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The Institute for Technology, Law and Policy is a collaboration between the UCLA School of Law and the Samueli School of Engineering whose mission is to foster research and analysis to ensure that new technologies are developed, implemented and regulated in ways that are socially beneficial, equitable, and accountable.
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UCLATechApr 17, 2024
Our Executive Director, @karanicolas, spoke with LA Daily News about kids' use of #AI to generate explicit images of their classmates, and the law and policy implications for schools, parents, and tech companies: https://www.dailynews.com/2024/04/11/fast-rise-in-ai-nudes-of-teens-has-unprepared-schools-legal-system-scrambling-for-solutions/
Fast rise in AI nudes of teens has unprepared schools, legal system scrambling for solutions

U.S. policymakers are still trying to catch up to a technology that only recently became widely available to the public.

Daily News
UCLATechApr 4, 2024
Our Executive Director, @M_Karanicolas, was quoted in this Wall Street Journal article on the "legal iceberg" facing the A.I. industry: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-ai-industry-is-steaming-toward-a-legal-iceberg-5d9a6ac1
UCLATechDec 6, 2023
News media is in crisis, driven by the increasing dominance of online intermediaries and the broader attention economy. What is the appropriate legislative response to a pressing challenge to American democracy?
@M_Karanicolas
& others on Dec. 5 - https://bit.ly/ITLP-LinkedIn
UCLATechMay 8, 2023
Check out the latest from our faculty co-director, John Villasenor: The politics of AI: ChatGPT and political bias
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2023/05/08/the-politics-of-ai-chatgpt-and-political-bias/
The politics of AI: ChatGPT and political bias

When asked to indicate support or lack of support for a variety of political statements, ChatGPT's responses tend to replicate a liberal point of view, albeit with logical inconsistencies, emblematizing the issue of bias embedded in AI systems through their datasets and human trainers.

Brookings
Show threadUCLATechApr 28, 2023
The USPTO is holding a West Coast listening session on AI inventorship on May 8th: https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/events/ai-inventorship-listening-session-west-coast
AI Inventorship Listening Session - West Coast

This USPTO AI/ET Partnership listening session is to seek stakeholder input on the current state of AI technologies and inventorship issues that may arise in view of the advancement of such technologies.

UCLATechApr 28, 2023
SCOTUS has denied a petition to hear a case regarding an attempt to patent AI-generated inventions: https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/22-919.html
Search - Supreme Court of the United States

UCLATechMar 14, 2023

On April 11, ITLP will be hosting a panel at UCLA Law on the impact of AI on the legal profession:

We'll also be offering CLE credit, and the event is free and open to all.

You can register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pWQPnbAEhSP_9MWvTOHQfx4Ya10IZtIJDaCd6XVHYOU/viewform?edit_requested=true

#ai #technology #law

Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Profession

When: Tuesday, April 11 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Where: UCLA School of Law, Room 1347 The launch of ChatGPT has triggered a vigorous debate on the future of both the legal profession and legal education, as well as the evolving role of lawyers and technology in the practice of law. The panel event, which is hosted by the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy, brings together practitioners, scholars, and technical experts for a discussion of what advances in Al mean for the future of law. Panelists: John Villasenor, Faculty Co-Director, UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy Jennie VonCannon, Partner, Crowell & Moring LLP Nanyun (Violet) Peng, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UCLA Samueli School of Engineering Moderator: • Russell Korobkin, Interim Dean and Richard C. Maxwell Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Google Docs
UCLATechMar 13, 2023
The Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic, part of @YaleISP, is hiring a clinical fellow. Great opportunity! Details here: https://law.yale.edu/mfia/news/opportunities
Opportunities - Yale Law School

UCLATechMar 8, 2023
Check out the latest in Brookings from our Faculty Co-Director, John Villasenor, on policy options for AI inventions: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2023/03/06/ai-inventions-policy-options-and-a-path-forward/
AI inventions: Policy options and a path forward

Inventions for which an AI system has contributed to the conception to the degree that, if it were a person, it would be named as an inventor, should be patentable with inventorship attributed to those who used the AI system.

Brookings
UCLATechFeb 23, 2023

The 4th and 5th articles in our @cjr series on platforms & the press are live!

Alvin Ntibinyane of INK Centre for Investigative Journalism introduces citizen digitalization in Africa, and Wesley Gibbings of the Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network discusses challenges to viability facing Caribbean media:

https://www.cjr.org/special_report/disrupting-journalism-how-platforms-have-upended-the-news-part-5.php

#pressfreedom #media #journalism #techpolicy #freespeech

On the viability of Caribbean media

<p>This is part of a series on platforms and the press published jointly by CJR and the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy. Chronically vulnerable to small market size, narrow advertising bases, brittle economies, and high susceptibility to natural disasters, the Caribbean media sector was initially keen, in the 1990s, to embrace digital technologies—with […]</p>

Columbia Journalism Review