Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Imagine. Lawyer tools because we don’t want to rely on human lawyers.

https://www.ft.com/content/baf68476-5b7e-4078-9b3e-ddfce710a6e2

Allen & Overy introduces AI chatbot to lawyers in search of efficiencies

Magic circle law firm adopts much-hyped tech to help draft legal documents, but insists move will not replace jobs

Allen & Overy is introducing an artificial intelligence chatbot to help its lawyers draft contracts, as the magic circle legal firm seeks to adopt the much-hyped technology to find efficiencies for its lawyers and clients.

The London-based group told the Financial Times it had rolled out a chatbot named Harvey after testing it since November for use in tasks such as drafting merger & acquisition documents or memos to clients.

Allen & Overy said it had not yet informed clients of the tool, which is now available to any lawyer at the firm and around 3,500 individuals in total.





Something doesn’t wash.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/14/objects-shot-down-arent-from-china-likely-benign-kirby-says-00082876

Objects shot down aren't from China, likely ‘benign,' Kirby says

Intelligence officials believe the objects could be “tied to some commercial or benign purpose."

The U.S. does not believe that the three unidentified objects shot down over North America last weekend were from China or posed a national security threat, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said Tuesday.

We don’t see anything that points right now to being part of [China’s] spy balloon program,” Kirby told reporters. It’s unlikely the objects were used in “intelligence collection against the United States of any kind — that’s the indication now,” he added.



(Related)

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/15/china/china-hainan-island-explainer-intl-hnk/index.html

Hainan island: ‘It’s known as ‘China’s Hawaii,’ but the vacation hotspot is also a strategic military base

According to CNN reporting, US intelligence officials believe the Chinese balloon is part of an extensive surveillance program run in part out of Hainan by the Chinese military.

US officials told the New York Times they had been tracking the balloon since it lifted off from Hainan in late January. CNN previously reported that the US began tracking the balloon long before it entered the airspace of Alaska.



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