Current Issue
AI is currently capable of making autonomous medical decisions, like diagnosis and prognosis, without the input of humans. Liability for this “practice of medicine” by an Autonomous AI Physician currently falls in a tort law gap when it cannot be sufficiently connected to humans involved with the AI because neither human-centric nor product-centric causes of action provide a mechanism for recovery. To fill this liability gap, this Article...
Russia and China seek to alter the international status quo. While aiming to avoid full-fledged war with other great powers, they will take all measures short of war to increase their spheres of influence. This will include exploiting the United States’ strategic vulnerabilities, especially in the new frontiers of space and cyber. International law currently plays little role in these realms. While the US is actively developing its own...
Biometric data is increasingly exploited by the private sector as companies offer convenience in exchange for consumers’ immutable identifiers. The contracts governing similar exchanges of consumer data are frequently unread by consumers and do not represent a meaningful opportunity for consumers to bargain for or understand their terms. Yet, this unconscionable exchange of data for convenience via adhesion contract has been blessed by the...
Space has long cultivated the human imagination. For eons, man has looked to it for guidance and inspiration. The earliest seafarers relied on the stars to navigate the Earth’s oceans; the faithful of many a religion beseeched the heavens for guidance; and the philosopher, the artist, the writer, and the poet looked to the endless sky for inspiration. As early as the 1800...