University of Pennsylvania Law School
Coverage of University of Pennsylvania Law School in the Nexus archive.
- The rising stakes of elections: A conversation with Jerry Goldfeder
Jerry Goldfeder, an election law expert and attorney, discusses concerns about democratic backsliding in the U.S., comparing it to situations in Hungary, Poland, and Turkey. He highlights Congress's reduced role in checking executive power and emphasizes the importance of free and fair elections, teaching courses on preserving democracy and authoring a book on election law.
- ChatGPT Confessed to a Crime It Couldn’t Possibly Have Committed
Paul Heaton, an academic director at the University of Pennsylvania's Quattrone Center, used Reid interrogation techniques to elicit a false confession from ChatGPT, a language model incapable of committing the crime. The experiment highlights vulnerabilities in AI systems to coercive methods and raises concerns about false confessions in real-world justice systems.