It has been a busy week in AI news… including a personal injury case¹ in the US where a lawyer filed submissions which were “replete with citations to non-existent cases”. Yes, you did read that correctly. The lawyer used ChatGPT to prepare the document and unfortunately the AI system invented the cases cited. Oops.
The lawyer even claimed that he was “unaware of the possibility that its content could be false”. Hmm. So what of the massive caveat window that appears before you use the service?
Have a good week. 😊 Continue reading
Today’s smile comes from the distinguished law blog Overlawyered.com, no longer publishing new posts but available for its wide and valuable archive.
NATO has advertised for a Head of Terminology, based in Brussels, Belgium, with application deadline 31 May 2023.
During a traffic stop in Chisago [not a typo] County, a driver surprised law enforcement by presenting a ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ card from the board game Monopoly.
In late April, UNESCO, in line with its work to implement a global ethical framework for artificial intelligence, launched Women4Ethical AI, a new collaborative platform to support governments and companies’ efforts to ensure that women are represented equally in both the design and deployment of AI.
Well, it’s IT upgrade time again at W2D HQ. Hence the silence (and anguished cries)…
Translating Crises, recently published by Bloomsbury, explores the challenges and demands involved in translating crises and the ways in which people, technologies and organisations look for effective, impactful solutions to the communicative problems.
The UN System Staff College (UNSSC) is committed to innovative learning and training programmes focused on public policy.
We have news this week from a good friend of this blog (and speaker at the WordstoDeeds Conference 2017 at Gray’s Inn), Dr Hanem El-Farahaty. She informs us of the publication of her latest paper which discusses the building of diachronic corpora including all available constitutions of 22 Arabic countries. 
We have all had to read tedious and sterile judgments. So when one comes along illustrated with cuddly green dragons, life immediately becomes more cheerful.
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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