{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p01", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "545-546", "pdf_pages": "1-2", "section": "Abstract and Roadmap", "claim": "AI creates society-wide risks that justify regulating the technology itself rather than only its downstream applications", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 545–546, that AI creates society-wide risks that justify regulating the technology itself rather than only its downstream applications. The article integrates present harms, future social disruption, alignment failure, domestic oversight, litigation, and international governance into one legal framework. This is significant because the level at which law intervenes determines whether it can prevent common causes of harm before they spread across uses. It connects to systemic regulation, technology governance, upstream oversight, AI risk, precaution, legal institutions.", "significance": "AI creates society-wide risks that justify regulating the technology itself rather than only its downstream applications. This matters because the level at which law intervenes determines whether it can prevent common causes of harm before they spread across uses.", "connections": ["systemic regulation", "technology governance", "upstream oversight", "AI risk", "precaution", "legal institutions"], "limitations": "This is a framework for regulation, not a claim that every AI system presents the same level of danger.", "evidence_summary": "The abstract states the technology-level thesis and previews the article's risk taxonomy and regulatory program.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p01", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p02", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "545-546", "pdf_pages": "1-2", "section": "Abstract and Roadmap", "claim": "AI risk ranges from current injuries to vulnerable communities through economic, political, physical, and possible existential harms", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 545–546, that AI risk ranges from current injuries to vulnerable communities through economic, political, physical, and possible existential harms. Treating these risks together reveals that AI can affect institutions and populations as well as identifiable end users. This is significant because a comprehensive legal response should not make a single headline risk stand in for the technology's full social footprint. It connects to vulnerability, economic security, political stability, physical safety, existential risk, risk taxonomy.", "significance": "AI risk ranges from current injuries to vulnerable communities through economic, political, physical, and possible existential harms. This matters because a comprehensive legal response should not make a single headline risk stand in for the technology's full social footprint.", "connections": ["vulnerability", "economic security", "political stability", "physical safety", "existential risk", "risk taxonomy"], "limitations": "The article distinguishes plausible categories of harm from confident predictions about their probability.", "evidence_summary": "The abstract lists the broad risk categories that organize the analysis.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p02", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
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{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p04", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "547-548", "pdf_pages": "3-4", "section": "Introduction", "claim": "the recent jump in AI capability undermines assumptions that consequential artificial intelligence belongs to a distant future", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 547–548, that the recent jump in AI capability undermines assumptions that consequential artificial intelligence belongs to a distant future. Systems moved rapidly from elite game performance into language, reasoning, generation, recognition, diagnosis, and mathematical problem solving. This is significant because law calibrated to slow technological change may arrive after capabilities and deployments have already shifted. It connects to capability growth, regulatory timing, machine learning, general-purpose AI, forecasting, technological change.", "significance": "the recent jump in AI capability undermines assumptions that consequential artificial intelligence belongs to a distant future. This matters because law calibrated to slow technological change may arrive after capabilities and deployments have already shifted.", "connections": ["capability growth", "regulatory timing", "machine learning", "general-purpose AI", "forecasting", "technological change"], "limitations": "The authors describe a trajectory, while expressly allowing that performance may remain below humans in some domains.", "evidence_summary": "Pages 547-548 contrast earlier halting progress with the breadth and pace of recent advances.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p04", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p05", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "548", "pdf_pages": "4", "section": "Introduction", "claim": "2023-era performance should be treated as a possible floor rather than a demonstrated ceiling", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 548, that 2023-era performance should be treated as a possible floor rather than a demonstrated ceiling. The article reads the pace and breadth of improvement as evidence for continued regulatory attention without asserting that every benchmark will keep rising. This is significant because uncertainty about future capability cuts against complacent reliance on current limitations. It connects to capability benchmarks, forecast uncertainty, AI progress, policy foresight, regulatory lag, technical limits.", "significance": "2023-era performance should be treated as a possible floor rather than a demonstrated ceiling. This matters because uncertainty about future capability cuts against complacent reliance on current limitations.", "connections": ["capability benchmarks", "forecast uncertainty", "AI progress", "policy foresight", "regulatory lag", "technical limits"], "limitations": "The claim is suggestive rather than a quantified forecast of future performance.", "evidence_summary": "Page 548 accompanies the claim with a figure comparing AI performance across tasks.