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Last week, I spoke at the Dayton Bar Association’s Corporate Counsel Section on the topic of the Top 10 legal technology issues that in-house counsel should have on its radar for 2025. Continue Reading Top 10 Technology Issues to Watch for in 2025

Special thanks to Taft summer associate Tanner Wilburn for his significant contributions to this post. 

On July 12, 2024, the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) was published in the EU Official Journal.

This comprehensive legislation establishes the first risk-based regulatory framework for AI systems, with far-reaching implications for businesses using AI. The AI Act is effective August 2, 2024, with the enforcement of the majority of its provisions commencing on August 2, 2026.

Continue Reading The EU AI Act – What Businesses Need to Know

Artificial intelligence, referred to as “AI” for short, has had an outsized impact on nearly every aspect of human existence. If that sounds like an overstatement, it’s not— machine learning systems and generative AI tools have now been integrated into various sectors of life including healthcare, government services, industry, and education. In 2023, more than 50% of US companies reported using AI for cybersecurity/fraud management, and 97% of business owners expressed enthusiasm that AI platforms like ChatGPT will help their businesses. Several cities and municipalities have adopted protocols for how local government may use and rely upon AI as part of day-to-day duties. 

Unsurprisingly, the law has lagged well behind the impressive speed of AI’s ballooning technological development. This notwithstanding, various governmental agencies, legislative bodies, and courts have begun to assemble a regulatory regime which may help answer the million-dollar question in this brave new world: who, or what, is liable when AI goes wrong?Continue Reading Artificial Intelligence, Real Liability: Who’s on the hook when things go wrong?

On October 6, 2023, Snap Inc. and Snap Group Ltd. (collectively, “Snap”) received a preliminary enforcement notice from the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) due to a potential failure to properly assess the privacy risks posed by its generative AI chatbot, My AI.Continue Reading Snap Receives Preliminary Enforcement Notice Related to Privacy Risks Posed by AI Chatbot

In our previous post, “A Primer on Artificial Intelligence and the Law in 2023,” we briefly discussed how the federal government is preparing for legislation and regulation regarding Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) through provisions of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 (the “Act”). While no comprehensive federal statute regulating AI has been signed into law, regulatory agencies must contend with the emerging technology under existing laws.Continue Reading Artificial Intelligence: U.S. Federal Considerations

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad term that generally refers to computer systems that can receive and process information to make decisions without human input. AI is widely considered an era-defining technology in the way electrical and computer technology came to define the 1800s and 1900s respectively. Just as regulation of computer security lagged behind the increasingly pervasive use of computers in the late 1980s, we are seeing today that regulation of AI has likewise lagged behind the expansion of the technology. 

U.S. federal, state, and international authorities are increasingly monitoring and regulating AI. Regulating AI is no simple task, with the technology finding growing applications in a myriad of areas such as autonomous vehicles, the military, law enforcement, art, music, creative writing, social media, and even corporate recruitment.Continue Reading A Primer on Artificial Intelligence and the Law in 2023