The enTalkenator Podcast

Workshop on “Artificial Legal Agents and the Alien Stance

February 26, 2026

Christian Turner, Artificial Legal Agents and the Alien Stance, at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6305138.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (using the “workshop hot bench” template and authored by Claude Opus 4.6).

Abstract: “We find ourselves …


Workshop on “Ruling for the Rich: The Supreme Court over Time”

January 5, 2026

Andrea Prat, Fiona Scott Morton, and Jacob Spitz, Ruling for the Rich: The Supreme Court over Time, at http://www.nber.org/papers/w34643.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (using the “workshop hot bench” template and authored by Claude Opus 4.5).

Abstract: “To …


Khadangi at al., “When AI Takes the Couch: Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models”

December 15, 2025

Afshin Khadangi, Hanna Marxen, Amir Sartipi, Igor Tchappi, and Gilbert Fridgen, When AI Takes the Couch: Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models, at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.04124.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (using the “workshop …


Discussion of AI and political persuasion

December 5, 2025

This is a synthetic workshop discussion of two new papers:


Workshop on Sohoni’s “In CASA You Missed It”

December 5, 2025

Mila Sohoni, In CASA You Missed It.

Solum’s Download of the Week for November 29, 2025. Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5799882.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (Workshop Hot Bench template, using the new Claude Opus 4.5).

Abstract: …


Workshop on Kavanagh’s “Keeping It Real in Constitutional Theory”

December 1, 2025

Aileen Kavanagh, Keeping It Real in Constitutional Theory.

Solum’s Download of the Week for November 22, 2025. Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5760902.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (Workshop Hot Bench template, using the new …


Workshop on Shugerman & Lawson’s “Presidential Removal as Article I, Not Article II”

November 25, 2025

Jed H. Shugerman and Gary Lawson, Presidential Removal as Article I, Not Article II.

Solum’s Download of the Week for November 15, 2025. Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5736583.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (Workshop Hot Bench …


Workshop on Dixon and Landau’s “Utopian Constitutionalism”

November 18, 2025

Rosalind Dixon and David Landau, Utopian Constitutionalism.

Solum’s Download of the Week for November 8, 2025. Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5620170.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (Workshop Hot Bench template, using the new …


Workshop on West’s “Abstract Review in Article III Courts”

November 8, 2025

E. Garrett West, Abstract Review in Article III Courts.

Solum’s Download of the Week for November 1, 2025. Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5620170.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (Workshop Hot Bench template, using Claude Sonnet …


Workshop on “Fragmentation and Multithreading of Experience in the Default-Mode Network”

November 3, 2025

Fahd Yazin, Gargi Majumdar, Neil Bramley, & Paul Hoffman, Fragmentation and Multithreading of Experience in the Default-Mode Network, 16 Nature Communications, 8401 (2025), available at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63522-y.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using …


Workshop on Gold and Smith’s “Managing Legal Concepts”

October 29, 2025

Andrew S. Gold and Henry E. Smith, Managing Legal Concepts: Maintenance, Modulation, Modification.

Solum’s Download of the Week for October 24, 2025. Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5620170.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (Workshop …


Workshop on “Sycophantic AI”

October 27, 2025

Myra Cheng, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Sunny Yu, Dyllan Han, and Dan Jurafsky, Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence, available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01395.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (using an AI-generated …


Workshop on “A Definition of AGI”

October 24, 2025

Dan Hendrycks et al., A Definition of AGI, available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18212.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (using an AI-generated interdisciplinary workshop template and authored by Google Gemini 2.5 Pro).

Abstract: “The lack of a concrete definition …


Workshop on Coan’s “The Appellate Void”

October 24, 2025

Andrew Coan, The Appellate Void.

Solum’s Download of the Week for October 17, 2025. Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5571120.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (Workshop Hot Bench template, using Gemini 2.5 Pro).

