More GenAI guidelines
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More guidelines for legal use of GenAI:
New Jersey Courts: Preliminary Guidelines on the Use of AI by New Jersey Lawyers (H/T to Rebecca Fordon)
American Arbitration Association: AAA ICDR Principles Supporting the Use of AI in Alternative Dispute Resolution
A law student has unveiled a product to help other students brief cases with GenAI
An alternate title for this piece: Navigating the Scylla and Charybdis of technology competence and GenAI (aka how using GenAI badly and not using it at all can both be bad things)
The National Institute of Science and Technology is the host of the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), with over 200 members from major technology firms
A video call with deepfake versions of a worker's collegues led to a Hong Kong firm getting scammed for US$25 million
Blockchain/digital currency
A UK court is going to determine if Craig Wright is actually the creator of bitcoin, which is credited to the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto
Selected cryptocurrency miners will have to report their energy use data to the U.S. Energy Information Administration
Miscellaneous
From LawSites: The Justice Gap in Legal Tech: A Tale of Two Conferences and the Implications for A2J
From zdnet: "3 million smart toothbrushes were just used in a DDoS attack. Really"
Immigration & Customs Enforcement has stopped buying phone location data, according to the agency
The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts was hit with a DDoS attack, but no data was compromised
Long Reads
Risky Speech System: Tort Liability for AI-Generated Illegal Speech
Megan Ma & John Nay, Stanford Codex, A Supervisory AI Agent Approach to Responsible Use of GenAI in the Legal Profession
Gabriel Weil, "Tort Law as a Tool for Mitigating Catastrophic Risk from Artificial Intelligence," https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4694006 [Interview with author about the paper on Vox]