Recent publications

Most of my recent writing is about how law and society should meet machines that are good at reading people. The exception is a stroke-care paper from my hospital work. Entries link to the publisher or repository copy; nothing unpublished is hosted here.

Published

• Filippi, D. S., Tomlinson, B., & Torrance, A. W. (2026). The Law and AI as an "Apex Collaborator": Legal Frameworks for Optimized Cooperation. FIU Law Review, 20(3), Article 7, 887–912. Published. doi:10.25148/lawrev.20.3.7 · FIU Law Review · SSRN preprint

  We argue that the most valuable role for AI is as a facilitator of cooperation among people, and we map the legal changes that would steer its development that way.

• Goodwin, G., Yelkin, H., Mauger, M., Filippi, D., Badawy, A., Chang, J., Leicht, B., & Marra, E. (2025). Various sociodemographic variables on acute and inpatient stroke care. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, 34(8), 108350. Published. doi:10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2025.108350 · PubMed

  A large multi-hospital study of who receives clot-busting treatment for stroke and how long patients stay, and how age, sex, insurance, race, ethnicity, and language relate to those outcomes.

Accepted and in press

• Filippi, D. S., Tomlinson, B., & Torrance, A. W. In Its Right Mind: Governance of Social Superintelligence. FIU Law Review, forthcoming. In press. SSRN preprint

  How should the law govern an AI that is better than people at understanding, persuading, and bonding with people? This paper takes that question seriously and proposes some answers.

• Filippi, D. S., Tomlinson, B., & Torrance, A. W. Control Is Not Enough: Social Foundations of Superintelligence Governance. Book chapter, Edward Elgar Publishing. In press.

  A chapter arguing that a superintelligence we can live with needs built-in social and emotional competence, and that containment alone will not get us there.

In development

• Sociographagnosia. In development.

  A working paper. More here when it is ready.

Earlier

From my epidemiology training: Banerjee, P. N., Filippi, D., & Hauser, W. A. (2009). The descriptive epidemiology of epilepsy: a review. Epilepsy Research, 85(1), 31–45. doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2009.03.003