‘Two years after asking the Biden administration how it was using artificial intelligence (AI) in the process of adjudicating asylum claims, Refugees International  is going to court to demand an answer. Today, the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program and Jenner & Block LLP have filed a lawsuit in DC District Court to get documents…

‘General counsel are the most senior lawyers within internal teams and an increasingly crucial element within their companies. Their expertise spans commercial awareness, complex contract drafting, litigation management, managing legal resources, and implementing strong leadership and negotiation skills. They also possess an equally exceptional breadth of technical legal knowledge that benefits the company as a…

‘Many people and businesses today approach artificial intelligence as an autonomous magical solution for creating marketing campaigns or new products. AI is incredible and useful, yet it isn’t magic.’ Link: https://www.inc.com/ken-sterling/5-ways-to-prepare-for-ai-compliance-and-legal-issues-in-your-business/91068493

‘Despite a stellar reference from a landlord of 17 years, Mary Louis was rejected after being screened by firm SafeRent.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/14/saferent-ai-tenant-screening-lawsuit

‘A law professor tapped ChatGPT to write his latest article, which argues that generative artificial intelligence programs will “expand the horizons” of legal scholarship.’ Link: https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/so-meta-ai-written-paper-says-ai-is-future-legal-scholarship-2025-01-02/

‘By examining the experiences of scholars from various institutions around the globe, this paper looks into how AI detection tools, which are meant to keep academic integrity intact, may backfire by unfairly accusing scholars of AI plagiarism. This paper shows that false positives disproportionately affect non-native English speakers and scholars with distinctive writing styles. This…

‘Why should you be interested in this question? I would argue because it goes to the very heart of where power lies in your country. The rule of law means that nobody is above the law (not even former US presidents) but who decides what the law is? Who develops the law? Is there transparency…

‘Systems are being devised to not only carry out basic work, like contract-writing, but also to analyse thousands of pages of evidence in the most complex of cases.’ Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2evjxev4jo

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‘To capitalise on GenAI’s strengths, and understand its limitations, students need to develop their research and critical thinking skills in practical, embedded and subject-specific ways.’ Link: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/ai-literacy-information-skill

‘The hype is fading, and people are asking what generative artificial intelligence is really good for. So far, no one has a decent answer.’ Link: https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-will-need-to-prove-its-usefulness/

‘Campaigners for the protection of the rights of creatives have criticised a UK government proposal to let artificial intelligence companies train their algorithms on their works under a new copyright exemption.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/17/uk-proposes-letting-tech-firms-use-copyrighted-work-to-train-ai

‘From energy to resources, data centers have grown too greedy.’ Link:https://www.wired.com/story/true-cost-generative-ai-data-centers-energy/

‘Ireland’s refreshed national AI strategy should help the country build on its recent recognition as one of the world’s top performing nations in AI, relative to its size.’ Link: https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/analysis/ireland-national-ai-strategy-refresh-the-seven-strands

‘Writers, publishers, musicians, photographers, movie producers and newspapers have rejected the Labour government’s plan to create a copyright exemption to help artificial intelligence companies train their algorithms.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/19/uk-arts-and-media-reject-plan-to-let-ai-firms-use-copyrighted-material

‘Both our creative industries and our AI sector are UK strengths. They are vital to our national mission to grow the economy. This consultation sets out our plan to deliver a copyright and AI framework that rewards human creativity, incentivises innovation and provides the legal certainty required for long-term growth in both sectors.’ Link: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/copyright-and-artificial-intelligence/copyright-and-artificial-intelligence

‘The systematic review analyzed 27 works of literature related to the skills and competencies needed by academic librarians to use information technology (IT) tools effectively in the digital age. The review is carried out following the recommended Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) guidelines. Relevant literature was extracted from eight major academic…

‘This paper examined the role of honor codes and severity of punishment on the students’ perception of cheating seriousness in order to assess the effectiveness of institutional policies on preventing the academic misconduct. In order to further put into perspective the obtained results, two moderating factors were included in the empirical analysis—students’ understanding and support…

