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In Futuro: When AI 'Cartridges' Replace Legal Expertise

I heard at Legalweek 2018 Brian Kuhn, the global leader and co-founder of IBM Watson Legal “One of the things that most AI vendors are often criticized for is even if their tools are delivered as expected, they lack content. They have to be trained,” a firm full of experts “Think about the tort of negligence “What you would do now to accelerate this process with AI is you would have lawyers basically train an AI cartridge by looking at hundreds of historical matters new streams of revenue for law firms >> Think Ahead:

IRL: The New York Times' New Work Summit

Want to tell me about an event you've got coming up?  [email protected] Happening today The New York Times New Work Summit check out the video John Krafcik, the CEO of Alphabet self-driving car unit Waymo Waymo-Uber case With a fierce battle for talent in the self-driving car space, are we going to see more of these kinds of legal actions?  “I think this was a really special case with a really special set of circumstances. For more context Metz's piece

The Conversation: The CLOUD Act Sows Division

The Microsoft Ireland case has been a rallying point pretty much everyone legislative solution the united front is fracturing. offered their support Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act, or Cloud Act The EFF, which wrote an amicus brief in favor of Microsoft in the Ireland case, is crying foul.  has also been critical Lawfare Just Security Jennifer Granick of the ACLU

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Trending: The Gig Economy Wins Again

Morris v. Ernst & Young class actions against Uber But here's another sign that gig economy companies are securing the legal footing for their independent contractor-based business model ruled last week Following last fall's six-day bench trial  “exercised little control over the details” of the driver's work >> Data Point:  ruled for Uber last year

Dose of Dystopia

So “involuntary pornography” is now officially a thing. Motherboard's  superimpose other people's faces onto porn actors banning the practice legal theories around identity theft create fake social media accounts These kinds of things, of course, have a way of popping up elsewhere. Motherboard  reports  loaded up with malware that makes the victim's computer mine cryptocurrency Internet justice, or just the free market at work?

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