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: skip to main skip to sidebar Law Humanities Blog A blog about law , the humanities , and popular culture December 30, 2024 Williams on The Law Being Weirder Than AI uidaholaw Sam Williams , University of Idaho College of Law , has published The Law is Weirder than AI Here is the abstract . Between artificial intelligence threatening to take our jobs and destroy the world while adopting the aesthetic of the weird and a presidential election that will be partially determined by how people feel about being weird , it seems like the weird is taking over . In this article , I make the case for embracing the weird . Only by embracing our own weirdness can we make sense of the weirdness or lack thereof of those that we do not understand . Primarily through the lens of author H.P . Lovecraft's
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