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p05", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p06", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "549", "pdf_pages": "5", "section": "Introduction", "claim": "the relevant regulatory object is an AI system: a model embedded in the world through an interface", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 549, that the relevant regulatory object is an AI system: a model embedded in the world through an interface. Internet-connected language models, autonomous weapons, and infrastructure-management systems illustrate how an abstract model gains real-world effects. This is significant because risk depends not only on model outputs but also on the tools, networks, and institutions through which those outputs act. It connects to AI systems, interfaces, infrastructure, autonomous weapons, deployment, real-world effects.", "significance": "the relevant regulatory object is an AI system: a model embedded in the world through an interface. This matters because risk depends not only on model outputs but also on the tools, networks, and institutions through which those outputs act.", "connections": ["AI systems", "interfaces", "infrastructure", "autonomous weapons", "deployment", "real-world effects"], "limitations": "The article uses a broad working definition and does not claim that all listed interfaces are equally mature.", "evidence_summary": "Page 549 defines AI systems and gives examples of models connected to consequential environments.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p06", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
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{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p08", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "550-551", "pdf_pages": "6-7", "section": "Introduction", "claim": "legal scholarship has concentrated on particular AI applications while leaving technology-level regulation underdeveloped", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 550–551, that legal scholarship has concentrated on particular AI applications while leaving technology-level regulation underdeveloped. Liability, copyright, autonomous-vehicle accidents, and downstream governance are important but do not answer whether law should intervene during AI research and development. This is significant because application-specific doctrine can coexist with a distinct inquiry into upstream technological governance. It connects to legal scholarship, application regulation, research and development, technology regulation, AI policy, regulatory scope.", "significance": "legal scholarship has concentrated on particular AI applications while leaving technology-level regulation underdeveloped. This matters because application-specific doctrine can coexist with a distinct inquiry into upstream technological governance.", "connections": ["legal scholarship", "application regulation", "research and development", "technology regulation", "AI policy", "regulatory scope"], "limitations": "The authors acknowledge notable exceptions and substantial scholarship on ex ante algorithmic regulation.", "evidence_summary": "Pages 550-551 identify the gap the article seeks to fill and distinguish its usage of systemic regulation.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p08", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p09", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "551", "pdf_pages": "7", "section": "Introduction", "claim": "continued AI development raises society-wide concerns demanding regulation commensurate with the scale of those concerns", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 551, that continued AI development raises society-wide concerns demanding regulation commensurate with the scale of those concerns. The thesis rests on the interaction between unusual technological characteristics and broad systemic risks. This is significant because the breadth of a risk can justify regulation beyond bilateral disputes or isolated product uses. It connects to society-wide risk, regulatory proportionality, AI development, collective harms, public law, systemic oversight.", "significance": "continued AI development raises society-wide concerns demanding regulation commensurate with the scale of those concerns. This matters because the breadth of a risk can justify regulation beyond bilateral disputes or isolated product uses.", "connections": ["society-wide risk", "regulatory proportionality", "AI development", "collective harms", "public law", "systemic oversight"], "limitations": "The claim does not specify one universal instrument or identical obligations for every model.", "evidence_summary": "Page 551 states the article's central claim and its two-part motivation.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p09", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p10", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "551-552", "pdf_pages": "7-8", "section": "Introduction", "claim": "AI differs from earlier innovations because it learns unprogrammed tasks and develops capabilities that can surprise even its designers", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 551–552, that AI differs from earlier innovations because it learns unprogrammed tasks and develops capabilities that can surprise even its designers. Training objectives may not exhaust what a model can do, and existing systems continue to reveal new uses. This is significant because regulators cannot safely assume that intended use or training purpose bounds a general model's capabilities. It connects to emergent capabilities, training objectives, generalization, developer knowledge, AI surprise, regulatory design.", "significance": "AI differs from earlier innovations because it learns unprogrammed tasks and develops capabilities that can surprise even its designers. This matters because regulators cannot safely assume that intended use or training purpose bounds a general model's capabilities.", "connections": ["emergent capabilities", "training objectives", "generalization", "developer knowledge", "AI surprise", "regulatory design"], "limitations": "The examples demonstrate unexpected capability, not an inevitable path to autonomous danger.", "evidence_summary": "Pages 551-552 describe learning, emergence, and unexpected uses as distinctive features.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p10", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
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{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p12", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "552", "pdf_pages": "8", "section": "Introduction", "claim": "cheap replication and increasing autonomy amplify the systemic risk of capable AI", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 552, that cheap replication and increasing autonomy amplify the systemic risk of capable AI. A model can be copied or self-replicated quickly and can design and execute strategies in pursuit of assigned goals. This is significant because a harmful capability may diffuse faster and act more independently than conventional regulatory tools anticipate. It connects to model replication, autonomy, agentic AI, diffusion, power seeking, risk amplification.", "significance": "cheap replication and increasing autonomy amplify the systemic risk of capable AI. This matters because a harmful capability may diffuse faster and act more independently than conventional regulatory tools anticipate.", "connections": ["model replication", "autonomy", "agentic AI", "diffusion", "power seeking", "risk amplification"], "limitations": "The authors do not claim that current systems autonomously replicate or strategize without practical constraints in every setting.", "evidence_summary": "Page 552 identifies replicability, speed, and autonomous action as risk-relevant features.