Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Botta's pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae): Stanford Law Rock Center ~ 'Lawyering in the Age of AI: Inside Meta’s Approach to AI, IP, and Litigation ~ email to the 3 panelists, 2 of whom work for Meta, and one in a private law firm does work for Meta ... with overview of Meta / FB ... * How is it possible to explore collaboration in some of these regards - and regarding Meta's 3 billion + monthly end users on FB and social media ... and WUaS seeking to code for all 8 billion people on the planet for free universal education, and to end poverty potentially with Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency - https://minepi.com/sgkmac? * * * Where have all the hippies gone? ~ Dear Konrad, Gantt, Byron, Ed, All,

 

Stanford Law Rock Center ~ 'Lawyering in the Age of AI: Inside Meta’s Approach to AI, IP, and Litigation ~ email to the 3 panelists, 2 of whom work for Meta, and one in a private law firm does work for Meta ... with overview of Meta / FB ~

How is it possible to explore collaboration in some of these regards - and regarding Meta's 3 billion + monthly end users on FB and social media ... and WUaS seeking to code for all 8 billion people on the planet for free universal education, and to end poverty potentially with Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency - https://minepi.com/sgkmac? 

Dear Nikki, Allie, and Angela,

Thanks so much for your great panel at the Stanford Law Rock Center today: "Lawyering in the Age of AI: Inside Meta’s Approach to AI, IP, and Litigation" - https://law.stanford.edu/event/lawyering-in-the-age-of-ai-inside-metas-approach-to-ai-ip-and-litigation/. And nice to meet you afterward. For your information further, and as part of this Stanford Law Rock Center 'Lawyering in the Age of AI' conversation, free CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, planned in all ~200 countries as major online world class WUaS universities in countries' main languages, for free online degrees - Bachelor, Ph.D. Law, Medicine MD, IB high school / similar, AA/AS, and Master's - from home, and in all 7159 known living languages, as wiki schools for people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning -  seeks to hire many many Stanford Law students, researchers, graduates, etc, and especially for our ~250 Law Schools, but in many ways, which is partly why I'm writing to you. 

Regarding the litigation issues Meta is facing with fair use and Section 280 and training LLMs, and copyright, - with many implications for publishing, and rewarding authors, and generating new ideas too, thanks to copyright, the Academic Press at WUaS - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html (which is also the WUaS Educational Services' stores, and WUaS is an authorized reseller of 3 Lego Robotics' kits, which WUaS seeks to make key to WUaS learning, for #WUaSHomeRobotics) - seeks to develop for speakers and readers in all 7159 known living languages, and with machine translation, and human translation. (Nikki, for example, there are 101-102 million in early 2025/2026 in Vietnam, and this is potentially a huge AI market, eg in both free MIT OCW-centric wiki Vietnam World Univ & Sch in Vietnamese for prospective high achieving students in Vietnam, and regarding the WUaS Academic Press planned in the Vietnamese languages) .And seeking to invent the book anew even, WUaS Press seeks to publish from a #RealisticVirtualEarth, #TextInTheSidebar - and think Google Street View with time slider, Tensorflow (so with lots of innovating and iterating WUaS AI and ML) - and even to new digital devices, beyond Oculus and Ray Bans even ... such as in a #WUaSMultimediaRoom (e.g. in one's home bath tub). And, Allie, regarding developing a Realistic Virtual Earth which we talked about - and especially a #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs - and see Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article "Revolutionizing Education with Machine and AI: #WorldUniversityInSchool" : https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 (updated March 2, 2024), - which mentions both a realistic virtual earth (for the first time other than WUaS mentioning this, that I know of), and a virtual Harbin Hot springs (and even studying bliss in this), and all with AI, and with implications for AI lawyering too, these would become further remarkable when viewed in Oculus headsets and Ray-Ban AI glasses. And Angela, per this new mutiyar collaboration and potentially legal contracts between Google and Apple, what implications might this following TweetX "Joint Statement" post below have for Meta and FB regarding the AI litigation issues you were raising? - 