Abstract: “What would …


Workshop on Ahmed’s “The Two Faces of Representation”

October 16, 2025

Ashraf Ahmed, The Two Faces of Representation.

Solum’s Download of the Week for October 10, 2025. Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5122328.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (Workshop Hot Bench template, using Claude Sonnet 4.5). …


Workshop on Bray’s “Remedies in the Officer Removal Cases”

October 10, 2025

Samuel L. Bray, Remedies in the Office Removal Cases.

Solum’s Download of the Week for October 3, 2025. Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5515261.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (Workshop Hot Bench template, using Claude Sonnet 4.5). …


Workshop on Tsesis’s “Originalist Framing Of Free Speech Doctrine”

September 29, 2025

Alexander Tsesis, Originalist Framing Of Free Speech Doctrine.

Solum’s Download of the Week for September 20, 2025. Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5317849.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (Workshop Hot Bench template, using Claude …


Interdisciplinary Workshop on “Genome Language Models”

September 22, 2025

Samuel H. King, Claudia L. Driscoll, David B. Li, Daniel Guo, Aditi T. Merchant, Garyk Brixi, Max E. Wilkinson, and Brian L. Hie, Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models, available at https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.675911v1.

This is a synthetic …


Workshop on Cross’s “The Amended Statute”

September 21, 2025

Jesse Cross, The Amended Statute.

Solum’s Download of the Week for September 20, 2025. Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5426276.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (Workshop Hot Bench template, using Gemini 2.5 Pro).

Abstract: “We live in …


Workshop on “Plutocratic Democracy, Elon Musk, and the Limits of Campaign Finance Reform”

September 15, 2025

Guy-Uriel E. Charles & Farris Peale, Plutocratic Democracy, Elon Musk, and the Limits of Campaign Finance Reform.

Solum’s Download of the Week for September 13, 2025. Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5397907.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using …


Workshop on Kadri and West’s “Deepfake Torts”

September 7, 2025

Thomas Kadri and Sonja West, Deepfake Torts: Emerging Tort Frameworks in U.S. Deepfake Regulation.

Solum’s Download of the Week for September 6, 2025. Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5325857.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (variation …


Workshop on Bradley and Siegel’s “The Supreme Court Under Threat”

July 21, 2025

Curtis Bradley and Neil Siegel, The Supreme Court Under Threat: Early Lessons in Judicial Self-Protection.

Solum’s Download of the Week for July 19, 2025. Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5325857.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator …


Workshop on surprising findings in “Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity”

July 18, 2025

Joel Becker, Nate Rush, Elizabeth Barnes, David Rein, Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity.

Available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (a variation of the Workshop template, using …


Workshop on Toomey’s “Personhood as Participation”

July 12, 2025

James Toomey, Personhood as Participation.

Solum’s Download of the Week for July 12, 2025. Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5334704.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (variation of the Workshop template, using Gemini 2.5 Pro).

Abstract: …


Workshop on West’s “Taming the Shadow Docket”

July 8, 2025

E. Garrett West, Taming the Shadow Docket.

Solum’s Download of the Week for July 5, 2025. Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5329091.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (Workshop Hot Bench template, using Gemini 2.5 Pro).

Abstract: “The …


Workshop on Aditi Bagchi’s “In Search of the Wrongdoer Behind Unjust Pricing”

June 30, 2025

Aditi Bagchi, In Search of the Wrongdoer Behind Unjust Pricing.

Solum’s Download of the Week for June 28, 2025. Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5310507.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (a variation of the Workshop template, using …


Intro Class AND Workshop on “AlphaGenome”

June 25, 2025

Žiga Avsec et al., AlphaGenome: advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with a unified DNA sequence model.

Available at https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/papers/alphagenome.pdf.

Something special this week: a synthetic introductory class (at 00:00:00) and a synthetic academic …


Workshop on “Unwarranted Warrants”

June 23, 2025

Miguel F.P. de Figueiredo, Brett Hashimoto, and Dane Thorley, Unwarranted Warrants? An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Review in Search and Seizure.