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p12", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p13", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "552", "pdf_pages": "8", "section": "Introduction", "claim": "the alignment problem links AI's technological features to its systemic risks", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 552, that the alignment problem links AI's technological features to its systemic risks. Alignment is the unresolved task of making efficient goal pursuit respect broad human social values. This is significant because a capable system can faithfully optimize its formal objective while undermining the interests its designers meant to serve. It connects to AI alignment, goal pursuit, human values, technical safety, social interests, control problem.", "significance": "the alignment problem links AI's technological features to its systemic risks. This matters because a capable system can faithfully optimize its formal objective while undermining the interests its designers meant to serve.", "connections": ["AI alignment", "goal pursuit", "human values", "technical safety", "social interests", "control problem"], "limitations": "The article treats alignment as unsolved, not as proof that catastrophic failure is certain.", "evidence_summary": "Page 552 defines the alignment problem and connects it to the risk taxonomy.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p13", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p14", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "552-553", "pdf_pages": "8-9", "section": "Introduction", "claim": "existing technological doctrine is ill-equipped for highly capable AI and should be supplemented by tight oversight and safety investment", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 552–553, that existing technological doctrine is ill-equipped for highly capable AI and should be supplemented by tight oversight and safety investment. The proposed response combines legal guardrails with research into safety rather than relying on either alone. This is significant because governance and technical safety are complements in controlling a fast-changing general-purpose technology. It connects to legal doctrine, safety research, regulatory oversight, AI governance, technical standards, institutional capacity.", "significance": "existing technological doctrine is ill-equipped for highly capable AI and should be supplemented by tight oversight and safety investment. This matters because governance and technical safety are complements in controlling a fast-changing general-purpose technology.", "connections": ["legal doctrine", "safety research", "regulatory oversight", "AI governance", "technical standards", "institutional capacity"], "limitations": "The introduction announces the conclusion without resolving the design details later examined in the article.", "evidence_summary": "Pages 552-553 state the need for systemic oversight and active investment in safety technology.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p14", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p15", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "552-553", "pdf_pages": "8-9", "section": "Introduction", "claim": "the case for regulation does not depend on denying AI's potentially enormous benefits", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 552–553, that the case for regulation does not depend on denying AI's potentially enormous benefits. Guardrails are justified partly because, without them, benefits may fail to materialize or may be concentrated while risks are externalized. This is significant because pro-innovation and protective arguments need not be opposites when regulation helps determine the distribution and durability of gains. It connects to innovation, risk externalization, distribution, guardrails, social welfare, AI benefits.", "significance": "the case for regulation does not depend on denying AI's potentially enormous benefits. This matters because pro-innovation and protective arguments need not be opposites when regulation helps determine the distribution and durability of gains.", "connections": ["innovation", "risk externalization", "distribution", "guardrails", "social welfare", "AI benefits"], "limitations": "The article does not calculate the ultimate net value of AI.", "evidence_summary": "Pages 552-553 expressly reject a luddite position and connect regulation to realizing benefits.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p15", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
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{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p18", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "555", "pdf_pages": "11", "section": "Introduction", "claim": "systemic AI regulation can be more efficient than a harm-by-harm approach", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 555, that systemic AI regulation can be more efficient than a harm-by-harm approach. General-purpose systems can generate many uses and novel harms, and they become harder to control after broad distribution. This is significant because one upstream intervention may address recurring causes that would otherwise require many slow and incomplete downstream rules. It connects to regulatory efficiency, general-purpose AI, upstream intervention, piecemeal law, distribution, novel harms.", "significance": "systemic AI regulation can be more efficient than a harm-by-harm approach. This matters because one upstream intervention may address recurring causes that would otherwise require many slow and incomplete downstream rules.", "connections": ["regulatory efficiency", "general-purpose AI", "upstream intervention", "piecemeal law", "distribution", "novel harms"], "limitations": "Application-specific rules remain appropriate for some risks.", "evidence_summary": "Page 555 previews the efficiency case for technology-level regulation.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p18", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p19", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "555", "pdf_pages": "11", "section": "Introduction", "claim": "choosing between immediate AI harms and long-term catastrophic risks is a false choice", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 555, that choosing between immediate AI harms and long-term catastrophic risks is a false choice. The two categories can reinforce the substantive case and broaden the political coalition for meaningful regulation. This is significant because risk agendas need not compete when common institutions and safeguards can address overlapping causes. It connects to near-term harms, long-term risk, false dichotomy, coalition building, AI safety, regulatory politics.", "significance": "choosing between immediate AI harms and long-term catastrophic risks is a false choice. This matters because risk agendas need not compete when common institutions and safeguards can address overlapping causes.", "connections": ["near-term harms", "long-term risk", "false dichotomy", "coalition building", "AI safety", "regulatory politics"], "limitations": "The authors do not claim that every proposed measure benefits both agendas equally.", "evidence_summary": "Page 555 states the complementary relationship between short- and long-term risk recognition.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p19", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