Thanks #AngelaDunningLaw & Meta's #NikkiVoLaw, & #AllieViethLaw @ #StanfordLawRockCenter today 1/13/26 : "#LawyeringInTheAgeOfAI" - https://law.stanford.edu/event/lawyering-in-the-age-of-ai-inside-metas-approach-to-ai-ip-and-litigation/ what implications might the following #TweetX post have for #MetaAndFB regarding the AI litigation issues you were raising?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2011274513779212568

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2011275742567633196

Languages at WUaS - all 7159 known living languages -
https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2011277280400884067

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2011275510622654606

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2011275018316234981

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2011276858495738366

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2011277507874697353

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scottgkmacleod_angeladunninglaw-nikkivolaw-allieviethlaw-activity-7417044028883386368-SJtj

https://www.linkedin. com/posts/world-university-and-school_lawyering-in-the-age-of-ai-inside-metas-activity-7417043719050203137-SjAa ~


Retweeting -

Joint Statement: Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google's Gemini models and cloud technology. These models will help power future Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized Siri coming this year.

After careful evaluation, Apple determined that Google's Al technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models and is excited about the innovative new experiences it will unlock for Apple users. Apple Intelligence will continue to run on Apple devices and Private Cloud Compute, while maintaining Apple's industry-leading privacy standards.

https://x.com/NewsFromGoogle/status/2010760810751017017?s=20 (?) ...


... and even potentially for "a 'wiki' #RealisticVirtualEarth - think Google Street View with time slider, #TextInTheSidebar - and ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy), and even with Google AI and Gemini Models on Laptops and including Apple laptops" (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/01/tsuga-canadensis-eastern-hemlock.html)?

It was very nice to meet you all, and thanks for your timely and edifying panel presentations at the Stanford Law Rock Center, and looking forward to further communication with you with time.

Also as I mentioned, and regarding Meta's 3 billion + monthly end users, WUaS Corporation has a partnering email with Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency free money daily, and WUaS seeks to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata PIN # from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - and to end poverty worldwide, as well as facilitate wiki people-to-people free universal education, and with free MIT OCW-centric WUaS degrees, and possibly among speakers of all 7159 living languages if helpful. 

How is it possible to explore collaboration in some of these regards?

Thanks so much, best wishes, more later, 
Scott
Scott GK MacLeod

here is the
M 1/19/26 open best STEAM Creative Commons' licensed OpenCourseWare wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS News and Q&A, with Zoom URL

https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/01/roggeveld-mountains-sa-m-11226-11926.html

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/01/roggeveld-mountains-sa.html (and see daily blog here as well)






Jodie Carian - <jcarian@law.stanford.edu>




PS

My notes - 

Nikki Vo, Meta
8 years
works with federal prosecutors

pre litigation AI advising 

9th circuit 



Allie Vieth, Meta
7 years there
product counsel

meta ai product team
especially safety solutions 
for products to stay ahead ...



Angela Dunning
background


Angela Dunning's mom was a solo practitioner



Nikki - 

meta's ai


llama

meta ai

generative suite

oculus headset

ray ban smart glasses 

investing in to research

agentic ai



Allie

personalized super intelligence - per mz

artificial intelligence



fb and instagram apps' ai

content that gets flagged by their machine learning models 

generally outperforming humans in content moderation 

'3 billion users a day'


and in the advertisement basement - allie finds fb ads generally pretty good

How can LLMs accelerate meta's business

and on the privacy side too .. and

for serving the most personalized ad 

not in a way that would be intrusive or creepy

targeted and useful 

how to better target their ai assistants


middle age purchases 

not middle ages 


A good chalice



Nikki 

Meta has been open sources meta software for a long time 

Meta "open sources" Llama 



Nikii 
asks
angela about litigation


Angela kicks off

Meta had trained on these authors books and this meant copyright infringement ... to train Llama

deprived authors oa  license fee

and 


Fair use here ... 

are people going to llama and getting authors' book there and not from authors due to copyright



parallel case against ANTHROPIC copyright


The court ruled for ANTHROPIC on the fair use defense


We won and Nikki is excited about the win - Angela wrote the papers 



Re Market theory 


the 4th factor

is the allegedly informing work competing with the original 

substituting for the protected expression of the original 

these are the protected part regarding the original 

and these are what we don't protect because copyright law gives people the right to create anew 



This AI technology has teh potential to democratize access 



closing

what worries you the most

Nikki 
product liability cases worry her

Allie
7 cases 
people who die by suicide or heatlh breaks who use these conumser chatbots products for a long time
and that's what we're worried about ..

difficult to train a model to understand nuance
safeguards decline and models degrade

How do we stay ahead of that?


and most excited about ???

ran out of time ...







