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Scam Alert: AI Takes Financial Fraud to New Depths
This week, let’s direct our attention to the FBI’s recent warning about sophisticated financial scams leveraging artificial intelligence.
Hosch & Morris Co-Founder Featured in American Bar Association’s Exploration of AI
An interview with Kate Morris about AI and privacy is published in the American Bar Association’s December 2024 SciTech E-Privacy Newsletter.
Questions to Ask Your AI Vendor: A Checklist
This week, we’re presenting a checklist of questions that you should ask potential AI vendors.
When AI Creates a Podcast
This week, using Google Lab's NotebookLM tool, we transformed our recent post, “When AI Sings the Robot Lawyer Blues,” into a podcast hosted by two AI-generated hosts--though they didn't pronounce "Hosch" right, they captured the essence of our post, and we have thoughts on that.
When AI Sings the “Robot Lawyer Blues”
This week, an unexpected turn in presentation preparation led us to create a country song about Robot Lawyers and make suggestions about how legal professionals can thrive in the age of AI.
California’s New AI Laws
This week, let’s highlight five new laws enacted in California that regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI), and especially the use of deepfakes in election campaigns and the entertainment industry.
AI Optimization?
This week, let’s focus on the challenges associated with artificial intelligence (AI) in advertising (along with Ruby martinis, Sex and the City, and so much more).
Meta's $1.4 Billion Texas Biometric Settlement
This week, let’s highlight Texas’s recent $1.4 Billion settlement with Meta stemming from its 2022 lawsuit accusing the “Artificial Intelligence empire” of building itself on the “backs of Texans” by violating the Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act (CUBI).
AI Legal Ethics: New Guidance from the ABA
This week, let’s consider the American Bar Association’s Formal Opinion 512 —new guidance regarding ethical considerations for attorneys using generative AI.
In the Dark: Understanding the Implications of “Shadow AI.”
This week, let’s consider the growing trend of “Shadow AI,” which refers to the unsanctioned use of AI tools or systems within an organization, often without the knowledge of the organization and outside of the organization’s governance framework.
Exploring EPIC’s Report on Outsourced AI Systems
Exploring EPIC’s Report on Outsourced AI Systems: This week, let’s consider government contracts for AI systems and the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s analysis of related issues, like privacy, cybersecurity, accuracy, bias, and more. Tips about procurement and contracting are included.
Health Privacy vs. Generative AI
This week, let’s consider the risks associated with the use of generative AI in healthcare settings, and explore ways to mitigate them, including the use of privacy-enhancing technologies.
AI Legal Ethics: New Guidance from New York
This week, let’s consider recent guidance issued by the New York State Bar Association's Task Force on AI and Ethics regarding the ethical and practical implications of the use of artificial intelligence by lawyers.
AI Legal Ethics: Guidance from California and Florida, and a Proposed Rule from the Fifth Circuit
This week, let’s consider recent guidance and proposed rules from California, Florida, and the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, all addressing the ethical and practical implications of the use of artificial intelligence by lawyers.
FTC Submits Comments on AI, Copyright, Consumer Protection, and Competition
This week, let’s consider the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recent submission of a comment to the U.S. Copyright Office addressing artificial intelligence (AI).
Navigating the New Reality of AI in Political Advertising
This week, let’s focus on Meta’s latest announcement about the use of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) in online political advertising, paralleling the recent executive order on AI.
Elon Musk, Hamas, and Disinformation
This week, let’s revisit the subject of disinformation in the wake of the attacks by Hamas on Israel, and relatedly consider Elon Musk's notable withdrawal of X (Twitter) from the EU's Code of Practice.
Getting Smarter about AI: A Guide for Legal Professionals
This week, let’s focus on what lawyers need to know to become smarter about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in law practice.
All the Talk About Chat-GPT
This week, let’s talk about Chat-GPT as Italy’s Data Protection Authority blocks it and Elon Musk and others call for freeze amidst warnings related to privacy and the existential risk posed by too-powerful AI.
Managing AI Risk: NIST Framework and ISO Guidance Announced
This week, let’s highlight the new risk management framework and guidance respectively published by NIST and ISO.