Following on our earlier Globe and Mail op-ed and Law Bytes podcast, I am pleased to co-author a commentary on health data sovereignty and security with Kumanan Wilson and Mari Teitelbaum in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The key points identified in the piece:
Regular listeners know that my Law Bytes podcast addresses a wide range of digital policy issues. Some of the episodes venture into issues related to technology and the practice of law, notably including the impact of artificial intelligence, new technologies, and open access to law. I recently sought accreditation for Professionalism Hours credit from the
The pressure to adopt new legal technologies, notably including AI, continues to increase as lawyers, law firms and their clients look for new efficiencies and tools to improve the practice of law. But these tools aren’t always easy to adopt – pilot programs, costs, fear of new technology, and security concerns are part of the package.
The recent federal court ruling in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC has significantly shifted the legal terrain for corporate governance and artificial intelligence. While the case directly addresses copyright issues, it has implications boards of directors, compliance departments, and AI policy.
At the core of the Bartz case lies a deceptively simple question: Can training artificial
A lot of people won’t like this article, but it had to be said. AI will ruin law school. AI And Langdell Cannot Co-Exist In The Law School Classroom quoting Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette Op-Ed: Old School, Baby, by Robert…
Here is a wonderful podcast on how AI is affecting our critical thinking. [about 25 minutes] One of the experts is education scholar Daniel Willingham. Is AI eroding our critical thinking? The podcast notes that most problems are solved by…
A subtle, yet potentially dangerous shift is underway in one of the most influential narrative sections of financial reports: the Management’s Discussion and Analysis (MD&A). Companies are increasingly crafting these disclosures not just for human shareholders or regulators, but for machines.
This shift isn’t theoretical. In a recent article, I argued that artificial intelligence
When the intersection of law and technology presents seemingly intractable new challenges, policy makers often bet on technology itself to solve the problem. Whether countering copyright infringement with digital locks, limiting access to unregulated services with website blocking, or deploying artificial intelligence to facilitate content moderation, there is a recurring hope the answer to the
My Globe and Mail op-ed opens by noting that after years of dismissing the warnings of likely retaliation, the Canadian government caved to U.S. pressure earlier this week as it cancelled the digital services tax. Faced with the U.S. suspension of trade negotiations, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced that the government would rescind the legislation that
When a team of researchers asked an artificial intelligence system to design a railway network that minimized the risk of train collisions, the AI delivered a surprising solution: Halt all trains entirely. No motion, no crashes. A perfect safety record, technically speaking, but also a total failure of purpose. The system did exactly what it