Technologists and Lawyers and Legal Regulations: Risks for Lawyers

Technologists and Lawyers and Legal Regulations: Risks for Lawyers

This is part two based on a transcript from ‘Legal Technology: Risk and Regulation’ video of my three-part series commenting on different views on and between technologies and lawyers in legal regulations. The first part of the series reviewed the existing state of...
Sophia, Robot Citizenship, and AI Legal

Sophia, Robot Citizenship, and AI Legal

On October 25, 2017, Sophia became the first robot in history to be a full citizen of Saudi Arabia. First of all, let’s assume there is actual citizenship granted, and it is not just a marketing stunt. And so we look at what happens if we create such legal...
Why Bill Gates’​ Robot Tax is either Bad or Scary

Why Bill Gates’​ Robot Tax is either Bad or Scary

Bill Gates has suggested that in response to robots taking the jobs of humans, there should be a robot tax. As a tax lawyer who builds artificial intelligence (and known as the Taxinator), of course I am going to have some comments. His line of reasoning is that a...
Future of Law Part 3: Artificial Intelligence

Future of Law Part 3: Artificial Intelligence

It is wrong to think of AI as being a computerized human brain. It is not. Instead, AI is a collection of proxy ways of achieving a similar outcome to a human. The process of automation by AI begins with the movement of documents and services and analysis from bespoke...
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