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 [$]: "AI Algorithms Are Biased Against Skin With Yellow Hues"The Senate Judiciary Committee has drafted legislation to make the creation and...
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Lawyer Ex Machina #54: Not so infinite
AI How lawyers are using AI and how those uses intersect with legal ethicsLegal writer Adam David Long has a wiki page tracking judicial reactions to use of...
Lawyer Ex Machina #53: routing around crypto
AI A bit lost about how many lawsuits there are against OpenAI? There's now a page tracking the 10 open suits against OpenAI, including the 2 GitHub suits;...
Lawyer Ex Machina #52: The End of Privacy?
AI A UK appellate judge announced that he used ChatGPT to write a portion of a legal summary used in a judgment, calling the chatbot "jolly useful." [The...
Lawyer Ex Machina #51: AI regulation week
Data for Progress survey on AI regulation AI Congressional actions Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources- "Recent Advances in Artificial...
Lawyer Ex Machina #50: Not getting a Nissan now
New pop-up upon logging into Lexis+ AI Another class action lawsuit has been filed against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of violating a number of...
Lawyer Ex Machina #49: Back to school
AI The American Bar Association has launched an AI Task Force. Bloomberg Law has compiled a report of recent articles on the use of AI for corporate counsel:...
Lawyer Ex Machina #48: TMI, AI
AI Attendees of hacker conference DefCon 'red-teamed' generative AI systems to expose vulnerabilities, encouraged by government officials and major tech...
Lawyer Ex Machina #47 - Summer ed. - August 2023
Related: 4 Generative AI Issues that Are Likely to Keep Judges Up at Night [Law.com ($)] AI The Federal Election Commission is seeking comments on a petition...
