I agree. Lawyers are becoming
digital. Now all we need do is eliminate the flesh and blood bits.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4731495
Digital
Lawyering: Advocacy in the Age of AI
All
lawyers are now digital lawyers. From Zoom hearings, to
e-discovery, to AI-enhanced research and writing, the practice of law
increasingly requires the skillful navigation of a wide range of
technological tools. It’s no longer enough to be book smart and
street smart. More and more, you also have to be byte-smart.
To
help future lawyers navigate this transition, I recently created a
course at both the University of Michigan Law School and the
University of Chicago Law School called “Digital Lawyering:
Advocacy in the Age of AI.” The course takes a skill-building
approach to artificial intelligence. Which tools are worth using?
What questions are worth asking? And how do advocates of all kinds
continue to add value to clients—and promote justice—in a world
increasingly populated by chatbots, algorithms, and a wide range of
other powerful digital products?
This
paper collects thoughts from the presentation about the course that I
delivered at the "Law and Justice in the Age of AI"
symposium organized by the Michigan Technology Law Review on November
18, 2023
AI
ain’t human? What a concept!
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-024-01867-6
What
makes full artificial agents morally different
In
the research field of machine ethics, we commonly categorize
artificial moral agents into four types, with the most advanced
referred to as a full ethical agent, or sometimes a full-blown
Artificial Moral Agent (AMA). This type has three main
characteristics: autonomy, moral understanding and a certain level of
consciousness, including intentional mental states, moral emotions
such as compassion, the ability to praise and condemn, and a
conscience. This paper aims to discuss various aspects of full-blown
AMAs and presents the following argument: the
creation of full-blown artificial moral agents, endowed with
intentional mental states and moral emotions, and trained to align
with human values, does not, by itself, guarantee that these systems
will have human morality. Therefore, it is questionable
whether they will be inclined to honor and follow what they perceive
as incorrect moral values. We do not intend to claim that there is
such a thing as a universally shared human morality, only that as
there are different human communities holding different sets of moral
values, the moral systems or values of the discussed artificial
agents would be different from those held by human communities, for
reasons we discuss in the paper.
Interesting
hobby.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/norad-fighter-intercepts-high-altitude-balloon-flying-utah/story?id=107500983
High-altitude
balloon intercepted by US fighters over Utah a 'likely hobby
balloon': NORAD
The balloon has since left
U.S. airspace, officials said Saturday.
… A
U.S. official described the balloon as being 50 feet tall and
carrying a payload that is the size of a two-foot cube. It is not
known what the payload might be carrying, the official said.
… The
development comes slightly more than a year after a Chinese spy
balloon was tracked across the United States before being shot down
by U.S. fighters over U.S. territorial waters east of South Carolina.
That
balloon measured nearly 200 feet in height, was equipped with a
payload described as being the length of three school buses that
carried intelligence sensors and was capable of being maneuvered
remotely.
Tools
& Techniques.
https://www.unilad.com/technology/news/pimeyes-website-find-every-picture-of-you-internet-178590-20240221
'Most
disturbing website on Internet' can find every single picture that
exists of you
… A
website called PimEyes is the platform responsible for the plethora
of results when you look for yourself and it's been dubbed 'the most
disturbing website on the Internet'.
The
basic premise is that you give the site a photo of yourself and it
searches the internet and AI to identify any other pictures of you
that are on the web, so you can in theory see all the places on the
internet where there are images of you.
The
basic service is free, and you simply need to upload a snap of
yourself and then search. Within a minute or two you'll be faced
with pictures of yourself from anywhere they're currently sitting on
the Internet like Facebook, LinkedIn and that weird headshot on your
work's 'About Us' page.
Yet
it's not always 100 percent perfect so you might find the odd
'likeness' thrown in for good measure.
If you
choose to take your image quest one step further you could pay for
the upgraded search which can do a much more in-depth search and also
provide links to every single place the pictures appeared;
quite useful if you then want to get them taken down.
Equally you
can 'opt out' as PimEyes does allow people to remove themselves from
appearing in people's searches, but they want a scan of your ID or
passport to verify that it's you doing this.
