After much anticipation and a long hiatus, Legalweek was back with a bang this year at the Hilton Midtown hotel in New York City. It was both refreshing and exciting to be back in person after two years of virtual conferences, and I had the honor of speaking on a few panels and leading several artificial intelligence or "AI" related workshops. The application of artificial intelligence and analytics to the practice of law was a hot button topic and at the forefront of people's minds this year. The conference was a perfect setting to cultivate new ideas on this topic since it brought together attorneys, industry experts and legal business leaders who are pushing the envelope in terms of adopting artificial intelligence and machine learning to legal practice. After several days of reflection from a jam-packed three-day conference earlier this month, I have synthesized five AI-related themes coming out of Legalweek 2022.

Our article offered the first systematically conducted review of published artificial intelligence (AI) ethics guidelines. We analysed 84 documents and found that, despite an apparent convergence on certain ethical principles on the surface level, there are substantive divergences on how these principles are interpreted, why they are deemed important, what issue, domain or actors they pertain to, and how they should be implemented. Scholarly and public discussions on AI ethics have certainly evolved. Although the illusion that'ethical AI' is simply a technological matter still lingers, 2020 has seen an important push towards broader acceptance of the sociotechnicity of AI. Acknowledging the sociotechnical nature of AI systems requires us, as Pratyusha Kalluri put it succinctly1, to centre less on fairness, or on'AI for good', and more on power distribution and power differentials.

Visitors to a former church in the Italian city of Spoleto will encounter a mirror that uses artificial intelligence and facial recognition to build an otherworldly image of themselves. Italian design studio Ultravioletto created the Neural Mirror installation to give audiences a chance to contemplate the controversial technologies in an artistic setting. The ghostly, rainbow-coloured reflections viewers see of themselves are actually clouds of points generated through artificial intelligence. But at first glance, audiences experience the installation as a normal mirror, as it contains a mirrored film layered over OLED displays that reflects their image back at them. It is only after the facial recognition software has scanned and processed their presence -- decoding the subject's likely sex, age, race and emotional state -- that the viewer sees the AI's interpretation of them on the screen, obscuring the mirror. "Artificial intelligence extracts all of our behaviours in a shady way then transforms them into a form of wealth for corporations," Ultravioletto's art director Bruno Capezzuoli told Dezeen.