Scaling Laws: Eugene Volokh on Libel and AI
Jul 18, 2025•59 min
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Episode description
In this Scaling Laws Academy "class," Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at Texas Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, speaks with Eugene Volokh, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and long-time professor of law at UCLA, on libel in the AI context. The two dive into Volokh's paper, “Large Libel Models? Liability for AI Output.”
- Extra credit for those who give it a full read and explore some of the "homework" below:
- “Beyond Section 230: Principles for AI Governance,” 138 Harv. L. Rev. 1657 (2025)
- “When Artificial Agents Lie, Defame, and Defraud, Who Is to Blame?,” Stanford HAI (2021)
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