Professors Woodrow Hartzog and Jessica Silbey of Boston University offer a profound critique of AI that you won’t read elsewhere. As they put it, “we hope to convince you of one simple and urgent point:
the current design of artificial intelligence systems facilitates the degradation and
destruction of our critical civic institutions.” You can find their work on SSRN here: A key read for us all.

Hartzog, Woodrow and Silbey, Jessica M., How AI Destroys Institutions (December 05, 2025). 77 UC Law Journal (forthcoming 2026), Boston Univ. School of Law Research Paper No. 5870623, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5870623