I robot becomes I lawyer…
https://www.bespacific.com/an-update-on-legal-ai-agents/
An Update on Legal AI Agents
Legaltechh Hub – Nicola Shaver: “On August 22, Spellbook released a new product it is calling Spellbook Associate, that has been touted in press releases as “the first legal AI Agent”. The product, which the company says can plan, execute, check its work, and adapt to accomplish larger scope assignments like a colleague would, is focused on executing transactional tasks, similar to the company’s original AI Assistant tool. Spellbook Associate can use a single prompt to work through legal matters such as producing complete financing documents from a term sheet, reviewing hundreds of documents for risks and inconsistencies and revising employment packages, doing so significantly faster than a human associate. The product sounds compelling, especially if, like Spellbook’s other solution, it is primarily focused on mid-law. If that’s the case, then it may well be the first legal agentic solution squarely targeting that demographic. Also, as Spellbook founder Scott Stevenson says, their Associate product is able to execute across a range of tasks, revising and cross-referencing documents and undertaking work across multiple applications (including Microsoft Word), adjusting and replanning as it works. Some of the other implementations of agentic AI in the industry are focused in on single tasks. But, to be clear: this is not the first legal AI agent. Spellbook Associate is the most recent legal AI agent to launch, marking the continuation of a trend we’ve been covering for over a year, namely the deployment of agentic AI to facilitate legal tasks. We have written about AI agents multiple times. See previous articles here and here. We highlighted legal AI agents as a hot area for the year in our forward look at legaltech in 2024, and in our recent 2024 mid-year check-in.”
Did the algorithm base its recommendation on trendy/popular and no other criteria?
TikTok must face lawsuit over 10-year-old girl's death, US court rules
A U.S. appeals court has revived a lawsuit against TikTok by the mother of a 10-year-old girl who died after taking part in a viral "blackout challenge" in which users of the social media platform were dared to choke themselves until they passed out.
While a federal law typically shields internet companies from lawsuits over content posted by users, the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled
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the law does not bar Nylah Anderson's mother from pursuing claims that TikTok's algorithm recommended the challenge to her daughter.U.S. Circuit Judge Patty Shwartz, writing for the three-judge panel, said that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 only immunizes information provided by third parties and not recommendations TikTok itself made via an algorithm underlying its platform.
She acknowledged the holding was a departure from past court rulings by her court and others holding that Section 230 immunizes an online platform from liability for failing to prevent users from transmitting harmful messages to others.
But she said that reasoning no longer held after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in July on whether state laws designed to restrict the power of social media platforms to curb content they deem objectionable violate their free speech rights.
In those cases, the Supreme Court held a platform's algorithm reflects "editorial judgments" about "compiling the third-party speech it wants in the way it wants." Shwartz said under that logic, content curation using algorithms is speech by the company itself, which is not protected by Section 230.
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https://www.bespacific.com/many-americans-concerned-about-ai-algorithms/
Consumer Reports survey: Many Americans concerned about AI, algorithms
Washington, DC – “A new nationally representative Consumer Reports survey explores Americans’ attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic decision-making. The survey found that a majority of Americans are uncomfortable about the use of AI and algorithmic decision-making technology around major life moments as it relates to housing, employment, and healthcare. CR conducted this multi-mode survey of 2,022 US adults in May 2024. The full report also includes demographic insights. Grace Gedye, policy analyst at CR, said, “Companies are using AI and algorithms behind the scenes to help determine everything from decisions about your health insurance coverage, to your prospects of landing your dream job, to who is going to get that perfect apartment you found on Zillow. We conducted this survey to get a better understanding of how consumers feel about the role AI and algorithms play in these high stakes decisions.”
The survey shows that a majority of Americans are uncomfortable with the use of AI in high-stakes decisions about their lives. We also found that in certain circumstances, Americans really want to understand what information an AI system is using to assess them, and want the chance to correct any incorrect information. Consumer Reports advocates for regulations that require AI systems to be more transparent, and that give consumers agency.”
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