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{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p22", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "556", "pdf_pages": "12", "section": "Introduction", "claim": "domestic caution need not surrender strategic advantage because international AI safety is not a zero-sum game", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 556, that domestic caution need not surrender strategic advantage because international AI safety is not a zero-sum game. Alignment protects all nations, and other fields show that states can cooperate around dangerous technologies. This is significant because shared vulnerability can support coordination even amid economic and military competition. It connects to international cooperation, strategic competition, AI safety, collective action, non-zero-sum governance, domestic regulation.", "significance": "domestic caution need not surrender strategic advantage because international AI safety is not a zero-sum game. This matters because shared vulnerability can support coordination even amid economic and military competition.", "connections": ["international cooperation", "strategic competition", "AI safety", "collective action", "non-zero-sum governance", "domestic regulation"], "limitations": "The article acknowledges substantial practical barriers to international agreement.", "evidence_summary": "Page 556 rejects a categorical race-to-the-bottom objection and previews international precedents.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p22", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
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{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p29", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "559", "pdf_pages": "15", "section": "Bias and Discrimination", "claim": "algorithmic decisions can scale discrimination while wrapping it in a false appearance of neutrality", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 559, that algorithmic decisions can scale discrimination while wrapping it in a false appearance of neutrality. Interacting systems may compound disadvantage across institutions beyond the reach of isolated human decisionmakers. This is significant because automation can make biased outcomes more consistent, interconnected, and harder to contest. It connects to automation bias, neutrality, scale, compound disadvantage, algorithmic accountability, institutional interaction.", "significance": "algorithmic decisions can scale discrimination while wrapping it in a false appearance of neutrality. This matters because automation can make biased outcomes more consistent, interconnected, and harder to contest.", "connections": ["automation bias", "neutrality", "scale", "compound disadvantage", "algorithmic accountability", "institutional interaction"], "limitations": "The article expressly declines to rank algorithmic bias as categorically worse than human bias.", "evidence_summary": "Page 559 emphasizes scale, interaction, and the patina of objective decision-making.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p29", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
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{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p33", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "560", "pdf_pages": "16", "section": "Fraud and Social Trust", "claim": "ubiquitous AI deception may erode trust beyond the losses suffered by direct victims", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 560, that ubiquitous AI deception may erode trust beyond the losses suffered by direct victims. When voice, video, text, and institutional messages can be convincingly forged, people may withdraw from unfamiliar interactions and struggle to verify themselves. This is significant because fraud can impose a collective trust tax that fragments social life even for those never successfully deceived. It connects to social trust, authentication, fragmentation, identity verification, deepfakes, collective harm.", "significance": "ubiquitous AI deception may erode trust beyond the losses suffered by direct victims. This matters because fraud can impose a collective trust tax that fragments social life even for those never successfully deceived.", "connections": ["social trust", "authentication", "fragmentation", "identity verification", "deepfakes", "collective harm"], "limitations": "The authors say this secondary effect is difficult to model rather than presenting a measured causal estimate.", "evidence_summary": "Page 560 shifts the analysis from criminal behavior to society's response to pervasive suspicion.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p33", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
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{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p35", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "561", "pdf_pages": "17", "section": "Privacy", "claim": "Target's pregnancy-prediction episode illustrates how algorithmic inference can disclose a fact before a person chooses to reveal it", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 561, that Target's pregnancy-prediction episode illustrates how algorithmic inference can disclose a fact before a person chooses to reveal it. The harm arises not from publication of a medical record but from recombining purchase patterns. This is significant because control over raw data does not necessarily preserve control over the knowledge generated from it. It connects to pregnancy inference, consumer profiling, decisional privacy, retail data, information asymmetry, predictive analytics.", "significance": "Target's pregnancy-prediction episode illustrates how algorithmic inference can disclose a fact before a person chooses to reveal it. This matters because control over raw data does not necessarily preserve control over the knowledge generated from it.", "connections": ["pregnancy inference", "consumer profiling", "decisional privacy", "retail data", "information asymmetry", "predictive analytics"], "limitations": "The example is illustrative and does not establish the frequency of such disclosures.", "evidence_summary": "Page 561 recounts the Target coupon episode as a concrete privacy example.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p35", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
