AI Scouting Report: the Good, Bad, & Weird @ the Law & AI Certificate Program, by LexLab, UC Law SF

This special AI Scouting Report episode from the Law & Artificial Intelligence Certificate Program surveys the current AI landscape for legal professionals. Nathan Labenz walks through the “Good, Bad, and Weird” of frontier models, from using AI to navigate his son’s cancer treatment to emerging forms of deception and reward hacking. He highlights how new systems are pushing the boundaries of math, physics, and legal performance while raising serious safety and governance questions. Listeners will come away with a fast-paced, source-rich overview of where AI is today and the strange future it’s steering us toward.

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CHAPTERS:

(00:00) About the Episode

(03:04) Gemini's long context window

(05:23) Comprehensive AI overview (Part 1)

(16:01) Sponsors: Tasklet | VCX

(18:53) Comprehensive AI overview (Part 2) (Part 1)

(34:39) Sponsor: Claude

(36:51) Comprehensive AI overview (Part 2) (Part 2)

(59:43) Reward and sentience

(01:04:14) Regulating bad actors

(01:09:30) Corporate AI strategies

(01:14:59) Episode Outro

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