Why Regulation Is Hard

My New Obsession is AI Regulation There’s starting to be A LOT of talk about regulating AI, and rightfully so. This open letter to halt AI development has been signed by 1124 people at the time I opened it, and includes some people you may have heard of like Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Yuval Noah Harari, Andrew Yang, and one of the godfathers of modern AI Yoshua Bengio. We can debate until the cows come home the real motivations behind some of those people choosing to sign, but I completely agree with the sentiment....

March 29, 2023 · 9 min

What people don't get about case law, and the coming storm of AI regulation/litigation

What the public doesn’t get about case law ‘So I’ve found a few cases you might want to look at…’ I was catching up with a couple of law buddies last night - both very smart guys, both from corporate law. They hate, and have very successfully avoided, reading or caring about case law for essentially their entire legal careers, but sometimes they’ll ask me questions about the litigation-side of things....

March 26, 2023 · 9 min

The real Ultron will be a recursive function

Ultron. In all his glory. Everybody is FREAKING OUT about AI For the past few years, but particularly since the release of ChatGPT late last year, there’s been a growing panic about AI taking over the world. Now artificially intelligent robots taking over the world isn’t any sort of new idea. It’s been depicted in science fiction pretty much forever. I could’ve picked any number of examples from popular media....

March 4, 2023 · 5 min