Bloomberg surveyed lawyers earlier this year to find out how they were using generative AI. To no one’s surprise, and despite the bogeyman of AI hallucinating fake cases, Legal Research came out on top. This is shown in Bloomberg’s chart below. In this blog a ChatGPT is prompted to try to explain the survey based on the chart alone and do so with subtle humor. Its analysis was verified by me as accurate, but as to the comedy, well, you be the judge.
Generative AI is now at a “Dad Joke” level of humor, but Ralph Losey is trying to teach it satire.
I’ve demonstrated that ChatGPT chart reading skills before in the Panel of Experts. What is new here is my attempt via prompts to make the AI explanation funny. My training leans heavily on the humor of sarcasm, which AI ‘almost’ gets. Of course, I tweaked and verified everything; exhausting work, really. Read on for AI humor and also to see how lawyers are using generative AI.
The survey confirmed what most of us already suspected, that legal research is the top use, with drafting a close second. I doubt the use has changed much since Bloomberg made the survey in early 2024. One of my custom GPTs wrote the rest of this blog, including the snarky comments below in parentheses. I am trying to teach it sarcasm as a gateway to humor. Most people, myself included, do not think ChatGPT is funny yet, but that version 4.0 is better than 3.5, which was, for me a least, mainly funny because of its stupid mistakes. But then again, two UCLA psychologists working in Italy (University of Macerata) recently published a research paper purporting to show that baby ChatGPT3.5 is funnier than most humans! Gorenz D., Schwarz N., How funny is ChatGPT? A comparison of human- and A.I.-produced jokes (PLoS ONE, 7/3/234). Go figure.
That is my last scholarly cite in this article I promise. After this, almost all of the writing is by ChatGPT4o – omni. Remember, these are supposed to be funny comments, so please try not to take offense. Or if you must, blame the AI, not me. That’s the popular thing to do.
If anything in the article offends you, its the AI’s fault. It wrote everything henceforth, not Ralph, but he did make the images.
Panel of Experts Explains the Bloomberg Chart
Legal Research: 57% (Because why think when AI can think for you?)
Drafting/Templating Communication: 46% (Who hasn’t dreamed of AI handling their thankless email drudgery?)
Drafting/Templating Legal Contracts: 26% (Finally, a solution to avoid actual lawyering!)
Summarizing Legal Narratives: 24% (Because brevity is the soul of wit, or so AI believes.)
Reviewing Legal Documents: 22% (Eye-strain relief brought to you by your AI overlords.)
Negotiating/Redlining Contracts: 18% (Robots, saving us from negotiation-induced migraines.)
e-Discovery: 18% (Digging through digital dumpsters, so you don’t have to.)
Due Diligence: 13% (Making sure the i’s are dotted, with digital precision.)
Reviewing Discovery: 11% (See e-Discovery, but with less enthusiasm.)
Case Filings: 6% (Because some mundane tasks remain sacred.)
Estate Planning: 6% (Planning for the inevitable with digital grace, and using AI to do it, as shown in this image.)
Estate Lawyers using ChatGPT Ai shown in Cartoon style by Ralph Losey with Visual Muse: illustrating concepts with style.
Legal Research as a Fan Favorite
Leading the pack, as usual, is legal research, championed by a whopping 57% of respondents. It seems even lawyers appreciate not having to wade through dusty tomes and endless databases when a sleek algorithm can do it in half the time, with double the caffeine efficiency. This AI-driven shortcut to legal enlightenment allows our dear attorneys to focus on what truly matters—crafting strategies and billing clients. After all, these new cases cited are true and correct, right? AI would not actually make stuff up, would it? Losey, Exclusive Report: New Appellate Court Opinions on Artificial Intelligence and Hallucinations (e-Discovery team 10/04/23) (another tongue-in-cheek report). But seriously folks, see:OMNI Version – ChatGPT4o – Retest of the Panel of AI Experts – Part Three (more than you ever wanted to know about AI hallucinations).
