Andrew Chin Andrew Chin

Andrew Chin
   
 
Artificial Intelligence and the Law
 
     
Course Description
Supplemental Texts
Additional Course Materials
Links of Interest

 
Course Description
LAW 522(1), 3 units.

Artificial intelligence comprises a set of computationally intensive information technologies intended to substitute for human intelligence in the performance of cognitive tasks. These technologies are being used in connection with an ever-increasing range of performance-enhancing and labor-saving commercial, industrial and research applications, and regulatory, law enforcement and military. Accompanying these developments are emerging concerns about the transformation of labor, including the practices of legal services and institutions; the rights, duties and liabilities attaching to the designs and activities of robotic and transactional AI agents; and the privacy, security, social and ethical impacts of AI and automation. Technological changes in AI, and responses to those changes in law and governance, are ongoing, rapid and often difficult to predict. This seminar will prepare students to be critical and informed observers of, and participants in, the legal developments, disputes and discourses surrounding AI technologies that will emerge over the course of their careers. We will engage with a broad range of cases, statutes, regulations, commentaries and other materials pertaining to AI and the law through a variety of discussions, presentations, and writing assignments.

Fall 2024 Syllabus

Class Workspace (Google Doc)

 
Supplemental Texts
Two past guest speakers, Brett Frischmann and Frank Pasquale, have written excellent books in this area. They're "friends of the seminar" and would welcome your questions and comments.

Ryan Abbott, The Reasonable Robot
Brett Frischmann, Re-Engineering Humanity
Frank Pasquale, The Black Box Society
Frank Pasquale, New Laws of Robotics
 
Additional Course Materials
Components of a Critique Paper
Preemption Checklist
Extract from Eugene Volokh, Academic Legal Writing (buy the book if you want more)

Some additional materials will be distributed on Sakai and via email.
 
Links of Interest
ChatGPT
IBM AI Demos
Microsoft AI Demos
Google AI Demos
 


 
   
   
   
   
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