@harrysurden.bsky.social
Professor, University of Colorado Law School • Associate Director Stanford CodeX Center for Legal Informatics. Research: Artificial Intelligence and Law
In celebration of Stanford's Codex Center's 20 year anniversary, Stanford Law School produced this retrospective video about the center's founding and work.
I am grateful to Roland Vogl, Mike Genesereth, Megan Ma, and the rest of the amazing Community.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc4V...
In celebration of Stanford's Codex Center's 20 year anniversary, Stanford Law School produced this retrospective video about the center's founding and work.
I am grateful to Roland Vogl, Mike Genesereth, Megan Ma, and the rest of the amazing Community.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc4V...
My keynote address on
"Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Systems, and Law"
from last week's Silicon Flatirons Conference at the University of Colorado law school, is now available online for those interested.
youtu.be/OX7hfzBT40c?...
Join us this Friday March 7 for a conference on
"Autonomous AI and Law"
This conference explores the novel law of emerging AI agents like @OpenAI Operator that decide their own actions based on high-level goals.
cc:@ColoLaw @SiliconFlatiron
siliconflatirons.org/events/2025-...
@OpenAI released their latest AI model GPT-4.5 yesterday (a research preview).
So far, I am *not* very impressed.
It definitely doesn't seem meaningfully "smarter" than GPT-4 or other earlier frontier models on my internal tests, despite being a larger model.
openai.com/index/introd...
New paper: Simulating Time With Square-Root Space
people.csail.mit.edu/rrw/time-vs-...
It's still hard for me to believe it myself, but I seem to have shown that TIME[t] is contained in SPACE[sqrt{t log t}].
To appear in STOC. Comments are very welcome!
Please join me on March 7, 2025 for a conference I am hosting on
"Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Systems, and Law"
at Colorado Law's Silicon Flatirons Center.
siliconflatirons.org/events/2025-...
This is among the first law school conferences studying advances in autonomous AI agents.
Please join me on March 7, 2025 for a conference I am hosting on
"Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Systems, and Law"
at Colorado Law's Silicon Flatirons Center.
siliconflatirons.org/events/2025-...
This is among the first law school conferences studying advances in autonomous AI agents.
This is a great talk by the always terrific Stanford University Professor Erik Brynjolfsson on the impact of artificial intelligence on the workforce at the 2025 Paris AI Action Summit.
youtu.be/6HDjVncL5Go?...
Join us this Sunday 2/2 and Monday 2/3 for our Silicon Flatirons flagship conference at University of Colorado Law School on
"Examining The New Federalism in Technology Policy"
I will be on a panel on AI regulation at the state level.
siliconflatirons.org/events/2025-...
Join us this Sunday 2/2 and Monday 2/3 for our Silicon Flatirons flagship conference at University of Colorado Law School on
"Examining The New Federalism in Technology Policy"
I will be on a panel on AI regulation at the state level.
siliconflatirons.org/events/2025-...
E-A-G-L-E-S
26.01.2025 23:16 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I created a new AI seminar class, and I thought I'd highlight a few readings from it each week.
First week, and two great overviews of the topic:
Artificial Intelligence and Law: An Overview by @harrysurden.bsky.social
Paper here: scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-arti...
and...
There has been a definite shift in recent weeks where insiders in the various AI labs are suggesting that very intelligent AIs are coming very soon.
I wrote a bit about why this might be happening and what we can take away from their apparent confidence. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/prophecies...
"The key is learning to harness AI’s impressive capabilities while being clear-eyed about its limitations and the persistent necessity of human judgment in interpreting our foundational legal document," write Andrew Coan and @harrysurden.bsky.social.
16.12.2024 16:36 — 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
Interesting interview by @sama Sam Altman with former Microsoft research head Craig Mundie.
Mundie claims that a fusion startup they're invested in will produce useful fusion energy next year. I am skeptical, but who knows. Would be significant if true.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z246...
@Google has released Gemini 2.0 Flash today. So far, I am not impressed in my testing suite. Its not as good as GPT-4o or Claude.
However, "Flash" is the less capable turbo version of Gemini 2.0, and I expect the full version of Gemini 2 to be quite good when it is released.
@OpenAI released its SORA video generation model today and it's quite impressive
sora.com/explore/feat...
Interesting conversation with @OpenAI's Noam Brown @polynoamial on the new o1 AI model
and the current state of AI and test-time/inference compute.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoL8...
I am quite impressed with @Google's Gemini Experimental 12-06 model, released today.
This is the first version of Gemini that I consider fully on par with (or perhaps exceeding) GPT-4o and Claude Claude 3.5 Sonnet, in my private AI capability test suite.
cc:JeffDean
Coan & Surden on AI and Constitutional Interpretation, lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/...
14.11.2024 12:42 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Excellent lecture by Prof. @JustinWolfers on Artificial Intelligence and the Economy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIL5...
A photo of Boulder, Colorado, shot from above the university campus and looking toward the Flatirons.
I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics.
Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎
Apply by December 15th!
Excellent Lecture by @UCBerkeley Prof. Gabe Zucman on how the extremely wealthy avoid paying their fair share of taxes compared to typical tax payers, and how to fix it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM61...
How do LLMs learn to reason from data? Are they ~retrieving the answers from parametric knowledge🦜? In our new preprint, we look at the pretraining data and find evidence against this:
Procedural knowledge in pretraining drives LLM reasoning ⚙️🔢
🧵⬇️
Hot off the presses - Just posted a new draft article on
"Artificial Intelligence and Constitutional Interpretation"
Written with the incredible Prof. Andrew Coan
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Comments and suggestions are welcome
