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Turkish Books Are Next: AI Training and Rightsholders

Monday, 09 November 2026 by Balkan Sencan

In a lawsuit filed in the United States over allegations that it downloaded books from pirate sites to train Claude, Anthropic settled with authors and publishers for 1.5 billion dollars. One could also sum it up like this: “Steal first, pay later.” Let us look closer. In Bartz v. Anthropic, the court accepted the use

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It’s Not Too Late: A New Door Beside Your Profession

Thursday, 05 November 2026 by Balkan Sencan

“Leaving a stable job was scary.” “If not now, when?” Those words are Gabrielle Tao’s. After more than twenty years in tech, in her fifties, she left her senior vice president role at Salesforce and founded her own company in the field of artificial intelligence. By her own account, she spent years believing entrepreneurship wasn’t

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A Digital Twin That Knows My Future Before I Do

Monday, 02 November 2026 by Balkan Sencan

A health technology company is building a digital twin of the patient. What Turkish law says about health data, explicit consent and the right not to know.

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“In the Name of the Turkish Nation”: 103 Years of the Republic

Thursday, 29 October 2026 by Balkan Sencan

On the 103rd anniversary of the Republic and the 100th of the Turkish Civil Code: why judgment, in the age of AI, still rests with the human conscience.

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It's not the using, it's the checking — The Lawyer in the Age of AI No. 5

When AI Hands You a Draft, How Do You Finish It?

Monday, 26 October 2026 by Balkan Sencan

"AI brain fry": what wears us out is not using AI, but checking it. What this means for lawyers, and a simple test.

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What If Your Software Is Cloned?

Thursday, 22 October 2026 by Balkan Sencan

AI-assisted reverse engineering makes cloning software easier. What Turkish copyright law protects, where reverse engineering stops, and why the human effort behind software matters.

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Whose Values Will AI Be Aligned With?

Monday, 19 October 2026 by Balkan Sencan

Whose values will be taken into account when AI is aligned? Anthropic’s meetings with clergy, secularism, and why AI regulation needs public consultation.

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Will AI Divide Society or Bring It Together?

Thursday, 15 October 2026 by Balkan Sencan

Last week a news site asked parents on the street what they pay for their children’s schooling. The answers: “Grade 4: one million lira a year.” “For two children: 1.5 million.” “University: 25,000 dollars a year.” One parent said they had spent 220,000 lira on books alone. Many of us are in a similar position.

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If AI Acts on Our Behalf, Who Is Responsible?

Monday, 12 October 2026 by Balkan Sencan

It is the middle of the night and a notification on your phone wakes you up. Your AI assistant has bought a plane ticket in your name, saying “I found the best price”; but for the wrong date. On top of that, it has sent birthday flowers to the partner you broke up with three

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AI Has No Conscience

Thursday, 08 October 2026 by Balkan Sencan

We keep talking about the speed, efficiency and convenience of artificial intelligence. But the other side of the coin has begun to show. We had been seeing examples abroad for some time. In a video circulating on social media since 2023, AI-assisted cameras in a coffee shop counted how many coffees each barista prepared and

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Who Is a “Legal Engineer”?

Monday, 05 October 2026 by Balkan Sencan

Lately I have noticed some colleagues on LinkedIn frequently using the title “Hukuk Mühendisi” — “Legal Engineer”. I was curious, so I looked into it. I reached the conclusion that first came to mind: there is no such title, and it has no objective foundation. The person who first put forward the idea was the

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AI Is Already in the Courthouse

Monday, 28 September 2026 by Balkan Sencan

AI has already entered the courthouse; we just haven’t noticed. According to figures released by the Ministry of Justice’s Directorate General of Information Technologies, AI in UYAP, Turkey’s National Judiciary Informatics System, has so far classified and digitised more than 110 million paper documents, and since 2024 it has extracted information from 21.8 million judicial