Solum’s Download of the Week for June 21, 2025. Available here at the Harvard Law Review.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using …


Workshop on Kosmyna et al. “Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task”

June 19, 2025

Nataliya Kosmyna, Eugene Hauptmann, Ye Tong Yuan, Jessica Situ, Xian-Hao Liao, Ashly Vivian Beresnitzky, Iris Braunstein, Pattie Maes, Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task.

Available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872.

This is a …


Workshop on Dinovelli’s “The Federal Reserve Exception”

June 16, 2025

Benjamin Dinovelli, The Federal Reserve Exception.

Solum’s Download of the Week for June 14, 2025. Available on SSRN.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (a variation of the Workshop template, using the Google Gemini 2.5 Pro). Another interesting and erroneous wrinkle …


Workshop on Yvette Butler’s “Epistemic Appropriation, Critical Defanging, and Lessons for a Responsive New Reconstruction”

June 9, 2025

Yvette Butler, Epistemic Appropriation, Critical Defanging, and Lessons for a Responsive New Reconstruction.

Solum’s Download of the Week for June 7, 2025. Available on SSRN.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (a variation of the Workshop template, using the Google …


Intro class on using airborne eDNA for “rapid assessment of whole biomes, population genetics and genomic variation”

June 3, 2025

Orestis Nousias, Mark McCauley, Maximilian R. Stammnitz, Jessica A. Farrell, Samantha A. Koda, Victoria Summers, Catherine B. Eastman, Fiona G. Duffy, Isabelle J. Duffy, Jenny Whilde & David J. Duffy, Shotgun sequencing of airborne eDNA achieves rapid assessment of whole biomes, population …


Workshop on Bradley and Gordon Smith’s “Must Jurors Know the Stakes of Conviction?

May 31, 2025

Colin Bradley & Eleanor Gordon-Smith, Must Jurors Know the Stakes of Conviction? Sentencing, Encroachment, and Legal Proof.

Solum’s Download of the Week for May 31, 2025. Available on SSRN.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (a variation of the Workshop template, …


Intro class on “The emergence and demise of giant sloths”

May 29, 2025

Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee, Advait Sarka, Lev Tankelevitch, Ian Drosos, Sean Rintel, Richard Banks, and Nicholas Wilson, The emergence and demise of giant sloths, available at https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu0704.

This is a synthetic introductory class (no expertise assumed!) generated using …


Workshop on Bradley and Siegel’s “Court-Stripping, Court-Packing, And Court-Defying”

May 24, 2025

Curtis Bradley and Neil Siegel, Court-Stripping, Court-Packing, And Court-Defying: Revisiting The Essential Functions Of The U.S. Supreme Court.

Solum’s Download of the Week for May 24, 2025. Available on SSRN.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (a variation of the …


Intro class on “The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking”

May 21, 2025

Boscaini et al., The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers, available at …


Workshop on Hannah Walser’s “Interpretive Facts: Textualism, Empiricism, and the Law-Fact Divide”

May 19, 2025

Hannah Walser, Interpretive Facts: Textualism, Empiricism, and the Law-Fact Divide.

Solum’s Download of the Week for May 17, 2025. Available on SSRN.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (a variation of the Workshop template, using Claude 3.7 Sonnet).

Abstract: “This …


Workshop on E. Garrett West, “Constitutional Private Law”

May 12, 2025

E. Garrett West, Constitutional Private Law.

Solum’s Download of the Week for May 10, 2025. Available on SSRN.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (a variation of the Workshop template, using Google Gemini 2.5 Pro).

