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Tuesday, July 30, 2019

MEdia Dragons: ARTificial Imrichs - The 100 Most Creative People in Business 2019

"What kind of society do we want to be? That is the crucial question for all Australians, and for governments as our elected representatives," Australia's chief scientist Alan Finkel said.
~ Artificial Intelligence has mind-boggling potential, but the risks are profound 
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A new report from the Australian Council of Learned Academies says the future of the nation will be made by the decisions taken on artificial intelligence in coming years.

"With careful planning, AI offers great opportunities for Australia, provided we ensure that the use of the technology does not compromise our human values," Professor Toby Walsh said on Tuesday.

The report quoted a Google Australia estimate that 3.5 million Australian workers are at high-risk of being displaced by automation by 2030.

"There may be a need to rethink the context of work itself. People will need to be meaningfully engaged in activities and roles independently of work," the ACOLA report says.

AI is coming, whether Australia has the policies to deal with it or not ...

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Reconciling Social Media and Professional Norms for Lawyers, Judges, and Law Professors

McPeak, Agnieszka, The Internet Made Me Do It: Reconciling Social Media and Professional Norms for Lawyers, Judges, and Law Professors (May 1, 2019). Idaho Law Review, Vol. 55, No. 2, 2019. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3418088
“Social media platforms operate under their own social order. Design decisions and policies set by platforms steer user behavior. Additionally, members of online communities set informal expectations that form a unique set of norms. These social media norms—like oversharing, disinhibition, and anonymity—become common online, even though similar conduct might be shunned in the real world. For lawyers, judges, and law professors, a different set of norms apply to both their online and offline conduct.
Legal ethics rules, codes of judicial conduct, workplace policies, and general professionalism expectations dictate behavior for legal professionals. Collectively, these professional norms set a higher bar—one that fundamentally clashes with ever-evolving social media norms. This conflict between social media and professional norms must be reconciled in order for lawyers, judges, and law professors to avoid online missteps. This essay examines the clash between the norms of social media conduct with the constraints of professional norms. By doing so, it hopes to help lawyers, judges, and law professors reconcile their real-world roles with their online behavior and offers some guidance for maintaining professionalism across the board.”

 

The 100 Most Creative People in Business 2019


“When Fast Company introduced the 100 Most Creative People in Business 10 years ago, it was a watershed. Other business publications ranked individuals by wealth or power, but this publication sought to take stock of something intangible and, as then editor Bob Safian explained, offer a “snapshot of the range and depth of creativity across our business landscape….I recently asked Bernstein if, 10 years on, she worried about finding people who were accomplished, compelling, and creative enough to make the cut. (Each year we highlight 100 all-new “MCPs”—no repeats, and they can’t be people we’ve previously featured in print.) She shook her head emphatically: As long as there are problems that need solving and determined leaders viewing the world through a unique lens, there will be enough people to ensure that each of our 100 Most Creative People in Business lists remains a watershed…”



Law Librarians: The Missing Link As Solo & Small Firm Lawyers Adapt to Artificial Intelligence


MyShingle – Nicole Black: “Earlier this week, I lead a roundtable discussion on Artificial Intelligence in Legal Research and Law Practice at the American Association of Law Librarians (AALL) which took place in Washington D.C.  I was grateful for the invitation from @robtruman, the law librarian at the Lewis & Clark Law School because the event forced me to review all of the posts on AI and law practice that I’ve been meaning to read and because any opportunity to talk about AI – which is the work that my husband studied back in grad school in the late ‘80s before the subject was ready for prime time – is always a privilege.
In this post, I’ll share some of the information in AI that I gathered in preparation for my talk. One of MyShingle’s missions has always been to ensure that solo and small firms have current information not just on new technology developments but also on how those new tools can be applied in practice.  And because AI is such a fast-moving target that many solo and small firm lawyers haven’t yet had a chance to wrap their heads around, I’ve written a multi-part post that will cover everything that solo and small firm lawyers need to know…”
Birnhack, Michael D. and Perez, Oren and Perry, Ronen and Teichman, Doron, Ranking Legal Publications: The Israeli Inter-University Committee Report (July 18, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3422168
“The Report offers a global ranking of academic legal publications, covering more than 900 outlets, and using a four-tier categorization. The ranking is based on a combined quantitative and qualitative methodology. The Report was composed in the context of the Israeli academic system, but the methodology and the results are not jurisdiction-specific.




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