Is it more profitable to release the product and wait for the
lawsuits than to get it right before release?
Amazon,
Ring hit with lawsuit over security camera hacking
Ring
security cameras continue to be hacked,
leaving victims, including children, terrified. Now, the company and
its parent, Amazon,
are facing a lawsuit in federal court.
The
two companies are being sued
for
negligence, invasion of privacy, breach of implied contract, breach
of implied warranty and unjust enrichment. According
to the lawsuit,
which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District
of California, the companies have known about the insufficiency of
the system's security.
Expect
a well considered law.
Canada
Signals Overhaul of Data Privacy
Canadian
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has signaled his intent to overhaul
data privacy within Canada. Prime Minister Trudeau recently sent a
Mandate
Letter to
Navdeep Bains, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, that
contained a number of mandates with respect to data privacy.
Specifically, the Mandate Letter states that Minister Bains is
expected to work with the Minister of Justice, Attorney General of
Canada and the Minister of Canadian Heritage to advance Canada’s
Digital Charter and enhance powers for the Privacy Commissioner, in
order to establish a new set of online rights, including:
- the ability to review and challenge the amount of personal data that a company or government has collected;
- the ability to be informed when personal data is breached with appropriate compensation; and,
- the ability to be free from online discrimination including bias and harassment.
Automate lawyers not paralegals!
How A.I.
Can Help Your Legal Practice
From
e-Discovery to A.I.
contract software,
A.I. is impacting legal practices. A.I. is now capable of a more
involved role in litigation, such as:
- Drafting pleadings
- Legal research
- Process and analyze large volumes of data
- Manage contracts more efficiently
- Predict the likely outcomes of legal proceedings
Some
law firms have been slow to adapt to the advantages that A.I. brings.
The fear that they are
replacing the work of attorneys is unfounded.
Looks
like there is more to argue about.
Ethics
and Artificial General Intelligence: Technological Prediction as a
Groundwork for Guidelines
Artificial
General Intelligence (AGI) is the possible future of computer systems
which are as capable as humans across a broad range of intellectual
requirements. In order to establish an ethical position or
guidelines for the development of AGI, it is important to explore
anticipated characteristics about the emergence of AGI: How sudden it
could be (jolt), how soon it could be (timing), and how dangerous it
could be (risk). By extrapolating today's trends in development and
limitations of current AI algorithms, informed speculation can help
set ethical positions and guidelines on the proper course. This
paper concludes that the emergence of AGI will be gradual, soon, and
only moderately dangerous and begins to address how ethical issues
will change as AGI emerges from narrow AI.
Perspective.
Defining
AI in Policy versus Practice
Recent
concern about harms of information technologies motivate
consideration of regulatory action to forestall or constrain certain
developments in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). However,
definitional ambiguity hampers the possibility of conversation about
this urgent topic of public concern. Legal and regulatory
interventions require agreed-upon definitions, but consensus around a
definition of AI has been elusive, especially in policy
conversations. With an eye towards practical working definitions and
a broader understanding of positions on these issues, we survey
experts and review published policy documents to examine researcher
and policy-maker conceptions of AI. We
find that while AI researchers favor definitions of AI that emphasize
technical functionality, policy-makers instead use definitions that
compare systems to human thinking and behavior. We point
out that definitions adhering closely to the functionality of AI
systems are more inclusive of technologies in use today, whereas
definitions that emphasize human-like capabilities are most
applicable to hypothetical future technologies. As a result of this
gap, ethical and regulatory efforts may overemphasize concern about
future technologies at the expense of pressing issues with existing
deployed technologies.
This article seems to suggest that there is
nothing special (nor especially risky) about AI. Just keep using the
same checklist. I’ll have to think about that a bit,
HIPAA
Compliance and AI Solutions
… Part of the issue with securing data is the
amount of data that is collected from users on a daily basis. The
healthcare industry is adopting new technologies while forgetting
about the security measures that need to be in place. When
implementing new technology healthcare organizations must consider
HIPAA compliance.
Perspective.
FAMGA spent
a decade acquiring AI companies
As
I wrote last Monday, AI has made 10
years of steady gains...and
each
member of FAMGA
(Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon) is
now an AI company.
Prosecuting
the Terminator?
Models
of Criminal Liability of Artificial Intelligence: From Science
Fiction to Prospect for Criminal Law and Policy in Vietnam
The
Industrial Revolution 4.0 (4IR) reflects combination of technologies
in physics, digitalisation and biology, shaping a modern world of
information technology where virtual and real systems are integrated
through worldwide internet connection networks. Intelligence (AI)
and decision making process have seen profound changes. The
relevant question is whether criminal liability is applicable to AI
entities in the near future given criminal law in many jurisdictions
including Vietnam has provided for criminal liability of legal
persons as “abstract entities”. On this basis, from
the criminal law and science fiction approach, the paper initially
assumes AI entities as subjects of crimes to explore possible models
of criminal liability applicable to AI entities and prospect for
changes of criminal law and policy in Vietnam in the future, making
recommendations on improvement of legal framework, contributing to
crime prevention and protection of human rights in the industrial
revolution 4.0.
Interesting.
Intellectual
Property Law and Post-Scarcity Society
Rapid
technological progress has shifted discussion of the possibility of
"post-scarcity society" from science fiction novels and
utopian manifestoes to the pages of our newspapers and now to our law
reviews. Commentators
imagine a world in which three-dimensional printing, advanced
robotics, synthetic biology, and artificial intelligence will enable
the low-cost at-home manufacture of nearly all commodities and
provision of nearly all services. This lecture considers
the implications of postscarcity society for law and specifically for
intellectual property law. It focuses on the likely social role of
intellectual property law in a post-scarcity society and on the ways
in which intellectual property law will likely work to undermine the
socially progressive promise of post-scarcity.
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