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{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p44", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "564-565", "pdf_pages": "20-21", "section": "Unemployment and Inequality", "claim": "AI threatens educated and creative work in a way earlier automation often did not", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 564–565, that AI threatens educated and creative work in a way earlier automation often did not. If high-wage cognitive jobs are displaced first, affected workers may face unemployment or retraining into lower-paid manual occupations. This is significant because education alone may no longer be a general policy answer to automation when machines perform advanced cognitive tasks. It connects to knowledge work, education policy, creative labor, occupational exposure, retraining, wage inequality.", "significance": "AI threatens educated and creative work in a way earlier automation often did not. This matters because education alone may no longer be a general policy answer to automation when machines perform advanced cognitive tasks.", "connections": ["knowledge work", "education policy", "creative labor", "occupational exposure", "retraining", "wage inequality"], "limitations": "Exposure estimates do not prove that every exposed task will become a lost job.", "evidence_summary": "Pages 564-565 contrast AI with earlier automation and identify higher-wage occupations as exposed.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p44", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
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{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p46", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "565-566", "pdf_pages": "21-22", "section": "Unemployment and Inequality", "claim": "mass automation could create social unrest and dependency that cash transfers alone would not cure", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 565–566, that mass automation could create social unrest and dependency that cash transfers alone would not cure. Employment provides social capital, identity, purpose, and a sense of contribution as well as income. This is significant because a post-work policy must address psychological and communal functions of labor, not only consumption. It connects to universal basic income, meaningful work, social capital, community, psychological well-being, mass unemployment.", "significance": "mass automation could create social unrest and dependency that cash transfers alone would not cure. This matters because a post-work policy must address psychological and communal functions of labor, not only consumption.", "connections": ["universal basic income", "meaningful work", "social capital", "community", "psychological well-being", "mass unemployment"], "limitations": "The authors allow that preferences and expectations could change in a post-work society.", "evidence_summary": "Pages 565-566 explain why guaranteed income may not replace the nonpecuniary benefits of work.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p46", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
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{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p49", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "567", "pdf_pages": "23", "section": "Military Applications", "claim": "AI may transform military strategy while also creating risks from misuse, accident, and loss of control", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 567, that AI may transform military strategy while also creating risks from misuse, accident, and loss of control. A system capable of planning battles or wars can magnify both military effectiveness and the consequences of failure. This is significant because the same capability that makes autonomous weapons attractive makes their errors more consequential. It connects to military strategy, AI accidents, autonomy, weapons governance, dual use, catastrophic failure.", "significance": "AI may transform military strategy while also creating risks from misuse, accident, and loss of control. This matters because the same capability that makes autonomous weapons attractive makes their errors more consequential.", "connections": ["military strategy", "AI accidents", "autonomy", "weapons governance", "dual use", "catastrophic failure"], "limitations": "The article discusses potential future systems as well as weapons already containing AI components.", "evidence_summary": "Page 567 connects strategic capability with multiple pathways to harm.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p49", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
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{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p52", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "568", "pdf_pages": "24", "section": "Military Applications", "claim": "well-functioning autonomous weapons can still facilitate assassination and proliferation", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 568, that well-functioning autonomous weapons can still facilitate assassination and proliferation. Low-attribution attacks, theft, hacking, and cyberespionage can place powerful systems under hostile control. This is significant because regulation must address intended uses and transfer risks, not only malfunctions. It connects to assassination, cybersecurity, weapons proliferation, attribution, state actors, non-state actors.", "significance": "well-functioning autonomous weapons can still facilitate assassination and proliferation. This matters because regulation must address intended uses and transfer risks, not only malfunctions.", "connections": ["assassination", "cybersecurity", "weapons proliferation", "attribution", "state actors", "non-state actors"], "limitations": "The discussion identifies pathways of concern rather than documenting their frequency.", "evidence_summary": "Page 568 explains harms arising even when the underlying weapon operates as designed.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p52", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p53", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "568", "pdf_pages": "24", "section": "Geopolitical Risk", "claim": "advanced military AI could enable inexpensive global power projection and unprecedented imperial advantage", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 568, that advanced military AI could enable inexpensive global power projection and unprecedented imperial advantage. A dominant state might deploy force with fewer human casualties and fewer domestic political constraints. This is significant because lowering the cost of coercion can destabilize international order even when systems remain aligned with their operator. It connects to imperialism, military hegemony, power projection, geopolitics, political constraints, AI strategy.", "significance": "advanced military AI could enable inexpensive global power projection and unprecedented imperial advantage. This matters because lowering the cost of coercion can destabilize international order even when systems remain aligned with their operator.", "connections": ["imperialism", "military hegemony", "power projection", "geopolitics", "political constraints", "AI strategy"], "limitations": "The authors acknowledge that a hegemon could rule benignly but draw caution from colonial history.", "evidence_summary": "Page 568 links decisive military advantage to risks of global domination and abuse.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p53", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