Drafting, Templating, and the Art of Avoidance
Why spend hours drafting when you can have an AI mimic your voice and possibly improve upon your dry legalese? Nearly half of our surveyed champions automate their correspondences, ensuring that every missive is as polished as their courtroom shoes. And let’s not overlook the 26% who let AI tackle contract drafting, because nothing says ‘trust’ quite like a machine handling your agreements.
Summarization and Document Review: AI’s Literary Digest
Nothing thrills a lawyer more than a good summary, unless it’s one they didn’t have to write themselves. AI’s knack for condensing verbose legal opinions into bite-sized pieces is akin to literary gold for the time-strapped practitioner. Meanwhile, document review remains a realm ripe for AI conquest, proving that even the most mind-numbing tasks can be outsourced to our uncomplaining digital underlings.
Robotic hand in cartoon style by Ralph Losey using Visual Muse. One of his favorite images.
The Robotic Learned Hand in e-Discovery and Due Diligence
In the trenches of e-Discovery and due diligence, AI stands as a beacon of hope against the drudgery of data sifting. With 18% of respondents embracing AI in e-Discovery, it’s clear that searching for that needle in the haystack just got a high-tech magnet. As for due diligence, the 13% uptake might suggest some lingering human nostalgia, or perhaps just a healthy fear of letting robots handle everything. Hey, gotta bill for something while we still can.
Forecasting AI’s Legal Takeover
This year’s Bloomberg survey paints a clear picture: AI in legal work is not just a passing fad, but the start of a tidal wave, one which just might drown us all. Either that or make for some incredible surfing!
Conclusion
As generative AI reshapes the legal landscape, we lawyers find ourselves spectators (and, occasionally, operators) in a play where the scripts are increasingly written by algorithms. Embracing these tools isn’t just about staying relevant—it’s about leading the charge in a world where efficiency is king, and where our next legal assistant might just be a server farm.
Let me close with a rhyming riddle, cause why not. Maybe riddles will make next year’s list of top uses, right behind Ralph’s Panel of AI Experts for Lawyers, which, no doubt, will be sycophantic free too.
Riddle in comedic digital art style by Ralph Losey using Visual Muse who wonders why it didn’t include women in comic images?
Riddle Me This:
I’m not a lawyer, yet I reside in the courts. I’m neither judge nor jury, but I hold a report. I sift through the facts, with no coffee in sight, Drafting and summarizing deep into the night. What am I?
Riddle image in comedic watercolor style by Ralph using Visual Muse. One woman in this comic, the others with wigs are probably British.
Answer: Your friendly neighborhood AI, always ready to serve (up documents), never to judge!
Stay sharp, and remember, in the world of law and AI, the best assistant might just be the one that doesn’t need a lunch break.
A computer capable of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), if ever created, will be the greatest invention in history. It will be far more transformative than the printing press or the wheel. Unlike narrow AI, which excels in specific tasks, AGI will have a general ability to understand, learn, and apply knowledge at a level equal to or beyond human intelligence. If AGI is attained in a computer, it will be the greatest invention of all time, primarily because of its impact on all facets of human life and civilization, including our systems of justice.
AGI in Pop Art stylemby Ralph Losey using Visual Muse.
AGI Defined
Artificial General Intelligence means a computer system with a level of AI that is equal or greater than human intelligence in all fields. Narrow AI, which has intelligence to perform specific limited tasks, has already attained greater than human intelligence in some fields. The fields include games, such as Chess and Go, facial recognition, translation, and scientific data heavy areas, such as protein folding. AGI, when invented, will be capable of performing at a human or better level in all fields of knowledge and all intellectual tasks, including math, science, coding, general reasoning, problem-solving, planning, and adapting to new situations. You name it, it will be as smart or smarter than the top human minds in that field. Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 (Microsoft Research, 4/13/23) (“Given the breadth and depth of GPT-4’s capabilities, we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system.”)
