(Artist's depiction of exhausted articling student, circa 2020.) I have no idea but the lawyer in me says, it depends. (Thank you very much, I'm here all week). This heavily researched and sufficiently cheeky article looks at the question of the unauthorized practice of law and asks how that reconciles with AI making and executing legal… Continue reading What’s the difference between a robot and a lawyer?
Category: Regulating AI
A letter from Braavos
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has released a report delightfully entitled A Financial System That Creates Economic Opportunities: Nonbank Financials, Fintech, and Innovation. No doubt with a name like that everyone ran to pick up a copy. Well they should because it's pretty good. It covers a lot of ground including some thoughts around… Continue reading A letter from Braavos
Fantastic #4
Susan Storm: [appears] What's your name? [the Surfer doesn't answer] Susan Storm: Come on. You must have a name. I'm Susan. [the Surfer still does not answer] Today's post is the addition of a fourth principle. I have discussed this a few times, here, here, here and most recently in this post. Generally speaking statutes start with a series of… Continue reading Fantastic #4
Setting the Stage for AI Governance
The ITU (the International Telecommunication Union is the United Nations' specialized agency for information and communication technology) has a paper out authored by Urs Gasser (Executive Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School) Ryan Budish, Amar Ashar,members of the Ethics and Governance of AI initiative… Continue reading Setting the Stage for AI Governance
Where’s Canada?
I have written about American, EU and British governance endeavours from governmental institutions on this blog. I have noted the Toronto Declaration which although emanating from Canada is not a governmental initiative. But I have not written much (anything?) about Canadian governmental initiatives in AI regulation except for maybe the discussion about the G7 Charlevoix communique (which,… Continue reading Where’s Canada?
Viene la tormenta! 