The National Law Journal published the following article by Greenberg Traurig https://www.natlawreview.com/article/utah-enacts-first-ai-focused-consumer-protection-legislation-us Making Utah the first U.S. state to enact a major artificial intelligence (AI) statute governing private-sector AI usage, on March 13, 2024—coincidentally, the same day the European Parliament adopted the EU AI Act1—Utah Gov. Cox signed into law S.B. 149 (AI Law). The AI Law, set…

By Joy C. Rosenquist, Bradford Kelley, Deborah Margolis, and Alice Wang on April 1, 2024 PRINT  There are increasingly divergent ways that governments across the world are seeking to regulate AI in the workplace. In March 2024, the European Parliament approved the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, the world’s first comprehensive legal framework on AI.…

Courts are preparing to decide whether generative AI violates copyright—let’s talk about what that really means Copyright law in America is a complicated thing. Those of us who are not lawyers understandably find it difficult to suss out what it really means, and what it does and doesn’t protect. Data scientists don’t spend a lot…

With OpenAI’s Voice Engine promising to convincingly replicate an individual’s speech from just a 15-second clip, the focus on AI regulation and legal challenges to its operation are intensifying. While the astonishing progress toward photorealistic generative video from OpenAI’s Sora has been getting an enormous amount of attention, behind the scenes there are a lot…

Lawyers making use of GenAI at work A recent poll conducted by LawCPD from its members found that the most popular generative AI tool among lawyers was ChatGPT, with 66 per cent of lawyers reporting that they had used this for professional purposes. Around a third of lawyers had tried Copilot, while 10 per cent…

McGill Daily Vancouver lawyer Chong Ke has recently found herself at the centre of a case concerning the ethics of using artificial intelligence (AI) in legal proceedings. The controversy unfolded when it was revealed that while representing businessman Wei Chen in a child custody case, Chong Ke filed an application containing fabricated cases generated by ChatGPT.…

Korea’s first artificial intelligence (AI) legal secretary, “Super Royer,” developed by Law & Company, the operator of the legal service platform “Lotok,” will be released in June. AI, which has deeply learned vast amounts of Korean precedents and laws, is expected to take on a large part of the overtime work previously carried out by…