OpenAI Is Transitioning to a For-Profit Business. The Stakes Are Enormous.
Election Workers Are Drowning in Records Requests. AI Chatbots Could Make It Worse: Experts worry that election deniers could weaponize chatbots to overwhelm and slow down local officials
Better Call GPT, Comparing Large Language Models Against Lawyers
Consulting Giants See AI Shaving Years Off the Path to Partner
OpenAI investors considering suing the board after CEO's abrupt firing
Police Officers Are Starting to Use AI to Write Crime Reports
LegalBench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark for Measuring Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models
OpenAI Cribbed Our Tax Example, But Can GPT-4 Really Do Tax?
Joint Submission of [Proposed] Consent Judgment and Permanent Injunction Subject to Reservation of Right of Appeal
Our structure: We designed OpenAI’s structure—a partnership between our original Nonprofit and a new capped profit arm—as a chassis for OpenAI’s mission: to build artificial general intelligence (AGI) that is safe and benefits all of humanity
AI Is a Lot of Work: As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging—and not going anywhere
Large Language Models as Tax Attorneys: A Case Study in Legal Capabilities Emergence
Ramadan fasting increases leniency in judges from Pakistan and India
Allen & Overy breaks the internet (and new ground) with co-pilot Harvey
A Judge Just Used ChatGPT to Make a Court Decision: The case is the first time a court has admitted to using the AI text generator’s answers in a legal ruling
Some Are More Equal Than Others: US Supreme Court Clerkships
Large Language Models as Fiduciaries: A Case Study Toward Robustly Communicating With Artificial Intelligence Through Legal Standards
GPT-3 as Knowledge Worker: A Zero-Shot Evaluation of AI CPA Capabilities
#ReceptioGate and the (absolute) state of academia: The numbers game has incentivized bad behavior
MAUD: An Expert-Annotated Legal NLP Dataset for Merger Agreement Understanding
Harvey, which uses AI to answer legal questions, lands cash from OpenAI
Comment on ‘Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases’
The signaling value of university rankings: Evidence from Top 14 law schools
Trial by Internet: A Randomized Field Experiment on Wikipedia’s Influence on Judges’ Legal Reasoning
Pile of Law: Learning Responsible Data Filtering from the Law and a 256GB Open-Source Legal Dataset
Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives processing difficulty in legal language
[19CV346663] Remote Videotaped Deposition of Ashok Elluswamy
Can we do that here? An analysis of US federal and state policies guiding human embryo and embryoid research
Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests: Hackers compromised the emails of law enforcement agencies; Data was used to enable harassment, may aid financial fraud
Hackers Gaining Power of Subpoena Via Fake ‘Emergency Data Requests’
How to protect the first ‘CRISPR babies’ prompts ethical debate: Fears of excessive interference cloud proposal for protecting children whose genomes were edited, as He Jiankui’s release from jail looks imminent
Criminalizing Poverty: The Consequences of Court Fees in a Randomized Experiment
Limits of Using Artificial Intelligence and GPT-3 in Patent Prosecution
Out of the Dark: The Effect of Law Enforcement Actions on Cryptocurrency Market Prices
Results of a 2020 Survey on Reporting Requirements and Practices for Biocontainment Laboratory Accidents
Protective State Policies and the Employment of Fathers with Criminal Records
Keeping it in the family: Female inheritance, inmarriage, and the status of women
In Defense of King George: The author of a new biography [The Last King of America] shines a humane light on the monarch despised by the colonists
The wild card: colonial paper money in French North America, 1685–1719
Roadblock to Innovation: The Role of Patent Litigation in Corporate R&D
Theory of the Nudnik: The Future of Consumer Activism and What We Can Do to Stop It
Internet Archive Offers 1.4 Million Copyrighted Books for Free Online
Compliance with legal requirement to report clinical trial results on ClinicalTrials.gov: a cohort study
FDA and NIH let clinical trial sponsors keep results secret and break the law
The War On Drugs 2.0: Darknet Fentanyl’s Rise And The Effects Of Regulatory And Law Enforcement Action
When Matching Markets Unravel? Theory and Evidence from Federal Judicial Clerkships
Judge Judy Is Still Judging You: For more than 20 years, Judith Sheindlin has dominated daytime ratings—by making justice in a complicated world look easy
The Voluntariness of Voluntary Consent: Consent Searches and the Psychology of Compliance
DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence. Demis Hassabis founded a company to build the world’s most powerful AI. Then Google bought him out. Hal Hodson asks who is in charge
Review of Scientific Self-Experimentation: Ethics History, Regulation, Scenarios, and Views Among Ethics Committees and Prominent Scientists
Mickey Mouse will be public domain soon—here’s what that means: The Internet stopped another copyright extension without firing a shot
The simple but ingenious system Taiwan uses to crowdsource its laws: vTaiwan is a promising experiment in participatory governance. But politics is blocking it from getting greater traction
OpenAI Charter: Our Charter describes the principles we use to execute on OpenAI’s mission
Vengeance As Justice: Passages I Highlighted in My Copy of Eye for an Eye
Islam and Economic Performance: Historical and Contemporary Links
Creating a Last Twenty (L20) Collection: Implementing §108(h) in Libraries, Archives and Museums
Certificate of Incorporation of a Non-Stock Corporation OpenAI, Inc
The Exquisitely English (and Amazingly Lucrative) World of London Clerks: It’s a Dickensian profession that can still pay upwards of $650,000 per year
Public Record, Astronomical Price: Court reporters charge outrageous fees to reproduce trial transcripts. That’s bad for defendants, journalists, and democracy.
