Not sure what to get the tech oligarch who has (literally) everything this holiday? Why not his very own Presidential Executive Order titled Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence? It’s the latest thing in political theater coming out of the Trump White House—a plan so detrimental in principle to the American public that almost no Members of Congress ...
Unregulated artificial intelligence is a new pandemic. Parents know it. Consumers know it. Educators know it. State lawmakers know it. And Members of Congress know it. Blame who you will for COVID-19 or the price of eggs, but there is no question that the harms of AI, like surveillance pricing for those eggs, are being cooked up in the labs ...
On October 30, counsel for Dr. Stephen Thaler requested that the U.S. Supreme Court hold its Petition for Certiorari in Thaler v. Perlmutter until after the Court rules on the matter of the dismissal of Copyright Office Director Shira Perlmutter by the White House in May. As the letter states, “The Blanche and Slaughter cases consider whether Director Perlmutter, a ...
On October 9th, Dr. Stephen Thaler, a computer scientist and owner of the generative AI “Creativity Machine,” filed a petition for cert with the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to overturn the DC Circuit opinion in Thaler v. Perlmutter. As discussed in several posts, Dr. Thaler’s machine independently and autonomously produced an image he titled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise” which ...
Over the weekend, I had the privilege of participating in the 11th annual Mosaic Conference, organized by the Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice (IIPSJ) and hosted by Suffolk University Law School IP Center. Founded by Professor Lateef Mtima at Howard University, IPSJ’s mission is to “…examine intellectual property law and policy—as well as the IP regime in total—to ...