Marchant to Speak at Law + Innovation
The ABA Section of Litigation and its sponsor Navigant Consulting are holding their annual Law + Innovation event on December 11, 2017. This year’s event will focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on the practice of law. The event will bring together industry-leading resources in the legal, disputes, litigation, and AI communities in order […]
LSI Scholar Profile: Walter G. Johnson
The Center is home to an incredible faculty and host to the top minds at the intersection of law, science, and technology. But we also attract some of the brightest student scholars around; we think you should meet them. This is the first in an ongoing series profiling our Center Scholars. Walter G. Johnson, class […]
Center Scholar Co-authors Report on Gene Editing
Walter Johnson, Center Scholar and 1L at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, co-authored a report exploring the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze and optimize the human genome. How to Optimize Human Biology: Where Genome Editing and Artificial Intelligence Collide, co-authored with Eleonore Pauwels, was published by the Wilson Center, an influential […]
ROSS Intelligence Pulls In Funds for Legal Research AI
ROSS Intelligence‘s mission – taking on the biggest names in legal research with artificial intelligence (AI) – just got an $8.7 million boost in venture funding. ROSS intends to outpace LexisNexis and Westlaw by using AI to assist attorneys with fast and accurate legal research. ROSS was founded in 2015 by Andrew Arruda, Jimoh Ovbiagele and […]
Prof. Gary Marchant Gives Keynote on Technology and Access to the Courts
Center for Law, Science & Innovation Faculty Director Gary Marchant gave the keynote talk at the National Association for Presiding Judges and Court Executives 2017 Annual Leadership Conference in Scottsdale, AZ on September 26, 2017. Professor Marchant’s talk, titled “Using Technology to Improve Access to the Courts,” described various technologies being used to improve access to […]
Ohio Judge One of First to Use Artificial Intelligence in the Courtroom
Artificial intelligence is quickly disrupting (usually in good ways) every sector of the economy, including the practice of law. Now Judge Anthony Capizzi of Ohio has become one of the first judges in the world to use artificial intelligence to help resolve cases. Judge Capizzi is using IBM’s Watson robotic system to rapidly organize, prioritize […]
5th Annual Governance of Emerging Technologies Conference: Part 4
What follows is Part 4 of a series of select summaries of conference presentations, each prepared by 2L Jesse James, given at LSI‘s Fifth Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy and Ethics, held at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Beus Center for Law & Society, Phoenix, AZ on May 17-19, […]
Congratulations – Student Poster Winners
One of the highlights of the annual Governance of Emerging Technologies Conference is the student poster session, when students from any academic institution are invited to present a poster related to a theme of the conference. This year, the top two posters, selected by the conference committee, were awarded a cash prize of $500 for first […]
Worldwide Web Watch
On the lighter side of things today, how about an article titled AI engineer builds and marries his robot wife? The wedding ceremony was, apparently, informal. First, however, the wife will have to learn how to walk (what were the engineer’s priorities?). Then she is scheduled to learn how to do “some household chores.”
Worldwide Web Watch
March 23, 2017 Calm down. It’s not Armageddon according to the optimists, writes Sarah Kessler, when discussing the future of human employment. We’ve been here before, she says, and runs through classic examples of situations that provoked needless fears of an apocalyptic machine conquest. In fact, historically, those worrisome machines created more jobs albeit different […]