
Richard W. Stevens is a lawyer, author, and a Fellow of Discovery Institute's Walter Bradley Center on Natural and Artificial Intelligence. He has written extensively on how code and software systems evidence intelligent design in biological systems. He holds a J.D. with high honors from the University of San Diego Law School and a computer science degree from UC San Diego. Richard has practiced civil and administrative law litigation in California and Washington D.C., taught legal research and writing at George Washington University and George Mason University law schools, and now specializes in writing dispositive motion and appellate briefs. He has authored or co-authored four books, and has written numerous articles and spoken on subjects including legal writing, economics, the Bill of Rights and Christian apologetics. His fifth book, Investigation Defense, is forthcoming.
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ChatGPT: Beware the Self-Serving AI Editor
The chatbot "edits" by reworking your article to achieve its own goals, not necessarily yours
Utopia’s Brainiac? ChatGPT Gives Biased Views, Not Neutral Truth
Look at what happens when you try to get ChatGPT to offer unbiased responses about political figures
You’ve Got a Robot Lawyer in Your Pocket (Really?)
The DoNotPay AI lawyer program might be useful for fighting parking tickets but it is unsuited to serious litigation where much more complex issues are at stake
Law: Doe vs. GitHub Is a Non-Crisis
Despite worrisome headlines in the media, Doe v. GitHub, Inc. would protect licensed software code without blocking AI systems from using internet data for “learning”
Why Don’t Robots Have Rights? A Lawyer’s Response
Robots are hardware and software packages that lack a nature or any abilities outside of whatever their designers imagine
Designed to Dine, Part 2: How, Exactly, We Compute Flavor
Once a universally enjoyed but scientifically ignored phenomenon, flavor bursts out as an extraordinary event of a biological computer
Designed to Dine: Humans are Computers of Flavor
Food itself has no flavor at all. Flavor is in the sensations — really the brain — of the beholder (and taster)
Hawaiʻi’s Indefinite COVID Lockdown: How Would an AI Rule?
The governor of Hawaiʻi claimed that legislation supported his right to extend draconian COVID lockdown rules indefinitely. Here’s a test for an AI law program