Brain Chips for Lawyers + Fraudulent Alzheimer's Research + Proof That Hell Froze Over
A collection of news that caught my eye.
#1. Brain chips for lawyers
According to Law Society, an independent professional body for solicitors in England and Wales, brain chips for lawyers might be coming—and they may even become required for optimal performance and seamless, automatic, productivity-based billing. (In other words, the report suggests that lawyers will be forced to join the misery of Amazon workers in wearing nudging and performance-monitoring devices and will have to also convince themselves that they love it).
The report was written by Dr Allan McCay, deputy director of the Sydney Institute of Criminology and an academic fellow at the University of Sydney Law School.
A quote from the report:
Some lawyers might try to gain an advantage over competitors and try to stay ahead of increasingly capable AI systems by using neurotechnology to improve their workplace performance. Perhaps clients might provide pressure to do this, and one can imagine changes to billing that may be brought about by the attention-monit…