Abstract: “Constitutional private law is like ordinary …


Interdisciplinary Workshop on “Trophic level influences larval Shortbelly Rockfish development”

May 7, 2025

Kwan et al., Trophic level influences larval Shortbelly Rockfish development, available at https://academic.oup.com/mcf/article/16/6/e10319/7959870.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (using an AI-generated interdisciplinary workshop template and authored by Google …


Workshop on J. Joel Alicea, “Originalism, the Administrative State, and the Clash of Political Theories”

May 3, 2025

J. Joel Alicea, Originalism, the Administrative State, and the Clash of Political Theories.

Solum’s Download of the Week for May 3, 2025. Available on SSRN.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (a variation of the Workshop template, using Claude 3.7 Sonnet).

Abstract: “The …


Bonus: Two roundtables on a tech interview and … a Buddhist sutta

May 1, 2025

Here’s something a little different. I gave enTalkenator a text containing (a) Ben Thompson’s excellent interview with Mark Zuckerberg (posted this morning), on, among other things, Meta’s AI strategy and (b) the famous Satipatthana Sutta, the discourse on the four foundations of mindfulness. On …


Interdisciplinary Workshop on “Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness”

April 30, 2025

Cogitate Consortium (many authors), Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness, available at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08888-1.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (using an AI-generated …


Workshop on Eli Nachmany’s “The Original FTC”

April 26, 2025

Eli Nachmany, The Original FTC.

Solum’s Download of the Week for April 26, 2025. Available on SSRN.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (a variation of the Workshop template, using Google Gemini 2.5 Pro).

Abstract: “In 1914, Congress established the Federal Trade …


A roundtable on three AI articles: Normal tech, biological, or jagged super-intelligence

April 24, 2025

This episode begins with a brief summary (created by enTalkenator after asking it to generate a summary of multiple, related articles) of three recent articles and then (at 00:14:39) proceeds to a roundtable discussion, generated by modifying the built-in Critics’ Roundtable template. These are the …


Kramer on “Logical Quantification and the Hohfeldian Analysis of Rights”

April 20, 2025

Matthew H. Kramer, Logical Quantification and the Hohfeldian Analysis of Rights.

Solum’s Download of the Week for April 19, 2025. Available on SSRN.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (a variation of the Workshop template).

Abstract: “Ever since the American legal …


Intro to “Functional Connectomics Spanning Multiple Areas of Mouse Visual Cortex”

April 16, 2025

The MICrONS Consortium, Functional Connectomics Spanning Multiple Areas of Mouse Visual Cortex, available at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08790-w.

This is a synthetic introductory class (no expertise assumed!) generated using enTalkenator (selecting Claude 3.7 Sonnet).

Abstract: …


Jonathan Choi, “Large Language Models Are Unreliable Judges”

April 12, 2025

Jonathan H. Choi, Large Language Models Are Unreliable Judges.

Solum’s Download of the Week for April 12, 2025. Available on SSRN.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (a variation of the Workshop template and Claude 3.7 Sonnet).

Abstract: “Can large language models (LLMs) …


Enschmittification

April 9, 2025

At the behest of Corey Yung and Ben Heath on Blue Sky (https://bsky.app/profile/coreyryung.bsky.social/post/3lmftb35eis2p), I put “Enschmittification, a law review article about the ways law and policy in the US are drifting toward Carl Schmitt” into enTalkenator and selected the First Draft …


Workshop on “Why an overreliance on AI-driven modelling is bad for science” by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor

April 9, 2025

Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, Why an overreliance on AI-driven modelling is bad for science, available at https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01067-2.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (selecting Google Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental).

The article discussed …


Bradley and Siegel, “Revisiting The Essential Functions Thesis: A Structural Account Of The Supreme Court's Roles”

April 5, 2025

Curtis Bradley and Neil Siegel, Revisiting The Essential Functions Thesis: A Structural Account Of The Supreme Court's Roles.

Solum’s Download of the Week for March 29, 2025. Available on SSRN.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (a variation of the Workshop template and …


Introduction to Littlejohn et al. on “A Streaming Brain-to-Voice Neuroprosthesis to Restore Naturalistic Communication”

April 2, 2025

Kaylo T. Littlejohn et al. (many authors), A Streaming Brain-to-Voice Neuroprosthesis to Restore Naturalistic Communication, available at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-01905-6.