Nikki Vo, Meta
Allie Vieth, Meta
Angela Dunning, Cleary Gottlieb (moderator)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-dunning-9230284/



PS a

Questions that came to mind as you talked, and AI overview replies -


https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikki-vo-68127b22/
nikki.khanh.vo@gmail.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/allie-slavens-vieth-37330a29/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-dunning-9230284/


How many employees does meta have?


Google
AI overview reply -

As of late 2025/early 2026, Meta's employee count is fluctuating but hovering around 78,000 to 80,000




How many people are on facebook?


Facebook has over 3 billion monthly active users, making it the world's largest social media platform, with recent figures from 2025 showing around 3.07 billion users, representing nearly 40% of the global population



facebook head of global litigation Paul Grewal


Paul Grewal was previously the head of global litigation at Facebook (now Meta), but he left the company in July 2020. He is currently the Chief Legal Officer at Coinbase

Formerly a judge
paul.grewal@coinbase.com
(I connected with Grewal in 2016 on LinkedIn)



How many lawyers in meta?

estimates from late 2021 suggested hundreds, potentially over 400, based on revenue, and the number likely grew




How many computer science PhDs in meta?

hundreds, likely thousands, of PhDs in Computer Science and related fields




meta ray ban glasses

Introducing Ray-Ban® Meta Gen 2 and Gen 1: experience the latest generation of AI glasses with advanced features

https://www.ray-ban.com/usa/ray-ban-meta-ai-glasses




What's meta's annual revenue ?


Meta Platforms' annual revenue for the full fiscal year 2024 was $164.5 billion



PPS
Nikki, my father GKM MD was on the faculty at Yale from about 1966 -1972 before moving to Washington DC to work in the US federal government to start the HMOs in the country, by hiring its first managers. (and see - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_K._MacLeod - )




PPPS
Angela, you mentioned the word chalice ... do you by any chance have any Unitarian Universalist background or connections? (My mother is a longtime Unitarian, as am I becoming a member recently at UUCPA; am also a member of the Religious Society of Friends / unprogrammed Quakers - which monthly Business Meeting process informs open World Univ & Sch's WUaS Weekly Business Meetings on Mondays at 10 am PT in Zoom)







Notes 
registered F Jan 9,2026

World University and School, building on CC-4 MIT OCW in ~7 languages, and Wikipedia / Wikidata in 342 languages in all ~200 countries, and 7159 living languages


Join the Rock Center for a lunch event, Lawyering in the Age of AI: Inside Meta’s Approach to AI, IP, and Litigation

Tuesday, January 13  @ 12:45 - 2:00 pm PT
Room 190, Stanford Law School
Lunch will be provided to registered attendees
This event is open to the Stanford Community


--

Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2026, forthcoming) 

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS) 
- USPS US Post Office, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516 


1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity 
best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki, 
World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org 

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 


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On Thu, Jan 8, 2026, 14:49 Jodie Carian <jcarian@law.stanford.edu> wrote:
Join the Rock Center for a lunch event, Lawyering in the Age of AI: Inside Meta’s Approach to AI, IP, and Litigation

Tuesday, January 13  @ 12:45 - 2:00 pm PT
Room 190, Stanford Law School
Lunch will be provided to registered attendees
This event is open to the Stanford Community

More information: Click here

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Speakers Include:
  • Nikki Vo, Meta
  • Allie Vieth, Meta
  • Angela Dunning, Cleary Gottlieb (moderator)
As artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes business models, products, and markets, it is also transforming the practice of law. This lunchtime conversation brings together senior legal leaders from Meta to explore how AI is changing the landscape of intellectual property, litigation, and legal risk management at scale. This program is part of the Rock Center’s Lawyering in the Age of AI series and is designed for members of the Stanford Law School community interested in the intersection of law, technology, and corporate governance.


