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Artificial intelligence (AI) is seen as both a boon and a threat. It uses our personal data to influence our lives without us realising it. It is used by social media to draw our attention to things we are interested in buying, and by our tablets and computers to predict what we want to type (good). It facilitates targeting of voters to influence elections (bad, particularly if your side loses). Perhaps the truth or otherwise of allegations such as electoral interference should be regarded in the light of the interests of their promoters.

DUBAI: There should be a mechanism for assigning balanced responsibility among AI designers, producers and users, experts at the second session of the Dar Al Khaleej Conference on Saturday agreed. Chairman of the Private Law Department at United Arab Emirates University, Dr. Emad Abdel Rahim Dahiyat, presented a paper on the "Legislative and Legal Framework for Artificial Intelligence Institutions in the UAE." He said, "We are in an environment where programming companies are designing software capable of reading and analysing documents, forecasting disputes and proposing legal settlements." Apart from Artificial Intelligence's humanitarian uses like in medicine and education, he explained, it is being assimilated into the military field such as in military equipment and electronic warfare. In his paper, he discussed challenges in AI-based agreements, regarding who to be held liable, and the current local and global legislative system and shortages to be tackled in order to activate AI in the UAE.

You made it to right here, Saturday morning. This week, Nintendo faced a patent infringement investigation over its Switch, Sprint and T-Mobile announce they're together, and the notch rears its ugly head again. All it takes to get your stolen pooch back is an email to a CEO. Apparently, all you need to do to get a hold of Jeff Bezos though is have your puppy stolen by a delivery driver and guess the CEO's email address, according to CNBC. After UK resident Richard Guttfield's black miniature schnauzer was nicked following a dog food delivery, Amazon tracked the driver, an independent contractor, and found the dog at the thief's home.

Amit Elazari Bar On is a doctoral law candidate (J.S.D.) at UC Berkeley School of Law and a CLTC (Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity) Grantee, Berkeley School of Information, as well as a member of AFOG, Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Working Group at Berkeley. On 2017, Amit was a CTSP Fellow. We are told opaque algorithms and black-boxes are going to control our world, shaping every aspect of our life. They warn us that without accountability and transparency, and generally without better laws, humanity is doomed to a future of machine-generated bias and deception. From calls to open-the-black box to the limitations of explanations of inscrutable machine-learning models, the regulation of algorithms is one of the most pressing policy concerns in today's digital society.

Legal AI doc review company, Luminance, is branching out into the regulatory world in order to expand its offering by covering areas such as Brexit impact on contracts and GDPR compliance. The move follows a recent expansion into real estate documentation review, showing the company's initial strategy of focusing only on M&A due diligence is well and truly over, with a mission now to capture a greater share of the NLP-driven doc review market across different practice areas. In other news, the firm has also bagged top New Zealand law firm, Russell McVeagh, as its client base widens to 75 around the world, and operating in 23 countries, which is not bad considering the company only launched in September 2016. Luminance already works with Chapman Tripp, New Zealand's largest full-service commercial law firm. How much each of these firms uses their Luminance review system is currently unknown, but if market feedback is accurate then not all customers are making maximum use of the AI system they have signed up to – at least not yet.

At the end of each summer for the last 14 years, the small Welsh town of Porthcawl has been invaded. Every year its 16,000 population is swamped by up to 35,000 Elvis fans. Many people attending the yearly festival look the same: they slick back their hair, throw on oversized sunglasses and don white flares. At 2017's Elvis festival, impersonators were faced with something different. Police were trialling automated facial recognition technology to track down criminals.

US-based legal AI pioneer, Seal Software, has been named a'Cool Vendor' for 2018 by influential global research company Gartner. Last year, another pioneering legal AI company, Neota Logic, was also named as a cool vendor by Gartner, an accolade that is much-valued by companies of all types around the world. The title was given via a Gartner report that evaluates'interesting, new and innovative vendors in the content services market'. Ulf Zetterberg, co-founder and CEO of Seal Software, said: 'It is an honour to be named a Gartner Cool Vendor. As the world's largest research and advisory firm Gartner is highly respected for its razor sharp anaylsis and advice, so it is extremely pleasing for Seal to be recognized in this report.'

Democracy is a solid form of government, and that's why it isn't particularly exciting. It's based on laws, on an independent judiciary and the separation of powers, all of which makes the system predictable. There is broad consensus in democracies that it is in everyone's best interest to agree on a set of rules that all must live by. There isn't much room left over for personal escapades and individual acts of heroism. But cults of personality are generally incompatible. Democracy always allows room for doubt, for divergent opinions and for criticism.

Feng Xiang, a professor of law at Tsinghua University, is one of China's most prominent legal scholars. He spoke at the Berggruen Institute's China Center workshop on artificial intelligence in March in Beijing. BEIJING -- The most momentous challenge facing socio-economic systems today is the arrival of artificial intelligence. If AI remains under the control of market forces, it will inexorably result in a super-rich oligopoly of data billionaires who reap the wealth created by robots that displace human labor, leaving massive unemployment in their wake. But China's socialist market economy could provide a solution to this.