Most AI policy conversations start from the assumption that we're in unprecedented territory. But are we? This conversation brings together three scholars, all of whom regularly engage in today's policy battles, and zooms out to consider whether history has lessons for how our institutions should adapt to rapid technological change. Just how radically might AI destabilize and restructure our constitutional and political order? What historical analogues might guide us in thinking about how this process might, or should, unfold?

Part of the AI Governance Speaker Series co-sponsored by AISST and the HLS AI Law Association (AIA).