a case related...