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Shane Blanton

Shane Blanton is an attorney, the Director of Innovation at Frascogna Law Group and the President of Paraclete MS. He hosts American Algorithm.

Blanton is an attorney at Frascogna Law Group, where he serves as Director of Innovation. His practice focuses on media and technology. He is also President of Paraclete MS, which is being built around local inference and data sovereignty: providing local computing so that organizations can store their data and use artificial intelligence on it under their own control.

He has worked with technology and artificial intelligence for many years. With Mike Frascogna, he led a software platform that served attorneys and businesses across the country, and he has hosted esports tournaments. He is a graduate of MC School of Law and holds degrees in homeland security and English. Before law school he taught and coached football, and he began working on name, image and likeness rights for student-athletes when the issue first emerged.

He is co-writing the book AI Alley with Mike Frascogna. On American Algorithm he hosts conversations at the crossroads of artificial intelligence, culture, politics and law.