Greg Lambert writes May 28 2024 Adam Ziegler‘s post calling on Legal Research Vendors like Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis to shoulder the burden of proving claims like Lexis’ “The fastest legal generative AI with conversational search, drafting, summarization, document analysis, and hallucination-free linked legal citations” has valid points. Since I was one of the vocal
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Senate Releases Bipartisan AI Roadmap
Joel Roberson, Marissa Serafino, Paul Stimers, Todd Wooten Highlights The Bipartisan Senate Artificial Intelligence (AI) Working Group on May 15, 2024, released “Driving U.S. Innovation in Artificial Intelligence: A Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Policy in the United States Senate” (Roadmap). The Roadmap comes at the end of months of high-profile forums, classified briefings and other information-gathering efforts…
Unchartered Territories: Canadian Courts and Law Societies Grapple with the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools
Scott Bower, Stephen Burns, Ahmed Elmallah, J. Sébastien Gittens Canadian courts and law societies, alike, are faced with an ever-evolving challenge: straddling the line between recognizing the potential benefits of emergent generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), while balancing the associated risks of using this technology. Principle to these associated risks is the ability of GenAI to “hallucinate” (i.e., generate…
UK Regulators Share Views on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Regulation
Yulia Makarova On 1 February 2024, the UK government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and His Majesty’s Treasury addressed a joint letter to the Bank of England (BoE) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) requesting an update on their strategic approach to the adoption and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)…
Colorado Passes First-in-Nation Artificial Intelligence Act
Maneesha Mithal, Stacy Okoro, Christopher Olsen Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati On May 17, 2024, Governor Jared Polis signed the Colorado Artificial Intelligence Act (SB 24-205) (CAIA), regulating the development, deployment, and use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Colorado is the first state to enact comprehensive AI legislation. The law becomes effective February 1, 2026. Summary CAIA applies…
Listing: 9 “Best” AI Legal Assistants (May 2024)
It looks like the list is sponsored – but worth a quick run through 9 “Best” AI Legal Assistants (May 2024) 1. Legal Robot Legal Robot is an AI-driven platform that helps users understand and draft legal documents with ease. The platform offers document analysis, automated contract drafting, and the ability to customize legal documents…
Article – The Atlantic: “Google Is Playing a Dangerous Game With AI Search”
Well worth a read Doctors often have a piece of advice for the rest of us: Don’t Google it. The search giant tends to be the first stop for people hoping to answer every health-related question: Why is my scab oozing? What is this pink bump on my arm? Search for symptoms, and you might click through to…
Article: Safely use AI at your law firm with these data governance practices
LexBlog Corporate client expectations around generative AI are increasing rapidly. According to a of executives in corporate legal departments at Fortune 1000 companies, 68% of in-house counsel approve of their outside counsel using generative AI tools for their company’s legal work. Why? Because 80% of these executives anticipate that AI tools will reduce their outside…
Article: AI Ethics Opinions: What Do Bar Associations Have to Say About AI Use?
What’s holding your firm back from exploring the opportunities that artificial intelligence (AI) offers? For many lawyers, it’s fears about whether their bar association approves of AI. According to the 2024 Legal Trends for Mid-Sized Law Firms report, 31% of lawyers in mid-sized firms and 19% of lawyers in smaller firms believe that their bar association would…
New Online Publication: AI Update
Here are the stories they have published in March Artificial intelligence used to replicate Brown v. Board of Education oral arguments – ABA Journal 23/05/2024 Lawyers as Next Generation Wordsmiths – AALL Specturm 23/05/2024 Arizona state lawmaker used ChatGPT to write part of law on deepfakes – The Guardian 23/05/2024 AI providers as criminal essay mills? Large language…