The Legal System Response to Technological Advancements 

Name: Jaqua Turner 

Date: 04/09/2022 

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Technology is advancing faster than anyone could have expected. Just like how the inventions of the cellphone and email changed the way we communicate, advances in the tech world have changed the way law is practiced around the globe. Lawyers can now manage their caseloads with software such as CaseLoad and Mycase. These programs allow lawyers to place cases into specific categories and record important dates. While these new developments have streamlined legal services, they have also brought unprecedented repercussions to the legal world. 

With the help of adept developers, advanced intelligence or AI continues to become more percipient daily. AI has been around since the mid-1900s and has cemented itself in our legal systems. It can do everything from aiding lawyers with legal research to preparing in-house contracts. This technology, however, can be used for unintended purposes. AI deepfaking technology works by substituting the face and sometimes the voice of a person in a video with a different person of the operator’s choice. It is difficult to deduce which videos are real and which ones have been altered at times.  

Some states like Virginia have specific laws against deepfakes used in instances such as pornography. I believe that is only the beginning of the suppression of this technology. Laws should be put in place at every level to regulate the use and production of these videos to suppress the use of deepfaking. For instance, videos have already emerged on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter spreading false information to users. Since these videos begin their circulation within small groups, I think stricter laws and increased social media awareness at a local level would decrease the abuse of AI. Laws at the federal level have passed recently, although the punishments are not much deterrence. The use of AI in the future is a certainty we will have to deal with inevitably, so it would be best to crack down on offenders now. 

References 

Briscoe, S. (2021, January 12). U.S. laws address deepfakes. ASIS Homepage. Retrieved April 10, 2022, from https://www.asisonline.org/security-management-magazine/latest-news/today-in-security/2021/january/U-S-Laws-Address-Deepfakes/  

Jacalyn Crecelius, J. D. (2022, January 21). New Technology and its impact on the practice of law. Expert Institute. Retrieved April 10, 2022, from https://www.expertinstitute.com/resources/insights/new-technology-and-its-impact-on-the-practice-of-law/  

March 1, 2021. (2021, October 26). Deepfake laws risk creating more problems than they solve. Regulatory Transparency Project. Retrieved April 10, 2022, from https://regproject.org/paper/deepfake-laws-risk-creating-more-problems-than-they-solve/