Thursday, June 01, 2023

It seems to me that we have a serious need for anyone who can understand the code behind AI. Should this be done by independent auditors? Is there a business opportunity here?

https://www.c4isrnet.com/artificial-intelligence/2023/05/31/us-army-may-ask-defense-industry-to-disclose-ai-algorithms/

US Army may ask defense industry to disclose AI algorithms

U.S. Army officials are considering asking companies to give them an inside look at the artificial intelligence algorithms they use to better understand their provenance and potential cybersecurity weak spots.

The nascent AI “bill of materials” effort would be similar to existing software bill of materials practices, or SBOMs, the comprehensive lists of ingredients and dependencies that make up software, according to Young Bang, the principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology.





Lies lead to liability?

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/31/ftc-ring-employees-illegally-accessed-user-private-videos

Amazon to pay over $30 million for Ring and Alexa privacy violations

A lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice on behalf of the FTC said Wednesday Amazon violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act by retaining voice and geolocation information from young users for years despite parents' requests that they delete the data.

The lawsuit said the company sought to retain the data for "its own potential use," despite repeatedly assured its users that they could delete voice recordings collected from its Alexa voice assistant and geolocation information collected by the Alexa app.

… Separately, the FTC's complaint against Ring says that the company, despite emphasizing security in promotional materials, had no safeguards in place to prevent employees and hundreds of contractors from having full access to videos from every customer.





“Not California?” How extraordinary!

https://www.pogowasright.org/montanas-new-consumer-data-privacy-law-follows-the-leaders-and-were-not-talking-about-california/

Montana’s New Consumer Data Privacy Law Follows the Leaders … and we’re not talking about California!

Michael B. Katz, Cynthia J. Larose, and Angie K. Isaza-Loaiza of Mintz write:

In Montana, Governor Greg Gianforte signed the Montana’s Consumer Data Privacy Act (S.B. 384) (“MCDPA”) on May 19, 2023 – one of the strongest privacy bills signed in a red state. Montana now becomes the ninth state to enact a comprehensive consumer data privacy law.
Montana’s legislature chose to build its statute on models passed in states like Virginia two years ago and in Connecticut in 2022, with a few interesting distinctions noted in bold in this article.

Read more at Mintz.

Related:

Jason C. Gavejian & Joseph J. Lazzarotti of Jackson Lewis also have a post about the provisions of the new Montana law. You can read their overview at Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report.





Resource.

https://www.bespacific.com/the-a-to-z-of-economics/

The A to Z of economics

The Economist [read here free ]: “Economic terms, from “absolute advantage” to “zero-sum game”, explained to you in plain English.”





Yes, judge, my AI wrote this brief because it is smarter than I am.

https://www.bespacific.com/best-practices-for-disclosure-and-citation-when-using-artificial-intelligence-tools/

Best Practices for Disclosure and Citation When Using Artificial Intelligence Tools

Shope, Mark, Best Practices for Disclosure and Citation When Using Artificial Intelligence Tools (January 26, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4338115

This article is intended to be a best practices guide for disclosing the use of artificial intelligence tools in legal writing. The article focuses on using artificial intelligence tools that aid in drafting textual material, specifically in law review articles and law school courses. The article’s approach to disclosure and citation is intended to be a starting point for authors, institutions, and academic communities to tailor based on their own established norms and philosophies. Throughout the entire article, the author has used ChatGPT to provide examples of how artificial intelligence tools can be used in writing and how the output of artificial intelligence tools can be expressed in text, including examples of how that use and text should be disclosed and cited. The article will also include policies for professors to use in their classrooms and journals to use in their submission guidelines.”



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