AI and the Tribunal Secretary
by Andrew Flake
In Kashuo Ishiguru's novel "Klara and the Sun," the eponymous character is an AF, or artificial friend, a sophisticated, artificially-intelligent robot designed to be a companion for human children. Klara is kind, surprisingly observant and intuitive, and even heroic in the ways she communicates...
Agentic AI and the Courts: Perplexity v. Amazon and the User-Tool Dichotomy
by Andrew Flake
I don’t worry that my laptop will lie to me, or that Microsoft Word will wake up unwilling to work. They are tools, not sentient. They lack the ability to make decisions. So too, with most instances of AI, in most settings, we provide...