I'm going to guess that most people listening to this podcast are not lawyers. Fair. I'm not either!

But there are *massive* questions about how AI impacts the law -- new questions about IP, copyrights, patents -- and also how AI impacts the legal profession itself.

Here to guide us through all these questions is Robert Plotkin, a 25-year-veteran patent attorney and the author of the 2009 patent-and-AI book "The Genie in the Machine: How Computer-Automated Inventing Is Revolutionizing Law and Business" and the new book "AI Armor: Securing the Future of Your AI Company With Strategic Intellectual Property."

Because even if you're not a lawyer... if you like things like movies, books, and tech - this will impact you in sneaky and surprising ways.

AI Armor:
https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0D15MMHWZ?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_J34MV0C4EQF2GM6S28BT_2

Robert Plotkin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertplotkin/

Many have been worried about AI safety. But the stakes were just raised: OpenAI and Google just announced new capabilities that look likely to usher in the new era of “AI agents,” meaning tools that will automatically accomplish tasks for you like buying plane tickets or even how to invest your 401k. What could go wrong?

It’s Bo Li’s job to figure out what could go wrong. Li is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago, where she conducts research and experiments on AI safety. Her team does “red team” analysis to try and hack and jail-break AI to sniff out problems. She already uncovered flaws in the AI that powers self-driving cars, and the systems then improved as a response to her work.

We get into the tricky problem of AI agents, the AI safety risks that keep her up at night, the possible dystopia of AI-injected deep fakes — and tools that could fight them — as well as why Li is NOT worried about existential risks to humanity.

I found this conversation oddly…comforting? Hope you enjoy!

Sherlock Bioscience is developing medical diagnostic tests that are dramatically faster, cheaper, and easier to distribute than traditional models.

The impact? This could make health care more inclusive, slow the spread of STDs, and help us avoid future pandemics.

Dr. Dechairo and I start with the current problems of traditional diagnostic tests, then get into how AI could help and how that could impact the globe.

There is a LOT of silly stuff in the world of AI… this is not that.

Hope you enjoy the conversation.