How to approach AI regulation, a crisis in the legal profession, and employers and workers should work together on remote work policies.
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This Labor Day, employers and workers should work together to build a better future for the office March 2020 marked a new era for many workers. In-person meetings became Zooms, long commutes disappeared, and workers gained more flexibility and freedom. Since then, passionate debates have taken place about the merits of in-person versus remote work. Tracy Hadden Loh and DW Rowlands argue that this debate is really about working conditions and that employers must give workers a meaningful reason to return to the office. |
The legal profession reckons with Jan. 6 Indictments by Special Counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis around the 2020 election centrally feature alleged misconduct by lawyers. “For law, a profession that aspires to a certain civic importance and that prides itself on being self-regulating—that is, setting its own boundaries for what does and doesn’t constitute appropriate behavior by those within the field—this has occasioned somewhat of a moral crisis,” writes Quinta Jurecic. |
How to approach AI regulation A defining challenge of artificial intelligence (AI) regulation is creating a framework that is comprehensive, but still results in rules that are tailored to the nuances of AI in different applications, such as in educational access, hiring, mortgage pricing, rent setting, or health care provisioning. Alex Engler proposes a new strategy for federal regulators overseeing this space. |
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