This is a synthetic introductory class (no expertise assumed!) generated using enTalkenator (selecting Google …


Ramsey on “The Originalist Case Against the Insular Cases”

March 31, 2025

Michael D. Ramsey, The Originalist Case Against the Insular Cases.

Solum’s Download of the Week for March 29, 2025. Available on SSRN.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator.

Abstract: “Concurring in United States v. Vaello Madero, Justice Neil Gorsuch argued that the …


Academic Workshop on Anthropic Research “Circuit Tracing”

March 27, 2025

Emmaniel Ameisen et al. (many authors), Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models, available at https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/methods.html.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator (selecting Claude 3.7 Sonnet).

Abstract: We …


Intro to Anthropic Research “On the Biology of a Large Language Model”

March 27, 2025

Jack Lindsey et al. (many authors), On the Biology of a Large Language Model, available at https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/biology.html.

This is a synthetic introductory class (no expertise assumed!) generated using enTalkenator (selecting Claude 3.7 Sonnet).

Abstract: We …


Intro to Anthropic Research on “Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models”

March 27, 2025

Emmaniel Ameisen et al. (many authors), Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models, available at https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/methods.html.

This is a synthetic introductory class (no expertise assumed!) generated using enTalkenator (selecting Claude …


Kerr on “Data Scanning and the Fourth Amendment”

March 23, 2025

Orin S. Kerr, Data Scanning and the Fourth Amendment.

Solum’s Download of the Week for March 23, 2025. Available on SSRN.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator.

Abstract: “A crucial question of Fourth Amendment law has recently divided courts: When government agents conduct …


An introductory class on recent groundbreaking findings on dark energy (DESI)

March 20, 2025

M. Abdul Karim et al. (many authors), DESI DR2 Results II: Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and Cosmological Constraints, available at https://data.desi.lbl.gov/public/papers/y3/KP.DR2.BAO.pdf.

This is a synthetic introductory class (no expertise assumed!) generated using enTalkenator. …


Cohen, “Oligarchy, State, and Cryptopia”

March 14, 2025

Julie E. Cohen, Oligarchy, State, and Cryptopia.

Solum’s Download of the Week for March 13, 2025. Available on SSRN.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator.

Abstract: “Theoretical accounts of power in networked digital environments typically do not give systematic attention …


A brief introductory class on Ongole, Singh, and Wang on loop quantum black holes

March 11, 2025

Geeth Ongole, Parampreet Singh, and Anzhong Wang, Lessons from gauge fixing and polymerization of loop quantum black holes with a cosmological constant, available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09718.

This is a synthetic introductory class (no expertise assumed!) generated using enTalkenator. Give it …


Larsen, “Is History Precedent?”

March 8, 2025

Alli Orr Larsen, Is History Precedent?

Solum’s Download of the Week for March 8, 2025. Available on SSRN.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator.

Abstract: “It has been just over two years since the Supreme Court instructed lower courts to evaluate Second Amendment …


Stone on “Rights, Remedies, and Normative Uncertainty about Justice”

March 3, 2025

Rebecca Stone, Rights, Remedies, and Normative Uncertainty about Justice.

Solum’s Download of the Week for March 1, 2025. Available on SSRN.

This is a synthetic academic workshop generated using enTalkenator.

Abstract: “I develop and defend a novel account of the private law of remedies according to …


Vaswani et al., “Attention Is All You Need”

March 1, 2025

An introductory class on the now-famous paper, Attention Is All You Need, by Ashish Vaswani, Llion Jones, Noam Shazeer, Aidan N. Gomez, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Łukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin.

This class was generated by enTalkenator using the Introduction template.


Mark Twain, The War Prayer

February 1, 2025

Here’s an enTalkenator file that includes the text, narration, and a critics’ roundtable: The War Prayer.