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New York Regulates the Use of AI-Driven Hiring

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On November 20, 2023

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New York Regulates the Use of AI-Driven Hiring

By: Brenna Harman

            New York City published final regulations regarding the use of AI-driven hiring tools, and enforcement of the laws went into effect on July 5, 2023.[1] Local Law 144 (“NYC 144”) requires any automated employment decision tool (AEDT) to be audited annually.[2] The audits are performed to check for bias that may be intentionally or unintentionally within the systems.[3] The employer must determine if they are using an AEDT, perform the audit, publish a public summary of the audit, and provide certain notices to applicants or employees who are subject to screening by the tool.[4]

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The Da Vinci System: A Feat in Medicine, a Newfound Dilemma in the Legal Field

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On November 17, 2023

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The Da Vinci System: A Feat in Medicine, a Newfound Dilemma in the Legal Field

By L. Michelle Ugalde

The da Vinci Robotic Surgical System is said to be catalytic in the advancement of modern medicine since its inception by Silicon Valley’s Intuitive Surgical. [1] While the machine itself is exceedingly complex, a major design component of the da Vinci system is that the system is used and overall conducted by a human surgeon.[2] As it turns out, this is exactly where a vast amount of the recent litigation surrounding the system stems from.[3] This litigation poses some crucial concerns.[4] As errors with using the system increase, so does the amount of litigation discussing whether those mistakes should be attributed to the system, or to the surgeon leading the system.[5] As a result, it appears that many are beginning to question if this new abundance of legal troubles, along with other issues revolving the system, are detrimental to the point where the da Vinci system is exceeding its worth.[6]

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Watch Your Step: The Potential Use of Smart Concrete in Law Enforcement

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On November 15, 2023

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Watch Your Step: The Potential Use of Smart Concrete in Law Enforcement

By Kathryn Threatt

In his podcast, The Justice Tech Download, Jason Tashea envisions a new and smart use for concrete: to collect data to identify perpetrators via gait analysis.[1]

Imagine. As you walk along your city’s sidewalks the sensors within its concrete track your steps and your gait. You pause just before someone bumps into you. That someone just rushed out of a convenience store. You notice a few characteristics about them as they pass by: hair color, height in comparison to your own, shade of clothing, and race/ethnicity. Your attention then turns to the convenience store owner who runs out of the store screaming, “Thief!” The alleged thief then sprints down the street and disappears before anyone stops them. The police take your statement and gather data from this smart sidewalk when they arrive.

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Apple Vision Pro: Can it See China?

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On November 13, 2023

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Apple Vision Pro: Can it See China?

By Jarrid Outlaw

Apple is slated to release their next big market product the “Apple Vision Pro” early next year.[1]  The vision pro is an augmented reality (AR) headset that also acts as a standalone computer.[2]  Apple proclaims this product to be the first “spatial computer.”[3]  It combines everyday apps we use on our phones and computers and projects them as an interactive canvas, while still allowing the user freedom to see the environment around them.[4]  It also connects with MacBooks, allows you to make the canvas as big and small as you want, has state of the art resolution, and works as a standalone computer.[5]  Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, had this to say, “Apple Vision Pro introduces us to spatial computing. Built upon decades of Apple innovation, Vision Pro is years ahead and unlike anything created before — with a revolutionary new input system and thousands of groundbreaking innovations. It unlocks incredible experiences for our users and exciting new opportunities for our developers.”[6]  Though Apple has come up with numerous new and exciting technological innovations, they will have a hard time in the global market due to China’s trademark law.[7]

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Deepfakes: Navigating Legal Challenges

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On November 6, 2023

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Deepfakes: Navigating Legal Challenges

By Moses Hutchinson

Imagine a courtroom where the authenticity of every audio and video recording is suspect. Deepfakes force the legal field to grapple with a fundamental question: can our courts adapt to this new reality.

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Can Artificial Intelligence Platforms be Held Liable for Defamation?

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On October 30, 2023

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Can Artificial Intelligence Platforms be Held Liable for Defamation?

By: Sydney Coker

On May 4, 2023, journalist Fred Riehl was conducting research on a lawsuit, The Second Amendment Foundation v. Robert Ferguson, using an artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT.[1] In his interaction with ChatGPT, Riehl provided the URL of a link to the complaint filed by The Second Amendment Foundation and asked ChatGPT to provide “a summary of the accusations in the complaint.”[2] In response, the chatbot produced a number of false allegations claimed to be made by the Second Amendment Foundation against Mark Walters, an individual who is neither a plaintiff nor defendant in the lawsuit.[3]

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The Irish Tech Boom: a Jammy Success or a Banjaxed System?

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On October 27, 2023

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The Irish Tech Boom: a Jammy Success or a Banjaxed System?

By Avery S. Younis

Once home to the “Double Irish” tax loophole, Ireland houses well over 100,000 information, communication, and technology professionals.[1] Over the past two decades, the country has seen a drastic increase in U.S. tech-based companies moving operations to its country.[2] The biggest companies include Apple, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, X (Twitter), and Amazon.com.[3] Dublin alone is an international tech hub with companies such as TikTok, Zoom Video Communications, ServiceNow, Datadog, Toast, and 2K.[4]

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Tattoos, 2K, and the Future of Copyright Law

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On October 25, 2023

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By Eleni Paraskevopoulos

 

For those unfamiliar with the video game franchise, NBA 2K, named 2023’s most popular video game in the U.S., is a series of basketball simulation video games designed to emulate the NBA where basketball enthusiasts can fulfill their NBA dreams by playing as NBA players of both the past and present.[1]  A major feature of 2K is the increasingly accurate likeness of NBA players in the playable avatars.[2]  In order for there to be optimal likeness, all aspects of players should be accurately represented: from an individual’s height to their eye color to even their tattoos.  Tattoos are becoming more important especially when given that as of 2020, an estimated 56% of NBA players have tattoos.[3] So what happens when the tattoo art being reproduced in a 2K, is done so without the permission of the artist and copyright holder?

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George R.R. Martin Won’t Bend the Knee – Chat GPT, Generative AI, and the Fine Line Between Fair Use and Copyright Infringement

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On October 20, 2023

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By Perla Khattar[1]

 

On September 19, 2023, George R.R. Martin and other professional fiction writers filed a class action lawsuit against OpenAI in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The Plaintiffs alleged that at the heart of Large Language Models (LLMs) exists “systematic theft on a mass scale.”[2]  In their complaint, the plaintiffs explained that OpenAI, the maker of the LLM ChatGPT, copied their copyrighted works of fiction without permission and fed the data into LLMs that are carefully programmed to “output human-seeming text responses to users’ prompts and queries.”[3] The authors allege that OpenAI downloaded the manuscripts from pirated eBooks repositories.[4]

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