“Welcome to the Repository of Historical Gun Laws, a searchable database of gun laws from the medieval age to 1776 in England and from the colonial era to the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. This Repository is intended as a resource for scholars and practitioners interested in historical laws concerning firearms… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2023
YouTube Leads Young Gamers to Videos of Guns, School Shootings
Tech Transparency Project: “YouTube says it delivers ‘responsible’ video recommendations. But its algorithms steered accounts for young gamers toward content on guns, school shootings, and a serial killer. Key points from this report: YouTube recommended hundreds of videos about guns and gun violence to accounts for boys interested in video games, according to a new… Continue Reading
The First Year of AI College Ends in Ruin
The Atlantic [read free] There’s an arms race on campus, and professors are losing: “One-hundred percent AI. That’s what the software concluded about a student’s paper. One of the professors in the academic program I direct had come across this finding and asked me what to do with it. Then another one saw the same… Continue Reading
Can ChatGPT Decipher Fedspeak?
Hansen, Anne Lundgaard and Kazinnik, Sophia, Can ChatGPT Decipher Fedspeak? (March 24, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4399406 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4399406 – Yes! This paper investigates the ability of Generative Pre-training Transformer (GPT) models to decipher Fedspeak, a term used to describe the technical language used by the Federal Reserve to communicate on monetary policy decisions. We… Continue Reading
The Hottest Online Game: Hunting for Classified Documents
WSJ – [free to read] “The government secrets leaked on Discord have become fodder for users seeking fun and attention – “Videogame enthusiasts are scouring popular social-media platforms in the hope of finding classified U.S. military documents, turning the recent national-security crisis over leaked secrets into a global scavenger hunt. The competition pits online users… Continue Reading
Law Firm Newswire Launches Free AI Press Release Writer for Lawyers
May 15, 2023 (Law Firm Newswire via COMTEX) “Law Firm Newswire (LFN) has developed an AI press release writer that can help lawyers and law firms write quality press releases. AI learns by example; thus LFN’s engineers used world-class legal journalism, court opinions, and some of LFN’s best-performing press releases as a foundation to create… Continue Reading
S.1564 – AI Leadership Training Act
S. 1564 – To require the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to establish, or otherwise ensure the provision of, a training program on artificial intelligence for Federal management officials and supervisors, and for other purposes. May 11, 2023. “U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and… Continue Reading
Oversight of A.I.: Rules for Artificial Intelligence
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing. May 15, 20223 – Oversight of A.I.: Rules for Artificial Intelligence – Hearing video Witnesses – Samuel Altman, CEO OpenAI San Francisco, CA – Download Testimony: “…OpenAI is a leading developer of large language models (LLMs) and other AI tools. Fundamentally, the current generation of AI models are large-scale statistical prediction… Continue Reading
The Rule of Law
Sunstein, Cass R., The Rule of Law (March 30, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4405238 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4405238– “The concept of the rule of law is invoked for purposes that are both numerous and diverse, and that concept is often said to overlap with, or to require, an assortment of other practices and ideals, including democracy, free… Continue Reading
Measuring trends in Artificial Intelligence
Stanford University AI Index Report – “The AI Index Report developed at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University in California. The AI Index is an independent initiative at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), led by the AI Index Steering Committee, an interdisciplinary group of experts from across academia… Continue Reading
The Disappearing White-Collar Job
WSJ – free access: “A once-in-a-generation convergence of technology and pressure to operate more efficiently has corporations saying many lost jobs may never return For generations of Americans, a corporate job was a path to stable prosperity. No more. The jobs lost in a monthslong cascade of white-collar layoffs triggered by overhiring and rising interest… Continue Reading
Your DNA Can Now Be Pulled From Thin Air. Privacy Experts Are Worried
The New York Times: “Environmental DNA research has aided conservation, but scientists say its ability to glean information about human populations and individuals poses dangers. David Duffy, a wildlife geneticist at the University of Florida, just wanted a better way to track disease in sea turtles. Then he started finding human DNA everywhere he looked.… Continue Reading
