Director of Ai at BU School of Law and teach legal courses on Ai & Digital Finance. Former entrepreneur, exec and one time Head of Technology at CFPB.
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Tim Duncan retweeted
#BULawProf @NotThatTimD suggests, “You could create an `AI FDA’ with broad authority to ensure AI is used safely. The agency could determine who and what to regulate, define what’s safe, and step in to shut down threats.” Read more: spr.ly/6016BGdkJg
My favorite sentence from academia today:
I argue that this stance is psychologically unstable in anthropomimetic systems designed to elicit unironic anthropomorphism, and theoretically incomplete insofar as roleplay analogies typically presuppose an underlying agent.
Tim Duncan retweeted
#BULawProf & Director of the AI Program @NotThatTimD speaks on "Thinking Critically in the Age of AI" tomorrow, 8/13 at 11:30am ET. Register ➡️ spr.ly/6010B1OBhC
Excited to be part of this AI Ed Panel and happy to be speaking with Judge Christopher Panos of the Federal Bankruptcy Court. He is one of the AI leaders in the judiciary.
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One year losses for investors in Fidelity's BTC ETF are quickly approaching 50%. I'm guessing that whatever they made won't be worth the damage to their reputation in the long run.
Not that Tim Duncan, really.
Five of the greatest power forwards ever at their peak:
Charles Barkley (1989–1993)
Giannis Antetokounmpo (2019–2023)
Dirk Nowitzki (2007–2011)
Kevin Garnett (2004–2008)
Tim Duncan (2000–2004)
Stat leaders from the comparison:
• PPG — Giannis Antetokounmpo (29.2)
• RPG — Kevin Garnett (12.5)
• APG — Giannis Antetokounmpo (5.8)
• SPG — Charles Barkley (1.7)
• BPG — Tim Duncan (2.6)
• FG% — Charles Barkley (.563)
• 3P% — Dirk Nowitzki (.386)
• FT% — Dirk Nowitzki (.896)
• eFG% — Giannis Antetokounmpo (.588)
• BPM — Giannis Antetokounmpo (10.1)
• VORP — Kevin Garnett (37.9)
Accolade leaders:
• 2× MVP — Tim Duncan, Giannis Antetokounmpo
• 1× DPOY — Kevin Garnett, Giannis Antetokounmpo
• 2× NBA Champion — Tim Duncan
• 2× Finals MVP — Tim Duncan
Data via @Stathead / @bball_ref
I personally always say "Please" and "Thank you" when conversing with artificial intelligence as a hedge in case Ai becomes all powerful, omnipotent and Master of the human race. Anyone who has studied "The Will to Believe" by William James will understand why.
But hey . . . if you prefer to talk down to it, go ahead and roll the dice.
Update: Amazon v. Perplexity
On March 10, U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney granted Amazon a preliminary injunction blocking Perplexity AI from using its Comet browser agent to access Amazon’s website with account-holder credentials. Though it hasn’t attracted much mainstream attention, this may prove to be one of the most significant AI-related legal cases to date—particularly in defining the boundaries of “agentic AI.”
A major promise of AI agents lies in their ability to comparison shop, find favorable terms, and even initiate transactions on behalf of users. However, platforms like Amazon—along with other large retail sites—do not benefit from this type of automated competition. They prefer maintaining direct control of customer interactions during the shopping experience.
At the heart of the case is a critical legal question: can Amazon treat AI agents as “trespassers” even when those agents act with a user’s consent and credentials?
A generation ago, early Internet pioneers envisioned a marketplace that would empower small retailers. Instead, giants like Amazon now dominate through the “walled gardens” they control. Today, technologists are again promising a more consumer-empowering digital era through agentic AI—but cases like this will determine whether those promises materialize, or whether the current online power structure remains intact.
Top #3 use cases for crypto remains grifts, money laundering and evading sanctions.
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Lawyers are paid for perfection. Clients (especially corporate) are less concerned about fees than they are about being able to trust that lawyers will get it right. A two-sentence error in a bond indenture or merger agreement could easily cost a client 100X the legal fees it paid a firm to manage the transaction.
A new study on using Ai for coding, indicates a trade-off between the speed from Ai usage and work quality. The implications for law firms and law schools are important.
From a new study entitled: AI IDEs or Autonomous Agents? Measuring the Impact of Coding Agents on Software Development (Agarwal)
"Autonomous agents offer meaningful velocity gains only in new-toAI settings while consistently raising complexity and warning levels across contexts, reinforcing a speed–maintainability trade-off. "
If stable coin issuers are sincere about the financial well-being of account holders, they should be required to pay out 99% of their interest income they receive from their reserves if they are allowed to pay interest or "rewards" (as they call it).
"Lawlessness from the court". Trump and his cronies have truly left the reality of the planet and are happy to destroy the United States to get what they want..
