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Ten Legal and Business Risks of Chatbots and Generative AI

Ten Legal and Business Risks of Chatbots and Generative AI – by Matthew F. Ferraro, a senior fellow at the National Security Institute at George Mason University, is a Counsel at WilmerHale; Natalie Li is a Senior Associate, and Haixia Lin and Louis W. Tompros / Partners at WilmerHale. “It took just two months from …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 4, 2023

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 4, 2023 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis  Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …

Subjects: Climate Change, Courts, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy

Americans Can’t Consent to Companies Use of their Data

Americans Can’t Consent – Companies’ Use of Their Data – They Admit They Don’t Understand It, Say They’re Helpless to Control It, and Believe They’re Harmed When Firms Use Their Data —Making What Companies Do Illegitimate: A Report from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania – “Overview – Consent has always been a …

Subjects: E-Commerce, E-Mail, E-Records, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Marketing, Microsoft, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media, Transportation

Chat with any PDF

Chat with any PDF – “A chatting PDF? Why? This is the age of the AI revolution! Intelligence will be free and ubiquitous soon, restructuring our society and enabling new possibilities of interaction. With ChatPDF, your documents are becoming intelligent! Just talk to your PDF file as if it were a human with perfect understanding …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Students can quote ChatGPT in essays as long as they do not pass the work off as their own

Business Insider: “Students taking the International Baccalaureate (IB) will be allowed to use ChatGPT so long as they don’t try to pass the work off as their own.  Matt Glanville, head of assessment principles and practice at the IB, a qualification body that’s popular in Europe, told The Times of London that students would be …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Uncommon Carriage

Reid, Blake Ellis, Uncommon Carriage (February 21, 2023). Stanford Law Review, Vol. 76, 2024 (forthcoming), U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 22-20, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4181948 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4181948 “As states have started to regulate the carriage of speech by “Big Tech” Internet platforms, scholars, advocates, and policymakers have increasingly focused their attention …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

Brave Search introduces the Summarizer, an AI tool for synthesized, relevant results

brave: “The Summarizer provides concise and to-the-point answers at the top of Brave Search results pages, in response to the user’s input, solely based on Web search results. Unlike a purely generative AI model, which is prone to spout unsubstantiated assertions, we trained our large language models (LLMs) to process multiple sources of information present …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy, Search Engines

Mechanisms and Impacts of Earth System Tipping Elements

Reviews of Geophysics, Volume 61, Issue 1. March 2023. Mechanisms and Impacts of Earth System Tipping Elements. Seaver Wang, Adrianna Foster, Elizabeth A. Lenz, John D. Kessler, Julienne C. Stroeve, Liana O. Anderson, Merritt Turetsky, Richard Betts, Sijia Zou, Wei Liu, William R. Boos, Zeke Hausfather. First published: 15 February 2023. [$ to read the …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Knowledge Management

Forecasting potential misuses of language models for disinformation campaigns and how to reduce risk

“OpenAI researchers collaborated with Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology and the Stanford Internet Observatory to investigate how large language models might be misused for disinformation purposes. The collaboration included an October 2021 workshop bringing together 30 disinformation researchers, machine learning experts, and policy analysts, and culminated in a co-authored report building on …

Subjects: AI, Congress, Internet, Knowledge Management

Biden-⁠Harris Administration Announces National Cybersecurity Strategy

Read the full strategy here – “Today, the Biden-Harris Administration released the National Cybersecurity Strategy to secure the full benefits of a safe and secure digital ecosystem for all Americans. In this decisive decade, the United States will reimagine cyberspace as a tool to achieve our goals in a way that reflects our values: economic security …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Defense, Economy