‘The purpose of this perspective essay is not to dissect the merits or deficits of AI in practice in classrooms, nor is it intended to approach the topic from a technical standpoint. Rather, this manuscript begins from a place of acceptance, recognizing that AI in education is already here and the adaptive and evolutionary nature…

‘Internet intermediaries’ content moderation raises two major problems. The first relates to the accuracy of the moderation practices, which is an issue on whether the intermediaries over-enforce or under-enforce. The second problem concerns the inherent privatization of justice that results when enforcement of rights is left to a private party. The purpose of the article…

‘Prohibiting AI developers from training their AI models with copyrighted content without a licence in all cases would likely harm the UK’s global competitiveness in AI development, the UK government has said.’ Link: https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/ai-copyright-regime-steers-requiring-licences-all-cases

‘In this webinar, University of Calgary Library staff reflect on lessons learned from the implementation of the Library’s AI reference chatbot.’ Link: https://www.oclc.org/research/events/2024/implementing-an-ai-reference-chatbot.html

‘The promise of higher productivity makes using ChatGPT and other gen AI tools to help with daily business writing tempting. But there are risks: loss of your unique voice, inadvertent errors, and ethical pitfalls, all of which can negatively impact your credibility and relationships. Using AI to help you rather than replace you as you…

‘Artificial intelligence is going to help citizens to assert their legal rights, and the opportunity for lawyers will be in creating this new way of working.’ Link: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/ai-wont-just-speed-up-the-legal-system-it-will-revolutionise-it-lc308nkmq

‘The Rt Hon. Lord Justice Birss, Deputy Head of Civil Justice, delivered a speech at the Life Sciences Patent Network European Conference in London on 3 December 2024.’ Link: https://www.judiciary.uk/the-impact-and-value-of-ai-for-ip-and-the-courts-a-speech-by-lord-justice-birss/

‘As a Knowledge and Information Management professional, have you ever assessed AI tools in the context of potential copyright infringement? How does current copyright and intellectual property legislation address AI issues? How do you protect third-party copyrighted works in your AI environment? Are existing copyright exceptions sufficient to implement text and data mining or machine…

‘“If I use an AI tool for research or to help me create something, should I cite it in my completed work as a source? How do you properly give attribution to AI tools when you use them?”’ Link: https://www.wired.com/story/prompt-disclose-at-in-creative-work-teach-kids-about-chatbots/

‘We articulate fundamental mismatches between technical methods for machine unlearning in Generative AI, and documented aspirations for broader impact that these methods could have for law and policy. These aspirations are both numerous and varied, motivated by issues that pertain to privacy, copyright, safety, and more. For example, unlearning is often invoked as a solution…

‘Copyright infringement in frontier LLMs has received much attention recently due to the New York Times v. OpenAI lawsuit, filed in December 2023. The New York Times claims that GPT-4 has infringed its copyrights by reproducing articles for use in LLM training and by memorizing the inputs, thereby publicly displaying them in LLM outputs. Our…

‘Substantial research over the last ten years has indicated that many generative artificial intelligence systems (“GAI”) have the potential to produce biased results, particularly with respect to gender. This potential for bias has grown progressively more important in recent years as GAI has become increasingly integrated in multiple critical sectors, such as healthcare, consumer lending,…

‘This article discusses the nuanced challenges of using Generative Artificial Intelligence in multimodal compositions while maintaining an ethical adherence to ideas of academic honesty and intellectual property. Through examining hypothetical scenarios, we can see that multimodality complicates the concept of “fair use” in academic contexts, since image or audio generation via AI functions differently than…

‘The new program aims to make public domain materials housed at Harvard Law School Library and other knowledge institutions available to train AI.’ Link: https://hls.harvard.edu/today/harvards-library-innovation-lab-launches-initiative-to-use-public-domain-data-to-train-artificial-intelligence/

‘Generative AI systems often generate outputs about real people, even when not explicitly prompted to do so. This can lead to significant reputational and privacy harms, especially when sensitive, misleading, and outright false. This paper considers what legal tools currently exist to protect such individuals, with a particular focus on defamation and data protection law.…

