Why?
- Lawyers say they have an unlimited supply of work. There's always more to be done.
- AI causes more corrective work.
- Many still bill by the hour. Getting done faster doesn't pay.
I was just reading this article about court decisions regarding AI chats : https://natlawreview.com/article/ai-chats-are-discoverable-and-trigger-preservation-obligations
The punchline is your AI chats are discoverable in a legal context.
So not only can they find your chats if a legal issue comes up, but you/your company have a legal obligation to preserve your chats.
That can get tricky for companies because employees could be using their own personal AI tools and chats to discuss business matters.
Even though AI is a new technology, courts are not creating new rules. Instead they are treating AI similar to email or slack messages.
It gets worse when you consider how easy it is to just ask ChatGPT or Claude a legal question vs running it by a lawyer (assuming you have access to one). But the AI models are agreeable so you can lead them to answer pretty easily. Then you find yourself in court with your exact legal strategy discussion handed to judge and jury.
More of my thoughts including the relevant court cases here: https://aitakeovertracker.com/blog/ai-chats-are-discoverable-in-court
There seems to be a gap between what they publicly vs privately.
Sam Altman's house was attacked. Since then he's become much more optimistic about how AI will help people. At least his public messaging has changed.
All this while Coinbase and Paypal just announced layoffs and said AI was a primary reason.
As if the Oracle layoff story wasn't bad enough, they avoided a WARN Act violation by classifying hybrid employees as remote.
Was reading this article about the Oracle layoff. Apparently the WARN Act requires 2 months notice when laying off 50 or more people from the same location.
"The WARN Act is a law that requires companies conducting mass layoffs to give employees two months notice prior to letting them go. It’s triggered when 50 or more people are impacted at one location. By classifying employees as remote workers, the minimum location requirements can be sidestepped.
Some people were unaware they were classified as remote workers, because they were near an office and worked on a hybrid schedule."
The workers also attempted to negotiate severance packages to be more in line with what other tech companies have done. Oracle declined to negotiate.
Was covered in the takeover tracker newsletter: https://aitakeovertracker.com/news
I have a good acquaintance whose job involves working with public policy. They are curious about AI and we’ve talked about misalignment, job loss, Mythos security, since it comes up at our work. But I want to share some media with them to make them aware of the existential threat and need for a moratorium as discussed by Max Tegmark and Sen. Bernie Sanders this week. I don’t think they’d watch a 1 hour conference like that, so what are shorter but impactful media that I could share?
I really want to do my part to spread awareness to people who could make a big impact.
Thanks everyone!