A New Day for Governing AI Development?
Trying out a new maxim: the more powerful a technology, the more concern people will have about deploying it, with Artificial Intelligence as the latest example.
Law
The Future of the Legal Course Book
Seattle University School of Law is hosting a workshop on the “Future of the Legal Course Book.” It’s a very nicely organized, timely session, brought together by Prof. David Skover, Ron Collins, and deans Ed Rubin of Vanderbilt and Kellye Testy of Seattle University. On the table: how should we rethink the legal case book in the … Read more
Three insights from Brad Smith of MSFT
Live blogged notes of a lecture and discussion with Brad Smith, Microsoft’s General Counsel, at the Berkman Center at HLS.
Wash. U. School of Law in St. Louis for 1st A conference
I’m sitting between Jack Balkin and Mark McKenna, and across from Jonathan Zittrain’s face on a television screen, at a beautifully-organized conference at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. The topic is the First Amendment and the Rehnquist Court. JZ is giving a cool variant of his generativity story. If you haven’t … Read more
McGraw Hill et al. sue Google
Lawsuit filed today on the Google libraries project, with extraordinary counsel (no doubt) on both sides. The publishers assert copyright violation by Google for re-publishing digital versions of their copyrighted works that are kept in libraries such as the University of Michigan’s.
Urs Gasser's view of the State of Play
We’re here at the State of Play III, a sold-out, electric event at NYLS of which the Berkman Center is a co-host. For a lawyer’s context in a few easy paragraphs, check out what my colleague Urs Gasser has to say about it, as he prepared to attend. If you are not here in NY, … Read more