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Immutability - not always a superpower Although smart contracts prevent deviation from an agreement, this means they do not have an efficient adaptive mechanism. This does not reflect the reality of contractual relationships. The parties in a contract will be somewhere on  the relationship sca... Visualise your bias Tackling bias and unfairness in machine learning models can be tricky. The more complex the model, the harder it can be for developers and users to interrogate how inputs relate to outputs, and there have been many well publicised examples of models produ... The future of AI in education As the largest investment in AI made by an American university, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's commitment of $1bn to computing and artificial inteligence clearly shows the need for education providers to move forward in their educational thin... RegTech: A lovely idea but... Businesses in the financial services sector have seen their compliance burden explode in the last decade. As this area of business comes under greater focus, and resources are put under significant pressure, so the desire to come up with an efficient and,... SRA's commitment to driving innovation The SRA has already shown commitment to innovation through the launch of the 'Innovation Space' -  allowing those within the legal services market to explore and test out innovative ideas, without fear of regulatory barriers.  Now, the SRA has been awarde... Redesigning meetings As disruptive technology so often demonstrates, innovation can be just as much about how you do something as what it is you do. In her book "The Art of Gathering", Priya Parker reminds us that meetings, like all gatherings, are a mechanism for people to, ... Do you know what your AI is thinking? You may not like it For an organisation seeking to implement an AI solution to improve its business processes (whether for internal use or customer-facing), Amazon's recently leaked foray into this area provides a good case study. How much do you know about the training data... Legal tech: less talk and more action? Interesting to see if this signals the start of the plateau in the legal tech hype cycle. Less talk and more action/implementation has got to be a good thing - it's a tricky balance for law firms to strike between staying on top of new legal tech developm... LegalTech and law school It's great to see law schools around the world including new legal innovation and design modules in their syllabuses and it's indicative of the fact that the legal ecosystem is recognising that lawyers of the future will need a broader skillset, drawing o... Co-operation between machines and humans - the secret to success for machine learning? One of the largest barriers that must be overcome by a business looking to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) into their current workflows is ensuring the co-operation between machines and humans or else the technology is destined to fail.  Whether it...