AI surgical robot masters complex medical procedures solely by watching videos. Will this happen in law too?
Release Date: 11/13/2024
SECOND SELF: Reality isn't discovered. It's decided.
AI In Law Podcast
Second Self marks Mitch’s debut as a novelist, bringing his deep understanding of technology, human behavior, and the law into a gripping work of speculative fiction. Here's what the book is about... Every choice you make still feels like yours. In the year 2094, that is the most dangerous lie ever told. Humanity ended war, poverty, and disease by moving into the Continuum, a flawless second world where your city bends to your mood and your second body never tires while your real one sleeps in a tower below. Billions call it paradise. Ruby Playa helped build it. Barely twenty-three and the...
info_outline
Leading With AI: Seven Steps to Transform Your Business and Empower Your People (overview)
AI In Law Podcast
95% of corporate AI projects are failing right now — and it has nothing to do with the technology. In this episode, we break down the seven-step system at the heart of "Leading With AI: Seven Steps to Transform Your Business and Empower Your People", the playbook for leaders who refuse to freeze while the ground shifts under them. Here's the truth most people won't say out loud: AI isn't failing. Leadership is. The tools do exactly what they're designed to do. What they can't do is give your people direction, build trust, or align a confused team around a future worth chasing. That part...
info_outline
The AI Wrote Your App. The Lawsuit Names You.
AI In Law Podcast
Attorney Mitch Jackson warns that the rising trend of "vibe coding"—using AI to generate software from plain English—is creating a massive legal and financial liability for developers. Although AI makes app creation accessible, it often produces insecure code that lacks essential privacy protections required by state and federal laws. Because the law holds the human creator responsible for data breaches and compliance failures, "vibe coders" face severe penalties regardless of their technical expertise. The source emphasizes that developers must...
info_outline
Introduction: How to Survive Artificial Intelligence in Hollywood
AI In Law Podcast
If you work in film, television, or streaming, this episode is the one I need you to listen to today. This is the full introduction to my new book, How to Survive Artificial Intelligence in Hollywood, and I wrote it for you. Not for lawyers. Not for academics. For the working producer, director, showrunner, actor, writer, agent, manager, and studio executive trying to make smart decisions about AI on a real project, on a real set, with real money on the line. Here's the truth nobody is saying out loud. The AI rules in this industry are being written right now, in courtrooms, in union...
info_outline
How to Survive Artificial Intelligence in Hollywood: The Working Professional's Guide to the New Rules of Film, Television, and Streaming
AI In Law Podcast
Right now, somewhere in Burbank, a producer just signed a forty-page AI vendor contract she didn't read. Eight months from today, that signature becomes a federal lawsuit, a SAG-AFTRA grievance, and a streamer threatening to drop her show. You already feel it. Every meeting now opens with the same question. Are we using AI on this? Nobody in the room agrees on what the answer means. Your line producer says one thing. Your studio counsel says another. Your distributor sends a delivery checklist asking for things your post house has never been asked to certify. Your E&O carrier just slipped...
info_outline
Privacy in America (one hour book overview)
AI In Law Podcast
PRIVACY IN AMERICA- What Every American Needs to Know (one hour summary of Mitch Jackson's new book) Every day, ordinary Americans surrender intimate details of their lives without realizing it. Their phones broadcast where they sleep, worship, and seek medical care. Their cars report how they drive, where they stop, and whether they wear a seatbelt. Their smart speakers and televisions record what they say and watch inside their own homes. Data brokers package these details into dossiers and sell them to advertisers, insurers, scammers, and even government agencies that would otherwise need a...
info_outline
The Ultimate California Living Trust Estate Plan
AI In Law Podcast
The Ultimate California Living Trust Plan gives you a tech assisted and AI reviewed (Ultimate package option) modern, attorney-backed way to protect your assets and your family—without court delays or legal confusion. It’s designed for Californians who want clarity, privacy, and total control over how their legacy is handled. In this audio we break down how a living trust works in California, what it includes, and how it connects with the other vital documents your family must have. You will learn exactly how the grantor, trustee, successor trustee, beneficiaries, funding of the...
info_outline
How AI Can Save Democracy
AI In Law Podcast
Democracy is under attack in real time—and waiting for courts or traditional media to catch up is no longer an option. In this episode, we discuss attorney Mitch Jackson's new article How AI Can Save Democracy, revealing how artificial intelligence can instantly monitor government actions, fact-check false claims, predict threats, and mobilize citizens before rights are stripped away. From real-time legal alerts to predictive forecasting and automated civic action, discover how AI can become democracy’s fastest and most powerful defender. Read the full article on Mitch's Substack ...
info_outline
Leading with AI: Seven Steps to Transform Your Business and Empower Your People
AI In Law Podcast
Ninety-five percent of enterprise AI pilots are failing. Billions are being spent. Most leaders have little to show for it. The problem isn’t the technology. The problem is leadership. In his new book, Leading with AI: Seven Steps to Transform Your Business and Empower Your People, award-winning trial lawyer, mediator, and business leader Mitch Jackson shows executives how to stop chasing hype and start leading with clarity. Drawing on cutting-edge research and decades of experience guiding people through high-stakes moments, Jackson lays out a practical path: define the why, build the right...
info_outline
Data-Driven Decisions: AI In Legal Analytics
AI In Law Podcast
What if you could walk into court knowing exactly how a judge is likely to rule, which arguments will hit hardest, and how long your case will take, without spending weeks buried in research? In this episode, we dive into the game-changing world of AI-powered legal analytics. You’ll hear how cutting-edge tools can scan millions of cases in seconds, spot trends, predict outcomes, and give you a data-backed strategic edge. From performance metrics to outcome forecasting, we’ll show you how AI can become your secret weapon in litigation and client strategy. If you’re ready to work smarter,...
info_outlineA surgical AI-powered and trained robot, armed with nothing but hours of video footage, learned to perform complex medical procedures with the precision of a seasoned surgeon. No hands-on training, no step-by-step programming—just pure observation. Sound familiar? It should, because that’s the future for us lawyers.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University just pulled off something remarkable. They trained a robot to master surgery, not by holding its “hand” through the motions, but by letting it watch. This machine, the da Vinci Surgical System, absorbed and replicated critical tasks—needle manipulation, tissue lifting, suturing—all at a skill level equal to human surgeons. Let that sink in.
Here’s how it works: the team fed the robot hundreds of videos from da Vinci’s own wrist cameras, essentially teaching it to “speak” the language of surgery through math and movement. We’re talking ChatGPT meets kinematics—a language of skill and technique distilled down to pure, actionable data. The kicker? The robot even started catching and correcting mistakes on its own, like picking up a dropped needle—something it was never programmed to do. It’s adaptability in action, and it’s mind-blowing.
Now, here’s where we need to pay attention. AI systems like Google’s AI Studio aren’t just for the operating room. They’ll watch and listen to lawyers too. These systems will study the arguments, presentation styles, even the pauses and tones that seasoned trial lawyers use. They'll dissect every move, every phrase, every nuance. And just like that robot learning to suture, these systems will be able to craft legal arguments and perform in courtrooms with an accuracy and finesse that we’re only just beginning to imagine. We’re already using Google AI Studio to evaluate our presentations and I wrote about it in an earlier post here in the group.
So, don’t shoot the messenger. As these AI “assistants” become sharper, faster, and more perceptive, we’ll need to bring our A-game—because now, we’re competing with machines that don’t just learn the law; they learn from us, down to the last word, the last breath.
See the full article here and video here https://hub.jhu.edu/2024/11/11/surgery-robots-trained-with-videos/
Listen to past podcast episodes here https://mitch-jackson.com/podcast