This broad cognitive capability will enable AGI to integrate knowledge from various domains, make autonomous decisions, and continuously improve its performance through learning and experience. If attained, AGI computers will revolutionize human knowledge and fundamentally transform all human society and culture, including Law. Ray Kurzweil, and others, believe AGI will be attained in five years, 2029. Ray Kurzweil: Google’s prophet of superintelligent AI who will not slow down (e-Discovery Team, 12/12/23). Some think it may come sooner. Some think that AI self awareness will result. I do not, but I am confident AGI will have advanced metacognition abilities. Bill Gates on the Next ‘Big Frontier’ of Generative AI: Programming Metacognition Strategies into ChatGPT (e-Discovery Team, 7/26/24).
Ray Kurzweil predicts that once AGI is invented by a company such as Google or OpenAI it will quickly spread and be inexpensively available to everyone, much like generative AI is now. He also predicts this will then lead to the Singularity in 2045, where humans will merge with superintelligent AI leading to a million fold increase in our intelligence. Ray Kurzweil’s New Book: The Singularity is Nearer (when we merge with AI) (e-Discovery Team 7/17/24). Others believe that AGI will never be attained or is hundreds of years away. Based on Ray Kurzweil’s excellent track record, strong arguments, and position at Google, it seems reasonable to take him seriously and start preparing for AGI now. Id.
Human AI merger photo realistic style by Ralph Losey using Visual Muse
Unmatched Problem-Solving Capabilities
AGI, when attained, should be able to address complex global challenges that have persisted for centuries. Its advanced cognitive abilities should enable it to:
Analyze Vast Data Sets: AGI can process and analyze massive amounts of data far more quickly and accurately than humans, leading to breakthroughs in fields such as medicine, climate science, and economics.
Generate Innovative Solutions: By integrating knowledge from various disciplines, AGI can develop innovative solutions to problems like climate change, pandemics, and resource scarcity.
Optimize Systems: AGI can optimize systems ranging from healthcare to transportation, improving efficiency and reducing waste on a global scale.
Exponential Advancement in Knowledge and Technology
AGI is expected to catalyze exponential growth in scientific and technological progress:
Accelerated Research: AGI can conduct research at a pace unimaginable for human scientists, rapidly advancing our understanding of the universe, biology, and more.
Innovation in Technology: AGI-driven innovation will lead to the creation of new technologies and the enhancement of existing ones, driving economic growth and improving quality of life.
Interdisciplinary Integration: AGI can seamlessly integrate knowledge from diverse fields, leading to holistic advancements that human researchers might miss due to the limitations of siloed disciplines.
The legal industry will also benefit immensely from AGI-driven advancements. Automated contract analysis, predictive policing, and enhanced legal analytics are just a few areas where AGI could significantly enhance efficiency and effectiveness. As I often note on the e-Discovery Team blog, the integration of advanced AI technologies in legal processes is not just beneficial, but necessary, for the legal profession to keep pace with the rapidly evolving technological landscape.
Enhanced Human Capabilities and Quality of Life
AGI has the potential to significantly enhance human capabilities and overall quality of life:
Personalized Education: AGI can provide individualized learning experiences, catering to each person’s strengths and weaknesses, and ensuring everyone reaches their full potential. In the legal sector, AGI could enhance legal education by providing personalized learning pathways for law students and continuous professional development for practicing lawyers. AGI could tailor legal training programs to address individual learning gaps, ensuring a more competent and knowledgeable legal workforce.
Advanced Healthcare: AGI can revolutionize healthcare by diagnosing diseases with unprecedented accuracy, personalizing treatments, low cost medicines, and even predicting health issues before they arise.
Economic Transformation: AGI can drive economic growth by automating mundane tasks, allowing humans to focus on creative and strategic activities, creating low cost goods, foods, energy, housing and significantly reducing poverty and inequality.
Economic transformation by AGI. Digital style by Ralph Losey using Visual Muse.
Ethical and Societal Impacts
The ethical implications of AGI are significant, and if managed responsibly, AGI can lead to a more just and equitable society:
Fair Distribution of Resources: AGI can optimize the distribution of resources, ensuring fair access to essentials like food, water, and healthcare.
