Trump signed an Executive Order “officially” renaming Artificial Intelligence. Notwithstanding the fact that AI is the ubiquitous worldwide term to describe the technology, including its definition under 15 USC § 9401(3), Trump felt compelled to change it. Perhaps this was an assertion of his power and authority to prove his dominance.
Perhaps this was his
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Tuesday Talk*: AI, AI, AI, The Hoax
The CEOs of the major Artificial Intelligence companies say it’s a potential existential threat to humanity.
The president’s statement followed a weekend essay from Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, calling for a global slowdown of artificial intelligence development. Days earlier, one of Anthropic’s researchers quit and went public over his fears about the…
Would You Elect Roy Cohn? You Did, Kinda
Being a criminal defense lawyer has, unsurprisingly, provided me with the opportunity to speak with a great many people who are inclined to commit crimes. It has allowed me to recognize the pathologies, the different worldview of people who put their self-interest above all else. Hard as it is for some to imagine, there are…
Seaton: Poking The Bear, Flock Cameras Edition
These days, you can’t step foot outside without someone either telling you about Flock Cameras or seeing the goddamn things in public. Depending on who you ask, the controversy over Flock’s Automatic License Plate Readers and their databases are either the most heinous violations of privacy in the last 150 years or the whole mess…
Is AI The Fix For Policy Sludge and Zombie Laws?
How many federal criminal laws and regulations are there? Nobody knows. It’s not for lack of trying. It’s because nobody in government has the time needed to go through more than three billion words in the federal register. And then there are the multitude of state and municipal laws and regulations, which are often far…
Tuesday Talk*: Bronx Defenders Overstruck?
When three old friends, Robin Steinberg, David Feige and Dan Arshack, started Bronx Defenders, there was a deliberate intention of providing their indigent clients “holistic” services. By this, they meant that their purpose wasn’t just to beat the case, as would be the scope of ordinary criminal defense, but to help their clients become happy,…
Can AI Be Trusted To Do Anything Right?
When lawyers started using ChatGPT to write their papers, resulting in hallucinated cites and non-existent quotations, not to mention arguments premised on the inability to grasp basic legal principles like jurisdiction, they got caught, bench-slapped and often sanctioned. I thought they would learn. I was wrong.
I called these lawyers lazy and greedy, unwilling to…
Bernie’s 50% Solution
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is all aboard the AI train.
Artificial intelligence will almost certainly be the most transformational technology in the history of the world. It will profoundly affect the life of every man, woman and child in our country. It will bring — and is already bringing — unimaginable changes to our economy,…
What Role Should AI Play In Judging?
A couple federal judges were humiliated when it was revealed that they had used AI to write their decisions, as AI did what AI does, and used fake hallucinated citations. Oopsie. But fake cites are only the easiest problems to find. When cites and quotes don’t exist, it’s merely a matter of someone doing the…
The Perils Of Pro Hac
Over more than 40 years of practice, I’ve worked in jurisdictions in which I was not admitted to practice and served as local counsel to lawyers not admitted in jurisdictions where I was. It’s hardly uncommon, but it is fraught with the potential for very serious problems. As Eugene Volokh notes, those problems smacked…