Clearview has faced numerous lawsuits seeking to hold the company accountable for its invasive facial recognition app. And in every one of the suits, the company has attempted to immunize itself from liability by arguing that its business model for developing and deploying its facial recognition technology is “speech” protected by the First Amendment.

But if courts were to accept this argument, it would be dangerous. Not only would it allow Clearview’s activities to go unchecked, but it would also create a major obstacle to regulating and protecting the public from the harms and risks of emerging AI technologies.

Everyone knows that arithmetic is true: 2 + 2 = 4.But surprisingly, we don't know why it's true.

Monotonicity is the intuition of "order preserving" and helps us keep track of our place in the world, so that when we approach an object it looms larger but smaller when we move away.

Convexity is grounded in intuitions of "betweenness". For example, the four corners of a football pitch define the playing field even without boundary lines connecting them.

Continuity describes the smoothness with which objects seem to move in space and time.

Isomorphism is the idea of sameness or analogy. It's what allows us to recognise that a cat is more similar to a dog than to a rock.