PNAS and Stanford HAI Launch Special Feature on Law in the Age of Generative AI

The academic journal PNAS, in collaboration with the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), has officially launched a special feature titled "Law in the Age of Generative AI." Co-edited by Daniel Ho, Julian Nyarko, Chris Manning, and Vanessa Parli, the feature includes 8 papers examining how the legal system should govern generative AI and how the technology is inversely changing legal practice and research.

Confirmed

The special feature organized lawyers, computer scientists, and social scientists to explore the intersection of AI and law. The papers focus on five core directions: public benchmarking of legal AI systems; leveraging legal principles to improve AI reliability in legal contexts; and addressing AI-related bias, copyright disputes, safety risks, and liability.

Why it matters

According to researcher Christopher Manning, cross-disciplinary research between Natural Language Processing (NLP) and law has undergone massive changes since he began working in the field around 2008. With the explosion of generative AI, exploring how the legal system should respond to this technology has become particularly urgent, providing crucial academic support for understanding legal governance in the AI era.

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