AI systems seem like an exciting, effective new tool. But, as we have seen with Google’s recent struggles with accuracy, and Microsoft’s trouble with sentient, unhinged chat bots, not all of the kinks have been worked out with these tools. In our last post, we discussed the legal risks, and…
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The Legal Risks of AI Systems in Technology Services
In our previous post, we provided an introduction to the budding new technology of generative AI, or AI systems. As with the implementation of any new technology, widespread understanding of the risks generally lags behind the speed of the technology itself. When the technology industry began its push “to the…
Artificial Intelligence Systems and Risks in Commercial Contracting
Though the use of artificial intelligence has grown steadily during the past decade, the recent release of OpenAI’s generative AI system, ChatGPT, has led to a precipitous increase in attention and publicity accompanying the rise of powerful generative AI systems. With these generative AI systems come mounting issues and concerns…
Regulators Increase Scrutiny of Algorithms Underlying Decision-Making
In “Regulators Zero In on AI,” colleagues Brian H. Montgomery, Andrew L. Caplan and Rachel G. Newell examine the increased focus of financial services regulators on how businesses use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in underwriting and pricing consumer finance products.
Bad Data and Trusting the Black Box
When it comes to artificial intelligence, a lack of transparency in process and bad data to begin with are two of the issues most hampering the embrace by the boardroom. In AI: Black boxes and the boardroom, colleagues Tim Wright and Antony Bott examine how the resulting lack of trust…
Come Harvest Time, Who Owns the Fruits of Machine Learning?
Famously dramatized by the disembodied voice of HAL in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, artificial intelligence has been the subject of humanity’s existential angst for decades. Although Elon Musk warns that those fears may be justified, one of the biggest pushes for advancing artificial intelligence to-date has…