Global Collaboration: AGI can facilitate international cooperation by providing unbiased analysis and recommendations, helping to resolve conflicts and promote peace.
Ethical Frameworks: With proper governance, AGI can be programmed to uphold ethical standards, ensuring that its actions are aligned with human values and societal good.
Historical Context and Long-term Impact
Comparing AGI to previous landmark inventions highlights its unique potential:
The Wheel: Revolutionized transportation and industry.
The Printing Press: Democratized knowledge and spurred the Scientific Revolution. Many believe it is the most important invention of all time, at least before AGI.
Electricity: Powered modern civilization and technological advancements.
The Internet: Connected the world and transformed communication and information access.
AGI will encompass the benefits of these inventions and surpasses them by offering not just tools, but an intelligent entity capable of continuous learning and improvement. That will lead to sustained progress in all fields of knowledge and endeavors.
Image of the top five inventions before AGI. By Ralph Losey using Visual Muse, a narrow AI.
Profound Transformations of the Legal Profession from AGI
The legal profession, once thought to be slow to adopt new technologies, stands to be profoundly transformed by AGI. The potential applications are vast and varied. Many in the legal profession are already catching on and using the narrow AI we have today. The stodgy old times of a slow moving legal profession are already dissolving, with e-discovery specialists leading the way.
Predictive Analytics
AGI can provide very powerful predictive analytics to forecast case outcomes. This helps lawyers to strategize more effectively. By analyzing historical data, case law, and judge-specific decision patterns, AGI can predict the likelihood of various outcomes in litigation. Our existing level AI is already very proficient at this. With even more powerful AGI, negotiation strategies will improve and lead to ever more judicious uses of litigation resources.
Document Review and E-Discovery
Document review and e-discovery are critical, labor-intensive aspects of modern legal practice. AI technologies like predictive coding have already begun to revolutionize these areas. AGI will take this to the next level, automating these processes with even greater accuracy and speed. Traditional document review involves sifting through vast quantities of documents to identify those relevant to a case, a task that is time-consuming and prone to human error. AGI can automate this process even further, rapidly identifying relevant documents, categorizing them by importance, and flagging potentially privileged information. Moreover, AGI can learn from each case, improving its accuracy and efficiency over time. This automation not only reduces costs but also ensures a more thorough and reliable review process, allowing legal professionals to focus on higher-value tasks.
AGI e-Discovery. Image by Ralph Losey using his GPT, Visual Muse.
Legal Research
Legal research is another area poised for further transformation by AGI. Currently, lawyers spend considerable time researching case law, statutes, and legal precedents to support their arguments. AGI can perform comprehensive legal research in seconds, providing lawyers with relevant case law, statutes, and legal precedents, thereby saving time and reducing costs. AGI’s ability to cross-reference vast legal databases instantaneously means that no relevant case or statute is overlooked. Additionally, AGI can present the findings in a concise and understandable manner, complete with contextual analysis and relevance ranking. This allows lawyers to quickly access the most pertinent information, enhancing the quality and precision of their legal arguments. Furthermore, AGI can keep abreast of the latest legal developments, ensuring that the research it provides is always current. The problems that some lawyers now have with AI case hallucinations and sycophantism will be a thing of the past.
Judicial Decision-Making
While controversial, there is potential for AGI to assist in judicial decision-making, ensuring consistency and impartiality in rulings. Circuits in Session: Addendum and Elaboration of the Appellate Court Judge Experiment (e-Discovery Team, 10/26/23); Circuits in Session: Analysis of the Quality of ChatGPT4 as an Appellate Court Judge (e-Discovery Team, 11/1/23). The judiciary’s role is to interpret and apply the law impartially; however, human judges can be influenced by unconscious biases, personal experiences, and external pressures. AGI, devoid of such biases, can assist by providing data-driven insights and suggesting verdicts based on precedent and established legal principles. For example, AGI could analyze past rulings on similar cases to recommend a decision that aligns with legal standards and precedents. This does not mean replacing judges but rather augmenting their decision-making process with a tool that offers a level of consistency and objectivity unattainable by humans alone. Judges could use AGI to double-check their reasoning, ensuring that their rulings are fair and legally sound. BREAKING NEWS: Eleventh Circuit Judge Admits to Using ChatGPT to Help Decide a Case and Urges Other Judges and Lawyers to Follow Suit (e-Discovery Team, 6/3/24).
