Lawyer Ex Machina #40
AI
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A legal insurer has drafted a letter on the use of ChatGPT by law firms, calling it “Not Ready for Prime Time.” [LegalTech News ($)]
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A group of 12 members of the European Parliament have written an open letter on AI development, encouraging the President of the European Commission and President Joe Biden to hold a global summit on Artificial Intelligence and for governments to “focus serious political attention” on the issue. [Politico article | Tweet by @IoanDragosT]
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A New York judge has ordered the NYPD to remove sealed record data from predictive policing technologies used by the department, as well as banning other unauthorized uses of sealed records.
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Also, New York City has issued final rules on the use of automated employment decision tools.
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Can OpenAI, developer of ChatGPT, comply with data protection orders in various European countries? [MIT Tech Review ($)]
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From Wired ($): Robot Lawyers Are About to Flood the Courts
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A guide for Chief Information Security Officers has been released on “Generative AI and ChatGPT Enterprise Risks”; topics include data privacy, copyright, and misinformation,among others. [Press release | Report]
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What are autonomous AI agents and do they work as advertised?
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From Bloomberg Law ($): ChatGPT isn't ready to analyze contracts ... yet
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Amid all the talk of robot lawyers - can ChatGPT correctly cite using the Bluebook format? Again, not yet.
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Current and former employees of Google are concerned that the company is moving too fast to catch up on AI deployment and leaving ethics behind. [Bloomberg News ($)]
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A new generation of policing technology is leaning heavily on AI, from facial recognition to sentiment analysis algorithms:
At the Dubai police fair, officials from the Emirates’ Ministry of Interior, which oversees state security and has access to all police cameras, demonstrated how, with a tablet, they could scan the irises of conference attendees and pull up information about when they had entered the country, complete with a recent customs photo. Also displayed was a headset that is said to detect when a part of the brain concerning memories is activated, something a ministry official said was useful during interrogations to determine if a suspect was lying.
Data Privacy
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The European Data Protection Board, an “independent body that oversees data protection rules in the European Union, and … is composed of national data protection watchdogs” has created a task force on ChatGPT.
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Iowa has enacted a data privacy law - the 6th U.S. state to do so.
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Social security numbers and medical records of Tucson school district employees have been found on the dark web following a ransomware attack. [Bloomberg News ($)]