By Brian Higgins
/ December 20, 2020
It didn't take long for someone to turn generative adversarial networks (GAN)--a machine learning technique that at first blush seemed...
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By Brian Higgins
/ November 29, 2020
The year 2020 may be remembered for its pandemic and presidential election. But it also marked a turning point in...
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By Brian Higgins
/ July 24, 2020
As national protests over systemic and structural racism in America continue, community organizers, Black scholars, and others fighting injustice and...
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By Brian Higgins
/ February 24, 2020
On February 19, 2020, the European Union Commission issued a plan for regulating high-risk artificial intelligence (AI) technologies developed or...
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By Brian Higgins
/ January 22, 2020
When Microsoft shared in 2018 that certain "deficiencies" surrounding its artificial intelligence practices could "subject[] us to competitive harm, legal...
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By Brian Higgins
/ January 10, 2020
Imagine you've spent months developing and deploying a revenue-generating deep neural network model only to discover that an attacker has...
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By Brian Higgins
/ November 10, 2019
Machine learning enthusiasts have long touted the technology's ability to perform--and sometimes exceed--human mental endeavors, such as identifying objects in...
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By Brian Higgins
/ August 28, 2019
In Patel v. Facebook, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed a decision...
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By Brian Higgins
/ June 22, 2019
Developers of artificial intelligence-based video interviewing systems promote their technology as one that helps human resource professionals on-board new talent...
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By Brian Higgins
/ May 27, 2019
In WeRide Corp. v. Huang et al., the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued an order...
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Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have come at a time when the world is becoming more complex and interconnected. Many of the advances have had positive impacts, but the surge in AI use worldwide has also caused problems.
The legal services industry—made up of professionals who can make a big impact on the ways AI affects people—is uniquely positioned to help respond to concerns about AI. The industry’s active lawyers, for example, are representing the interests of individuals and companies who market or have been impacted by AI. The industry’s legal technology vendors are improving data-based algorithmic decision systems to help government agencies make better and more transparent decisions. Software companies are creating novel solutions to help law professionals work more efficiently. And law- and policy-makers are passing measures addressing privacy and other stakeholder concerns about AI.
Even so, many others may not fully appreciate what AI is and is not, and what it can and cannot be. If AI’s benefits are to reach all levels of society, its technological underpinnings and legal impacts should be better understood. That is a challenge embraced by this website.
Thank you for visiting this site.
Brian Higgins, Esq.