Daniel
Kalish
I work on law and
technology. Government & Philosophy at William & Mary, now at the
Kirkland & Ellis Corporate Lab at UChicago Law.
01Writing & Research
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Thesis
2025
Existential Risk: The AI Safety Movement in the U.S. and China
Honors thesis in Government at William & Mary. Won the Warner Moss Prize.
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Essay
Jun 2026
Old Words, New Worlds: Notes from a Trip to England
The Institute for Law and AI's summer school in Cambridge, plus a few days in London.
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Essay
Feb 2026
The Patchwork of Legal AI Guidance
On the scattered rules governing how lawyers can use AI.
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Journal
Mar 2025
From Nikolaev to Brooklyn: Chabad Hasidism as an Existential Theology of Modernity
Published in William & Mary's Judaic Studies Review.
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Poster
Nov 2025
Consciousness Optional: The Corporate Personhood Model for AI Rights
Poster, Eleos Conference on AI Consciousness and Welfare, Berkeley.
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Substack
More at dkalish.substack.com
Essays & notes, sent occasionally.
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02Selected Work
Serious builds
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LSAT Focus
A study log for LSAT prep: timed sessions, streaks, and a journal of every wrong answer.
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AI Policy Tracker Tracker
Lots of sites track AI policy. This one catalogs 84 of them, with notes on which have gone stale and what none of them cover.
W-03Supabase
Law TTS
Reads photographed textbook pages aloud, skipping the citations and footnotes.
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Library Cataloger
Snap a photo or scan the barcode, approve the details, and the book lands on its virtual shelf.
03Experiments
For fun
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robotcha
A backwards CAPTCHA. Prove you're a robot: recite pi, convert binary, land a slider on the exact product of two four-digit numbers.
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Voyage en Palestine
An annotated English translation of Gabriel Charmes' 1884 travelogue, built page by page from photos of a copy I found in France. In progress.
04Contact
Say hello
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