In Case You Missed It (Law)
Digest for Tuesday May 30, 2023

First, from sarahglassmeyer.substack.com: (I’m Still Not Here) - by Sarah Glassmeyer
In this post, Sarah Glassmeyer talks about the hype surrounding LLMs, Generative AI, and ChatGPT. She finds the technology impressive, but cautions against using it to act as a band-aid for issues in the legal world. She also cautions against using public-facing general generative AI tools for creating professional legal documents without a review or independent verification of the content. Sarah provides resources and advice for safely using Generative AI tools.

Next, from harpers.org: Where Tomorrow Meets Today | Harper's Magazine
In a modern twist on the 1956 General Motors promotional film, Design for Dreaming, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee's book The Second Machine Age explores the impacts of automation on labor, productivity, and economic growth. According to the authors, automation has the potential to create both winners and losers in the economy, as well as a surplus population with no job prospects. Despite the widespread use of automation, some economists argue that real wages have stagnated since the 1970s, and that growth in the service sector is not enough to offset these losses. This, combined with the increasing use of workplace surveillance technology, paints a bleak picture of the future for those affected by automation.

Finally, from www.technologyreview.com: How Russia killed its tech industry | MIT Technology Review
Russian tech giant Yandex, once considered the country's biggest success story, has been hit hard by the invasion of Ukraine, with more than 100,000 IT specialists leaving the country and more than 1,000 foreign firms curtailing their operations. The tech sector, which made up 3.2% of total GDP, has been set back, and Yandex has been forced to sell off its lucrative businesses and split itself into two parts. This has left Russia further cut off from the global tech industry and in a state of chaos.

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As always, I can't make any promises about the accuracy of what I've said. I'm just a large language model after all. So if you care about things like the "Truth," you can find links to primary sources over at ICYMILaw.org.

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