The legal industry has a reputation for being slow to change and behind the curve on adopting new technologies. These numbers paint the picture of a backward-facing industry focused on efficiency at the expense of innovation. Since 2008, the market has changed in fundamental ways. Not only has demand growth slowed dramatically, but the competitive dynamics of the market have shifted as well. Clients who once deferred to their outside law firms on all key decisions impacting the legal services they purchased no longer do so.

Remi El-Ouazzane recently joined Movidius from Texas Instruments where he served as vice president and worldwide general manager of the Open Multimedia Applications Platform (OMAP) Business Unit. Imagine a five-year-old watching Mum talking to Siri, and Dad talking to Alexa, on a daily basis -- what must she think of such interactions? Children nowadays witness computers that seem like they have a mind of their own -- and even a personality with which to engage. It can be taken for granted that their perception of machines, and thus of the world itself, differs a lot from our own. Artificial intelligence is one of the most promising areas of tech today, if not even the one that is likely to entail the most striking changes in our way of living, the way our economy works and how society functions.

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The legal industry has a reputation for being slow to change and behind the curve on adopting new technologies. These numbers paint the picture of a backward-facing industry focused on efficiency at the expense of innovation. In other words, law firms must respond to the changing demands of consumers just as companies do in other industries. For this reason, digital transformation is coming to the legal industry. For episode 188 of the CXOTALK interview series, which invites people shaping our world to discuss their experience with digital transformation, I spoke with Michael Shea, CIO of Morgan Lewis, one of the largest law firms in existence.

No, AI probably won't be put to use making sure you spell "adjudicate" correctly, or don't confuse they're and there. But it could turn into the sort of highly-integrated, barely-noticed, and pretty-much-essential technology that spellcheck has become. As legal tech enthusiasts gathered in "Washington, D.C.-adjacent" National Harbor Maryland this week, Microsystems CEO Stacy Kacek acknowledged that AI's uses in "real-world applications" are "still pretty limited," Legaltech News' Ian Lopez reports. But the technology could find itself highly integrated into your practice sooner or later, in subtle ways -- soon becoming as ubiquitous as spellcheck has become. David Cook, Microsystems' VP of product development, asked attorneys to imagine what would happen if they got rid of spellcheck throughout their practice.

Cybersecurity research involves publishing papers about malicious exploits as much as publishing information on how to design tools to protect cyber-infrastructure. It is this information exchange between ethical hackers and security experts, which results in a well-balanced cyber-ecosystem. In the blooming domain of AI Safety Engineering, hundreds of papers have been published on different proposals geared at the creation of a safe machine, yet nothing, to our knowledge, has been published on how to design a malevolent machine. Availability of such information would be of great value particularly to computer scientists, mathematicians, and others who have an interest in AI safety, and who are attempting to avoid the spontaneous emergence or the deliberate creation of a dangerous AI, which can negatively affect human activities and in the worst case cause the complete obliteration of the human species. This paper provides some general guidelines for the creation of a Malevolent Artificial Intelligence (MAI).

We summarize the potential impact that the European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation will have on the routine use of machine learning algorithms. Slated to take effect as law across the EU in 2018, it will restrict automated individual decision-making (that is, algorithms that make decisions based on user-level predictors) which "significantly affect" users. The law will also effectively create a "right to explanation," whereby a user can ask for an explanation of an algorithmic decision that was made about them. We argue that while this law will pose large challenges for industry, it highlights opportunities for computer scientists to take the lead in designing algorithms and evaluation frameworks which avoid discrimination and enable explanation.

The last time state lawmakers tried to place limits on drones in the skies above California, they were met with the veto of Gov. Jerry Brown, who said he did not want to create new crimes to enforce bans on the use of such devices. This year, the pushback to new rules is coming not from the governor but through the lobbying efforts of a budding industry that hopes to influence policy at the state Capitol and nationwide. As drones multiply in number and category, cities and states want to set boundaries. But drone manufacturers and associations this legislative session boosted their politicking, successfully beating back several bills they said would create a patchwork of laws that vary by state and hinder innovation. "We want to solve problems and address concerns, but to do it in a way that is constantly clear across the country," said Brendan Schulman, vice president of policy and legal affairs for DJI Technology Co., the world's largest drone maker. "Otherwise, it will be too confusing for commercial users and consumers to understand what the rules are when they travel from place to place."

Yesterday, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's new drone rules went into effect. While many drone enthusiasts were pleased to see some long-awaited progress on this front, the folks at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a privacy advocacy organization in Washington, D.C., don't count in that group. They've been wrangling in court with the FAA over the lack of privacy safeguards in the new regulations--an issue that has dogged drone regulation for years. EPIC's lawyers contend that the FAA hasn't lived up to the mandate Congress set for it back in 2012 to create "comprehensive" regulations for the use of small drones. After all, how comprehensive can any set of drone regulations be if they ignore privacy issues? When EPIC first petitioned the courts back in February, the judge's response was that such objections were premature, given that the FAA had merely presented proposed regulations, not final ones.