What's Next: Ethical Machines | SCOTUS in the 'Cloud' | AI Crunches Contract Law
Are the U.S. and EU set up for a clash in regulating the ethics of autonomous vehicles? Plus, SCOTUS wrestles with cloud computing in the Microsoft oral arguments, and LawGeex makes a splash with new metrics about AI performance.
February 28, 2018 at 09:00 AM
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IRL: Stanford's Digital Cities Summit
Digital Cities Summit 2018 Here are a few highlights from the autos session: Former USPTO Director Michelle K. Lee The EU is heading toward putting more explicit obligations on technology developers to maintain a level of human control and ingrain ethical considerations in the AI. trolley problem suggested more legal clarity on the requirements might be helpful “I think they punted a bit,” Lee said. Raj Kapoor (pictured), the chief strategy officer at Lyft >> Takeaway: >> Bonus—Zing!
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The Conversation: Microsoft at SCOTUS
The big item in the news is the Microsoft v. United States oral arguments at SCOTUS. domestic warrant under the 1986 Stored Communications Act to access data stored overseas a recent interview Marcia Coyle having some trouble During the arguments, the justices, examining how much encroachment on foreign territory would occur if the government prevailed, also probed both lawyers on how the emails would be retrieved from cloud storage. Does it happen by human or electronic intervention, Justice Anthony Kennedy asked. Andrew Keane Woods, a University of Kentucky law professor tweeted
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On the Radar: 3 Things to Know
1. Over a dozen ICOs were put on ice after the SEC started probing them. Robert Cohen, the head of the SEC's new cyber unit, BTC Manager reports string of enforcement actions by the regulator Munchee >> Takeaway: 2. Facebook lost its bid to extinguish lawsuits over a photo tagging feature on Spokeo grounds. denied have alleged concrete violations of their privacy rights Spokeo based his decision denying Facebook's motion to dismiss in large part on the language of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) >> Takeaway: Spokeo 3. The House passed the FOSTA bill, the legislation that would amend Section 230. Action in the Senate could be coming soon. The Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), the House version of the SESTA bill introduced in the Senate last year, passed the House on Tuesday The Verge But the group seemed more lukewarm in a statement on Tuesday >> Think Ahead:
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The Download
The brave new world of the blockchain is seeing an appalling gender divide, too. This is worth a read
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In Futuro: AI is doing real legal work now
But the lingering question has always been: Is the software as accurate as a human attorney? LawGeex aiming to settle not only more correctly identified key language in a set of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), Annette Hurst, a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Luis Villa, a lawyer and co-founder of software company Tidelift So extrapolating from NDAs to other forms of contracts is not straightforward tweeted useful tool
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Dose of Dystopia
What would you do if you found a spycam strapped to a tree in your backyard? Ars Technica' reports the legal battle with the government that has ensued Palacios is suing Customs and Border Protection don't have many rights where does the “border” actually begin?
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