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Scott MacLeod helianth@gmail.com

11:53 AM (22 hours ago)
to Gantt, byronhann1, Ed, Konrad, bcc: Jane, bcc: Pin
Dear Konrad, Gantt, Byron, Ed, All, 


Dear Konrad, Gantt, Byron, Ed, All, 

Greetings! Just heading to Stanford Law School for "Lawyering in the Age of AI: Inside Meta’s Approach to AI, IP, and Litigation" panel (do you know Stanford Law School dean and Berkeley-ite too I think Adam Sterling, Konrad? Sterling can be a Scottish name, like yours Gantt) - and regarding free MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch, - and their email announcement said something like "Join us ..." ... which I wonder if could be construed as in teaching them "Yoga" re Yoga as bond, join, align - but not on a folding bike yet. (Just emailed some of you re 'Developments in Canyon 94516', and see this here Gantt, who didn't get this email - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/01/tsuga-canadensis-eastern-hemlock.html  ... and growing an abolition movement too ... and to knock back international organized crime ... reed 'presidnet' audrey bilger is still banned from all MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch for example, and in these regards).

Am still possibly interested in an used ~2017 Tern Verge P10 folding bike, for example, but couldn't find even a new one in bike stores in the Berkeley or Oakland eg to test ride ... and to fit into my great leased 2025 Toyota Sienna Woodland minivan for example, such that I could get to midday Stanford talks and events, and regarding their new parking garage fees, but today I may park at a distance and walk. Someone in Palo Alto a few weeks ago on a Bike Friday folding bike and panniers, with small wheels compared with a touring bike, and with long hair, said he thought this Eugene OR company made best folding bikes.

Then I checked Walmart and their $699 folding bike by Dahon only has 8 gears, but perhaps their $899 folding Dahon bike has ~18 gears to help with the small 20 inch wheel size, relative to a touring bicycle with 25 inch wheels.

In checking on Walmart (which WUaS is seeking to partner with), I also updated my mailing address to 670 A Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon 94516, and deleted my 2 Pittsburgh PA asylum houses, addresses ... and added this now $899 folding bike to my cart ... and think this could conceivably help with further moving forward the WUaS academic medical center into a newly safe vacant with deed 670 A Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon 94516 ... thinking that writing of  the deed or the title for this property could be the issue that's holding up moving the WUaS Academic Medical Center in there ... 

Thoughts, questions, suggestions?

Heading to the "Lawyering in the Age of AI" panel soon ... but not riding into Stanford Law from free parking at some distance, and instead possibly walking in ...

Reed regards, abolition, best wishes, Yogic-ally, Friendly Quaker greetings, 
Scott 
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Yoga (and re brahmacharya too ... which can be translated as continence ... or "self-restraint, especially with regard to sex" and in growing further a WUaS abolition movement worldwide)







Scott



On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 11:04 AM Scott MacLeod <helianth@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks so much for letting me know, Konrad, and nice to hear from you -

"Sorry, Scott. No folding bicycles here.

Cheers,

Konrad" 


Just heading to bike shops in the east bay like the Waterside Workshops on 84 Bolivar Dr in Berkeley - https://watersideworkshops.org/ - in search of a used eg 
Tern Verge P10 Performance Folding Bike – Rarely Used -

or similar (but haven't heard Back from the above poster).

Further thoughts, all?

Cheers,
Scott



--

Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2026, forthcoming) 

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS) 
- USPS US Post Office, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516 


1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity 
best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki, 
World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org 

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 


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On Fri, Jan 9, 2026, 16:37 Scott MacLeod <helianth@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Gantt, Byron, Konrad, Ed, all,

How are you? And Reed greetings ... I'm seeking a folding bicycle ... would either of you have one - which I could buy or similar? (Am looking for possibly a Tern Verge P10 2017 I could ride from Toyota Palo Alto to Stanford Law next Tuesday and back especially ... (And eventually add a Zip force Slim V3 DIY electric motor to (when battery life gets better and they make it to the US from Sweden).

A little ditty -

Where have all the hippies gone?

Where have all the hippies gone, 
long time passing,
Where have all the hippies gone, 
a long time ago?

Young girls have picked them, every one
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Yet some of them are still here today.
 
Cheers, Reed regards, happy bicycling, 
Scott




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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2025, forthcoming) 

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS) 
- USPS US Post Office, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516 


1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity 
best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki, 
World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org 

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 


World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - 









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