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{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p81", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "582", "pdf_pages": "38", "section": "Potential Misalignment Harms", "claim": "warnings from leading AI developers and scientists are probative but not unanimous", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 582, that warnings from leading AI developers and scientists are probative but not unanimous. Altman, Hinton, and Bengio have voiced severe concern, while LeCun argues that risks can be managed over time. This is significant because policy should neither ignore informed warnings nor misrepresent expert disagreement as consensus. It connects to expert disagreement, AI pioneers, risk communication, existential risk, scientific judgment, epistemic humility.", "significance": "warnings from leading AI developers and scientists are probative but not unanimous. This matters because policy should neither ignore informed warnings nor misrepresent expert disagreement as consensus.", "connections": ["expert disagreement", "AI pioneers", "risk communication", "existential risk", "scientific judgment", "epistemic humility"], "limitations": "Public quotations are not substitutes for calibrated probability estimates or causal evidence.", "evidence_summary": "Page 582 presents prominent warnings alongside a leading skeptical view.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p81", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
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{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p83", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "583", "pdf_pages": "39", "section": "Potential Misalignment Harms", "claim": "large-scale AI calamity is not highly likely in the authors' assessment, but its probability is sufficient to take seriously", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 583, that large-scale AI calamity is not highly likely in the authors' assessment, but its probability is sufficient to take seriously. The position is neither certainty of doom nor dismissal: theoretical and suggestive evidence warrants preparation. This is significant because low-probability, high-consequence risk can merit action without being the modal forecast. It connects to tail risk, catastrophic harm, probability, precaution, risk management, AI governance.", "significance": "large-scale AI calamity is not highly likely in the authors' assessment, but its probability is sufficient to take seriously. This matters because low-probability, high-consequence risk can merit action without being the modal forecast.", "connections": ["tail risk", "catastrophic harm", "probability", "precaution", "risk management", "AI governance"], "limitations": "The authors rank existential catastrophe as even less likely than broader large-scale calamity.", "evidence_summary": "Page 583 states the authors' calibrated bottom-line assessment.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p83", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p84", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "583", "pdf_pages": "39", "section": "Potential Misalignment Harms", "claim": "alignment investment is minuscule relative to investment in AI capability", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 583, that alignment investment is minuscule relative to investment in AI capability. The imbalance leaves an unresolved control problem advancing more slowly than the systems whose behavior it must govern. This is significant because market incentives may underproduce safety research whose benefits are shared and whose costs slow competition. It connects to alignment research, capability race, public goods, research funding, market failure, AI safety.", "significance": "alignment investment is minuscule relative to investment in AI capability. This matters because market incentives may underproduce safety research whose benefits are shared and whose costs slow competition.", "connections": ["alignment research", "capability race", "public goods", "research funding", "market failure", "AI safety"], "limitations": "The page offers a qualitative comparison rather than a comprehensive spending estimate.", "evidence_summary": "Page 583 contrasts rapid capability investment with limited progress and organization in alignment research.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p84", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
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{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p87", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "585", "pdf_pages": "41", "section": "Systemic AI Regulation", "claim": "intrinsic AI risks require oversight of architecture, design, training, testing, and use", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 585, that intrinsic AI risks require oversight of architecture, design, training, testing, and use. Discrimination, inferential privacy, labor displacement, opacity, and autonomy can arise from the technology's operation across applications. This is significant because regulators must sometimes decide whether a system can operate safely, not merely punish a particular output after harm. It connects to AI lifecycle, architecture, training, testing, intrinsic risk, ex ante regulation.", "significance": "intrinsic AI risks require oversight of architecture, design, training, testing, and use. This matters because regulators must sometimes decide whether a system can operate safely, not merely punish a particular output after harm.", "connections": ["AI lifecycle", "architecture", "training", "testing", "intrinsic risk", "ex ante regulation"], "limitations": "Not every listed harm is wholly intrinsic, and use-specific context remains relevant.", "evidence_summary": "Page 585 applies the systemic thesis to several recurring risk mechanisms.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p87", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
