Artificial Inteligence
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Two themes have dominated the news about artificial intelligence (AI) lately - litigation and employment.
There have been several court decisions around copyrights and the use of AI by lawyers. Large language models (LLMs) have been trained using information on the internet. Considerable portions of those works are protected by copyright, and the authors didn’t give permission for the AI engines to use their content. Several suits involved whether the content was acquired legally, or was pirated.
The AI company Anthropic (owners of Claude) is in the final stages of settling claims from the Bartz v. Anthropic lawsuit. Last year, Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement in the class action suit over copyright infringement due to pirated material. Authors had until March 30, 2026 to file a claim. The final approval hearing is set for May 14, 2026.
In an interesting turn, the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal for a person seeking copyright for AI-generated artwork. In Thaler v. Perlmutter, Dr. Thaler sued the US Copyright Office seeking judicial review of its refusal to register his AI-generated artwork. The agencies refusal was based on the principle that a work must have human authorship to be copyrightable.
The Harvard Business Review published an article, Research: How AI is Changing the Labor Market. While job postings that involve structured and repetitive tasks have declined by 13%, the demand for jobs that require analytical, technical, or creative work grew by 20%. The research is based on postings from 2019 through 2025.
Other studies reinforce the transformative shift in job types. More firms are using AI for administrative tasks like scheduling, reporting and monitoring production. Improved robotics continue to impact manufacturing. This has led to fewer traditional entry-level jobs.
There has been an increase in the need for workers with advanced AI skills. As with the proliferation of personal computers in the workforce in the early 1990s, workers need training – and retraining. AI skills will be a requirement for the fastest-growing segments of the labor market.
There’s also a new management term to learn – “AI Washing”. This term describes when companies restructure and then use AI to justify the layoffs and other job cuts. The actual scale of jobs replaced by AI is lower than most alarming predictions, as AI has raised the overall unemployment rate by just 0.1 percentage point so far.
Amazing Astronomical Fact: For the last two weeks, most of the world has joined in the amazement of space exploration thanks to the Artemis II mission. The image at the top of this post is the Earth setting from behind the Moon. Taken 58 years after “Earthrise”, a photo from the Apollo 8 mission, the image is simultaneously inspiring and humbling.
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