Alan Rozenshtein

A big part of my excitement at this opportunity is based on how how much support I've gotten from my institution and my colleagues (especially our fabulous dean @wmcgeveran.bsky.social). I'm very lucky!

Personal update: I've taken leave from @umnlawschool.bsky.social to join @anthropic.com as a member of technical staff researching AI and the rule of law at the Anthropic Institute. Excited to work with @botvinick.bsky.social and the rest of the team!

Excellent. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/o...

In Chatrie, the Court did what it should have done in Carpenter: find that there was a Fourth Amendment search but be flexible on what counts as valid predication. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

@robertwrighter.bsky.social has written a terrific new book about AI. I got to talk with him about it on @scalinglaws.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Turns out the U.S. did achieve unconditional surrender in the war in Iran...it was just our own surrender, not Iran's. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...

"Even if Anthropic persuades the government to lift the control, the deeper question will remain: whether there should be, and if so under what circumstances, a licensing regime for frontier AI," writes @alanrozenshtein.com.

On Friday, Anthropic received a letter from the Trump administration ordering the company to suspend all access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for foreign nationals. @alanrozenshtein.com explains the likely legal authority behind these export controls.

My latest on the Fable export control order, for @lawfaremedia.org. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-ki...

If the USG’s export controls on Fable continue, it might set up the first big First Amendment case of the AI era.

I'm tired of winning.

The response to this should be fun to watch. www.vanderbilt.edu/principles/s...

Excellent line: "Edison said that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. But we see perspiration becoming increasingly automated." www.anthropic.com/institute/re...

Yikes! www.stephenbainbridge.com/p/the-social...

"Voluntary" isn't the floor of frontier AI policy in the Trump WH—it's the ceiling. And even that couldn't survive a few last-minute calls from industry. @kevintfrazier.bsky.social and @alanrozenshtein.com on what was killed in the AI EO and what comes next: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-g...

On the AI cybersecurity executive order that wasn't, with @kevintfrazier.bsky.social in @lawfaremedia.org. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-g...

wow. Judge Henderson of DC Circuit (tho maybe her alone) is not at all buying DoD's "supply chain risk" designation of @anthropic.com . "For the life of me I don't see any evidence of maliciousness ... sabotage ... [or other words in definition]. To me this is just spectacular overreach by the dept"

Recent reporting suggests that President Trump plans to sign an executive order promoting information sharing between AI labs and the government to identify risks by new models. @kevintfrazier.bsky.social and @alanrozenshtein.com explain the “dominating AI by understanding AI” agenda.

Congrats to @brendanballou.bsky.social for his new book! Excited to read.

Almost a year ago, @lawfaremedia.org 's @alanrozenshtein.com and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org analyzed the nothing-burger 8647 seashell tweet and its worth revisiting: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Today James Comey was indicted by DOJ for the second time, this time over a social media post of a picture of seashells arranged to say “8647." When it was first posted, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and @alanrozenshtein.com explained why the mollusks in question don’t make out a threat.

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New episode: @alanrozenshtein.com talks to @jassipannu.bsky.social and Doni Bloomfield about why governing biological data may be the most urgent AI risk policymakers aren't paying enough attention to. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Oh wow today's Anthropic hearing is going to be brutal for the government. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States.

I’ve noticed a lot more engagement recently (and as reflected here) in this issue among law professors on this issue. When @kevintfrazier.bsky.social and I wrote our piece about this a year ago we sometimes had to convince people to care. Not anymore. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This is the key point. From the other place:

The Pentagon's decision to end its relationship with Anthropic by designating it a supply chain risk bypassed the ordinary procurement system Congress built for contract disputes. The court should push back—by making the Defense Department follow the law, writes @alanrozenshtein.com.

In light of the gov's opp. motion in the Anthropic-DOD case, I have a new @lawfaremedia.org piece arguing for a narrow injunction against the supply chain risk designation and Trump's gov-wide order but that allows the gov to cancel individual Ant contracts. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

This was one of the most fun and provocative @scalinglaws.bsky.social conversations I've had in a while!

When you've lost John Bolton on war in Iran...

Want to learn the basics about the 2 laws the govt is using vs Anthropic? My @lawfaremedia.org colleague @alanrozenshtein.com has submitted this amicus brief, which is a terrific primer. He's a prof at @umnlawschool.bsky.social & ex-DOJ Nat Sec Div atty. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Thanks to @legalafmtn.bsky.social for having me to talk about the Anthropic-Pentagon fight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tszq...

Fight! Fight! Fight! @jmiers230.bsky.social our frenemy story arc is going to be epic. To the octagon! reason.com/2026/03/11/a...

“There’s an extraordinarily deep and important issue lurking somewhere here, which is, what should the relationship be between the government and the AI industry?” @alanrozenshtein.com interviewed by @rollingstone.com and @reuters.com about the impasse between the DOD and Anthropic. z.umn.edu/b595

Proud to accept this award, thanks. Seriously though, this isn't 2020 anymore—you can't just call people names to shut them up. I tried to have a good faith dialogue about whether LLMs can translate text. The response was name-calling & "I see no beneficial use cases for synthetic text." In 2026. OK

Listening in to the status conference in Anthropic v. Department of War in NDCal. (Yes, Department of War is the name on the docket.) May be uneventful, but will post here if there’s anything of interest!