California Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentine Cuéllar writes down a few of his thoughts about artificial intelligence.
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Ailira (Artificially Intelligent Legal Information Research Assistant) is an Australia based AI development that is attempting reduce the cost of legal services by offering basic legal services to a consumer, which will be performed by AI technology.
A team of researchers at Zhejiang University, in China, have successfully interacted with Siri and Alexa at frequencies of sound higher than what humans are able to hear. Using these frequencies to interact with the voice assistants, the team was able to successfully make phone calls, post on social media, and perform a litany of additional tasks without the account holder knowing.
Blockchain technology is likely going to drastically impact the practice of law. In light of a lawyer's duty to keep up-to-date on changes to the benefits and risks of technology, attorneys should learn about blockchain and the disruptive effect it is likely to have on the law.
Nebraska recently joined the many states that have adopted a duty that lawyers must be technologically competent. It is very likely that soon all states will have a technology competence requirement for lawyers. This brief article discusses this duty, and contains links to discussions about the other states that have adopted it.