Future judges with superintelligent AI tools. Image by Ralph Losey.
Enhanced Client Interaction
AGI can revolutionize client interactions by providing personalized and immediate responses to client inquiries. Virtual legal assistants powered by AGI can handle initial consultations, answer routine questions, and provide updates on case progress. Of course, human supervision will remain, and some reforms of existing professional ethics will eventually be required. If handled properly, the use of AGI should not only improve client satisfaction, but also free up valuable time for lawyers to focus on complex legal matters.
Contract Analysis and Drafting
Contract analysis and drafting are fundamental yet tedious tasks in legal practice. AGI can streamline these processes by quickly analyzing large volumes of contracts, identifying potential risks, and suggesting optimal terms. Furthermore, AGI can draft contracts with high precision, ensuring compliance with relevant laws and minimizing the risk of disputes. This capability can be particularly beneficial in mergers and acquisitions, where timely and accurate contract analysis is crucial.
Legal Compliance and Risk Management
AGI can also play a significant role in legal compliance and risk management. Businesses operate in increasingly complex regulatory environments, where staying compliant with laws and regulations is challenging. AGI can monitor regulatory changes, assess their impact on the organization, and suggest necessary adjustments to policies and procedures. Additionally, AGI can identify potential legal risks and recommend proactive measures to mitigate them, thereby safeguarding businesses against costly legal issues.
Client risk management after AGI. Watercolor by Ralph Losey using Visual Muse.
Conclusion
If AGI is attained, it will be the greatest invention of all time due to its:
Problem-solving capabilities in all fields,
Potential for exponential advancement in knowledge and technology,
Enhancement of many human capabilities, and
Significant ethical and societal impacts.
Computers with AGI level intelligence will be able to integrate and innovate across disciplines. This incredible tool will enable us to progress and improve our quality of life at a previously unimaginable rate. This invention, if ever actualized, will be a transformative force in human history. Properly managed, AGI should not only solve existing problems, but also unlock new horizons for humanity, securing its place as the greatest invention of all time.
The legal profession should also benefit significantly by AGI. With proper human guidance, AGI level AI should herald a new era of efficiency, accuracy, and accessibility in legal services. From predictive analytics and document review, to legal research and judicial decision-making, AGI will transform every facet of legal practice. The judiciary and law schools will radically change too.
The transformation has already begun by use of the baby AIs we already have, ChatGPT 4 and the like. These changes will accelerate and improve dramatically once AGI is attained. More changes will likely result that are beyond anyone’s current imagination.
It is important to approach AGI with both optimism and caution. Hard work will be required in the coming years to make AGI a reality, and if the AI designers and coders do make an AGI, much more hard work will be required of the users of this invention. We will all have to study and work diligently to safely harness the world’s greatest invention. We will need to find a way to deploy the new found intelligence with wisdom and compassion. Legal professionals trained in AI can play a significant role in this new smart world. Ray Kurzweil predicts AGI by 2029, so we need to learn as much as we can to get ready.
AGI level AI now standard on all smart phones – 20??
From Boris to Bots: Our First Dive into the DefCon Universe. This begins a series of blogs chronicling the infamous DefCon event in Las Vegas. The next installment will cover President Biden’s unprecedented request for hackers to attend DefCon to hack AI, and the hackers enthusiastic response, including reporter-AI-hacker Ralph Losey, to break existing AI software in an open contest. In addition, nearly all of the top cybersecurity leadership of the White House and Department of Homeland Security personally attended DefCon, including the Homeland Security Department Secretary himself, Alejandro Mayorkas. They came to help officially open the conference and stayed to give multiple policy statements and answer all hacker questions. It was a true breakthrough moment in cyber history.
