Lawyer Ex Machina #19: how much for a blue check?
A member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives has introduced a bill to create an AI registry. [PA Bill 2903]
San Diego County Board of Supervisors has unveiled a proposal to use a predictive analytics program to address homelessness.
What are algorithmic mistakes and why do they matter?
"Shutterstock will start selling AI-generated stock imagery with help from OpenAI"
Interested in data analytics projects using court data? Here are some takeaways from a recent project. (One of the authors is former UCLA Law librarian Rebecca Fordon)
It appears that DHS monitored Twitter and other social media extensively following the Dobbs decision, resulting in at least one 'knock and talk' visit in response to a tweet. [Bloomberg ($)]
Argos AI, an autonomous vehicle start-up jointly funded by Ford and VW, is shutting down.
If you haven't seen this yet, bookmark it - Bloomberg [($)] has a long, long article by columnist Matt Levine on crypto: currency, NFTs, Web3 and the origins of it all: The Crypto Story
This new book, Digiprudence: Code as Law Rebooted, is available via open access online (chapters are downloadable PDFs, no paywall)
The American Bar Association has a new ethics opinion involving using reply-all in emails with the client CC'ed
In the absence of special circumstances, lawyers who copy their clients on an electronic communication sent to counsel representing another person in the matter impliedly consent to receiving counsel’s “reply all” to the communication. Thus, unless that result is intended, lawyers should not copy their clients on electronic communications to such counsel; instead, lawyers should separately forward these communications to their clients. Alternatively, lawyers may communicate in advance to receiving counsel that they do not consent to receiving counsel replying all, which would override the presumption of implied consent.
Events
The 2022 round of Legal Tech Essentials, a lecture series on legal tech and operations hosted by Bucerius Law School, starts on November 11, 2022.