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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to technologies that perceive, learn and reason in ways that simulate human cognitive abilities. TAP scholars consider AI’s effects on labor, business, policing, law, medicine, war, free speech, privacy and democracy, and discuss potential solutions to mitigate harms.

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What Occupations Will ChatGPT Most Likely Impact?

Given the recent dramatic increases in AI language modeling capabilities, Professors Ed Felten (Princeton), Rob Seamans (New York University), and Manav Raj (University of Pennsylvania) collaborated to explore how ChatGPT and other AI language modelers will affect jobs and industries.

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Exploring Generative AI and Law

April 21, 2023, Boulder, CO

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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to technologies that perform learning and reasoning in ways that simulate human cognitive abilities.

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Why Making Human-Like Artificial Intelligence May Be 'A Trap'

“Trying to mimic humans has been kind of a goal of a lot of computer scientists...I think it's a very evocative goal, but it's also a trap.”” — Erik Brynjolfsson, Professor of Economics, Stanford University

Erik Brynjolfsson
Yahoo! Finance
February 19, 2023

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Liability Rules for Autonomous Vehicles: How Traditional Legal Relations Encourage Modern Technological Innovation

As autonomous vehicles (AVs) come into use, lawyers will guide courts’ choice of liability rules, the sanctions that apply when the rules of the road are broken. The best rule for many accidents involving AVs will be strict liability.

By: Richard Epstein

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