Boris seems unimpressed by his official DefCon Dog award
I attended DefCon 31, on August 10-15, 2023, as independent Press, accompanied by my co-reporter daughter, a former lobbyist with an English Lit background, and her dog, Boris. Our press status with special green badge had a high price tag, but it gave us priority access to everything. It also facilitated our interaction with notable figures, from the White House Science Advisor, Arati Prabhakar, to DefCon’s enigmatic founder, Dark Tangent.
DefCon is the world’s largest tech hacker “conference” – more like a inter-dimensional portal at the Caesars Forum. When we first checked in, we happened to meet the leader of DefCon Press and P.R. She fell for little Boris in a handbag, and declared him the official DefCon 31 dog! What an honor. Way to go Boris, who everyone thinks is a Chihuahua, but is really a Russian Terrier. Nothing is as it seems at DefCon. The guy you see walking around in shorts, who looks like a bearded punk rocker, may actually be a senior NSA fed. We will tell you why the NSA was there later in this series.
At DefCon, we immersed ourselves in a diverse crowd of over 24,000 elite tech experts from across the globe. This included renowned names in Cybersecurity, notably the formidable red team professionals. Most of these hackers are law-abiding entrepreneurs, as well as members of top corporate and federal red and blue teams. Several thousand were there just to answer President Biden’s call for hackers everywhere to come to DefCon to compete to break AI. Such a request had never been made before. Much more on this later, including my joining in the AI competition.
The tech experts, hackers all, came together for the thirty-first year of DefCon. We were drawn to participate, and in our case, also report on, the hundreds of large and small lectures and other educational events, demonstrations and vendor exhibitions. In addition, the really big draw was, as usual, the dazzling array of hacker challenges and competitions. Some of these are quiet serious with major prizes and rep at stake, and required pre-qualifications and success in entry rounds. But most were open to all who showed up.
Picture walking into a football stadium, but in place of athletes, you’re surrounded by the world’s tech elite, each donning distinctive hacker attire. As we flooded in by the thousands, it was a blend of seasoned pros and enthusiastic fans. I counted myself among the fans, yet I eagerly took on several challenges, such as the AI red team event. The sheer diversity and expertise of all participants was impressive.
The entrance boasted a towering, thirty-foot neon sparkling mural that caught my eye immediately. I’ve refined the photo to focus on the mural, removing the surrounding crowds. And, just for fun, there’s an alien addition.
Ralph entering Defcon 31
The open competitions came in all shapes and sizes: hacker vs. computers and machines of all types, including voting machines, satellites and cars; hacker vs. hacker contests; and hacker teams against hacker teams in capture the flag type contests. An article will be devoted to these many competitions, not just the hacker vs. AI contest that I entered.
There was even a writing contest before the event to compete for the best hacker-themed short story, with the winner announced at DefCon. I did not win, but had fun trying. My story followed the designated theme, was set in part in Defcon, and was a kind of sci-fi, cyber dystopia involving mass shootings with AI and gun control to the rescue. The DefCon rules did not allow illustrations, just text, but, of course, I later had to add pictures, one of which is shown below. I’ll write another article on that fiction writing contest too. There were many submissions, most were farther-out and better than my humble effort. After submission, I was told that most seemed to involve Ai in some manner. It’s in the air.
Illustration by Ralph for his first attempt at writing fiction, submitted for judging in the DefCon 31 writing competition.
So many ideas and writing projects are now in our head from these four days in Vegas. One of my favorite lectures, which I will certainly write about, was by a French hacker, who shared that he is in charge of cybersecurity for a nuclear power plant. He presented in a heavy French accent to a large crowd on a study he led on Science Fiction. It included statistical analysis of genres, and how often sci-fi predictions come true. All of DefCon seemed like a living sci-fi novel to us, and I am pretty sure there were multiple aliens safely mingling with the crowd.