‘If an AI is a black box, who is liable for its actions? The owner of the platform? The end user? Its original creator? Former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and Miriam Vogel, president and CEO of EqualAI, survey how AI both fits in and breaks existing legal frameworks. They argue that leaders need…

‘I argue that generative AI will have an uneven effect on the evolution of the law. To do so, I consider generative AI as a labor-augmenting technology that reduces the cost of both writing more complete contracts and litigating in court. The contracting effect reduces the demand for court services by making contracts more complete.…

‘Artificial intelligence (AI) model creators commonly attach restrictive terms of use to both their models and their outputs. These terms typically prohibit activities ranging from creating competing AI models to spreading disinformation. Often taken at face value, these terms are positioned by companies as key enforceable tools for preventing misuse, particularly in policy dialogs. But…

‘Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) has the potential to automate, integrate or augment human creativity. Current literature reveals that organizations adopting such disruptive technology can both boost or hinder human creativity. Such ambiguity poses an ethical dilemma for decision-makers: while managers are pressured to adopt GAI quickly for optimization, holding on to their economic responsibilities, they…

‘This interview-based study aimed to understand how teachers make sense of their work and themselves in relation to artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies, and was conceived as a means of learning with and from teachers. Navigating recent AI developments raised questions about thinking, creativity, production, and the meaning and value of humanity, along…

‘The European legislature has proposed the Digital Services Act (DSA) and Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) to regulate platforms and Artificial Intelligence (AI) products. We review to what extent third-party audits are part of both laws and how is access to information on models and the data provided. By considering the value of third-party audits and…

‘This article presents a comparative analysis of political bias in the outputs of three Large Language Model (LLM)-based chatbots – ChatGPT (GPT3.5, GPT4, GPT4o), Bing Chat, and Bard/Gemini – in response to political queries concerning the authoritarian regime in Russia. We investigate whether safeguards implemented in these chatbots contribute to the censorship of information that…

‘In the last decade, the Global South has emerged as a significant player in the data economy due to their majority user base, and studying its role is crucial to comprehend the future of AI. As societies grapple with the implications of AI on creative life, there is an opportunity to reevaluate the creative contributions…

‘Personalized learning builds upon the fundamental assumption of uniqueness in learning behavior, often taken for granted. Quite surprisingly, however, the literature provides little to no empirical evidence backing the existence of individual learning behaviors. Driven by curiosity, we challenge this axiom. Our operationalization of a unique learning behavior draws an analogy to a fingerprint –…

‘The burgeoning capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) have prompted numerous local governments worldwide to consider its integration into their operations. Nevertheless, instances of notable AI failures have heightened ethical concerns, emphasising the imperative for local governments to approach the adoption of AI technologies in a responsible manner. While local government AI guidelines endeavour to incorporate…

Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice in England and Wales. Blackstone Lecture, Pembroke College, Oxford. Link: https://www.judiciary.uk/speech-by-the-master-of-the-rolls-are-rights-sufficiently-human-in-the-age-of-the-machine/

‘Written Corrective Feedback (WCF) is a crucial pedagogical practice where teachers annotate student writing to correct errors and improve language skills, albeit one that is time-consuming and laborious for large classes or under time constraints. However, the advent of advanced generative artificial intelligence and large language models, specifically ChatGPT, has introduced new possibilities for automating…

‘AI could soon not only mimic our personality, but go out and act on our behalf. There are some things we need to sort out before then.’ Link: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/11/26/1107309/we-need-to-start-wrestling-with-the-ethics-of-ai-agents/

‘Not a single Whitehall department has registered the use of artificial intelligence systems since the government said it would become mandatory, prompting warnings that the public sector is “flying blind” about the deployment of algorithmic technology affecting millions of lives.’ Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/28/uk-government-failing-to-list-use-of-ai-on-mandatory-register

‘AI-generated writing is now all over the internet. The introduction of automated prose can sometimes change a website’s character, like when once beloved publications get purchased and overhauled into AI content mills. Other times, however, it’s harder to argue that AI really changed anything. For example, look at LinkedIn.’ Link: https://www.wired.com/story/linkedin-ai-generated-influencers/