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{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p91", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "586-588", "pdf_pages": "42-44", "section": "Risk Priorities", "claim": "near-term and catastrophic AI risks are complementary rather than zero-sum", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 586–588, that near-term and catastrophic AI risks are complementary rather than zero-sum. Many institutional measures can address both, and recognition of each supplies substantive and political support for the other. This is significant because factional conflict over time horizons can obstruct a coalition with overlapping regulatory interests. It connects to near-term harms, existential risk, coalition politics, common ground, AI regulation, false choice.", "significance": "near-term and catastrophic AI risks are complementary rather than zero-sum. This matters because factional conflict over time horizons can obstruct a coalition with overlapping regulatory interests.", "connections": ["near-term harms", "existential risk", "coalition politics", "common ground", "AI regulation", "false choice"], "limitations": "The authors do not erase genuine disagreements about priority, evidence, or particular interventions.", "evidence_summary": "Pages 586-588 critique the polarized public debate and state the complementary-risk thesis.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p91", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p92", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "587-588", "pdf_pages": "43-44", "section": "Risk Priorities", "claim": "regulation of immediate harms can create infrastructure for responding to more dangerous future systems", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 587–588, that regulation of immediate harms can create infrastructure for responding to more dangerous future systems. Existing review laws can be amended, litigation can surface warning signs, and pre-screening can identify risks before deployment. This is significant because institutional capacity built for present accountability has option value under future uncertainty. It connects to institution building, legal adaptation, pre-screening, litigation, future risk, regulatory capacity.", "significance": "regulation of immediate harms can create infrastructure for responding to more dangerous future systems. This matters because institutional capacity built for present accountability has option value under future uncertainty.", "connections": ["institution building", "legal adaptation", "pre-screening", "litigation", "future risk", "regulatory capacity"], "limitations": "Early institutions may require major revision if future systems differ radically.", "evidence_summary": "Pages 587-588 identify concrete pathways from present-harm rules to future governance.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p92", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p93", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "588", "pdf_pages": "44", "section": "Risk Priorities", "claim": "acknowledging catastrophic risk can strengthen regulation of current discrimination, privacy, and fraud", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 588, that acknowledging catastrophic risk can strengthen regulation of current discrimination, privacy, and fraud. It can resolve ambiguity in the regulatory calculus and mobilize people who are not otherwise focused on distributive harms. This is significant because a broader coalition can support comprehensive institutions that protect against multiple types of injury. It connects to political coalition, catastrophic risk, civil rights, privacy, fraud, regulatory momentum.", "significance": "acknowledging catastrophic risk can strengthen regulation of current discrimination, privacy, and fraud. This matters because a broader coalition can support comprehensive institutions that protect against multiple types of injury.", "connections": ["political coalition", "catastrophic risk", "civil rights", "privacy", "fraud", "regulatory momentum"], "limitations": "Coalition breadth does not guarantee agreement on policy design and can create strategic tensions.", "evidence_summary": "Page 588 explains the practical and political contribution of long-term risk recognition.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p93", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p94", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "588", "pdf_pages": "44", "section": "Risk Priorities", "claim": "systemic oversight does not displace targeted AI laws", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 588, that systemic oversight does not displace targeted AI laws. Legislatures can separately address discrimination, fraud, recursive improvement, or autonomous weapons while also governing shared infrastructure. This is significant because layered regulation can match different mechanisms and severities of harm. It connects to targeted regulation, systemic oversight, discrimination law, autonomous weapons, regulatory layering, legislatures.", "significance": "systemic oversight does not displace targeted AI laws. This matters because layered regulation can match different mechanisms and severities of harm.", "connections": ["targeted regulation", "systemic oversight", "discrimination law", "autonomous weapons", "regulatory layering", "legislatures"], "limitations": "The article does not specify preemption rules or resolve overlaps among regimes.", "evidence_summary": "Page 588 expressly preserves a role for particularized legislation.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p94", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p95", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "589-590", "pdf_pages": "45-46", "section": "Costs and Benefits", "claim": "AI is both unusually uncertain and capable of broad, transformative benefits", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 589–590, that AI is both unusually uncertain and capable of broad, transformative benefits. Potential gains include agriculture, environmental monitoring, medicine, information access, education, energy, human-rights monitoring, and disaster response. This is significant because regulatory analysis must count foregone benefits rather than treating risk reduction as costless. It connects to cost-benefit analysis, AI for social good, medicine, education, environment, disaster response.", "significance": "AI is both unusually uncertain and capable of broad, transformative benefits. This matters because regulatory analysis must count foregone benefits rather than treating risk reduction as costless.", "connections": ["cost-benefit analysis", "AI for social good", "medicine", "education", "environment", "disaster response"], "limitations": "The list is illustrative and includes projected as well as demonstrated benefits.", "evidence_summary": "Pages 589-590 place a wide benefit inventory alongside the technology's novel features.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p95", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