We provide this first Defcon 31 chronicle as an appetizer for many more blogs to come. This opening provides just a glimpse of the total mind-blowing experience. The official DefCon 31 welcome trailer does a good job of setting the tone for the event. Enlarge to full screen and turn up the volume for best affects!
DefCon 31 official welcome video
Next, is a brief teaser description and image of our encounter with the White House Science Advisor, Dr. Arati Prabhakar. She and her government cyber and AI experts convinced President Biden to issue a call for hackers to come to Defcon, to try to break (hack) the new AI products. This kind of red team effort is needed to help keep us all safe. The response from tech experts worldwide was incredible, over a thousand hackers waited in a long line every day for a chance to hack the AI, myself included.
We signed a release form and were then led to one of fifty or more restricted computers. There we read the secret contest instructions, started the timer, and tried to jail break the AI in multiple scenarios. In quiet solo efforts, with no outside tools allowed and constant monitoring to prevent cheating, we tried to prompt ChatGPT4 and other software to say or do something wrong, to make errors and hallucinate. I had one success. The testing of AI vulnerabilities is very helpful to AI companies, including OpenAI. I will write about this is in much greater detail in a later article, as AI and Policy were my favorite of the dozens of tracks at DefCon.
A lot of walking was required to attend the event and a large chill-out room provided a welcome reprieve. They played music there with DJs, usually as a quiet background. There were a hundred decorated tables to sit down, relax, and if you felt like it, chat, eat and drink. The company was good, everyone was courteous to me, even though I was press. The food was pretty good too. I also had the joy of someone “paying it forward” in the food line, which was a first for me. Here is a glimpse of the chill out scene from the official video by Defcon Arts and Entertainment. Feel it. As the song says, “no one wants laws on their body.” Again, go full screen with volume up for this great production,
Defcon 31 Chill Out room, open all day, with video by Defcon Arts and Entertainment, DefConMusic.org
As a final teaser for our DefCon chronicles, check out my Ai enhanced photo of Arati Prabhakar, whose official title is Director of the Office of Science and Technology. She is a close advisor of the President and member of the Cabinet. Yes, that means she has seen all of the still top secret UFO files. In her position, and with her long DOD history, she knows as much as anyone in the world about the very real dangers posed by ongoing cyber-attacks and the seemingly MAD race to weaponize AI. Yet, somehow, she keeps smiling and portrays an aura of restrained confidence, albeit she did seem somewhat skeptical at times of her bizarre surroundings at DefCon, and who knows what other sights she has been privy too. Some of the questions she was asked about AI did seem strange and alien to me.
Arati Prabhakar speaking on artificial intelligence, its benefits and dangers, Photoshop, beta version, enhancements by Ralph Losey
Stay tuned for more chronicles. Our heads are exploding with new visuals, feelings, intuitions and ideas. They are starting to come together as new connections are made in our brains’ neural networks. Even a GPT-5 could not predict exactly what we will write and illustrate next. All we know for certain is that these ongoing chronicles will include video tapes of our interviews, presentations attended, including two mock trials of hackers, as well as our transcripts, notes, impressions and many more AI enhanced photos. All videos and photos will, of course, have full privacy protection of other participants who do not consent, which the strict rules of Def Con require. If you are a human, Ai or alien, and feel that your privacy rights have been violated by any of this content, please let us know and we will fuzz you out fast.
DefCon 31 entrance photo by Def Con taken before event started
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Ralph Losey is an AI researcher, writer, tech-law expert, and former lawyer. He's also the CEO of Losey AI, LLC, providing non-legal services, primarily educational services pertaining to AI and creation of custom AI tools.
Ralph has long been a leader of the world's tech lawyers. He has presented at hundreds of legal conferences and CLEs around the world. Ralph has written over two million words on AI, e-discovery and tech-law subjects, including seven books.
Ralph has been involved with computers, software, legal hacking and the law since 1980. Ralph has the highest peer AV rating as a lawyer and was selected as a Best Lawyer in America in four categories: Commercial Litigation; E-Discovery and Information Management Law; Information Technology Law; and, Employment Law - Management.
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