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Stanford study finds AI legal research tools prone to hallucinations by Ben Dickson in VentureBeat: “One of the most important arguments we make in the paper is that we have an urgent need for transparency and benchmarking in legal AI,” Dan Ho said. venturebeat.com/ai/stanford-st…

With the cover all set, I’m delighted to announce my upcoming #book😊 In #Algorithmic Rule by Law, I argue that the uncritical use of algorithmic regulation in public services can erode the rule of law & hurt democracy. Available this Autumn (with CUP): cambridge.org/core/books/alg…

Paper alert: Happy to share a new preprint on the #AIAct, authored with #KarenYeung. We discuss the #AI Act’s history & structure, and #critically assess its (inadequate) enforcement architecture, incl the problematic reliance on standards. Now on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Join the Law Tutorial for CS folk this Friday from 12-14 on the implications of the AI Act for the development of human-centric generative AI, given by the inimitable Gianmarco Gori and myself. In the context of the Humane AI Net

This is a nice paper. It is an elaborate and somewhat convoluted way to show that AI safety is not a model property. Here's a much simpler argument for why that's the case aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-safety-is… It's great to see that this view of AI safety, already widely recognized outside

Granted - many things are broken in how we think about power in analyzing capitalist dynamics. Even most perceptive critics don't know what to do with the military or intelligence agencies (let alone entities like the State Department) in explaining the rise of Silicon Valley.

'We find that the algorithm has significant methodological flaws, suffers from information leakage, relies on inappropriate proxy values for maltreatment assessment, generates inconsistent risk scores, and exhibits age-based discrimination.' dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…

Atos crisis deepens as biggest shareholder ditches rescue plan ft.com/content/9c3667… via Financial Times

Will Europe succeed in building truly public digital infrastructure for AI, or will its investments entrench Big Tech’s dominance? These and other questions will guide AI Now’s work shaping the EU’s industrial policy for AI; read more here: ainowinstitute.org/general/public…

Rule of law fellowship at Stanford, including comparative law, law and development. careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/rule-of-l…

Blog post with additional context about our new paper "AI Agents That Matter": - What does the term agent mean? Is it just a buzzword? - Do agents even work? - How does the poor reproducibility of agent evaluations compare with other areas of ML? aisnakeoil.com/p/new-paper-ai…

Wie is de rechter als de data uitbesteed zijn? tijd.be/opinie/algemee…

Which dimension reduction method should you use for data visualization? Check out our blog post on this topic! sites.duke.edu/dimensionreduc…

Quinten Jacobs | Het zijn maar verkiezingen tijd.be/opinie/column/…

'Die houding van media en politici is illustratief voor het gebrek aan een doorleefde democratische cultuur in ons land. Dat is een probleem, want op de lange termijn is geen enkele rechtsstatelijke instantie tegen zo’n apathie opgewassen.'

How do judges and courts deploy AI? Interesting overview: UNESCO Global Judges’ Initiative. A Survey on the Use of AI Systems by Judicial Operators unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0… 1/

Extremely good paper on AI policy. Questions the unexamined assumption that the amount of pretraining compute predicts the safety risks of a model. Five key points: 1. The relationship between compute and risk is rapidly changing. 2. Evidence to-date suggests we are not good at

Lessons from the global IT outage ft.com/content/55a3d5… via Financial Times

More output of the COHUBICOL project: AI AND THE FUTURE OF LEGAL METHOD, a Dutch article in the Journal of the Judiciary (honoured to be part of the special issue - it will be key for the judiciary to engage with this) rechtspraak.nl/SiteCollection…