This lecture has been prepared by Ammar Younas, Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law at Westminster International University in Tashkent for the Class of 2019-2020 Introduction to Business Law.
3. Luddites
A member of a group of English workers who destroyed
machines – especially in cotton and wool mills – that
they believed threatened their jobs (1811-1816)
Those who oppose new technology or ways of working
4. Overview of
the
Technology in
Business Law
What is Technology in 21st
Century?
How FinTech is changing the
concept of Business?
Do we need Lawyers in the era
of LegalTech?
7. How Karl Lagerfeld’s cat Choupette,
already a millionaire, could become
the richest feline on the planet
https://www.scmp.com/news/world
/europe/article/2186865/how-karl-
lagerfelds-cat-choupette-already-
millionaire-could-become
8. South Asia Under
Imperialism
7500 Acres to maintain 180 mares.
40 Acres per Mare
Source: The Punjab Under
Imperialism, 1885-1947 Authors:
Imran Ali
10. The Legal Personality of
Rivers
• “When legal personality is
granted to rivers, however,
certain ‘best-placed’ persons
are enabled to represent the
interest of the river.”
http://www.emahumanrights.
org/2019/01/16/the-legal-
personality-of-rivers/
https://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=Z7n00z_34ck
11. AI engineer builds and
marries his robot wife
• https://mashable.com/2017/04/04/engine
er-marries-robot-wife/
• The Extension of Legal Personhood in
Artificial Intelligence
http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/RBD/articl
e/view/27064
12. Intention, Agency, Mens
Rea and Criminal
Liability
• https://observer.com/2019/11/elon-musk-brain-
chip-startup-neuralink-ai-
interface/?fbclid=IwAR0I4xHPDxsgOS5ivWHIdh7Fk
QUmVwP1QL50edo4pVenhp9zaN8SXIwg2DU
14. Artificial intelligence
What is “artificial intelligence”?
No single definition
Narrow AI – addresses specific applications
General AI
Will it be like science fiction?
17. Superintelligence
What do we mean by “superintelligence”?
Machines have many fundamental advantages which
give them overwhelming superiority over humans
Biological humans will be outclassed
18. Speed superintelligence
A system that can do all that a human intelligent can
do, but much faster
Read thousands of books and write entire PhDs in an
afternoon
The world of humans would look like slow motion
Superintelligence
19. Collective superintelligence
A system composed of a large number of smaller
intellects such that the system’s overall performance
across many very general domains vastly outstrips
that of any current cognitive system
Aggregation – imagine 700,000 Newtons or Einsteins
Superintelligence
20. Quality superintelligence
A system that is at least as fast as a human mind and
vastly qualitatively smarter
In the same way that human intellect is qualitatively
different to that of chimps or fish or dogs, machines
may have a different quality of intellect
Superintelligence
28. Superintelligence
An explosion of artificial super-intelligence that will
far surpass all human intelligence, triggering
runaway technological growth and unfathomable
changes to civilization
29. Superintelligence
Tell me the year you think that there will be a 50%
chance think that machines will have “human
level intelligence”
You can define this however you wish
One possible definition: the machines will
outperform the best current human minds
across many very general cognitive domains
36. Intermediaries (middle men) such as banks, credit card
companies to provide the trust
Security issues – can be hacked
Some can’t afford banking
Take a large slice of the money
Potential for privacy valuations
37. Blockchain can help provide the level of trust without the
use of large financial intermediaries
Essentially, a (decentralized) ledger that allows a number
of computers to keep an identical record of information,
without reference to a central master copy
Not possible to change or delete every copy on everyone’s
computer – thus, reinforcing trust
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41. Big data is a field that treats ways to analyze, systematically extract information
from, or otherwise deal with data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with
by traditional data-processing application software.
Netflix is a good example of a big brand that uses big data analytics for targeted
advertising.
UOB bank from Singapore is an example of a brand that uses big data to drive risk
management.
PepsiCo is a consumer packaged goods company that relies on huge volumes of data
for an efficient supply chain management.
42. Cloud Computing
The practice of using a network of remote servers
hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process
data, rather than a local server or a personal
computer.
66. FINTECH IS REACHING A BOILING POINT
Source: William Garrity Associates, Google
$49.7 billion was invested globally on fintech
in the last 5 years.
As a search term, ”fintech” has risen 1,300%
on Google over the past year.
67. GLOBAL FINTECH FINANCING ACTIVITY
HAS SKYROCKETED
Global Fintech Financing Activity
$Billions
Source: BI Intelligence estimates based on CB Insights data, Accenture, KPMG
$1.9 $2.1 $2.8
$4.3
$12.2
$20.0
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
68. WHAT IS FINTECH?
Fintech: n. A blanket term for disruptive
technologies affecting the financial
services industry.
69. THERE ARE LOTS OF CONCERNS ABOUT THE
FINTECH INDUSTRY
Sources: Bloomberg, AdviseOnly, The New York Times
It’s a bubble that’s about to burst.
It’s an over-used buzzword.
Banks are too entrenched to
be disrupted.
70. BUT THE REALITY IS…
Banks have massive, entrenched, and
inefficient infrastructure
that is difficult to overcome.
Top 20 US banks
have nearly $10
trillion in assets*
*Source: US Federal Reserve
72. THE REALITY IS…
The current customer experience is outdated — consumers now
expect their financial experiences to be:
Mobile Personalized Customizable Accessible
73. FINTECH CAN DISRUPT ANY AREA OF BUSINESS
Back-Office Middle-Office Front-Office
Editor's Notes
Fate of chimpanzees – only a few differences in the brain – 250,000 generations of change.