Too good to be true: when overwhelming evidence fails to convince
Legal Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: Civic Legacies of the Islamic Waqf
‘Everything has a price’: Jimmy Carter and the Struggle for Balance in Federal Regulatory Policy
The impact of student-generated digital flashcards on student learning of constitutional law
Why Don’t Colleges Get Rid of Their Bad Fraternities? A yearlong investigation of Greek houses reveals their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and a sophisticated system for shifting the blame
Corporate Governance Without Shareholders: A Cautionary Lesson from Non-Profit Organizations
Perma: Scoping and Addressing the Problem of Link and Reference Rot in Legal Citations
Jay-Z’s 99 Problems, Verse 2: A Close Reading with Fourth Amendment Guidance for Cops and Perps
Judicial Biases in Ottoman Istanbul: Islamic Justice and Its Compatibility with Modern Economic Life
Anesthetizing the Public Conscience: Lethal Injection and Animal Euthanasia
Catṡlechta and other medieval legal material relating to cats
No Justice, No Foul: Everything You Didn’t Know That You Were Afraid To Know About The Supreme Court
Richard Posner, The Bench Burner: How Did a Judge With Such Subversive Ideas Become a Leading Influence on American Legal Opinion?
The Bench Burner: How Did a Judge With Such Subversive Ideas Become a Leading Influence on American Legal Opinion?
The Dark Side of Private Ordering: An Institutional and Empirical Analysis of Organized Crime
Food Availability, Entitlements and the Chinese Famine of 1959–1961
Scholarly Restraints? ABA Accreditation and Legal Education
Taxi Industry Regulation, Deregulation, and Reregulation: The Paradox of Market Failure
Bearing the burden: The Great Toronto Stork Derby, 1926–1938
Psychological Assessment Versus Psychological Testing: Validation From Binet to the School, Clinic, and Courtroom
Fairness in Employment Testing: Validity Generalization, Minority Issues, and the General Aptitude Test Battery
Reflections on Optimal Punishment, or: Should the Rich Pay Higher Fines?
A Theory of Primitive Society, With Special Reference to Law
In AI We Trust, Part II [Claude-3 Opus Predicting Supreme Court Decisions]
The ACLU Fights for Your Constitutional Right to Make Deepfakes
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Election Workers Are Drowning in Records Requests. AI Chatbots Could Make It Worse: Experts worry that election deniers could weaponize chatbots to overwhelm and slow down local officials
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Our structure: We designed OpenAI’s structure—a partnership between our original Nonprofit and a new capped profit arm—as a chassis for OpenAI’s mission: to build artificial general intelligence (AGI) that is safe and benefits all of humanity
AI Is a Lot of Work: As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging—and not going anywhere
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Allen & Overy breaks the internet (and new ground) with co-pilot Harvey
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A Judge Just Used ChatGPT to Make a Court Decision: The case is the first time a court has admitted to using the AI text generator’s answers in a legal ruling
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Large Language Models as Fiduciaries: A Case Study Toward Robustly Communicating With Artificial Intelligence Through Legal Standards
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GPT-3 as Knowledge Worker: A Zero-Shot Evaluation of AI CPA Capabilities
#ReceptioGate and the (absolute) state of academia: The numbers game has incentivized bad behavior
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Harvey, which uses AI to answer legal questions, lands cash from OpenAI
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Comment on ‘Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases’
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The signaling value of university rankings: Evidence from Top 14 law schools
Trial by Internet: A Randomized Field Experiment on Wikipedia’s Influence on Judges’ Legal Reasoning
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Criminalizing Poverty: The Consequences of Court Fees in a Randomized Experiment
Limits of Using Artificial Intelligence and GPT-3 in Patent Prosecution
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Theory of the Nudnik: The Future of Consumer Activism and What We Can Do to Stop It
DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence. Demis Hassabis founded a company to build the world’s most powerful AI. Then Google bought him out. Hal Hodson asks who is in charge
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The simple but ingenious system Taiwan uses to crowdsource its laws: vTaiwan is a promising experiment in participatory governance. But politics is blocking it from getting greater traction
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OpenAI Charter: Our Charter describes the principles we use to execute on OpenAI’s mission
Judicial Biases in Ottoman Istanbul: Islamic Justice and Its Compatibility with Modern Economic Life
Scholarly Restraints? ABA Accreditation and Legal Education