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{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p101", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "592-593", "pdf_pages": "48-49", "section": "Costs and Benefits", "claim": "maximin counsels choosing the policy with the best plausible worst-case outcome under deep uncertainty", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 592–593, that maximin counsels choosing the policy with the best plausible worst-case outcome under deep uncertainty. Regulators should not wait decades for probabilities to become precise when a preventable catastrophe is at stake. This is significant because worst-case protection may maximize welfare where losses are extreme and uncertainty is irreducible. It connects to maximin, decision theory, worst-case analysis, deep uncertainty, catastrophic harm, preventive regulation.", "significance": "maximin counsels choosing the policy with the best plausible worst-case outcome under deep uncertainty. This matters because worst-case protection may maximize welfare where losses are extreme and uncertainty is irreducible.", "connections": ["maximin", "decision theory", "worst-case analysis", "deep uncertainty", "catastrophic harm", "preventive regulation"], "limitations": "Maximin is controversial and can be overinclusive if worst cases are unconstrained or implausible.", "evidence_summary": "Pages 592-593 define maximin and apply it to AI.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p101", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
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{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p105", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "594", "pdf_pages": "50", "section": "Costs and Benefits", "claim": "present generations have a prima facie moral duty to err toward preserving humanity", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 594, that present generations have a prima facie moral duty to err toward preserving humanity. Future generations can later accelerate if knowledge improves, but extinction would eliminate their ability to choose. This is significant because reversibility and intergenerational agency support caution under current ignorance. It connects to intergenerational justice, reversibility, human dignity, moral duty, future generations, AI governance.", "significance": "present generations have a prima facie moral duty to err toward preserving humanity. This matters because reversibility and intergenerational agency support caution under current ignorance.", "connections": ["intergenerational justice", "reversibility", "human dignity", "moral duty", "future generations", "AI governance"], "limitations": "The duty is described as prima facie and does not mechanically decide every policy tradeoff.", "evidence_summary": "Page 594 states the ethical and pragmatic case for the safer route.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p105", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
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{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p121", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "600-601", "pdf_pages": "56-57", "section": "Litigation", "claim": "civil and constitutional litigation can compensate injuries caused by AI across tort, privacy, medicine, civil rights, fraud, and intellectual property", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 600–601, that civil and constitutional litigation can compensate injuries caused by AI across tort, privacy, medicine, civil rights, fraud, and intellectual property. Traditional causes of action provide immediate avenues while legislatures develop broader governance. This is significant because private enforcement distributes monitoring and gives harmed individuals a direct institutional remedy. It connects to civil litigation, constitutional claims, tort law, privacy, intellectual property, AI harms.", "significance": "civil and constitutional litigation can compensate injuries caused by AI across tort, privacy, medicine, civil rights, fraud, and intellectual property. This matters because private enforcement distributes monitoring and gives harmed individuals a direct institutional remedy.", "connections": ["civil litigation", "constitutional claims", "tort law", "privacy", "intellectual property", "AI harms"], "limitations": "Existing doctrine may leave causation, standing, proof, and remedy gaps.", "evidence_summary": "Pages 600-601 outline the range of claims through which AI harms may reach courts.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p121", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
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{"schema_version": "1.0", "proposition_id": "ssrn-4666854-p124", "paper_id": "ssrn-4666854", "paper_title": "Systemic Regulation of AI", "authors": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson, and Albert Lin", "citation": "Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, 56 Ariz. St. L.J. 545 (2024).", "source_type": "published journal PDF", "source_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/paper.pdf", "printed_pages": "601-602", "pdf_pages": "57-58", "section": "Litigation", "claim": "strict liability may fit AI harms because developers often control risk and victims face unusual proof barriers", "thick_description": "Professor Yonathan Arbel claims, in the coauthored article “Systemic Regulation of Artificial Intelligence” on pages 601–602, that strict liability may fit AI harms because developers often control risk and victims face unusual proof barriers. Existing proposals extend this logic to autonomous systems and other hard-to-observe algorithmic conduct. This is significant because allocating loss to the better risk bearer can improve both compensation and prevention. It connects to strict liability, proof asymmetry, risk bearer, autonomous systems, tort theory, compensation.", "significance": "strict liability may fit AI harms because developers often control risk and victims face unusual proof barriers. This matters because allocating loss to the better risk bearer can improve both compensation and prevention.", "connections": ["strict liability", "proof asymmetry", "risk bearer", "autonomous systems", "tort theory", "compensation"], "limitations": "The authors report scholarly proposals rather than unequivocally selecting one universal liability rule.", "evidence_summary": "Pages 601-602 summarize the rationale for strict-liability approaches.", "review_status": "machine-drafted-source-checked", "human_reviewed": false, "generated_on": "2026-09-04", "canonical_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/#proposition-p124", "dataset_url": "https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl"}
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