Layla Hughes

I’ve been an environmental lawyer for three decades, mostly representing indigenous and conservation groups in their goals to slow or stop fossil fuel development in the Arctic. One of my foundational approaches has been the precautionary principle, which has various formulations but essentially says, “where there are threats of serious...

cross-posted at https://open.substack.com/pub/laylahughes/p/sophisticated-horoscope?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web I asked ChatGPT a simple question about Daniel Kahneman’s affect heuristic. Twenty messages later, I was locked in what felt like an epistemological hostage negotiation, demanding to know how an AI had seemingly assembled a psychological profile of me that I had never consented to create. The...