Pi(e) Day 2024
AI Is New York City's AI Bias Law a failure? [Law 360 ($) | SHRM]The European Parliament has officially passed the AI Act, which is set to go into effect in...
AI Prognostication
AI Two bipartisan bills have been introduced in Congress: House Bill 7532, co-sponsored by James Comer (R-Ky.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), would "codif[y]...
Happy Leap Day 2024
Ad for AI mental health therapist found on the campus of UCLA AI A Canadian attorney in British Columbia has been reprimanded for submitting fictitious case...
The Day ChatGPT lost its mind
AI Ars Technica has linked to some great examples of ChatGPT spouting word salad earlier this week (ed. note: My fave is how it starts going off the rails...
The Techshow 2024 issue
Tweet from SF Fire Department with pictures of a Waymo driveless vehicle set afire by a crowd in Chinatown AI Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin, handling two...
More GenAI guidelines
AI 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...
'Taylor Swift is driving AI regulation' is a brand new sentence
AI A bill has been introduced in the California Senate that would charge the Judicial Counsel with developing and implementing methods of detection of...
Legaltech conference season starts
AI The Federal Trade Commission has launched an inquiry into investments of Microsoft, Amazon, and Google in Anthropic and OpenAI, maker of AI chatbots...
Welcome 2024!
AI The Federal Judicial Center has published the following guide: An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Federal JudgesThe Preventing Deepfakes of...
Lawyer Ex Machina: Goodbye, 2023
[Editor's note: This is my last newsletter of the year. Happy holidays and I hope to have more news for you in January 2024] AI The EU has reached an...
Lawyer Ex Machina: Winding down 2023
AI After negotiating for 22 hours, negotiators for the European Union and its member states are pausing talks on final passage of the AI Act until Friday...
Lawyer Ex Machina: Exam Time
AI The 7th and presumably last Senate AI Forum of the year focused on issues of AI transparency, as well as its potential effects on new media, music, and...
Lawyer Ex Machina #61: The early Thanksgiving ed.
Everyone needs to watch this video in its entirety, and then send it to your friends and family immediately pic.twitter.com/WkBpXBcBJe— chris evans...
Lawyer Ex Machina #60
AI Lexis is expanding generative AI features into Courtlink, with summaries of complaints filed in U.S. district courts, and a Microsoft Word integration for...
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Lawyer Ex Machina #59
AI Thomson Reuters has announced it will be adding generative AI features to Westlaw Precision on November 15thFrom the Wall Street Journal [$]: "When AI...
Lawyer Ex Machina #58: falling back, yet again
AI President Biden has issued an executive order on "use and trustworthy development" of AI [IAPP | NY Times ($) | Ernst & Young | | Politico]The...
Lawyer Ex Machina #57: Happy Halloween
AI New York City has unveiled a multi-initiative action plan to regulate AI, as well as a proposal to create an Office of Algorithmic Data Integrity [Wired...
Lawyer Ex Machina #56: Not a Deepfake
AI A Southern California law firm that specializes in residential and commercial evictions has been sanctioned for including fictitious legal citations in a...
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Lawyer Ex Machina #55
AI From Wired [$]: "AI Algorithms Are Biased Against Skin With Yellow Hues"The Senate Judiciary Committee has drafted legislation to make the creation and...
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Lawyer Ex Machina #54: Not so infinite
AI How lawyers are using AI and how those uses intersect with legal ethicsLegal writer Adam David Long has a wiki page tracking judicial reactions to use of...
