Visiting Legal Scholar to Discuss AI, Presidential Authority in Oct. 23 Stranahan Lecture

Visiting Legal Scholar to Discuss AI, Presidential Authority in Oct. 23 Stranahan Lecture

The University of Toledo College of Law will host a visiting legal scholar to discuss how the proliferation of advanced artificial intelligence systems is poised to dramatically concentrate presidential authority on Thursday, Oct. 23.

Alan Rozenshtein of the University of Minnesota Law School will present "The Unitary AI Executive," a free, public lecture and part of the Stranahan National Issues Forum, at noon in the McQuade Law Auditorium.

In addition to his position as an associate professor of law at the University of Minnesota, Rozenshtein is the research director and a senior editor at Lawfare, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Scholars Strategy Network.

He was previously an affiliate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and an attorney advisor in the Office of Law and Policy in the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

In "The Unitary AI Executive," Rozenshtein will outline five key vectors through which AI is likely to augment presidential authority with a particular focus on the ultimate realization of a long-debated constitutional theory: the unitary executive.

"The Stranahan National Issues Forum is one of my favorite speaker events at UToledo, and I'm particularly excited this year to hear Professor Rozenshtein address questions about AI possibly aggregating power to the executive," said Gregory Gilchrist, a professor of law at UToledo. "I can't remember a time when I wasn't aware that American exceptionalism is predicated in significant part on checks and balances among the branches of government. The prospect that new technologies could put this at risk is something that ought to interest everyone."

The Stranahan National Issues Forum is sponsored by the UToledo College of Law and the UToledo Institute of American Constitutional Thought and Leadership.

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For more information, go to the Stranahan National Issues Forum website.